Did anyone really think that Jasper would stand by and let the Bad Guys get away with trying to destroy our country and our culture without US making a fuss?

No, of course not. So, here’s a little peek at what we have planned for this July. Call it a protest, call it poking the bear — WE DON’T CARE!

We call it

Entartete Kunst

Jasper’s Degenerate Art Project

Jasper’s Degenerate Art Project Description

The Degenerate Art Project is an endeavor of the Jasper Project to provide a concerted opportunity for Columbia’s artists to express their responses to our country’s current socio-political situation. Taking place July 8 – 13 at Stormwater Studios in Columbia’s historic Congaree Vista, the project will feature an invitational exhibition of visual art throughout the week with one-off multidisciplinary arts events, such as Protest Poetry and Protest Music, scheduled on specific evenings.

The title of this project, Jasper’s Degenerate Art Project, is a contemporary and SC-localized reflection of the Nazi Party’s 1937 Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibition in Munich at which more than 650 pieces of Modernist art were haphazardly displayed alongside graffiti and mocking text labels with the goal of denigrating and ridiculing the art and artists that the Nazi party disapproved of, including the work of Picasso, Mondrian, Chagall, Kandinsky, Klee, Dix, and others.

The purpose of this project is threefold: To provide a platform for expression and/or protest via art for Midlands area artists; to bring our local arts community together both physically and in spirit during this challenging time in order to support and encourage one another; and, to preserve for posterity, via the Jasper Project website, Columbia, SC’s artistic interpretation and response to our country’s current socio-political situation.

Participating Visual Artists (5/17/25) Include

Robert Ariail

Eileen Blythe

Pam Bowers

Lauren Casassa

Heidi Darr-Hope

Corey Davis

Laura Garner Hine

Dominique Hodge

Michael Krajewski

Christopher Lane

Susan Lenz

Dre Lopez

Cait Maloney

Perry McLeod

Jeffrey Miller

Emily Moffitt

Lindsay Radford

Kirkland Smith

Keith Tolen

Marius Valdes

Thomas Washington

Olga Yukhno

Please mark your calendars for

Wednesday July 9 - Opening Reception

Thursday July 10 - A Night of Protest Poetry Hosted by Evelyn Berry

More Events To Be Announced at a Later Date