Free For All
GALLERY HOURS (during exhibitions)
Monday - Saturday, 11am – 4pm
Open Thursdays until 7pm

OPENING RECEPTION | Teach Me a Song and Meshes of Resistance

Friday, April 5, 2024
6:30 - 8:00 PM
Halsey Institute galleries and Hill Exhibition Gallery

Join us to celebrate the opening reception of our new exhibitions, Elisa Harkins: Teach Me a Song and Spandita Malik: Meshes of Resistance, on Friday, April 5, 6:30-8:00 PM.

All College of Charleston students, faculty, and staff, and current Halsey Institute members receive free admission to our opening receptions. Not yet-members will be asked for a $5 donation.

OPENING RECEPTION | Teach Me a Song and Meshes of Resistance

Friday, April 5, 2024
6:30 - 8:00 PM
Halsey Institute galleries and Hill Exhibition Gallery

ARTIST TALK | Spandita Malik

Saturday, April 6, 2024
2:00 PM
Halsey Institute Galleries

Join us for an artist talk featuring Spandita Malik on the occasion of Malik’s exhibition Meshes of Resistance at the Halsey Institute. The talk will take place in the galleries and is free and open to the public.


Spandita Malik is a visual artist from India. Her work is concerned with the current global socio-political state of affairs with an emphasis on women’s rights and gendered violence. Malik specializes in process based work in photography, recently with photographic surface embroideries and collaborations with women in India. Malik’s work in expanded documentary and social-practice consciously emanates from the idea of decolonising the eye and aesthetic surrounding documentary photography of India.

 

ARTIST TALK | Spandita Malik

Saturday, April 6, 2024
2:00 PM
Halsey Institute Galleries

WGS Intersections, a panel discussion

Tuesday, April 9, 2024
4:00 PM
Halsey Institute Galleries

Join us for a panel discussion organized by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the College of Charleston around themes explored in the exhibitions on view.

The panel participants are selected by WGS and will be announced prior to the event.

WGS Intersections, a panel discussion

Tuesday, April 9, 2024
4:00 PM
Halsey Institute Galleries

CURATOR COFFEE CLUB | Teach Me a Song and Meshes of Resistance

Friday, April 26, 2024
9:00 - 11:00 AM
Halsey Institute Galleries

Join us for a casual morning of coffee, conversation, and an exhibition tour with the Halsey Institute’s director and chief curator Katie Hirsch and your fellow members in Elisa Harkins: Teach Me a Song and Spandita Malik: Meshes of Resistance. Katie will begin her exhibition tours at 9:30 AM, but members are welcome to join us at any point during the event.

The Curator Coffee Club is sponsored by Blūm in Charleston.

This event is open to all levels of Halsey Institute membership. Not a member yet? Not a problem! Find out more about the benefits of membership here. 

CURATOR COFFEE CLUB | Teach Me a Song and Meshes of Resistance

Friday, April 26, 2024
9:00 - 11:00 AM
Halsey Institute Galleries

HALSEY AFTER HOURS

Friday, May 3, 2024
5:00 - 7:00 PM
Halsey Institute galleries and Hill Exhibition Gallery

Can’t make it to the Halsey Institute during the day? Then, meet your friends for happy hour during Halsey After Hours! Occurring from 5:00 – 7:00 PM, drink in the views of the current exhibitions, Spandita Malik: Meshes of Resistance and Elisa Harkins: Teach Me a Song, meet Halsey staff and advisory board members, and walk away with a fun and memorable experience. The famous Moon Party Moon will also make an appearance for a photo-op!

This event is free for Members of the Halsey Institute. Not-yet members will be asked for a $10 donation.

