Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art

William Halsey taught the first studio art course at the College of Charleston in 1964, and when he retired twenty years later, his colleagues named the gallery after him. That gallery became the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in 2005. Free and open to the public, it operates within the School of the Arts, presenting rotating exhibitions by emerging and mid-career artists of national and international stature — all accompanied by lectures, screenings, and educational programming. The work here is made to be engaged with, not walked past.