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The Archaeological Institute of the Pee Dee has organized AIPD Community Day, a free, all-ages event for the public to engage with local archaeologists! Stop by FCM Sat, 10/3, starting at 1pm, to learn about the archaeological research being done in our community:

• Bring artifacts you’ve found for identification by an expert!

• A family activity showing how Colonial Americans set the table for meals.

• A demo of ground-penetrating radar technology used by archaeologists.

• A showcase of recent artifacts found at local sites by AIPD archaeologists.

• A demo of Native-American ceramic-making techniques.

• A lecture from South Carolina State Archaeologist Christopher Judge.

Additionally, guests are cordially invited to a reception from 5:00 – 7:00 pm at the museum to honor Christopher Judge’s appointment as South Carolina’s fifth state archaeologist. AIPD Chairman Ben Zeigler will share remarks honoring Chris Judge’s commitment to regional archaeology.

Saturday, October 3 | 1:00 - 5:00 pm, 5:00 - 7:00 pm

Parents, we invite you to bring your family by FCM on Sat, 10/10, from 1 - 3 pm for Family Day – Storied Stained Glass. We’ll use paper to create colorful stained‑glass style artworks inspired by the symbolic motifs found in the stained glass works of Dr. Leo Twiggs, designed for Clafflin University, that are currently on display in Revelations: The Art of Leo Twiggs. Explore how shapes, design, and color can reflect culture, memory, and personal meaning.

This is your last chance to see to tour this outstanding exhibit before it leaves FCM! Register for the final, docent-led tour of Revelations: The Art of Leo Twiggs which will take place on Sun 10/11 at 2:15pm. The tour is free to attend with registration via the link in bio.

Guests are welcome to visit FCM on Thurs, 10/15, from 5:00 – 7:00 pm, for a screening of an official selection from The Arkhaios Cultural Heritage & Archaeology Film Festival. We’ll be screening the film, Drain the Oceans: The First Americans. This is event is free to attend with registration via link in bio!

Film Synopsis: “At the end of the last Ice Age, the first humans migrated into the Americas. Some believe they traveled taken in Florence County Museum by @flocomuseum

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Several folks have asked about our annual Imagination Ball event that happens every October. Scroll through the slides for an update. ➡️

The short update is we’ve unfortunately had to place the event on a temporary hiatus due to our expansion construction. BUT we have plans for it to return bigger and better than ever once the building expansion is complete in 2028.

Minions and sugar-fueled dance parties.

This little cowboy is exploring the Community Gallery!

For those who might not know, The Imagination Ball is FCM’s costumed, family event where the community gathers at the museum to enjoy an evening of creative hands-on activities, music, food, a costume contest, and much more. taken in Florence County Museum by @flocomuseum

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Step back in time at FCM this Sat, 9/12, from 1- 3 pm, to discover the giants of the Ice Age of the Pee Dee. You’ll learn how the glyptodont was a prehistoric ancestor of the armadillo. You’ll create your own prehistoric glyptodont shell while learning about shapes and patterns. Learn about colors as we identify various large, prehistoric land animals, aka megafauna, from the Ice Age. Stop by FCM and become a junior paleontologist!

Join us for a free, docent-led tour of Revelations: The Art of Leo Twiggs, Sun, 9/13, at 2:15 pm, in the museum’s Focus Gallery. This landmark exhibition, on loan from the Gibbes Museum of Art, celebrates Twiggs’ remarkable journey, highlighting his unique insights into Southern experience. Despite his legacy as a trailblazer, Leo Twiggs has never had a full retrospective in his home state of South Carolina until now. The exhibition lauds his visionary career, showcasing his iconic Batik technique and profound reflections on the American experience across six decades of work. Registration link in bio!

