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:

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[+] No Monet $15 (Student Membership)

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.

[+] Minimalist $30

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.

[+] Modernists $55

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.

[+] Futurist $125

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 ProjectAldwyth: work v./work n. – Collage and Assemblage (1991-2009)Force of Nature: Site Installations by Ten Japanese ArtistsWild, Weird & Wonderful: The American Circus 1901-1927 As Seen by F.W. Glasier, Photographer.

[+] Postmodernist $350

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. 

 

[+] Conceptualist $2,500 or $500/year over 5 years

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. 

[+] Utopian Society $5,000 or $1,000/year over 5 years

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. 

[+] SUGAR DADA (or mama) $10,000 and ABOVE or $2,000/year over 5 years

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.

PATRON PRINT PROGRAM

Each year we offer a new set of limited edition prints available exclusively to our Patron members. Artists who have been a part of the Halsey Institute's programming have specially created these prints for us. Beginning at the POSTMODERNIST level ($350), you may choose from one of the prints we have available. We are delighted to unveil our newest additions to the Patron Print Program featured upon the walls of our new HICA Hall of Patron Prints located on the first floor of The Marion and Wayland H. Cato Jr. Center for the Arts. Gradually, you can build your art collection while supporting adventurous contemporary art in Charleston!


Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin – New York, NY – [New for 2012-2013]

Don ZanFagna – Mount Pleasant, SC – [New for 2012-2013]

Joseph Burwell – Brooklyn, NY – [New for 2012-2013]

Pinky Bass – Fairhope, AL – [New for 2012-2013]

Motoi Yamamoto – Kanazawa, Japan – [New for 2012-2013]

Hamid Rahmanian – Brooklyn, NY [New for 2010-2011]

Eames Demetrios – Los Angeles, CA [New for 2011-2012]

Geoffrey Cormier – James Island, SC with Michelle Van Parys, Charleston SC [New for 2011-2012]

Leslie Wayne – New York City, NY [New for 2010-2011]

Phyllis Galembo – New York City, NY [New for 2010-2011]

Erica Harris – Brooklyn, NY [New for 2010-2011]

Nancy Marshall – McClellanville, SC – [New for 2010-2011]

Kendall Messick – New York

John McWilliams – McClellanville, SC

Heather McClintock – Boone, NC [New for 2010-2011]

Colin Quashie – Charleston, SC

Tanja Softic´ – Richmond, VA

Renee Stout – Washington, DC

Ruth Marten – New York, NY

Pedro Lobo – Évora, Portugal

Communtity Partners 2012