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An Amazing Year at the CMA

We are thrilled to share the Columbia Museum of Art's achievements from July 2023 to June 2024. Your support keeps CMA a top arts destination in the Southeast, fostering connections through diverse and thought-provoking exhibitions.   

This year, we focused on enhancing access—financial, social, cultural, and physical. We reached more people through various programs and improved our building with new automatic door openers. Free admission programs and community partnerships helped lower barriers to access and to foster a sense of belonging.

Looking ahead, we are excited about upcoming exhibitions and collaborations. With your continued support, we'll make CMA an even more dynamic and inclusive space. Thank you for being part of our museum family! 

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"This is a wonderful museum that has exhibitions I can culturally connect to and that are interesting. I always learn something new when I visit. I always leave feeling inspired."

"We feel very fortunate to have a place like the Columbia Museum of art in our community."

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A Year to Celebrate

  • 956,132

    Record number of people engaged onsite and through digital programing and social channels!

  • 11,037

    guests enjoyed free admission thanks to support from the Knight Foundation, Dominion Energy, Art Bridges Foundation, and Bank of America.

  • 14,487

    youth visited or participated in tours and programs. More than 45% of school tours were from Title One schools and visited the museum for free.

  • 223

    public programs were held! Join us for classes, tours, and events.

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  • 477

    happy CMA summer campers.

  • 14

    episodes of the CMA’s award-winning podcast, Binder.

  • 4000+

    hours generously given by our dedicated volunteer tour guides and members of the CDL, Contemporaries, and FAAAC affinities.

  • 1,880

    internship hours worked by 11 paid interns, helping to develop the workforce for the arts and culture sector.

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Exhibitions

Visitors explored, connected, and reflected among 12 world-class art exhibitions. Highlights included the spectacular fashion and photography of Alexander McQueen and Ann Ray, local South Carolina fashion superstar Sergio Hudson, and an anniversary exhibition of Catawba art. Each show dazzled more than the last.

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Bullets and Bandaids: 
A Veteran Anthology

March 2, 2023 – September 3, 2023

Constantine Manos: 
A Greek Portfolio

April 7, 2023-October 22, 2023

Resurgence and Renaissance: 
Art of the Catawba Nation Since 1973

June 10, 2023 – September 3, 2023

Tina Williams Brewer: 
Stories of Grace

June 10, 2023 – September 3, 2023

Lee Alexander McQueen & Ann Ray: 
Rendez-Vous

October 7, 2023 – January 21, 2024

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Sergio Hudson: 
Focused on the Fit

November 18, 2023 – July 7, 2024

Darrel Ellis: 
Regeneration

February 17, 2024 – May 12, 2024

Interior Lives: 
Modern American Spaces, 1890-1945

February 17, 2024 – May 12, 2024

(Un)Settled: 
The Landscape in American Art

June 15, 2024 – September 8, 2024

The American South Consortium Spotlight Series

  • Spotlight: Yvonne Wells | June 15 – October 22, 2023
  • Spotlight: Alexander Calder | November 11, 2023 – February 25, 2024
  • Spotlight: Dusti Bongé | April 6, 2023 – June 30, 2024
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"Magnificent exhibit!!!  Thank you.  Compliments to the curator.  The exhibit is gorgeous, instructive, and inspiring." – Ursula
 

"This was a wonderful exhibit. And so great for working to preserve history and heritage." – Maxine 

"This was an incredible show. It gave me insight to both McQueen and Ray’s processes, inspiration, and motivations. I left with a deeper understanding of the man behind the designs, and a strong urge to get behind my sewing machine. Thank you!" – Christina

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Collections Growth and Care

  • Complementing our four collecting areas: American, European, Asian, and Modern/Contemporary art, the CMA Collection has grown to over 7,000 objects.  
  • 39 works were added, including works by star artists Anila Quayyum Agha, Osamu Kobayashi, and Marguerite Zorach.  
  • The CMA curatorial team mined the vaults, refreshed several collection galleries with updated themes, and debuted new works. 
  • A partnership with Art Bridges Foundation and an anonymous donor, 16 works were conserved, including: 
    • 12 works on paper by Anna Heyward Taylor. The work performed included cleaning and framing these fragile works (with several on very delicate rice paper). Cleaning and restoration of Josephine Couper’s Still Life (1930) oil painting.
    • Cleaning of Washington Allston’s Coast Scene on the Mediterranean (1811), a significant work in the CMA collection that had not been on view for several years due to its condition.
    • Cleaning and restoration of Beverly Buchanan’s Frank Owen’s Blue Shack (1989).
    • Conservation of Raphael Soyer’s Entering the Studio (c. 1930) frame.
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Revenue

Contributions:$1,533,296
Admissions: $425,933
Earned Revenue: $305,080
Endowment Support: $636,084
Public Appropriation: $1,732,500
Membership: $346,847

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Expenses

Development: $574,667
Arts-focused activities: $1,350,162
Earned Revenue activities: $166,766
Infrastructure: $899,175
Administration: $782,869
Communication: $1,333,061

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Thank You, Museum Donors, Patrons, and Sponsors!

