It’s going to take some time to wrap my head around this blog thing – although not new to the world – it’s new to me. I have a lot of things rolling around in my head I want to keep aware of – don’t write too much (that’s not easy), make sure it’s not all about the SC Arts Commission (almost impossible), don’t just write about things in my own backyard (tough with $4 a gallon gas), and make sure you finish all the points you want to get across.
When I did the entry about the Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art, on view at the Gibbes Museum of Art in downtown Charleston, SC, through Aug. 23, 2008, I forgot something I wanted to mention. I had intended to let readers know that The Charleston Museum – America’s first museum, located across from the Visitor Center in downtown Charleston, also has an exhibition on slavery on view through Feb. 28, 2009. From Slave to Sharecropper: African Americans in the Lowcountry after the Civil War, presents an original exhibition to commemorate the bicentennial of the abolition of the international slave trade in the United States and the British Empire. The exhibit is centered around the recollections and memories of Lowcountry descendants of slaves and sharecroppers. It includes artifacts and images of African American experiences in the Lowcountry after the Civil War from the Museum’s collection.
You can find further info about the exhibition on our website under the heading South Carolina Institutional Gallery listings.