Did you know that 70% of the funding we receive and generate goes directly towards supporting our exhibitions and programs? Because of this percentage, our May Giving Campaign is a foundational pillar of support for us. You will be able to see your dollars in action this Fall when you participate in our May Giving Campaign where funds raised will bolster our Fall 2024 exhibiting artist Demond Melancon. Will you help us reach our $30,000 goal in support of Demond Melancon and the Halsey Institute’s 40th Anniversary?
Now, as part of our May Giving Campaign, we’re excited to announce several opportunities for you to not only support our mission but also win fun experiences and prizes + take advantage of month-long perks. Whether you become a new Member, renew your membership, or donate, you’re not only contributing to our $30,000 goal but you’ll also be entered into our May Giving Raffles. Join us in celebrating our 40th Anniversary by giving back to the Halsey Institute and potentially scoring awesome prizes!
MAY GIVING MONTH-LONG PERKS!
Tag us in a post on social media and receive 20% off your membership! Post to your social media account and tag our account on that same platform to receive an email with a special link to join or renew at 20% regular membership prices. Is your account private? Send us a screenshot instead! The Halsey Institute has an Instagram, Facebook, and an X account. Limited to one discount per membership.
Free upgrades for new members when you join at a lower-level membership! When new members sign up, they can choose from the $40, $60, or $125 membership levels and will automatically be bumped to the next level. For instance, opting for the $125 Futurist membership grants the perks of a $350 Postmodernist membership. This offer is exclusively available to new members. JOIN HERE!
MAY GIVING CAMPAIGN RAFFLES
MAY 1 OPENING DAY RAFFLE
Image top: Spandita Malik, Meena II, 2023. From the Jāḷī series. Photographic transfer print on khaddar fabric, phulkari silk thread embroidery, 39 x 52 ½ inches
TWO registrations for one winner to our Embroidery Workshop on Thursday, May 16 from 5:30 – 7:30 PM will be raffled off. This workshop is inspired by the current exhibition Spandita Malik: Meshes of Resistance with fiber artist and Community Engagement Coordinator, Camela Guevara. $150 value.
Registrants will send their image ahead of time, and the Halsey Institute will print them onto fabric. You’ll learn embroidery basics and how to embellish your photo to make a keepsake you’ll enjoy for years to come!
The Halsey Institute will contact the winner on May 2. Gifts made on May 1 will also be entered into the May 1 – 15 raffle.
Follow the links below to enter our Opening Day Raffle:
A one-year membership with the Charleston Magazine Club ($175 value) Club members enjoy experiences such as eco-tours, cooking demonstrations, festivals, gallery openings, and the like. In addition, and because members become fast friends, the Club organizes frequent happy hours and get-togethers with special entertainment and giveaways
Two Halsey Institute tote bags from our selection ($15 value each)
Choosing one publication from our award-winning collection (value dependent on publication)
A $150 gift card to Bodega eligible at both the Downtown Charleston and Mount Pleasant locations
A publication duo of William Halsey and Corrie McCallum: Take Note both published by the Greenville County Museum of Art ($40 total value)
MAY 18 – MAY 19: BOGO MEMBERSHIP WEEKEND
Buy one membership and get one free at the same value! This allows members to renew their own memberships and gift one to a friend. Available to both new and current members.
The fine print:
A single winner will be selected for each of the two May Giving Campaign raffles. Notification for the first raffle will be sent out on May 16, and on June 1 for the second raffle. To enter and qualify, donations and membership must be made within the designated time frame of each raffle. For instance, for the May 1-15 raffle, donations and memberships must be made between 12:00 AM on May 1 through 11:59 PM on May 15 to be eligible for entry into the corresponding raffle.
Do you have questions about your current membership or some of the benefits available during the May Giving Campaign? Reach out to our Director of Development, Selynne Ancheta. at AnchetaSM@cofc.eduor call (843) 953-5652.
You can also support our mission by purchasing our tote bags, award-winning publications, and more in our online shop.
Businesses can join in on the raffle fun by becoming or renewing a Community Partner business sponsorship at any level by clicking here.
*Free No Monet memberships for College of Charleston students are exempt from the perks and raffles except for the Instagram Giveaways.
If you do not wish to donate, become a new Member, or renew your membership, but are still interested in entering the raffle, please email our Director of Development, Selynne Ancheta at AnchetaSM@cofc.edu or call (843) 953-5652, so she can add your name to the raffle entries.
All gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowable by law. You will receive a letter from the Halsey Institute thanking you for your gift.
You may join, renew, or upgrade your membership over the phone by calling Julia Hammer at the College of Charleston Foundation. Reach Julia at (843) 953- 5113.
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 Resistanceand 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Songand Spandita Malik: Meshes of Resistance. Enjoy guided tours for your family, art activities that explore the exhibition, healthy snacks, and more!
Free For All
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Image top: Spandita Malik, Meena II, 2023. From the Jāḷī series. Photographic transfer print on khaddar fabric, phulkari silk thread embroidery, 39 x 52 ½ inches
