USCL Travel Study exhibit on display at Historic Springs House

“Changing Perceptions: USC Lancaster Travel Study 2018,” a USC Lancaster student and faculty group exhibit featuring works inspired by traveling together during the May 2018 travel study tour, is now on display at the Lancaster County Council of the Arts’ historic Springs House.

Students who attended the tour as part of the ARTS 399- Special Topic Studio Art class were required to complete a suite of sketchbook drawings based off of things they sketched or on photographs they took while on the travel study tour, which studied Native American culture in the Southeast.  The LCCA exhibit showcases the students’ final projects completed for the travel study tour.

“Some of the works created during the trip were powerful,” said Brittany Taylor-Driggers, the Native American Studies Center’s Curator of Special Collections and Galleries.  “While some students worked within a traditional genre of portrait and landscape, other students really pushed the project’s boundaries, so I’m pleased with what they came up with.”

Eight students signed up for the travel study trip, which began at the Town Creek Indian Mound near Mount Gilead in eastern North Carolina.  The group continued traveling to important historic and cultural sites in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and western North Carolina before finishing the tour in South Carolina.

“This travel study trip came about through a conversation on how we could collaborate between our classes and provide a very unique trip that connected different disciplines,” said Taylor-Driggers, “We wanted the students to come away with an appreciation and understanding of how Native culture can be repressed in galleries and in history while also highlighting some of the cultural sites.”

The USC Lancaster 2018 Travel Study Tour was generously sponsored by USC Lancaster, USC Lancaster Student Life, J. Marion Sims Horizon Grant, the Lancaster County Council of the Arts, INSP, Cook Law Firm, USC Lancaster Rotaract Club, Sistare Carpets & Flooring, Ernest Jenkins, Walt & Ashley Collins, and Pizza Hut.

“Changing Perceptions: USC Lancaster Travel Study 2018” is on display at the Springs House until Dec. 30, 2018.