Your generous support ensures the Columbia Museum of Art thrives as a vibrant community hub and a premier tourist destination in South Carolina, presenting art and artists in environment that is inspiring, welcoming, community-centered, playful, and vibrant for all.

Individual Donors $4000 and Above

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey B. Archie
Mr. William B. Bodine, Jr.
Mrs. Barbara B. Boyd
Mr. Joseph T. Bruce
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clawson
Dr. and Mrs. Allen J. Coles, III
Mrs. Toni M. Elkins
Ms. Amy Beth Franks
Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin M. Gimarc
Mr. and Mrs. C. Carroll Heyward
Mr. and Mrs. George Hamilton Hill
Ms. Cheryl R. Holland and Mr. P. Douglas Quackenbush
Mr. and Mrs. Marion A. Knox, Jr.
Dr. Todd Lefkowitz and Dr. Michelle O'Brien
Mr. and Mrs. Michael I. Love
Dr. Gail M. Morrison
Mrs. Barbara O'Shaughnessy
Mr. Willson Powell
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Terry Richardson
Dr. and Mrs. Ronald C. Rogers
Dr. Catherine Ross
Mr. and Mrs. Joel A. Smith, III
Dr. John J. Stucker and Ms. April C. Lucas
Dr. Suzanne R. Thorpe and Dr. John W. Baynes
Mr. and Mrs. Claude M. Walker, Jr.
Ms. E. Katherine Wells and Mr. James F. Flanagan
Dr. S. Nelson Weston and Mrs. Dorothy A. Poston

 

