Ms. Jean Avent

Ms. Ruth Baker

Andrea Caniz,
Arts Management Student Intern

Ms. Deanna Condon

Ms. Phyllis Evans

Ms. Florence Fahrbrach

Ms. Gloria Fenning

Ms. Jaquelin Fleet

Mr. David L. Gleason,
School of the Arts

Mr. Michael W. Haga,
School of the Arts

Ms. Bessie Hanahan

Ms. Stella Harmon

Ms. Belle Mead Heckel

Ms. Ann Higdon

Ms. Carolyn Holscher

Ms. Lynda Howell

Ms. Reba Huge

Ms. Mary Q. Johnson

Ms. Cathey Johnson Mahony

Ms. Cathy Marino

Ms. Betty McCullough

Ms. Gwen McCurdy

Ms. Mary B. (Charlie) McElroy

Ms. Suzanne Mitchell

Dean Valerie B. Morris,
School of the Arts

Ms. Kathryn Norton,
School of the Arts

Ms. Jacqueline Osteen

Mr. and Mrs. Jim Pratt

Ms. Tunky Riley

Ms. Gail Roddey

Ms. Cathy Sandifer

Ms. Sallie Simons

Ms. Katherine Murray Smith

Ms. Gloria Testerman

Ms. Peg Van Bergen

Since 1998, the year of the first Charleston Antiques Symposium, proceeds from the Symposium have supported student travel to conferences, students' research oriented projects, and programs at the School of the Arts. Among the students who have received this assistance are a triple major in Studio Art, Art History and Arts Management who traveled to India to study Hindu art in the summer of 1999. In the following year, another Arts Management major traveled to New York City in order to attend The Association of Performing Arts Presenters' annual conference. Also in 2000, funds from the Charleston Antiques Symposium underwrote the cost of an interdisciplinary lecture series which was open to the public as well as College of Charleston students. The first speaker was Scott Shanklin-Peterson, then Senior Deputy Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. (In January 2002 , Ms. Shanklin-Peterson became the Director of the Arts Management Program at the College.) The second speaker in the series was Lorraine Johnson-Coleman, noted author and commentator for National Public Radio.

Proceeds from the 2001 Charleston Antiques Symposium provided a Theatre major with funding which enabled him to attend a play writing workshop in conjunction with the Association for Theatre in Higher Education's (ATHE) annual conference. He was the only undergraduate student in the nation to be so honored! After the workshop, the New Plays Production Coordinator for the ATHE's Playwrights Program sent a letter to the student saying "Program directors, along with the rest of the audience at the public showcase ... were impressed with the staged reading of your play..." One Studio Art major used funds from the Charleston Antiques Symposium to support a research project in New York. After returning from his visit to that city, he said that the funding allowed him "to stay in the heart of Manhattan off Times Square and not only visit three major museums, but also go to forty-eight prominent galleries." The student went on to say that the "experience not only profited my research of neo-abstract art..., but it gave me a better feeling for the larger art community on an economic and inter-social scale."

As noted above, funds from the Charleston Antiques Symposium have provided important financial support for the School of the Arts' programs. Programs which have received such support include the College of Charleston Concert Choir, the Jazz Program, the Halsey Gallery, and the Arts Management Program. In 2002, proceeds from the Charleston Antiques Symposium funded the first endowed fund for the Arts Management Program. This fund will provide a stipend for student interns who will work with the Charleston Antiques Symposium Committee to plan and produce the Symposium each year. Through such student involvement, the Charleston Antiques Symposium is a living laboratory which allows interns to gain valuable experience in event management.

Contac Us

For questions about the Charleston Antiques Sympoium, please contact:

Michael W. Haga
School of the Arts
College of Charleston
Charleston, South Carolina 29424

Telephone: (843) 953-7766
Fax: (843) 953-4988
Email: hagam@cofc.edu

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The Charleston Antiques Symposium presents a variety of noted speakers who address topics related to the connoisseurship and interpretation of the decorative arts of the past. The Charleston Antiques Symposium schedule features lecture presentations and small-scale focused-study sessions in and outside the classroom as well as tours of significant collections and structures.