exhibits

The SCSM Traveling Exhibits Program—TEP

The South Carolina State Museum provides exhibits for museums and comparable facilities in South Carolina. Exhibits range from large exhibitions designed for major museums to smaller, South Carolina-specific exhibits for local museums and galleries. Subjects range from the turbulent history of Native Americans in South Carolina to fine art.

For more information contact the Traveling Exhibits Program at 803.898.4982 or email tep@museum.state.sc.us.

Available Traveling Exhibits
Camera Man's Journey: Julian Dimock's South

These historic photographs were taken in and around Columbia, Beaufort, and Hilton Head between 1904 and 1905 by noted photographer Julian Dimock. Dimock's large format images show men, women, families and a significant number of children engaged in everyday life - at work, at home and at play. They document the clothing, tools, toys as well as the landscape and architecture of the period. These pictures are a valuable resource for learning about life for African-Americans at the turn-of-the-twentieth-century.
This exhibit is split into two shows. The first show contains photos from Columbia and Beaufort, the second show contains photos from Columbia and Hilton Head. Both shows contain 37 photographs.
• The framed pieces are 25 and1/4 inches by 31 and 1/4 inches.
• The photo itself is 17" x 20".
• The photos have been printed and faux matted.

Fads: Fine Art Digitals by Bill Helms

South Carolinian, Bill Helms, was probably the youngest combat photographer when he boarded the USS Yorktown in 1944. Since then, his photography has been transformed into personal visions and recombinations of the world around him. This exhibit of his works are color photo montages and digital manipulations that range from a kind of modern impressionism to various degrees of abstract realism. Some images will hang vertically, and some horizontally. Labels are attached to plexiglass. 40 wood framed & matted color photographic images. (Works can be edited down to fit one's gallery spaces).
• 32 images ---- 19" by 25 "; includes one panel example of how his pictures are combined
• 2 pieces---approx. 24"x30" (one horizontal, one vertical)
• 4 vertical panels 31"" x 41"
• 1 horizontal 29"x 50"
• 1 bio panel, horizontal, 23" x 50" long quilt wrapped.

Fractals: Mathematics and Science As Art

Mathematical "objects" produced by a computer.These 32 panels, 20" x 30" colorful framed images provide a mix of horizontal and vertical presentation formats, with two pieces (seemingly identical) meant to hang about an inch apart--creating one larger "image"

Fractals are many things. These abstract designs depict some of the following:

• fascinating designs of infinite structure and complexity.

• geometric shapes that have symmetry of scale.

• designs that mimic naturally occurring patterns (like clouds,mountains, river systems and deltas, coastlines, leaves, snowflakes, the nervous system, and blood vessels).

• images which are repetitive in shape but not in size.

• mathematical "objects" produced by a computer.These colorful framed images provide a mix of horizontal and vertical presentation formats, with two pieces (seemingly identical) meant to hang about an inch apart--creating one larger "image".

One's imagination and curiosity might be awakened with these attractively produced two dimensional artistic creations.

Palmetto Hands

• 30 art objects by artists who competed in the SC Palmetto Hands Project

• created by the SC Artisans Center (Walterboro, SC) and the North Charleston Cultural Arts Program

The First South Carolinians
The Life and Times of the First Cultures in the Palmetto State

During the Ice Age water frozen in glaciers lowered sea levels and exposed land. Anthropologists and archaeologists believe that a land bridge emerged connecting Russia and Alaska between 14,000 and 12,000 years ago. The earliest people, PaleoIndians, crossed it to North America following game and exploring land. Within 1,000 years of their immigration, what is now South Carolina had its earliest residents.

• 27 exhibit 28” x 32” panels and 8 objects

• created by the SC State Museum










NBSC Annual Oil Painters’ Open Invitational

Since 1981 the National Bank of South Carolina has sponsored the annual oil painters’ exhibition shown initially at the Sumter Gallery of Art. This juried exhibit is a selection of oil paintings by artists across South Carolina.
• annual juried exhibition of about 30 paintings by artists around SC
Yaghjian Blue House IV, 2006


Chapters in SC History: Colonial Life

• 31 exhbit panels dealing with the Colonial period of SC

• created by the SC State Museum

The Forgotten War
The Palmetto Regiment and the Mexican War, 1846-1917


In 1846 the United States declared war on Mexico, and President James K. Polk’s administration called for volunteers. South Carolina contributed 10 companies, the Palmetto Regiment. After two years of long marches, disease and battles interspersed with long periods of boredom, the Palmetto Regiment returned home, reduced in numbers but welcomed as heroes.

• 21 exhibit panels ( sizes range from 42” x 30” to 17” x 30)

• created by the SC State Museum

Wildflowers of South Carolina

• 23 framed photographs of native SC wildflowers

Faces of Poverty

• 21 free standing panels discuss poverty, drug addiction, fatherlessness and old age in SC.

• developed by The Sisters of Charity in Ohio

For more information contact the Traveling Exhibits Department at 803.898.4982 or tep@museum.state.sc.us.