ABOUT OUR MEMBERSHIPS
Support contemporary art in Charleston by becoming a Member of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art. Our Members’ support is vital to the continued development of the Institute and our programming. Your participation broadens the scope of our activities and makes possible a high quality, stimulating schedule each year. As a Member you will receive all of our mailings, invitations to special events, as well as the variety of stratified perks listed below. Your contributions are tax deductible to the extent allowable by law.
Your membership dollars will support:
- OUR DYNAMIC PROGRAMS & EXHIBITIONS!
- Special events: our annual membership Moon event
- Film screenings
- Educational talks & panel discussions
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For the discerning College of Charleston student whose taste outstrips their budget. Includes all the benefits of a Minimalist at half the price. Students from other institutions are eligible for $20.
Like Agnes Martin you know how to say a lot with a little.
Individual Membership benefits include:
→ Invitations & notices to all HICA events.
→ A membership card for free entry to all lectures as well as free or discounted entry to special member events.
→ A 15% discount to Artizom Frame Gallery and a 15% discount to Rick Rhodes Photography & Imaging.
→ Receive our monthly Halsey Happenings e-newsletter about HICA programs.
→ Receive an invitation to our annual members-only MOON party each fall.
Like Piet Mondrian, you have faith in the purity and power of art and show it with your support.
All Minimalist Membership benefits, plus:
→ An additional membership for a person of your choice.
Like Umberto Boccioni, you can visualize the future and are quick to give liberally in support of it.
Modernists Membership Benefits, plus:
→ A complimentary HICA publication of your choice– Palmetto Portraits Project; Aldwyth: work v./work n. – Collage and Assemblage (1991-2009); Force of Nature: Site Installations by Ten Japanese Artists; Wild, Weird & Wonderful: The American Circus 1901-1927 As Seen by F.W. Glasier, Photographer.
Qualifies you for patron print program
Thinking ahead, but living now, you consider this option to be the most appropriate after critically evaluating all the other options. We know a traditional response on our part would not suffice either, so at this level you select one print from the Patron Print Program.
Modernists Membership Benefits, plus:
→ A 10% discount to Worthwhile.
→ A special invitation to an annual donor event in honor of our Patrons.
→ Receive special invitations to Soup to Nuts, a dinner and discussion with the purpose of providing an intimate environment in which artists may discuss the process of his or her work, from inspiration to finished piece.
→ Choose a patron print from our selection of nationally acclaimed artists
→ Receive recognition as a co-sponsor of our annual May/June exhibition (during Spoleto Festival USA).
→ An invitation to an annual reception where you can meet the artists, speak with the curator & more.
Like Sol LeWitt, you like to make dreams manifest.
Modernists Membership Benefits, plus:
→ A 10% discount to Worthwhile.
→ A special invitation to an annual donor event in honor of our Patrons.
→ Receive special invitations to Soup to Nuts, a dinner and discussion with the purpose of providing an intimate environment in which artists may discuss the process of his or her work, from inspiration to finished piece.
→ Choose a patron print from our selection of nationally acclaimed artists, one per year over five years.
→ Receive recognition as a co-sponsor of our annual May/June exhibition (during Spoleto Festival USA).
→ An invitation to an annual reception where you can meet the artists, speak with the curator & more.
Qualifies you for patron print program
Like Paolo Soleri, you are not content with your castles in the sky.
Conceptualists Membership Benefits, plus:
→ An Honorary Visionary membership with the Friends of the School of the Arts.
As with Duchamp, money is no object (it’s ART!) Your love of HICA’s brand of challenging and adventurous contemporary art is an all-consuming passion. What HICA provides nourishes your soul in ways difficult to articulate, yet impossible to ignore.
Utopian Membership benefits, plus:
→ Our eternal gratitude for your foresight and generosity.
























