IP Stanback Museum & Planetarium students John Johnson, Quentin Atterberry, Harriett Hilton, and recent grad Robyn Hemby presented a panel discussion titled
Using Technology to Attract Younger Museum Visitors. These were the first students ever to present at
the Association of African American Museums' National Conference!
Students David McCleod, Thomas Sherman, Brian Hubbard and Mike Daniels also attended.
Additionally, the Stanback's Director Ellen Zisholtz was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Association of African American Museums!
Collections and Exhibitions Manager Darryl Murphy also attended.
Additional sites visited were the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, the 16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham Civil Rights Museum, the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Birmingham Jazz Museum, the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL, the Rosa Parks Museum, the Southern Poverty Civil Rights Museum, the River Road African American Museum, the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans, LA, the Louisiana State Museum, the African American Heritage Museum, and the LaGrange Art Museum.
Whew!
Pictured above left: At the Southern Poverty Civil Rights Museum, from l to r Quentin Atterberry, Director Ellen Zisholtz, Collections Manager Darryl Murphy, Robyn Hemby, Harriett Hilton, Mike Daniels, John Johnson, David McCleod, Thomas Sherman, Brian Hubbard.
Pictured above right: back row from l to r: Mike Daniels, Thomas Sherman, Robyn Hemby, Dr. McGuire, Professor at LSU; Dr. Shroeder Cherry, Counselor to the Director at the Institute of Museum and Library Services; Stanback Director Ellen Zisholtz, David McCleod, Harriett Hilton. Front row: Brian Hubbard, John Johnson, and Quentin Atterberry.
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The IP Stanback Museum and Planetarium was honored to have Dr. Sarah Moten visit recently.
Photographer Paul Gilmore visited the IP Stanback Museum and Planetarium recently and took pictures for a story that will be be featured in a 
book by the Orangeburg County Chamber of Commerce.
The Stanback is pleased, and very fortunate, to have Conservator Debi Hacker come and work with our Museum Study students, interns, staff and work study students.
The Stanback showed the Southern Circuit film Pants on Fire Thursday, October 8, 2009 in the Planetarium to a large crowd of about 85 students, faculty and community members.
We had a very large, enthusiastic crowd for the film Dare Not Walk Alone Thursday, September 17 in the Planetarium.
IP Stanback Museum Studies students and staff traveled to Atlanta Friday September 18, 2009 to see the America I AM exhibit at the Atlanta Civic Center.
Here are the faculty and staff who participated in South Carolina State University's Department of Visual and Performing Arts Faculty Triennial Exhibition 2009.
IP Stanback Museum & Planetarium intern Robyn Hemby recently performed in an adaptation of James Baldwin's Amen Corner, where she played the character of Sister Moore.
IP Stanback Museum & Planetarium Director Ellen Zisholtz exhibited her newest painting, In The Name Of . . . 1 at the Faculty Triennial Exhibition at South Carolina State University during the month of September.
Oh no! The IP Stanback Museum and Planetarium Director Ellen Zisholtz was arrested by Officer Helen Bonaparte and taken to jail Thursday, September 10 . . .
South Carolina State University conducted by the American Red Cross. Several campus lea
ders were "arrested", their "bail" set at various pints of blood.
IP Stanback Museum & Planetarium students John Johnson, Quentin Atterberry, Harriett Hilton, and recent grad Robyn Hemby presented a panel discussion titled Using Technology to Attract Younger Museum Visitors. These were the first students ever to present at the Association of African American Museums' National Conference!
The IP Stanback Museum & Planetarium will host Movie Mixer Night Wednesday, August 26 at 8 PM- guests are asked to bring a blanket, chair, friends and snacks and enjoy an outdoor movie, Kevin Hart's "I'm A Grown Little Man" on the front lawn of the Stanback!
Where were you when you first heard a James Brown song? How did it make you feel?
The IP Stanback Museum & Planetarium was host recently to a grant workshop for community cultural projects sponsored by the Humanities Council of South Carolina.
Trust for Historic Preservation, and the SC Arts Commission, were given guidelines for the successful writing and completion of grant proposals, as well as grant sources.
Geoff Herzog, son of IP Stanback Museum & Planetarium Director Ellen Zisholtz, visited recently from San Salvador, El Salvador. He spoke with a group of high school students about El Salvador and the importance of completing school as
a means of achieving your dreams.
