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Wednesday July 9 - Opening Reception

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

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

• 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

More Events To Be Announced at a Later Date