The American Road to Victory
Livingbattlefield.org will present public screenings of films from the acclaimed World War II documentary trilogy The American Road to Victory at venues in South Carolina in the winter of 2011 – 2012. Each screening will be followed by a conversation with a local veteran and with the scholar/filmmaker, Richard Lanni, or a local historian. The Humanities CouncilSC supported these screenings with a Mini Grant in November 2011.
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Events 
2012 SC Book Festival - SAVE THE DATE!
Mark your calendars NOW for the 16th Annual SCBook Festival on May 18-20, 2012 in Columbia, SC at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center! The SCBook Festival features a wide variety of authors and presenters, more than 80 exhibitors selling books and book-related items, book signings, special events, and much more!
Grand American Vision Lecture Series
The Columbia Museum of Art will present a series of lectures and programs to accompany the display of the exhibit Nature and the Grand American Vision: Masterpieces of the Hudson River School Painters, on display from November 19, 2011 – April 1, 2012. Thirteen lectures are planned featuring both local and national scholars. The Humanities CouncilSC supported this program through a Major Grant in September 2011.Image:
Jasper Francis Cropsey, SUNSET, LAKE GEORGE, NY, 1867, Oil on canvas, 24 1/4 x 44 in. ( 61.6 x 111.8 cm), The Robert L. Stuart Collection, S-126
Woodrow Wilson Family Home Virtual Interpretation
Historic Columbia Foundation has created an online “virtual tour” of several key rooms in the historic Woodrow Wilson Family Home in downtown Columbia. Online visitors can now see the passage/butler’s pantry, the main pantry, the water closet, and the bathing room and understand how they were used in the 19th century by the Wilson family and their staff. The Humanities CouncilSC supported this project with a Major Grant in February 2011.
Wish You Were Here Exhibit
The Franklin G. Burroughs and Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum in Myrtle Beach will present the photography exhibit Wish You Were Here from January 15 – February 26, 2012. Wish You Were Here, created by artists Cynthia Farnell and Dan Powell, examines a small motel in Myrtle Beach, SC from a variety of angles. A public panel discussion about community and place in Myrtle Beach will take place on February 26, 2011 at the museum. The Humanities CouncilSC supported this project with a Mini Grant in August 2011.Image: Pool (Wish You Were Here), digital pigment print on paper, 11" x 14", (c) Farnell & Powell, 2011
New Harmonies is in Beaufort!
The traveling Smithsonian exhibit New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music is at its sixth stop on its statewide tour: Beaufort, SC. The exhibit will be on display at the Beaufort Branch Library from December 17, 2011 - February 4, 2012 (311 Scott Street, Beaufort, SC 29902). There are exciting events planned in Beaufort to go along with the exhibit, including lectures, concerts, workshops and more!
Religion in the Civil War Symposium
The SC Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum will partner with the SC Department of Archives and History and the SC Historical Society to present a symposium on the topic of “Religion in the Civil War” on Saturday, January 28, 2012. The event will feature lectures, a bus-tour of historic cemeteries in Columbia, SC, and a tour of the exhibit Through Fiery Trails: Religion in the Civil War. The Humanities CouncilSC supported this program through a Mini Grant in December 2011.
Image: Sunday morning mass in the camp of 69th N.Y.S.M., courtesy Library of Congress
The Art of Alfred Hutty Exhibit
The Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC has organized an original exhibition that will be on display from January 20 – April 20, 2012. The Art of Alfred Hutty: Woodstock to Charleston is a career retrospective of the 20th century American artist Alfred Hutty, considered one of the principal artists of the Charleston Renaissance. The Humanities CouncilSC supported this exhibit through a Mini Grant in 2009 and a Major Grant in 2009.Image Credit: Meeting Street, ca. 1925, By Alfred Hutty (American, 1877 – 1954), Oil on canvas, 23 1/2 x 29 1/2 inches. Courtesy of the Gibbes Museum of Art/ Carolina Art Association, Charleston, S.C.
African Americans in the Civil War
The South Carolina African American Heritage Foundation will maintain a roster of scholars who can address topics related to African Americans and the Civil War in South Carolina. These scholars can be booked for programs around the state during the Sesquicentennial commemorations and beyond. Four programs have already been planned as part of a year-long lecture series to take place on February 9, 2012; May 17, 2012; August 23, 2012, and October 25, 2012. The Humanities CouncilSC supported this project with a Major Grant in September 2011.Image: Company I, 54th Massachusetts Reenactment Regiment, courtesy of Joseph McGill
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