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Southbound Corporate Sponsorship

Southbound Corporate Sponsorship

The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art has organized a multimedia project titled Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South. The project is co-curated by Mark Sloan, Director and Chief Curator of the Halsey Institute, and Mark Long, Professor of Political Science at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Southbound will represent the largest exhibition of Southern photography in the early twenty-first century. Comprised of fifty-six photographers’ visions of today’s New South, Southbound will be on view simultaneously at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and the City Gallery at Waterfront Park October 19, 2018 – March 2, 2019. Each photographer will be represented by four works, for a total of 220 photographs. The exhibition will travel to three to five venues after the Halsey Institute.

Southbound embraces the conundrum of its name. To be southbound is to journey to a place in flux, radically transformed over recent decades, yet also to the place where the past resonates most insistently in the United States. To be southbound is also to confront the weight of preconceived notions about this place, thick with stereotypes, encoded in the artistic, literary, and media records. Southbound engages with and unsettles assumed narratives about this contested region by providing fresh perspectives for understanding the complex admixture of history, geography, and culture that constitutes today’s New South.

The inclusion of fifty-six photographers, diverse as the landscapes and cultures of the South itself, offers a composite image of the region. From Mitch Epstein’s idyllic landscapes dotted with energy towers, to Lisa Elmaleh’s grainy tintype portraits of Appalachian folk musicians, to Sheila Pree Bright’s compelling black and white photographs of Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Atlanta, the American South is formed and reformed through the lens of photographers with distinct visions of the South. These photographs echo stories told about the South as a bastion of tradition, as a region remade through Americanization and globalization, and as land full of surprising realities. Southbound’s purpose is to investigate senses of place in the South that congeal, however fleetingly, in the spaces between the photographers’ looking, their images, and our own preexisting ideas about the region.

The Halsey Institute is proud to share that we have received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to produce Southbound. Additionally, the Halsey Institute is collaborating with Garden & Gun Magazine as the exhibition’s official media partner.

 To learn more about Southbound and how you can support the project, please peruse the “accordion” section at the bottom of this page. 

Southbound Corporate Sponsorship

CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Participating Sponsor                                          $5,000

   Marketing

  • Logo placement with hyperlink on the exhibition website
  • Logo placement in the Halsey Institute Fall 2018 Magazine
  • Logo placement in the exhibition catalogue

   On-Site Recognition

  • Logo placement on the gallery wall in both locations during the exhibition

   VIP Access

  • 6 tickets to the 2018 Halsey Institute Moon Party
  • Invitation for 2 to the VIP reception and to an exclusive dinner with select artists during opening weekend

   Other benefits

  • 4 copies of the exhibition catalogue
  • All Halsey Institute Luminist Member benefits

 

Sustaining Sponsor                                              $10,000

   Marketing

  • Social media mention during the exhibition
  • Logo placement in the film credits

   On-Site Recognition

  • Logo placement on signage during opening weekend receptions

   VIP Access

  • 8 tickets to the 2018 Halsey Institute Moon Party
  • Private Southbound tour for 10 with the exhibition co-curators, with transportation between the two exhibition locations
  • Portrait by Jerry Siegel, Southbound artist and one of the most sought-after portrait photographers in the South. This portrait session may be offered to the individual of your choice, for example an executive or valued client.

 

Presenting Sponsor                                              $25,000

All of the above, plus:

   Marketing

  • Social media mention during the exhibition
  • “Presented by” rights for artist talks event(s)
  • Logo placement with hyperlink in Halsey Institute e-newsletters for the artist talks event(s)

   On-Site Recognition

  • Logo placement on day-of signage for the artist talks event(s)

   VIP Access

  • Invitation for 4 to the VIP reception and to an exclusive dinner with select artists during opening weekend
  • Host a private reception in the Halsey Institute during the exhibition, for up to 20 people

 

Premier Sponsor                                                    $50,000

All of the above, plus:

    Marketing

  • “Presented by” rights for exhibition symposium
  • Logo placement with hyperlink in Halsey Institute e-newsletters for the panel event(s)

   On-Site Recognition

  • Logo placement on day-of signage for symposium

    VIP Access

  • Invitation for 8 to the VIP reception and to an exclusive dinner with select artists during opening weekend
  • Host a private reception in the Halsey Institute during the exhibition, for up to 40 people
EXCLUSIVE SPONSOR PORTRAIT OPPORTUNITY

Jerry Siegel, one of the fifty-six artists included in Southbound, has generously agreed to participate in an exciting opportunity for sponsors of the project. Sponsors at the Sustaining $10,000 level and above will receive a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity­­, an in-home portrait session with Siegel.

