Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts

08/31/2025

Check out this panel talk upcoming with faculty Michael Webster and visiting artists from our next museum exhibition!

Posted • Artists and curators from our next exhibition, Third Terrain, will be speaking at the SC Centro Latino at USC Upstate on September 3rd at 2 pm! Please join us for this event about the role of the arts in fostering community care and resilience. The event is free and open to the public, located in the Arts and Sciences Building, room 117.

The panel talk features Federico Cuatlacuatl .f Emilio Rojas and Kiley Brandt .brandt and is moderated by Michael Webster

08/29/2025

Announcing Wofford Theatre’s
2025–26 Season 🎭

Macbeth – Nov. 6–8, 12–15
Pulp Theatre: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) – Jan. 22–24
Godspell (a MUSICAL!) – Apr. 16–18, 22–25

From Shakespeare’s darkest tragedy, to quick-witted comedy, to a joyful musical — this season has it all. We can’t wait to see you at the theatre!

08/22/2025

07/23/2025

The tubs are filled, the dresses are set, and tech is complete! Come see the story lurking underneath.

“The Drowning Girls” recounts the chilling true story of three brides who return from beyond the grave to tell their side of the “Brides in the Bath” murders. Blending ghost story, movement, and haunting visuals, this production brings history and heartbreak to the surface.

🗓 July 24–26
📍 Sallenger Sisters Black Box Theatre
🎟 Tickets on sale now — link in bio

07/03/2025

The Southside Cultural Monument — designed by Jessica Scott-Felder, associate professor of studio arts at Wofford — was unveiled on June 14 in downtown Spartanburg. The installation celebrates Spartanburg’s Southside community and the city’s Black history.
A crowd of close to 300 people gathered to witness the unveiling of the monument, which is located at the corner of Hudson Barksdale Boulevard and South Converse Street.
The nearly 150-foot-wide mixed-media piece is composed of photographs, text and illustrations imposed on plastic-like panels, which can be backlit and visible day or night. The panels are also replaceable and interchangeable, allowing for future additions and revisions.

07/03/2025

Dr. David Efurd, associate professor and chair of art and art history, was awarded a 2025-26 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award.

Efurd, who coordinates Wofford’s Asian studies program, will use the award to study the Chaitya Hall at Karle in Maharashtra state, India. The site is a cave at a Buddhist monastery cut into a mountainside, and it dates to the first century AD.

06/14/2025

“Unforgettable” presents a powerful selection of civil rights-era photographs by renowned South Carolina photographer Cecil Williams. With an unflinching eye, Williams captured pivotal moments of struggle, dignity, and resistance across the South. This exhibition invites viewers to witness the everyday bravery and historic milestones that shaped the path toward racial justice, offering an intimate and unforgettable look at the stories behind the fight for civil rights.

Before age 12, Cecil captured images of Clarendon County petitioners lighting the torch of freedom. By 10th grade, he photographed Thurgood Marshall for the Briggs case. At 16, he became JET Magazine’s youngest photographer. In 2023, he petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to recognize Briggs v. Elliott over Brown v. Board. Cecil now serves as Director of Historic Preservation at Claflin University and received an honorary doctorate from Paul Quinn College. In 2019, with wife Barbara, and sister Brenda, Cecil created South Carolina’s first and only civil rights museum.

Cecil Williams: Unforgettable will be on display in the Richardson Family Art Museum until July 31.

📸 of student boycott in Charleston, SC, 1960

06/14/2025

The South Arts State Fellowships acknowledge, support, and celebrate the highest quality artistic work being created in the American South. The 2024 South Arts North Carolina Fellow is Isys Hennigar, an artist working in ceramics and metal from Columbus, NC.

About their work, Hennigar states, “Through ceramics and metal, my work invokes real and reimagined ecological encounters that underscore transformation and hybridity, and play as tools of renewal. Drawing inspiration from agricultural practices, mythology, and medicinal traditions, my work considers systems of sustenance and healing, as well as the cultural and ecological legacies of land cultivation, and the dualities of the body.”

06/12/2025

The South Arts Southern Prize and State Fellowships acknowledge, support, and celebrate the highest quality artistic work being created in the American South. The 2024 South Arts Kentucky Fellow is Robyn Moore, a photo media based artist from Wellington, KY.

Moore states, “Landscapes embody memory in a physical way: both the footprint and the fossil show us how living things leave traces in the land in ways that endure and communicate. But the land is also home to the spectral and the invisible. How can we connect with the beings and forces in the land that remain unseen?”

“The land calls me to respond. In my desperation to materialize this feeling of so many others in the land, I wrap myself in a silver emergency blanket and photograph myself during long photographic exposures, which creates luminous corporeal forms. For me, each image becomes both an experiment in self-portraiture and evocation of the numinous other, more-than-human beings and forces that dwell there. My hope is that such superimpositions challenge the idea of a strictly human identity through the blurring of boundaries between self and deep time other.”

05/27/2025

South Arts Southern Prize Finalist and Louisiana State Fellow Macon Reed recently visited Wofford College to speak about their installations and participatory projects that draw attention to overlooked histories and bring communities together.

“My work draws from q***r, punk and DIY communities where we experiment with how we can—and cannot—consciously shape the world in which we live. The brightly-colored, large-scale installations I create draw from a lineage of artists and thinkers who understand the role art can play in reshaping our world through radical imagination. The temporary worlds I create highlight undervalued histories and pressing social issues by bringing together studio processes and social-engagement in equal measure. These projects often require participation, structured through q***r and intersectional feminist models of engagement.”

Reed’s work is part of the South Arts State Fellows exhibition, open in the art museum until June 6!

05/12/2025

The South Arts Southern Prize and State Fellowships acknowledge, support, and celebrate the highest quality artistic work being created in the American South. The 2024 Georgia Fellow is Zipporah Camille Thompson, a weaver and sculptor from Atlanta.

About her work, Thompson states, “Approaching folk craft traditions with an improvisational, imaginative, wild and speculative futuristic approach, the work explores the body, otherness, and identity via hybrid landscapes. Composite landscapes combine highly tactile disparate materials such as wild woven textiles, hand knotted nets, fired clay, felted wool, paper pulp, handspun cord, and found objects. Tension and force unite discordant ephemera into handwoven cloth representing intimate processes of alchemy and metamorphosis.”

“Sculpted shapeshifters are prominent in the work, representing empowered bodies in crisis – namely Black, Brown, women, and q***r bodies—united in communion with their elemental counterparts: water bodies, atmospheric cloud bodies, bodies of earth and fire. These shapeshifters fuse hard and soft, earth tones with otherworldly fluorescents, cotton and plastic, tension and laxity, further signifying the intersectionality of the bodies.”

Visit the museum before June 6 to see all of Thompson’s work included in the exhibition!

05/06/2025

Wofford College Department of Art and Art History presents Thresholds & Traces, a senior exhibition. Now on display in the Richardson Family Art Gallery. Talk this Thursday in the RSRCA building, room 112.