HALSEY AFTER HOURS

Friday, May 3, 2024
5:00 - 7:00 PM
Halsey Institute galleries and Hill Exhibition Gallery

Embroidery Workshop

Thursday, May 16, 2024
5:30-7:30 PM
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art

Inspired by Spandita Malik: Meshes of Resistance, the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art is offering an embroidery workshop with fiber artist and Community Engagement Coordinator, Camela Guevara. Send your image ahead of time, and we will print it onto fabric. You’ll learn embroidery basics, as well as how to embellish your own photo to make a keepsake you’ll enjoy for years to come. Tickets are $65 ($75 for Not Yet Members) and includes all materials. RSVP as space is limited. (Capped at 15).

Purchase tickets through George Street Box Office here.

Email HalseyRSVP@cofc.edu with any questions.

Embroidery Workshop

Thursday, May 16, 2024
5:30-7:30 PM
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art

MEET THE MAKER | Joshua Parks

Tuesday, May 21, 2024
5:30 PM
Halsey Institute Galleries

Join us for the next Meet the Maker featuring Joshua Parks.

Meet the Makers are quarterly get-togethers for members at the Postmodernist level and above to meet an artist or maker and learn about their creative process within an intimate setting. The Maker is often an upcoming exhibiting artist at the Halsey Institute or expands on introducing creative makers local to Charleston. They will give a presentation describing their inspiration, passions, process, and, ultimately, final result. Members are asked to bring “a bottle of wine and an open mind.” RSVPs are not required, but are appreciated! RSVP to AnchetaSM@cofc.edu.

Not a member yet? Not a problem! Find out more about the benefits of membership here.


Joshua Parks is a Black southern museum professional, filmmaker, and photographer from Jacksonville, Florida. His roots stretch back over seven generations in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. His work analyzes rural communities in the Black Belt South, their relationship to land and water as the basis of subsistence, autonomy, survival, and collective memory, and how these elements influence social and cultural development. Joshua was the principal photographer for the Greenbook of South Carolina (2022), and has photos exhibited at the International African American Museum, Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture and the Seashore Farmers’ Lodge Museum and Cultural Center. He has worked as an in-house producer for the International African American Museum, contributing to their core digital exhibitions (short educational documentaries) such as Carolina Gold, Memories of the Enslaved, Gullah Geechee Overview Film, Moving Star Hall, the Parks/Wilder Family History, and more. He currently owns and operates Cimarron Productions, a full scale film, photography and digital media company, in addition to co-founding the Lowcountry Arts Movement, a non-profit dedicated to building an ecosystem of Black artists, cultural workers and organizers whose goal is to create and promote art and programming that raises the collective consciousness of the Lowcountry community and beyond. Joshua received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a minor in History from Howard University, and is pursuing a Masters degree in Public History at the College of Charleston.

MEET THE MAKER | Joshua Parks

Tuesday, May 21, 2024
5:30 PM
Halsey Institute Galleries

ARTIST TALK | Elisa Harkins

Saturday, June 1, 2024
2:00 PM
Halsey Institute Galleries

Join us for an artist talk featuring Elisa Harkins on the occasion of Harkins’s exhibition Teach Me a Song at the Halsey Institute. The talk will take place in the galleries and is free and open to the public.


Elisa Harkins is a Native American (Cherokee/Muscogee) artist and composer based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her work is concerned with translation, language preservation, and Indigenous musicology. Harkins uses the Cherokee and Mvskoke languages, electronic music, sculpture, and the body as her tools. 

 

ARTIST TALK | Elisa Harkins

Saturday, June 1, 2024
2:00 PM
Halsey Institute Galleries

Elisa Harkins: Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ

Monday, June 3, 2024
6:00 PM
College of Charleston Emmett Robinson Theatre

Native American (Cherokee/Muscogee) visual artist and composer Elisa Harkins conceived Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ as an act of Indigenous Futurism, combining disco and Indigenous language in an effort to preserve and celebrate disappearing languages through active use. Co-presented with Spoleto Festival USA, this innovative performance features Harkins singing in a combination of Cherokee, English, and Muscogee (Creek) and moving rhythmically to electronic dance tracks inspired by Indigenous music. Both dreamy and intense, this piece effortlessly fuses primitive and modern, timeless and of this time. 

