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7 October 2024 A closer look at the landscape of State House races, as we approach the November 5th General Election. It’s a big election year, and showing up to the polls is one of the [...]

12 September 2024   When we talk about education in rural communities, the statistics can often seem daunting. According to the Why Rural Matters report from 2019 and 2023, South Carolina [...]

19 August 2024   Here at the SC Arts Alliance, we like to keep an eye on the latest trends in the Palmetto State and how they interplay with the Creative Sector. As part of our advocacy [...]

July 8, 2024 Background In 2015, President Obama reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 by signing into law the Every Student Succeeds Act. Among it’s many [...]

Graduate Fellow Latesha Smith offers this perspective on a few bills at the State House and what advocates can do. Out of curiosity, I dropped by the NAACP LDF (Legal Defense Fund) table at the [...]

We’ve asked our Graduate Fellows to take a look at bills they think may impact the arts, or arts education, this year. Sandrina was charged with reviewing the House bills, and here’s what she had [...]

We asked our Graduate Fellow Sandrina Preudhomme, an arts teacher, to reflect on the last two years of teaching during COVID-19. Below is her reflection on her time in the classroom: During the [...]

  Each year during Advocacy Week, we ask folks to reach out to their legislators and encourage them to support the arts. But if you’ve never reached out before, or you don’t do it often, [...]

April 30 was the last day for our 2020/21 Graduate Fellow, Simone Liberty.  Simone started her Fellowship in August of 2020 and she has done so much for the arts in South Carolina since. We have [...]

On March 11, President Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan (ARP), a $1.9 trillion package. We covered some of the arts-friendly basics in this bill over on our blog, but today we want [...]