Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts

Name: Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts
Address: 130 Memorial Drive, Spartanburg, SC, 29303, US
Telephone: (864) 597-4000
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Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts Inspiring students. Impacting the community. Enriching the college experience. Museum & Gallery Hours:
Tues., Wed., Fri., Sat.: 1:00-5:00 p.m. Closed Sun. & Mon.

Thurs.: 1:00-9:00 p.m. Free Admission

Stay updated on what's happening in the Center for the Arts at Wofford College! Arts + Culture: https://www.wofford.edu/student-experiences/arts-culture

Department of Art & Art History: http://www.wofford.edu/artHistory/

Department of Theatre:
http://www.wofford.edu/theatre/

Wofford Theatre Tickets: http://www.wofford.edu/boxoffice

02/14/2025

https://www.wofford.edu/about/news/news-archives/2025/a-fed-gator-is-a-dead-gator

Kimber Keene ’25 invites the community to view her Whetsell Fellowship exhibition, “A Fed Gator is a Dead Gator,” through Feb. 28.

02/11/2025

Artist Talk by Tony M. Bingham
Thursday, Feb. 20, 6 p.m.
Jerome Johnson Richardson Theatre, Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts
Tony Bingham is an artist and professor at Miles College in Birmingham, AL, and the winner of the 2024 Southern Prize die Visual Arts. He will discuss his multidisciplinary work, which investigates the history of rural African American people through themes of spirituality, celebration, trauma and rebirth.
Free and open to the public. A reception will follow.
This event is held in conjunction with the 2024 Southern Prize & State Fellowships for Visual Arts exhibition, organized by South Arts.

02/04/2025

A Fed Gator Is A Dead Gator by Kimber Keene
Richardson Family Art Gallery, Feb. 3-28, 2025
The Richardson Family Art Gallery presents recent works by Kimber Keen, the 2024 Whetsell Fellowship recipient.

Keen’s work explores the complex relationship between humans and nature, using alligators as a powerful symbol of this dynamic. These often-misunderstood creatures seamlessly blend into their surroundings, challenging human perceptions and reminding us of our limited perspective. Encased in mulch and sand, with fabric partially obscuring their forms, Keen’s alligators create an immersive experience. A screen positioned between two of the figures invites viewers to observe them at eye level, fostering a sense of engagement and reflection.

Through this work, Keen examines humanity’s desire to control nature and the unease that arises from its unpredictability. By highlighting the cultural perceptions surrounding alligators, the artist invites viewers to reconsider their relationship with the natural world and the tensions between coexistence and dominance.

12/31/2024

11/29/2024

11/20/2024

Wofford students, please join the Studio Art Program for an open studio event and holiday party featuring student artwork, pizza, and a photo booth!
Date: Dec 6th
Time: 4pm-6pm
Location: Dupree Hall Student Art Studios

11/13/2024

Wofford Theatre Presents THE AMATEURS: A comedy by Jordan Harrison and directed by Abby Dillard. Nov. 7-9 and Nov. 13-16. This wildly inventive and funny new work examines the evolution of human creativity in a dark age: when does a crisis destroy us, and when does it open new frontiers? For tickets please visit the link below. https://www.wofford.edu/.../majors-and.../theatre/box-office

11/12/2024

Panel Discussion for the exhibition “Rising from the Sifting Screen” this Thursday, Nov 14 at 5pm, Leonard Auditorium, reception to follow. Featuring artists Hellen Ascoli, Kelly Taylor Mitchell, and Lars Shimabukuro, the talk will be moderated by art history professor Dr. Gillian Young.

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11/06/2024

10/20/2024

Please join us for a curator talk by Riley Jones '24, where she will discuss the current Richardson Family Art Museum exhibition Insider Addition: Folk and Self-Taught Art in the American South. Thursday, Oct. 24, at 6 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. A light reception will follow.

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130 Memorial Drive
Spartanburg, SC
29303

Telephone

(864) 597-4000

Website

http://www.wofford.edu/arts/

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Maggie Genoble’s solo exhibition TOUCHY SUBJECTS is on view 👀 in the Richardson Family Art Gallery through the end of February ✨@maggiegenoblestudio is a senior Studio Art and Art History double major at Wofford College and the recipient of the 2023 Whetsell Fellowship, which supported the development of this exhibition. . . Touchy Subjects focuses on how the body occupies both a physical world and a digital world inseparable with the rise of internet use. The internet holds endless possibilities to reimagine and represent subjecthood. Physical bodies are denied that freedom as sites for projected desires and oppression. This notion of avatar building on the internet is undermined by how the patriarchy, capitalism, and consumerism may be amplified in digital spaces, while still allowing for the construction of a body not limited by physical constraints. By using the screen as a medium for creation instead of the apparatus for viewing, this shifts its function to reflecting or shielding the viewers’ gaze. Screens and fragmented bodies are scratched, scattered, manipulated, and performed to represent a post-human body, or a cyborg. These sculptures deny a fully-formed body and foreground destruction as a process of creation in an attempt to construct or reconstruct itself in a simultaneous state of digital and physical presence.

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The Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts opened on the Wofford College campus in the fall of 2017. Home to the Department of Art & Art History and to the Department of Theatre, the facility boasts state-of-the-art studios and performance spaces, as well as three museum galleries. The building also features two glass sculptures by artist Dale Chiluly, created exclusively for this space.