Explore your creativity via Art After Hours at FCM, Thurs Sept 17, from 5-6:30 pm. Participants will explore themes of symbolism, memory, and Southern identity through the art of image transfers using household solvents. Drawing inspiration from the works on display in our current exhibitions, Revelations: The Art of Leo Twiggs, and Southern Visions, reflect on how images, historic buildings, landscapes, textiles, photographs, and cultural symbols shape personal and collective memory. Reinterpret the visual language of the South in new ways. Register via link in bio! taken in Florence County Museum by @flocomuseum

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Leo Twiggs
(American, b.1934)
Landscape with Two Cows
Batik on Cotton
2008

On loan from Gibbes Museum of Art
Collection of Harold and Minor Shaw

Palmer Schoppe
(American, 1912-2001)
Speriences Meetin’
Lithograph
1935

Collection of Florence County Museum
Wright Collection of Southern Art

Baroody’s Candies, Dixie Toast Company
Candy Box
c. 1911

On loan from Alan Baroody

Woodland School in Pamplico, SC
Photograph
c. 1940s

Collection of Florence County Museum
Gift of Gwendolyn White Robertson

Uniform
Cpl. Hugh Perotti, Squadron D

On loan from Hugh Perotti

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Florence Army Air Field Personnel
Squadron D
Photograph
c. 1943

On loan from Hugh Perotti taken in Florence County Museum by @flocomuseum

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FCM is undergoing some changes! That said, our visiting hours remain unchanged. All galleries are open and visitors are welcome! We’re adding on to our facility. Swipe to learn more!

See link in bio for even more details about our expansion.

Preliminary designs for our Pee Dee History Gallery redesign. Work by Haley Sharpe Design and FCM’s curatorial team.

Parking has changed but parking is nearby and will remain free.

Visitors can find parking at these locations noted on the map above. We look forward to seeing you soon! taken in Florence County Museum by @flocomuseum

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William H. Johnson (1901-1970)
Girl in a Green Dress (Portrait Study No. 22)
Oil on canvas

Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of The Harmon Foundation
1967.59.747

Gwendolyn White Robertson, daughter of Girl in a Green Dress. Mrs. Robertson was the key to how FCM staff uncovered the story behind the painting.

Gwendolyn White Robertson and her mother Bertha Brooks White.

Gwendolyn White Robertson reunited with the portrait of her mother that William H. Johnson painted in 1930. This photo was taken in 2014 during the installation of William H. Johnson: New Beginnings.

Our friend and supporter Gwendolyn
White Robertson.

William H. Johnson (1901-1970)
Girl in a Green Dress (Portrait Study No. 22)
Oil on canvas

Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of The Harmon Foundation
1967.59.747

Bertha Brooks White the subject of Girl in a Green Dress (Portrait Study No. 22). taken in Florence County Museum by @flocomuseum

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From Francis Marion to David Drake, the Pee Dee History Gallery features a variety of objects connected to fascinating personalities who have impacted our culture in South Carolina.

A selection from the museum’s first acquisition of Native American ceramics purchased in 1924. Currently on display in the Community Gallery.

Discover Florence’s captivating immigrant history in Lasting Presence. On exhibit now.

Uncover the regional identity of the American South through these works from the FCM’s holdings on display in Southern Visions.

Explore Twiggs’ reflection on race, resilience, and American identity through his command of batik, a multi-layered wax resist dyeing process. On exhibit now in the Focus Gallery.

Revelations: The Art of Leo Twiggs is organized by the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South. Carolina. taken in Florence County Museum by @flocomuseum

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2 months ago

Like learning and helping others learn? Consider volunteering at the FCM. Visit flocomuseum.org/volunteers to apply.

Join us this Sat 8/8 from 1-3pm for Family Day: Watercolor Batiks! Experiment with wax-resist techniques to reveal bold textures and vibrant contrasts similar to the work on exhibit in Revelations: The Art of Leo Twiggs. Create a paper batik design of your own, capturing summer memories using patterns, lines, & symbols to tell your summer story. Batik is a textile process, that originates from Africa, utilizing wax and dyes to create resist patterns.

The public is invited to register for our next tour this Sunday, 8/9, from 2:15 - 3:00pm. We’ll be touring Revelations: The Art of Leo Twiggs, on loan from the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC. Docent-led tours are a great way to gain a deeper understanding of what’s on exhibit. Docents initiate dialog and provide you with valuable context about what’s on display to help you get more from your visit experience.

