Dr. Minuette Floyd: 2024 Governor’s Awards Spotlight
Arts in Education Category Recipient
As the day nears for the 2024 South Carolina Governor’s Awards for the Arts, The Hub is shining the spotlight on this year’s four recipients.
We are happy to introduce them to you in greater detail. This is the schedule:
- May 6: Diane Frankenberger (Individual Category)
- Today: Dr. Minuette Floyd (Arts in Education Category)
- May 13: South Carolina Philharmonic (Organization Category)
- May 15: Campbell Frost (Lifetime Achievement)
Dr. Minuette Floyd
A former elementary art teacher, Dr. Minuette Floyd is a professor of art education at the University of South Carolina School of Visual Art and Design. Her research interests focus on multicultural art education, interdisciplinary art instruction, and documentation of folk traditions through photography.
For the past 25 years, she has directed the Young Artist’s Workshop, a Friday afternoon program in which art education majors design and teach comprehensive units of instruction to children from the greater Columbia area. The program concludes with an exhibition and reception. She provides scholarships for underrepresented youth to attend this program.
She is committed to providing unique experiential opportunities for students both in and out of the classroom. She led service-learning programs to London, Ghana, and South Africa. Last year she wrote a McCausland Innovation grant that will provide funding for 10 first-generation college students to travel with her to Ghana in May of 2023. They will use art experiences to open dialogue and learn about other cultures.
To that end, Floyd is a founding member of the Antiracism, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion committee in the School of Visual Art and Design and serves as the chair of the ED& I committee of the South Carolina Art Education Association and as liaison for the National Art Education Association.
She serves as the professor of record for the Curriculum Leadership Institute in the Arts (2002-present), and previously with the Media Technology Institute (2013-2021) and the Arts and Video Production Institute (2015-2017).
Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the South Carolina Humanities Council, and the SCAC enabled her to compile a photographic and video documentary based on African American Camp Meeting Traditions. She has spent the past 20 years traveling to camps throughout the Carolinas, resulting in an exhibition of 42 black and white photographs, text panels and video footage. Exhibition sites include venues throughout South Carolina and other East Coast states. In 2018, USC Press published her book A Place to Worship: African American Camp Meetings in the Carolinas.
Currently, she is working on a new documentary project that examines creative aging and its impact on the sweetgrass basket weavers in South Carolina Lowcountry.
The South Carolina Governor’s Awards for the Arts are coming to SCETV on Sunday, May 19, 2024 at 7 p.m. ET.
South Carolina ETV, the state’s public educational broadcasting network, will broadcast the awards ceremony through its 11-station TV network that spans the state. Viewers can access the broadcast via livestream on the homepage of SCETV.org; by using a digital antenna; or through cable, satellite, and certain streaming live TV providers. Further information about accessing SCETV is available here.