A community for visual artists, arts managers, art historians and art enthusiasts at the College of Charleston, promoting artistic talent and encouraging fellowship and collaboration among arts students.
The Visual Arts Club (VAC) at the College of Charleston’s mission is to foster an active community of emerging visual artists, arts managers, art historians and art enthusiasts on the College of Charleston campus through meetings, workshops and events.
Activities include group shows, community outreach, workshops, group discussions, student art sales and collaborative work. Artists of all disciplines (painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking, mixed media, digital art, etc) in any major are welcome to share their work with the club through our periodic exhibitions in the Student Run Gallery in the Simons center, as well as permanently on our online gallery. In doing so, we share a wealth of knowledge and appreciation of art with all interested College of Charleston students. Visual Arts Club is also entrusted with the honor of choosing the curator every year for the school-wide Young Contemporaries exhibition in the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art.
Members can be from any department at the College of Charleston as long as they are either students or faculty (although you are welcome to bring a non-school-affiliated friend to meetings). Many arts-loving students with non-art-related majors find Visual Arts Club a fun way to explore their creative side and participate in the school’s artistic community while sticking to their existing college curriculum.
Meetings are held on the 4th floor of the Simons center; take the elevator by the sculpture studio, then take a right and go down the hallway until you see us!
