SC Arts Advocacy Week Announced!

Our annual SC Arts Advocacy Week will run February 7-11, 2022! Featuring virtual engagements, trainings, celebrations, and the return of our in-person SC Arts Summit in Columbia – SC Arts [...]

With over 40 years of service to our state’s legislature and our state’s citizens, the SC Arts Alliance wishes to extend its thoughts and prayers to Senator Hugh Leatherman’s (R-Florence) family, [...]

SC Arts Alliance’s executive director, GP McLeer, has been named one of Greenville’s Best & Brightest Under 35 by Greenville Business Magazine. Now in its 27th year, our annual Best & [...]

Please welcome our 2021/22 Graduate Fellows, Latesha Smith and Sandrina Preudhomme! Over the next academic year, they will be managing much of our digital content, monitoring and reporting [...]

The SC Arts Alliance is honored to receive the 2020 Theatre Advocacy Award from the SC Theatre Association!  Thank you to the SCTA for this wonderful recognition, and thank you to all [...]

A $20 million partnership was announced at a press conference Tuesday, June 29 between the South Carolina Department of Education and South Carolina Arts Commission which will help public schools [...]

Background: Catch up on the budget for the arts here, here, and here.   🚨What’s New: On June 21, both the House and the Senate adopted the Budget Conference Committee Report, [...]

⏪Background: After the House passed their budget in March, the state’s Board of Economic Advisors (BEA) released new revenue projections for the state, adding $1.7 billion to the state’s [...]

From our friends at the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies: Today (May 28), the Biden administration released its first budget request to Congress. Within the nearly $6 trillion proposal is [...]

The SC Arts Alliance has been the primary advocate for the arts and arts education in South Carolina since 1979. Over the 40 years, the number of paid staff has continued to be zero or one. [...]