US House Appropriations Committee Proposes $2 Million Increase for NEA

Despite another call for elimination by the President, the House Appropriations Committee released its proposal for FY2019’s budget last night (May 14) and included another $2 million bump [...]

Our Annual Meeting is always a great place to meet up with fellow arts leaders, check out the beautiful city of Charleston, and hear from some great speakers. This year, we are also featuring two [...]

On the very last day of the legislative cycle, S.302 passed both the House and Senate yesterday (May 10) after the House and Senate worked out differences between their two versions of the bill. [...]

After receiving the House version of the budget in late March, on Thursday, April 12, the SC Senate passed their version of the State’s $8 billion budget. On the recommendation of the [...]

During the 1967-68 year, a new indicator of what the arts mean to South Carolina was born. It was the South Carolina Arts Commission, the state’s first arts agency. Fifty years later, the [...]

Join us for the opening weekend of Spoleto Festival USA, and our Annual Meeting on Friday, May 25 in Charleston! Reserve Your Seat >> This event, at the Harbour Club in downtown Charleston, [...]

On Friday, March 23, President Donald Trump signed an Omnibus bill that funded the federal government through September, the end of the fiscal year for the US. The bill, which was first adopted [...]

On February 12, the President released his Executive Budget proposal. The $4 trillion proposal includes the elimination of all funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. The NEA’s [...]

  You read that right! What used to just be one day to collectively celebrate the arts in South Carolina is now being expanded to a whole week! Mark your calendars for February 5 – 9, [...]

On January 16, the SC Senate voted 44-0 to OVERRIDE Veto #24: Arts Commission, restoring $350,000 in Arts Commission funding for grants, professional development, and rural arts development [...]