Tickets start at $30 and may be purchased through Spoleto Festival USA’s website here. Tickets may be purchased by phone by calling 843.579.3100.

Elisa Harkins: Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ

Monday, June 3, 2024
6:00 PM
College of Charleston Emmett Robinson Theatre

Elisa Harkins: Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ

Tuesday, June 4, 2024
6:00 PM
College of Charleston Emmett Robinson Theatre

Native American (Cherokee/Muscogee) visual artist and composer Elisa Harkins conceived Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ as an act of Indigenous Futurism, combining disco and Indigenous language in an effort to preserve and celebrate disappearing languages through active use. Co-presented with Spoleto Festival USA, this innovative performance features Harkins singing in a combination of Cherokee, English, and Muscogee (Creek) and moving rhythmically to electronic dance tracks inspired by Indigenous music. Both dreamy and intense, this piece effortlessly fuses primitive and modern, timeless and of this time. 

Tickets start at $30 and may be purchased through Spoleto Festival USA’s website here. Tickets may be purchased by phone by calling 843.579.3100.

Elisa Harkins: Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ

Tuesday, June 4, 2024
6:00 PM
College of Charleston Emmett Robinson Theatre

Film Screening | Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World

Wednesday, July 10, 2024
7:00 PM
Halsey Institute Galleries

Beat the heat with a movie screening in the galleries. Join the Halsey Institute for a free screening of Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017). This film has a run time of 1 hour and 43 minutes.

About Rumble:

Many artists and musical forms played a role in the creation of rock, but arguably no single piece of music was more influential than the 1958 instrumental “Rumble” by American Indian rock guitarist and singer/songwriter Link Wray.

When recalling Link Wray’s shivering guitar classic, “Rumble,” Martin Scorsese marvels, “It is the sound of that guitar . . . that aggression.” “Rumble” was the first song to use distortion and feedback. It introduced the rock power chord – and was one of the very few instrumental singles to be banned from the radio for fear it would incite violence.

RUMBLE explores how the Native American influence is an integral part of music history, despite attempts to ban, censor, and erase Indian culture in the United States.

As RUMBLE reveals, the early pioneers of the blues had Native as well as African American roots, and one of the first and most influential jazz singers’ voices was trained on Native American songs. As the folk rock era took hold in the 60s and 70s, Native Americans helped to define its evolution.

Father of the Delta Blues Charley Patton, influential jazz singer Mildred Bailey, metaphysical guitar wizard Jimi Hendrix, and folk heroine Buffy Sainte-Marie are among the many music greats who have Native American heritage and have made their distinctive mark on music history. For the most part, their Indian heritage was unknown.

RUMBLE uses playful re-creations and little-known stories, alongside concert footage, archives and interviews. The stories of these iconic Native musicians are told by some of America’s greatest music legends who knew them, played music with them, and were inspired by them: everyone from Buddy Guy, Quincy Jones, and Tony Bennett to Iggy Pop, Steven Tyler, and Stevie Van Zandt.

RUMBLE shows how Indigenous music was part of the very fabric of American popular music from the beginning, but that the Native American contribution was left out of the story – until now.

Film Screening | Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World

Wednesday, July 10, 2024
7:00 PM
Halsey Institute Galleries

FAMILY DAY! | Meshes of Resistance and Teach Me a Song

Sunday, July 14, 2024
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Halsey Institute galleries and Hill Exhibition Gallery

Join the Halsey Institute staff and tour guides for a fun-filled family-friendly celebration of the exhibition Elisa Harkins: Teach Me a Song and Spandita Malik: Meshes of Resistance. Enjoy guided tours for your family, art activities that explore the exhibition, healthy snacks, and more!

FAMILY DAY! | Meshes of Resistance and Teach Me a Song

Sunday, July 14, 2024
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Halsey Institute galleries and Hill Exhibition Gallery
Free For All
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