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February 28, 2019

New Boyd Plaza to open during March First Thursday on Main

Free opening celebration courtesy of the Darnall W. and Susan F. Boyd Foundation Inc.

Thursday, March 7 | Gates open at 5:00 p.m. | Celebration 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

November 15, 2018

Luther Battiste honored with John Richard Craft Leadership Award

Columbia, S.C. – The Columbia Museum of Art is proud to have presented the 2018 John Richard Craft Leadership Award to Luther J. Battiste III. A community leader, philanthropist, and public servant, Battiste epitomizes the values the CMA recognizes each year with the Craft Award. Executive Director Della Watkins and Board of Trustees President Rachel Hodges presented the award to Battiste at an elegant appreciation dinner celebrating his service on Wednesday, November 14. The Craft Award, named for the CMA’s first director, is the highest honor the museum bestows.

October 29, 2018

Jasper Johns' Gifts to CMA

The Columbia Museum of Art is proud to announce the exhibition Midcentury Masters: Jasper Johns’ Gifts to the CMA, a varied collection of 35 prints gifted to the CMA by Jasper Johns himself and shown in its entirety for the first time, on view Friday, November 16, 2018, to Sunday, February, 24, 2019. With several prints by Johns as well as the work of such postwar heavyweights as Robert Rauschenberg, Josef Albers, Roy Lichtenstein, Ellsworth Kelly, and Andy Warhol, plus archival materials documenting Johns’ time living and establishing his artistic identity in Columbia, this unique exhibition provides insight into the mind of South Carolina’s most famous artistic son.

August 7, 2018

Do you feel like Katie Pell does?

The Columbia Museum of Art announces the major exhibition Something’s Happening: The Big Art of Katie Pell, on view from Friday, August 17, through Sunday, October 28, 2018. Organized by the CMA, Pell’s first solo museum exhibition is an irreverent rite-of-passage narrative that uses the artist’s own life to explore the ordinary side of icons, the exceptional side of ordinary people, and the power of identifying your story.

May 25, 2018

Powerful exhibition shines light on Latino immigrants of South Carolina

The Columbia Museum of Art is proud to announce Ecos: Resonancias de Historias Latinas de Carolina del Sur (Echoes: Resonances of South Carolina Latino Stories) a collaborative multimedia art exhibition featuring the stories of Latino immigrants in the low country interpreted by 19 select Latino South Carolina visual artists, on view in the Community Gallery through Sunday, July 22, 2018.