Individual Donors Up To $4000

Mr. and Mrs. Mazen M. Abboushi
Ms. Labruce S. Alexander
Mrs. Sara Anders
Dr. John Anfin
Dr. Roslyn C. Artis
Mrs. Katharine Butler Bachmann
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Balbach
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Barton
Mr. and Mrs. Luther J. Battiste, III
Mr. Henry Batts
Mrs. Patricia L. Beckler
Mr. and Mrs. Clinch H. Belser, Jr.
Ms. Sumner Bender
Ms. Beth E. Bernstein
Mrs. Judith Bessinger
Dr. and Mrs. Roger A. Blau
Ms. Carroll Ann Bowers
Mrs. Barbara C. Bowers
Mrs. Rodney H. Bowman, Jr.
Ms. Mary Gervais Brantley
Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Brenan
Ms. Julia B. Brooker
Ms. Mary E. Parrott and Mr. L. Wayne Bryan
Mr. and Mrs. Howard J. Buchanan
Ms. M. Elizabeth Crum and Mr. James H. Byrum
Dr. and Mrs. William Cain, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilburn W. Campbell
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Cantey, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. John B. Carter
Dr. Susan Felleman and Dr. Peter Chametzky
Mr. and Mrs. David M. Choate
Mr. Jeff Cima
Mr. and Mrs. Emory Clark
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Cloyd
Mr. and Mrs. Freeman W. Coggins, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Cohn, Sr.
Ms. Margo Newton and Mr. Thomas E. Collins
Mrs. L. Arlen Cotter
Jean I. Cox
Elaine L. Craft
Ms. Pamela Craig and Mr. Horace Holloman
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Crane
Mrs. Sandra Cross and Mr. Jeffrey Cross
Ms. Tina M. Cundari and Mr. Cory E. Manning
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Cunningham
Mrs. Joni Cutler
Dr. Sandra F. Daniel
Ms. Heidi Darr-Hope and Mr. Stuart C. Hope
Ms. Jane Rush Davenport and Mr. Jim H. Musselwhite
Mrs. Katherine Davis and Mr. Clarence Davis
Dr. Marilyn J. Edelhoch and Dr. John H. Dawson
Ms. Joanne V. Day and Mr. Andrew Yasinsac
Dr. and Mrs. John M. Dean
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Dicioccio
Mr. and Mrs. Gene L. Dinkins
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore B. Dubose
Mr. and Mrs. David E. Dukes
Ms. Beverly L. Edgell
Mr. and Mrs. J. Michael Edwards
Sabrina Edwards
Mr. Gerald Eichelberger
Dayna and Dick Elliott
Dr. Lemuel W. Watson and Mr. Gerard Erley
Ms. Victoria L. Eslinger and Dr. Richard J. Creswick
Lauren Eyler
Ms. Charlotte Mccreary and Mr. Samuel L. Finklea
The Honorable Kirkman Finlay and Mrs. Kathleen R. Finlay
Regan Fiske
Mr. Steven Ford and Mr. Alonso Cuellar
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Nelson Fortson, Jr.
Mr. Walter Freeman
Dr. Martha C. Freibert
Dr. and Mrs. Harold I. Friedman
Vice Adm. and Mrs. Paul G. Gaffney, II
Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Garner, Jr.
Jeanne Garris
Mrs. Nancy C. Gibbes
Ms. Elizabeth B. Glazebrook
Jaime Gonzalez
Mr. Hamilton Grant
Dr. Caroline Greenberg and Dr. Stanley H. Greenberg
Ms. Therese A. Griffin
Mr. and Mrs. William Griffin
Dr. Anna S. Griswold and Mr. Edward C. Griswold
Mrs. Virginia M. Grose
Peter H. S. Wood
Emily Haga
Mrs. Carol C. Hamilton
Dr. and Mrs. O. Frank Hart
Ms. Janice Haynes
Mr. Mike Battani and Ms. Katharine J. Heald
Chase Heatherly
Mr. Lander Hiott
Mr. R. Scot Hockman and Mr. Victor H. Cain
Mrs. Carol L. Hodge
The Honorable James H. Hodges and Mrs. Rachel G. Hodges
Mr. and Mrs. Steve E. Holtschlag
Mrs. Nancy T. Howell
Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey J. Hubbell
Dr. Diane D. Jacobsen
Dr. and Mrs. Carl A. Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Abner Jones
Mr. and Mrs. John G. Karpick
Dr. Alice Kasakoff Adams
Mr. and Mrs. William Joseph Keenan, Ii
Ms. Maria R. Kendall
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Kessler, Jr.
Dr. Sylvia Kim and Dr. L. J. Moore
Mrs. Geraldine F. King
Mrs. George S. King, Jr.
Ms. Sara G. Kirkland
Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Kluiters
Mr. Clifford Knowles
Sara Krisnow
Dr. Jessica Kross
Dr. and Mrs. David L. Kulbersh
Dr. Mary Anne Fitzpatrick and Mr. Roman Kyweluk
Dr. Nancy Lane and Mr. Raymond Juneau
Ms. Annabelle Laroque
Nancy and Richard Layman
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Leet
Dr. Charles H. Lesser
Ms. Aimee Lewis
Mr. W. Leighton Lord, III
Mrs. Sally Lyles
Dr. Timothy Lyons
Mr. and Mrs. William Maltarich
Dr. John Mandsager and Mrs. Lilla Toal Mandsager
Ms. Martha A. Brim and Mr. Kenneth W. May
Mr. and Mrs. W. Hugh Mcangus
Ms. Rene Mccall
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Mckelvey
Mr. Eric Mckenzie
Mr. and Mrs. John Francis McKenzie
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Mckenzie
Mr. and Mrs. James T. Mclaren
Ms. Harriet M. Mcmaster and Mr. Craig W. Davis
Rodney McMillian
Mrs. Lindsay Medlin and Mr. Paul Medlin
Mr. and Mrs. Gerry Melendez
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mirakian
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Monroe
Mrs. Regina B. Moody
Ms. Michel G. Moore
Ms. Nicole Morgan and Andrew Newby
Ms. Virginia E. Newell
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Nicholson
Dr. and Mrs. Herbert B. Niestat
Ms. Elizabeth Nock
Dr. and Mrs. C. Hardy Oliver, Jr.
The Honorable Russell L. Ott
Marsha Palanci
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Parrish
Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Peckham
Ms. Alice C. Perritt
Ms. Nancy J. Piester
Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Poliakoff
Dr. Tara Powell
Ms. Jean J. Prothro
Wynn Purvis
Dr. and Mrs. Gordon S. Query
Col. and Mrs. Albert A. Reed
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rhodes
Dr. Jandrette A. Rhoe and Dr. Sylvester Adu Boahene
Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Ringley
Mr. and Mrs. William W. Roberts, III
Ms. Lynn Robertson
Mrs. Myrtle T. Robinson
Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Robinson, Ii
Ms. Agnes E. Robinson and Mr. John Hutto
Mr. Charles C. Rone, Jr.
The Honorable Seth C. Rose
The Honorable Todd Rutherford
Mrs. Carol C. Saunders
Mrs. Ardis M. Savory
Ms. Kathy Schaffer Olson and Mr. Robert E. Barnett
Mr. William C. Schmidt, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Terrence K. Schmoyer, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Serbin
Dr. and Mrs. Edward Shmunes
The Honorable Anne M. Sinclair and Mr. Julian E. Ruffin
Mr. James B. Slaughter
Mrs. Patricia T. Smith
Ms. Sarah Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Cary K. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. John C.B. Smith, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. David C. Sojourner, Jr.
Mrs. Nina Spinelli
Mr. and Mrs. Preston W. Spivey, III
Ms. Ann Marie Stieritz and Mr. John B. Carran
Mrs. Marcia Stine
Mr. and Mrs. F. Wallace Strong, Jr.
Dr. Joanne C. Suggs
Mrs. Ann Tarwater
Dr. Charles P. Toussaint
Ms. S. Gina Trippi and Mr. John Kerr
Mr. Paul Leo and Mr. Eric Tucker
Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Vande Stouwe
Mr. Clinton Wallace
Ms. Frances M. Webb
Mrs. Lynn D. Wellings
Mr. and Mrs. Howard P. West
Brenda and James E. Wheeler
Mrs. Elizabeth S. Wheeler
Ms. Walda C. Wildman
Dr. Harriet G. Williams and Mr. Jerry Hagenmaier
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Williams, Jr.
Mrs. Georgia Williams
Mrs. Mimi Wilson
Mr. Evan Wilson
Ms. M. Patricia Callahan and Mr. Robert C. Wislinski
Dr. Elizabeth D. Wofford and Dr. John E. Wofford
Mr. Doak J. Wolfe and Dr. Gordon B. Smith
Ms. Elizabeth K. Wolfe and Mr. William C. Daves
Chris Wooten
Dr. and Mrs. Duane C. Yoch
Mr. Ty M. Zeigler

