The South Carolina Arts Commission Board announces the 2011 Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Governor’s Awards for the Arts, the highest honor the state presents in the arts. Established in 1972, the annual awards recognize outstanding achievement and contributions to the arts…
Kite Foundation Funds Social Media Research
The College of Charleston will receive $6,000 from the Kite Foundation to conduct a pilot study in Beaufort County to determine the impact of social media…on attendance at live arts performances. This will later extend to a study in the…
Music Department Receives Yamaha CFX Concert Grand Piano
College of Charleston is the first institution of higher learning in the United States to acquire Yamaha’s CFX Concert Grand Piano Following the recent construction of a five-story addition to the College’s School of the Arts, an anonymous donor generously…
Piano Series Presents Frederic Chiu on New Yamaha Piano
College of Charleston International Piano Series Debuts Spring Season at Memminger Auditorium The International Piano Series at the College of Charleston School of the Arts will present Frederic Chiu on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011 at 8:00 p.m., at Memminger Auditorium,…
Arts Management Professor Wins Preservation Award
The College of Charleston School of the Arts congratulates Dr. Karen Chandler on the receipt of the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission’s 2010 “Preserving Our Places in History” Individual Award. Chandler was nominated for her work as Co-Principal of…
Paint on Paint on Paint
The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art presents the exhibit Leslie Wayne: Recent Work. Leslie Wayne is a New York-based abstract painter whose layered, carved and stacked use of mostly tropical colored paint evokes awe and wonder. Rather than paint pictures…
Theatre Production OUTRAGE
CONTEMPORARY COMEDY TO TAKE AUDIENCE ON A TIME-BENDING ROLLER COASTER RIDE THROUGH HISTORY The Department of Theatre presents “Outrage” by American playwright Itamar Moses. The contemporary comedy, which deftly moves between the present day and three other time periods with…
Guitar Professor Marc Regnier Nominated for GRAMMY
Internationally recognized classical guitarist and College of Charleston associate professor Marc Regnier has been nominated for a GRAMMY. His most recent recording of the chamber and solo works of Brazilian composer Radames Gnattali (Dorian/Sono Luminus), was selected for the Best…
Jazz With Robert Lewis & Friends
“Jazz is a very different kind of musical puzzle that musicians seem to enjoy putting together, taking apart, and putting back together again and again. It is a series of ongoing melodic and rhythmical adjustments. It is also an imperfect…
Learning With Our Young Artists
“IT HAS BEEN around for a long time. But the Monday Night Concert Series at the Simons Center Recital Hall, produced by Steve Rosenberg and the [College of Charleston] School of the Arts, is still a hidden—and very affordable—jewel in…