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"Considerable Grace: Fifteen Years of the Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Awards," a large retrospective of work by recipients of the Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Award, is on display at McKissick Museum through April 2004.
The Harris Folk Heritage Award was created by the South Carolina legislature in 1986 to recognize lifetime achievement in this state for traditional folk art. The award recognizes individuals or groups who have used their lives to create beauty and meaning for their communities and the state as a whole in media that have become part of tradition. Winners have included traditional string-band musicians, basket makers, story tellers, wood carvers and gospel singers and artists in many other media. This exhibition recaps the contributions of these award winners.
The "Considerable Grace" exhibit, one of the largest ever mounted at the museum, includes such items as musical instruments, quilts, intricate fish traps and nets, walking canes, tomahawks, and knives—all handcrafted by South Carolina artists.
McKissick Museum exhibitions are free and open to the public. The museum is located on USC's historic Horseshoe and is open from 9 a.m.–4 p.m. every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday; 9 a.m.–7 p.m. on Thursdays; and 1–5 p.m. on Sundays.
For more information, call 7-7251.
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Handcrafted
These fish traps are made of split white oak and were crafted by Elbert Brown of Pendleton (left trap) and Grover "Billy" Hammond of Clark's Hill (right).
Geneva Lena Loewe of Awendaw made this hand-stitched cotton applique quilt using a pattern called "Winner's Circle." Loewe has been making quilts for more than 50 years.
