Announcing the 2018-2019 Presidential Guest Artist Series!
Thanks to a generous grant from The Graham Foundation, the SC Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities is pleased to welcome two high-caliber artists whose cross-disciplinary work will be shared with students, community members and students from Greenville County Schools during the 2018-2019 academic year. This year's Presidential Guest Artist Series, "Connecting Lines: Dance Across the Arts," features choreographers Alonzo King in November and Garth Fagan in April. Events will include school-wide experiences, master classes with our students, art area workshops, outreach events, and free public artist talks. For more details, or to watch public events online, visit our website.

The Presidential Guest Artist Series is presented collaboratively across our art disciplines, and with tremendous support from the Governor's School's Humanities Department. The Humanities is the glue, the big picture, and the "why" of what we do. Through special guest artist programs, summer reading reflections, performance attendance in all arts areas, and formal classes called "Why Days," students explore three guiding questions:

By diving into the defining qualities of emerging artists, students learn the role of the arts beyond skills training. They learn advocacy, depth of purpose, and engaged citizenry.  

To find out more about the Governor's School's Humanities program, please contact Jennifer Thomas, Academics and Humanities Chair, [email protected],or visit our website.

For over 32 years as VSA South Carolina, AASC has actively engaged with community partners in Education, Health, non-profits and other organizations to inspire and empower people with disabilities through rich experiences in the arts. Although AASC changed its name in 2013, we continue to envision a world where people are no longer defined by their limits..... We simply see people with incredible artistic abilities!

 

Executive Director, Julia Brown-DuBose, long-time advocate for inclusive arts in South Carolina, also serves as the ADA/504 Program Director/Consultant for the South Carolina Arts Commission. She states, "Borrowing the words of my colleague, Betty Siegel, Director, Office of VSA and Accessibility at the Kennedy Center, "we share a deep passion for this work that we do...it's likely that we share the desire to make a larger difference in the lives we touch. For many of us, we contribute to the stories with our words, with our actions and become agents of change..."  Recently, someone asked me what am I most known for in life? Had to ask.... Are you really ready for my story!?  It's something we all share, the commitment to invest in others. I give my time, talent and treasures to people with disabilities and for me it has ALWAYS been through the ARTS. If you work in education and want to bring the ARTS to special education students call me and tell me your story!"

ARTS ACCESS SOUTH CAROLINA provides classes, workshops, internships, apprenticeships, and support to professional and emerging artists in the cultural industry and to many businesses that support the creative arts industry in South Carolina. One example of our impact of is our  C.O.T.T.A.G.E. Industries  concept... a highly important way for individuals with disabilities to turn the various skills they acquire through our projects into sustainable career opportunities.