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Meet the South Carolina Arts Foundation Board
Throughout the year, this newsletter will feature biographies of SCAF board members. Each of the members we highlight in September began a three-year term on July 1, 2023. Help us welcome these new board members!
Quentin E. Baxter is a graduate of the College of Charleston School of the Arts, where he was an adjunct professor of jazz for more than two decades. Currently touring world‑wide with Grammy Award-winning Gullah sensation Ranky Tanky and Grammy Award‑nominated vocalist/composer René Marie, Mr. Baxter regularly performs for prestigious festivals, including Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, the Joy of Jazz Festival in South Africa, and Spoleto Festival USA. He serves as Musical Director of the Charleston Jazz Initiative and is a founding board member of Jazz Artists of Charleston ‑ now named Charleston Jazz. Mr. Baxter has also served on the boards of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra and Engaging Creative Minds. He has had multiple Grammy Award nominations as producer/performer and has won two himself. Among other honors, Mr. Baxter is a 2017 recipient of South Carolina's Governor’s Award for the Arts.
Ted Huge began practicing law in Charleston in the late 1990s and is licensed to practice in Virginia, South Carolina, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia. He has extensive experience in securities litigation and transactions, products liability and civil racketeering cases. Since 2006, Mr. Huge has served as director and general counsel to two charitable organizations which award college scholarships to eligible high school seniors, and a third organization which promotes educational, cultural, and economic exchange between South Carolina and various countries overseas. In his free time Mr. Huge does volunteer work, and he plays guitar and has been rocking with local bands in and around the Charleston area for the past 20 years.
Peggy Lewis is a singer, musician and songwriter. After attending college in Washington, she held an opera workshop scholarship at the University of Arkansas, and she continued her academic, musical, and sports career in graduate school. After completing her studies, Ms. Lewis sang in jazz clubs and cabaret rooms across the nation. In New York her accomplishments included singing in clubs (Village Gate, Village Vanguard, etc.), performing in a studio as a demo singer (Right Track), and writing jingles for major companies. Now living in Charleston, Ms. Lewis devotes her cabaret shows to benefitting the arts and organizations such as Spoleto Festival USA, the Gibbes Museum of Art and the College of Charleston School of the Arts.
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