Tuning Up: S.C. arts leader added to national cohort + awards reminders!
Good morning!
“Tuning Up” is a morning post series where The Hub delivers curated, quick-hit arts stories of interest to readers. Sometimes there will be one story, sometimes there will be several. Get in tune now, and have a masterpiece of a day. And now, in no particular order…
National Leaders of Color Fellowship Cohort
The first cohort of the National Leaders of Color Fellowship (LoCF) program has been selected, representing 53 leaders from across the U.S. including South Carolina’s Davelyn Athena. The cohort will participate in a strategic leadership development program for Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) leaders committed to the advancement of cultural equity in the arts that emphasizes policy and data in the arts, leadership, culture of care, and strategic foresight through an advocacy lens. You can read more about the LoCF program—and Davelyn—here. She is executive director of the Upstate-based Speaking Down Barriers organization. Congrats to her!
Nominations for South Carolina’s arts awards are closing in just more than a week.
- The S.C. Governor’s Awards for the Arts seek “luminaries” who exhibit outstanding achievement in or support of the arts.
- The Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Awards honor the state’s exceptional folklife and traditional arts practitioners and advocates.
Nominations for both are open through Sunday, Nov. 6 at 11:59 p.m. ET. The 2023 recipients will be honored in spring 2023 during the South Carolina Arts Awards broadcast on SCETV.