12 05, 2015

Trailblazer for Arts in Education Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

By |2015-05-15T10:46:11-04:00May 12, 2015|Academics|Comments Off on Trailblazer for Arts in Education Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

College of Charleston education fellow Terry Peterson, a pioneer in arts in education and afterschool learning, will be recognized for lifetime achievement in the 2015 Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Governor’s Awards for the Arts on May 13, 2015.

4 05, 2015

Students Design Monuments for Slave Trade Memorial

By |2020-02-25T13:03:23-05:00May 4, 2015|Academics, Campus Life|Comments Off on Students Design Monuments for Slave Trade Memorial

"Hush Harbor: An Exhibition of Student Designs for a Monument to the Courage of Those Who Suffered During the Atlantic Slave Trade" is opening on May 6 in the third-floor hallway of the Albert Simons Center for the Arts. The design proposals, a project for an art history course, are for a memorial to be installed outside the future International African American Museum on Charleston Harbor.

1 05, 2015

College to Honor Life and Activism of Charleston’s Grimké Sisters

By |2015-05-01T15:33:34-04:00May 1, 2015|Academics|Comments Off on College to Honor Life and Activism of Charleston’s Grimké Sisters

Charlestonians Sarah Grimké (1792 – 1873) and Angelina Grimké Weld (1805 – 1879) were among the first American reformers to compare the condition of women to the plight of enslaved Africans and to call for an end to exploitation based on race and gender.