The community and College of Charleston students are invited to join the Halsey Institute staff and the Studio Art Department for a lecture by artist and juror for Young Contemporaries 2025 Allen Frame on Wednesday, January 22 at 6:00 PM in Simons Center, Room 380. This event is free and open to the public.

Now in its 40th year, the Halsey Institute and the College of Charleston Studio Art Department are proud to present Young Contemporaries 2025. The annual exhibition is a celebration of talented artists at the College of Charleston. With works selected by a nationally renowned juror, the exhibition reflects the strength and diversity of practice in the School of the Arts’ rigorous programs. Featuring a wide range of media, including paintings, sculpture, photography, and prints, the exhibition showcases the efforts of the student body at the College.

Allen Frame is a photographer and writer, represented by Gitterman Gallery in New York where he has had solo exhibitions of photography in 2005, 2009, and 2013.  He is a winner of the 2017/2018  Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. His 2013 exhibition Dialogue with Bolaño was presented at the Museum of Art of the Sonora in Hermosillo, Mexico, in 2014. Detour, a compilation of his photographs over a decade, was published by Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg in 2001. 

Frame is an Adjunct Professor of Photography at Pratt Institute (MFA) and also teaches at the School of Visual Arts (BFA), and the International Center of Photography in New York. He has taught workshops in photography extensively in Mexico. He graduated from Harvard University and grew up in Mississippi.

The College of Charleston Department of Studio Art invites you to AMALFI, a solo show of works by Allen Frame on view in the new Simons Center Studio Art Gallery from January 22 – February 26, 2025. 

Join us to celebrate the talented artists of the College of Charleston! Now in its 40th year, the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and the College of Charleston Studio Art Department are proud to present Young Contemporaries 2025. The annual exhibition is a celebration of talented artists at the College of Charleston. With works selected by a nationally renowned juror, the exhibition reflects the strength and diversity of practice in the School of the Arts’ rigorous programs. Featuring a wide range of media and subjects, the exhibition showcases the creativity of the student body at the College. Allen Frame will serve as the juror and awards judge for Young Contemporaries 2025. 

Concurrent with Young Contemporaries is the Salon des Refusés, shown in the first floor of the Cato Center for the Arts. The works in the Salon are chosen by Studio Art faculty. The origin of a Salon des Refusés dates to Paris in 1863, when artists who had been rejected from the official Salon caused such a protest that Emperor Napoleon III ordered another exhibition held for them. Among the painters in the original Salon des Refusés were Camille Pissaro, Henri Fantin-Latour, James M. Whistler, and Edouard Manet. 

Join your fellow members for a casual morning of coffee, conversation, and presentations by College of Charleston student artists with work featured in Young Contemporaries 2025. Presentations will take place throughout the event, but members are welcome to arrive at any time. 

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.