The Jasper Project’s Most Ambitious Endeavor Yet 

More than 50 SC Women Artists are setting the table for 12 SC Women who devoted their lives to making places at the table for us All
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What is The Supper Table?

The Supper Table, an homage to the 40th anniversary of Judy Chicago’s 1979 epic feminist art exhibition, is a multidisciplinary arts project celebrating the history and contributions of 12 extraordinary South Carolina women and featuring the work of almost 60 of South Carolina’s most outstanding women artists in the visual, literary, theatrical, and film arts.

Imagine a 12' x 12' x 12' triangular-shaped table set with SC-artist-created place-settings each inspired by one of 12 diverse women from SC history whose lives were dedicated to the betterment of humankind.

Read our full introduction to the project.

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Around this table 120 tiles, each naming another great SC woman and decorated by a community member, hang on movable walls in an Array of Remarkable SC Women. 

Now, listen to essays about each of these women written by SC writers and staged orations theatrically presented by SC theatre artists. 

Finally, watch 12 short films, each featuring one of the honored guests at the table and created by a SC filmmaker. 

All of the artists are women, and all call South Carolina home.  

The Women at the Table

Mary McCleod Bethune, Alice Childress, Septima Clark, Mathilda Evans, Althea Gibson, Angelina and Sarah Grimke, Eartha Kitt, Sarah Leverette, Julia Peterkin, Eliza Lucas Pinckney, Modjeska Monteith Simkins, Elizabeth Evelyn Wright

The Array of Remarkable SC Women

Alice Coachman • Alice Ravenel Huger Smith • Andie McDowell • Anita Pollitzer  Ann Brodie • Anna Camp - Anna Vaughan Hyatt Huntington • Annie Greene Nelson  Augusta Baker • Bambie Gaddist, M.D. • Barbara Williams Jenkins • Bernice Robinson • Bertha “Chippie” Hill • Beryl Dakers • Betsy Cromer Byars • Betsy Teter Blanche McCrary Boyd • Brooke Bauer • Candy Waites • Carrie Allen McCray •Catherine Coleman • Charlayne Hunter-Gault • Charlotta Spears Bass • Cynthia Graham Hurd • Danielle Brooks • Darla Moore • Dawn Staley • Debra L. Lee, Esq.  Dorae Saunders • Dori Sanders • Dorothy Allison • Dot Jackson • Dr. Wil Lou Gray Elaine Nichols • Elizabeth Allston Pringle • Elizabeth Boatwright Coker • Elizabeth Hawley Gasque Van Exern • Elizabeth O’Neill Verner • Essie Mae Washington-Williams - Etta Jones • Juanita Redmond Hipps • Kathy Riley • Katrina McClain Johnson • Kay Thigpen • Keller Barron • Lucy Hampton Bostick • Mabel King • Maj. Gen. Irene Trowell-Harris • Malissa Burnette • Mamie Peanut Johnson • Marian Wright Edelman • Mariclare Miranda • Marjorie Hammock • Marlena Smalls • Martha Schofield • Marva Smalls • Mary Boykin Chestnut • Mary C. Simms Oliphant • Mary Jackson • Mary Louise Parker • Maude Callen • Maxine Brown • Melanie Thornton Millicent Brown • Monique Coleman • Nancy Barton • Nancy Stevenson • Nekki Shutt • Nikki Haley • Nikky Finney • Nina Mae McKinney • Ophelia Devore-Mitchell • Peggy Parish • Reshma Kahn • Rev. Sharonda Coleman • Ruth Ann Butler • Sarah Mae Flemming • Sarah Reese • Sheila R. Morris • Sue Monk Kidd • Susan Dunn • Suzy McCormick Shealy • Sylvia Woods • Tamika Gadsden • Tootsie Holland • Vera Gomez • Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor • Victoria Eslinger • Viola Davis • Virginia Capers • Virginia Mixson Geraty • Vivian Anderson

The Artists

Bohumila Augustinova • Eileen Blyth • Tonya Gregg • Mana Hewitt • B.A. Hohman • Heidi Darr-Hope • Lori Isom • Flavia Lovatelli • Laurie Brownell McIntosh • Michaela Pilar Brown • Renee Roullier • Olga Yukhno • Jennifer Bartell • Carla Damron • Joyce Rose Harris • Kristine Hartvigsen • Meeghan Kane • Monifa Lemons • Eva Moore • Marjory Wentworth • Qiana Whitted • Candace Wiley • Christina Xan • Claudia Smith Brinson • Kirkland Smith • Jordan Morris • Betsy Newman • Mahkia Greene • Vicky Saye Henderson • Lee Ann Kornegay • Brenda Oliver • Kathryn Van Aernum • Cindi Boiter • Joestra Robinson & Tamara Finkbeiner • Katly Hong • Laura Kissel • Roni Nicole • Lee Ann Kornegay • Ebony Wilson • Betsey Newman • Carleen Maur • Faye Riley • Jordan Mullen • Steffi Brink • Lillian Burke

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Top Image: place setting created by artist Mana Hewitt

Left Image: plate setting created by artist B. A. Hohman | Right Image: place setting created by artist Olga Yukhno

This project was supported by a Connected Communities grant from Central Carolina Community Foundation.

Special thanks to our Sponsors. With your support, we are able to amplify the stories and voices of some of South Carolina’s most remarkable women. Thank you!

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