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Volunteers

Docent Corps

Nancy Brock
Sally Buckler
Melissa Bush
Jean Cook
Emily Creedle
Sandra Cross
JoAnne Day
Marty Duckenfield
Caroline Eastman
Carlos Goodwin
Anna Griswold
Becky Groth
Ann Holtschlag
Carol Hunter
Susan James
Trish James
Karen Jones
Cindy Jurgensen
Maria Kendall
Mary Kessler
Helen Kiser
Christine Lee
Joyce Leet
Elizabeth Levy
Latascha Lewis
Susan Mazur
Charles McDaniel
Patricia Mohr
Caroline Moore
Anna Moss
Elizabeth Nock
Heather Preston
Jean Prothro
Maureen Randall
Diana Robinson
Jane Schwantes
Nancie Shillington-Pérez
Patsy Storla
Nancy Tolson
Velvet Underwood
Cameron Vogt

Columbia Design League Board Members

John Codega
Elaine Delk
Helen Dennis
Anna Dis Sveinbjornsdottir
Susan Felleman
Chandler Garnett
Merrell Johnson
Cait Maloney
Adrienne Montare
Kim Moon
Elizabeth Nkuo Johnson
Diko Pekdemir-Lewis
Meredith Ross
Grace Salter
Jodi Salter
Tom Savory
Samantha Scott
Dalvin Spann
Shana Wanco

Contemporaries Board Members

Henry Batts
Sumner M. Bender
Kelsey Farnham Caskey
Helen Clay
Michael Edmondson
Grace Faulkenberry Berger
Amy Beth Franks
KB Frinks
Chase Heatherly
Lander Hiott
Charlotte Knoop
Jonathan Lopez
Christine McFadden
Paul Medlin
Shayla Merritt
Kaity Monroe
Juliette Muller
Ashley Olayinka
David Palkovitz
Daina Riley
Shayla Riley
Will Roberts
Mollie Roe
Andrew W. Saleeby
Casey Vecchio
Morgan Watson
Charles West, Jr.
Georgia Williams

Friends of African American Art & Culture Board Members

Wanda Austin
Dr. Aprel Barnes
Dr. Salandra Bowman
Keela Glover
Dr. Patricia Graham
Kymm Hunter
Crystal Jamison
Samyette W. Jones, RPh
Tyson Lusk
Ingrid McMillan
Dr. Toya Jefferson Murph
Monica Owens
Tiffany Riggs
Charles Salley
Dr. Kay Thomas
Jamesha Shackerford
Kela Thomas
Dr. Nancy Tolson
Dr. Philip Toussant
Waltrene Vaughn Whitmire

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Organizational Support

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MightCause
Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein
First Priority Inc
Dominion Energy
Burr & Forman
Law Offices of J Todd Rutherford
Southern Way Catering
Revente Women's Consignment
Just the Thing
USC
Pledgeling Foundation
Quality First Construction Services
eSOURCES, LLC
South Carolina Humanities Council
New Morning
Ernest Finney Cultural Arts Center
The COMET
Elliott Davis, LLC
Colonial Trust Company

South Arts
Still Hopes
Schmoyer and Company, LLC
Southern First Bank
House of Frames & Paintings
Wilson Kibler
Pollock Company
COA Agaveria & Cocina LLC
WWW Investments LLC
Redwall Foundation
Lexington Medical Center
Grace Outdoor
W Realty
Wolfe & Taylor
Action Council for Cross Cultural Mental Health
Riggs Partners
Columbia Fireflies
All Good Books

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