RECENT PRESS COVERAGE
Halsey Institute Receives Statewide Award | Fri. Apr. 27, 2012
College of Charleston News
Palmetto Portraits Project, a partnership between the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in the School of the Arts at the College of Charleston and the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), is the winner of one of 10 Notable State Document Awards for 2011. The awards are presented to South Carolina agencies in order to focus on the important value of information compiled and produced by governmental agencies and to emphasize the importance of open and equal public access to this information.
Emily Rosko draws poetic inspiration from the Bard | Wed. Feb. 22, 2012
Charleston City Paper
Emily Rosko is already looking ahead to her next project, a book tentatively titled Weather Inventions that she says explores the emergence of the scientific revolution in the 17th century. She’s also planning to write a series of poems inspired by S.C. native Aggie Zed, whose work graces the cover of Prop Rockery. “If anything she has been my great inspiration and discovery since being in Charleston,” Rosko says. Zed’s sculptures are currently on view at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art.”
Halsey Institute, Sloan honored with Verner Award | Sun. Feb. 19, 2012
Charleston Post and Courier
In South Carolina, there is no greater award in the arts than the Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Governor’s Award, and the list of this year’s winners is out. The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art won one for arts organization, with a special nod to director Mark Sloan.
Mark Sloan has been one of the driving forces behind the success of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and received a special mention in this year’s Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Awards for arts organizations.
Sloan has made the Halsey a place to see provocative work, both from South Carolina and from any place that piques his interest. His choices show work that really has few other venues, and Sloan is now curating traveling shows.
Aggie Zed Speaks on Sullivan’s | Wed. Feb. 1, 2012
The Island Eye News
Aggie Zed, whose work is currently on display at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, grew up here on Sullivan’s Island. The show, comprised of sculpture, paintings, drawings, sketchbooks and installations, had never before been seen before the much-anticipated opening, held on Friday, January 20.
The opening was attended by a crush of 800 people. The lecture, held the following day, was equally crowded. Originally planned as a gallery walk-through, it was necessary for attendees to line walls and sit on the floor, in order to have their burning questions answered by Aggie Zed herself. Fittingly, the first inquiry of evening regarded Aggie’s childhood on Sullivan’s Island and how that unique experience has come to influence her work.
Aggie Zed lets your imagination run wild | Thu. Jan. 19, 2012
Charleston City Paper
Imagine you’re reading a story filled with quiet women surrounded by animals, little men with human bodies and elephant heads, and copper-and-ceramic horses that look a little steampunk, a little classical.
That, in a sense, is what looking at the work of Virginia-based painter and sculptor Aggie Zed is like.
From the mind of an artist | Sun. Jan. 15, 2012
Charleston Post and Courier
Aggie Zed makes creatures that haunt — odd collections of bits of copper and porcelain, disconnected heads, animals that float and roll like the stuff of dreams, or maybe nightmares.
The creatures that populate Zed’s world are not ones that we have seen before — they emerge from her imagination as random ideas. Human and animal figures collide with furniture or landscapes; rabbits sprout wheels or wings, while horses drown in collapsing scaffolding.
Halsey receives $10,000 NEA grant | Mon. Dec. 12, 2011
Charleston City Paper
The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art is $10,000 richer, thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts. The organization’s Challenge America Fast-Track program awards grants to small and mid-sized arts organizations around the country, particularly places that bring the arts to underserved audiences. The Halsey is one of 162 winners in 46 states.
Tanja Softic and Hamid Rahmanian share their migration stories | Tue. Dec. 6, 2011
Charleston City Paper
If Tanja Softic and Hamid Rahmanian have one thing in common other than their immigration to the United States, it’s their belief that everyone can relate to the experience of an immigrant.
NASA-funded Halsey exhibit explores lunar history | Wed. Nov. 9, 2011
Charleston City Paper
Galileo created the first telescope in the 17th century, and now, 400 years later, we’ve got Google Moon, an application that allows users to get a live satellite view of the lunar surface. In 2009, scientists found water on the moon, and College of Charleston Professor Cassandra Runyon was one of the lead scientists in the discovery. The following spring, she received a NASA grant to mount a moon exhibition, and she asked Halsey director Mark Sloan to curate. The result is the Halsey’s large-scale exhibition, From the Moon: Mapping & Exploration, which offers viewers a comprehensive examination of our relationship with our “sister sphere.”
Lunar exploration | Sun. Nov. 6, 2011
Charleston Post and Courier
The notion that there is a great, yawning chasm separating art and science dissolves, like most misperceptions, under close inspection.
As ways of experiencing — and deciphering — the cosmos, they can be complementary. Especially when the subject of scrutiny is a neighboring body we thought we knew so well: the moon.
The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, the College of Charleston School of Sciences and Mathematics and the Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library offer an object lesson in this fruitful interaction beginning Saturday when they unveil “From the Moon: Mapping & Exploration.”