Siegel is one of the most sought-after portrait photographers in the South. His first monograph, Facing South: Portraits of Southern Artists was published by the University of Alabama Press in 2011. This body of work captured the likenesses of both renowned and emerging Southern artists in their intimate and familiar settings. Facing South has been featured in solo exhibitions at six museums in Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana.

In his second book, Black Belt Color (Georgia Museum of Art, 2017), Siegel focuses his attentions on documenting the unique, cultural landscape of the South, concentrating on the Black Belt region of Alabama.

Siegel was born and raised in Selma, Alabama and graduated from the Art Institute of Atlanta. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art New Orleans; the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in Atlanta; the Telfair Museum, Jepson Center for the Arts, in Savannah, Georgia; the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Montgomery, Alabama; the Morris Museum in Augusta, Georgia; the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art in Auburn, Alabama; and the Mobile Museum of Art in Mobile, Alabama. His work is in many private and corporate collections, including those of the Ogden Museum, the High Museum of Art, the Georgia Museum of Art, the Birmingham Museum of Art, and 11 other southeastern US museums.

We are pleased to provide our generous $10,000+ sponsors this exclusive opportunity to offer a portrait by one of the most renowned portrait photographers in the South. Details on timing and location are to be mutually agreed upon.

 

To learn more about Siegel, please visit: http://www.jerrysiegel.com/

 

 

CATALOGUE

 To accompany the exhibition, the Halsey Institute is producing a comprehensive catalogue, including additional images by all exhibiting artists and a variety of essays offering a range of perspectives about the South. Essayists include William R. Ferris, former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, now Senior Associate Director for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina; Eleanor Heartney, a contributing editor for Art in America, distinguished art critic, and author of several seminal volumes on contemporary art; and John T. Edge, author and director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, an institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. The catalogue will also feature poems by Nikky Finney, Professor of Creative Writing and Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina and 2011 winner of the National Book Award for Poetry. Essays by Southbound co-curators Mark Sloan and Mark Long will round out the diverse literary offerings. The volume will be designed by award-winning graphic designer Gil Shuler and edited by Sloan and Long. Publication is scheduled for Summer/Fall 2018.

FILM

The Halsey Institute has commissioned Emmy Award-winning filmmaker John David Reynolds to produce a short documentary featuring interviews with select photographers, writers, and Southern subjects. Video interviews will also be produced with exhibition photographers to be available on the micro-website for Southbound.

INTERACTIVE MAP OF THE SOUTH

To allow Southbound visitors to create their own visions of the South, the Halsey Institute has commissioned Dr. Rick Bunch, a geographic information science (GIS) and spatial cognition specialist, to design an interactive map of the South representing everything from historical railroad maps to data collected on prison populations and churchgoers, among other topics. Available on an interactive SMART Board inside the exhibition space, this Index of Southerness will allow viewers to switch on-and-off indicators and create their own maps of the region.

MICRO-WEBSITE

A stand-alone micro-website connected to the Halsey Institute’s website will be produced to expand the exhibition’s reach. This site will contain additional images by each photographer, links to essays, and additional information about the photographers and subjects of the images. The interactive Index of Southerness will also be available on the website.

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING AND MATERIALS

The Halsey Institute will produce multiple symposia and panel discussions on the topics raised by Southbound. Such topics might include geography, history, religion, race and ethnicity, literature, documentary studies, foodways, music, and globalization and identity. To expand the impact of the show, members of College of Charleston faculty will offer special subject classes that address Southern Identity in tandem with the exhibition. Film screenings and artist lectures will also be offered. Guided exhibition tours for K-12 students, College of Charleston students, and the general public will be offered for the duration of the exhibition. In addition, a trifold brochure about the exhibition will be provided free for the public.   

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