McKissick Museum

Ever wondered about the relationship between Native American beading and spirituality? How about Paganism and the Earth? If so, join us for an inter-faith discussion on the relationship between the Earth, our environment, and faith-based practices, based on the themes and objects of McKissick Museum's exhibit, Traditions, Change, and Celebration: Native Artists of the Southeast. Speakers include: Dr. Jonathan Leader (Judaism) Dr. Will Goins (Native American) Holli Emore (Paganism) Dr. Amarjit Singh (Sikh) Arunima Sinha (Hindu) Dr. Carl Evans – moderator (Christian) Presented in conjunction with the Department of Religious Studies and the Interfaith Partners of South Carolina. In celebration of Interfaith Harmony Month.

On Friday, February 6th, McKissick Museum welcomed several distinguished scholars for a panel discussion revolving around issues of Native American artistic sovereignty. Panelists included Gabrielle Tayac (Historian, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution and member of the Piscataway Nation), Nancy Palm (Assistant Professor,University of North Carolina, Pembroke), Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote (Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and member of the Kiowa Tribe), and Christopher Olszewski (Artist and Professor of Foundation Studies, Savannah College of Art and Design). Moderator was USC Faculty member Courtney Lewis and panel discussant was Stephen Criswell, Director of the Native American Studies Program at USC Lancaster.

Defying the Quiet: Photography of the Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina was an exhibit organized by the McKissick Museum in October 2013 to highlight and commemorate the many civil rights campaigns across the state of South Carolina during the early 1960s. As the closing event to this exhibit, USC Associate Professor of History and exhibit Co-Curator, Bobby Donaldson, sat down with Dr. Henrie [Monteith] Treadwell to discuss her first-hand account of the Civil Rights Movement. On September 11, 1963, she was one of the first three black students—along with Robert Anderson and James Solomon—to desegregate the University of South Carolina. With a perspective unlike any other, Dr. Treadwell, along with Dr. Donaldson, contextualize the photographs of this show, describing the people, community and world in which she and many others organized, gathered and stood up against segregation and racial discrimination.