In the next Penn Center Community Conversation, tenor Victor Ryan Robertson and composer and pianist Adrianne Duncan will perform their collaborative work, “Gullah Meditations,” followed by an audience conversation moderated by Dr. Robert Adams, Penn Center executive director.
Culture and Community at the Penn Center National Historic Landmark District has named its 2024 community research partners: Mr. Ed Atkins and Ms. Earnestine Atkins of St. Helena Island.
Farris’s exhibition, The Land in Us, is on display January 6 to April 6 in the York W. Bailey Museum. A public reception will be held at the Museum at 6 pm Saturday, February 24.
“Remembering Pasts, Contemplating the Present, and Envisioning Futures: Gullah Geechee Cultures and Black Creativity” will take place at 3 p.m. in the Frissell Community House at Penn Center
The Bluffton, SC-based interdisciplinary artist’s work has been featured in more than 50 solo exhibitions and juried museum shows nationally and internationally.
Land and community are at the heart of Penn Center’s history and mission. This Penn Center conversation will share contemporary perspectives on what they mean today.
Culture and Community at the Penn Center National Historic Landmark District hosted its first student research residencies last June, and a second round will be held this May.
Culture and Community at the Penn Center National Historic Landmark District invites submissions for an artist residency program to take place in Spring 2023. The deadline is Monday, January 23.
Students and faculty from the University of Georgia, Spelman College, Morehouse College, Emory University, the College of Charleston, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill gathered at Penn Center on St. Helena Island, SC for a five-day cycle of research residencies
Students and faculty from Spelman College, Morehouse College, Emory University, the College of Charleston, and UGA will participate in classes and workshops at Penn Center and in the surrounding Sea Islands region.