Join artist Brittany Gilbert in this workshop where guests will learn to recognize the elements of landscape art, inspired by the work on display in Southern Visions. Attendees will explore the elements of art on display to produce their own Southern landscapes.

Learn from artist Robert Garey in this workshop where guests will learn to utilize one-point and two-point perspective to create depth and draw the viewer’s eye into the scene, inspired by the work on display in Southern Visions. Attendees will explore foundational skills to produce landscape art with perspective depth.

Learn with Uschi Jeffcoat in this workshop where guests will explore watercolor technique for capturing the movement, color, and light of water; inspired by the work on display in Southern Visions. Attendees will explore foundational skills to produce their own watercolors featuring bodies of water. taken in Florence County Museum by @flocomuseum

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Our latest Scavenger Hunt: Pee Dee History: Edition 7 just dropped! Scavenger Hunts are a great way to explore the galleries for all ages. Stop by the front desk to pick yours up today. If you can find all 20 objects, present your completed card to the front desk and claim your prize!

One object from the Scavenger Hunt can plainly be seen in this picture. 👀 👮🏻‍♂️ That’s all the help you’re going to get! taken in Florence County Museum by @flocomuseum

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Out of town guests visiting Lasting Presence and learning about Florence’s rich immigrant history.

Florence School District One staff visiting for professional development and seeing how the FCM can be leveraged as an educational resource outside of the classroom.

Several of our volunteers are retired educators. They’re able to guide teachers through creative ways they can utilize the museum as educators and what it has to offer their students.

Teachers discovering Revelations: The Art of Leo Twiggs. taken in Florence County Museum by @flocomuseum

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Lasting Presence explores Florence’s rich immigrant history. Visitors are invited to discover various local immigrant stories and reflect on how their contributions have shaped Florence as we know it today.

Southern Visions explores regional identity through art created during the early 1900s. This collection features works in a variety of media, including paintings, etchings, & watercolors that document the landscapes and daily lives of people living in the American South.

The Community Gallery is a showcase of objects from the museum’s earliest collections. Visitors can also learn about the Municipalities of Florence County as well as notable figures from the Pee Dee who have accomplished extraordinary things.

Revelations: The Art of the Leo Twiggs celebrates Twiggs’ remarkable journey highlighting his unique insights into Southern experience. This retrospective lauds the artist’s visionary career, showcasing his iconic batik technique and profound reflections on the American experience across six decades of work.

Revelations: The Art of Leo Twiggs is organized by the Gibbes Museum of Charleston, South Carolina.

The Pee Dee History Gallery guides visitors through a chronology of the region’s history, starting with its Prehistory through the 20th-century. Highlights include Cretaceous Period reptile fossil material, Civil War artifacts from the Florence Stockade prison camp, artifacts related to the life and career of former FBI agent Melvin Purvis, and fragments of the MK-6 atomic bomb which was accidentally dropped on the Mars Bluff community in 1958. taken in Florence County Museum by @flocomuseum

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Docent Bob Wilson guiding tour guests through an observational exercise using the work Night Bird by artist Leo Twiggs.

Docent Kimberly Kinley-Howard initiating observational dialog during the tour of Revelations: The Art of Leo Twiggs.

Docent Bob Wilson sharing biographical context about the exhibiting artist.

Tour guests discussing their observations comparing and contrasting two adjacent works in the gallery.

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Leo Twiggs (American b. 1934)
The Swing
Batik on Cotton
1970

Collection of Carolyn Andrychowski

Visitors are prompted to explore the gallery and asked to note any reoccurring imagery or themes.

Learning about the batik process.

Visitors had an extended moment of slow-looking with Twiggs’ Requiem For Mother Emanuel series followed by a docent-led group discussion. Great observations were shared by several visitors.

The tour concludes with discussion of two works: “Birth of the Blues, Blues for BB, Blues for John Lee, and Blues for Bessie” and “We Have Known Rivers: Masks, Tree, and Moon.” taken in Florence County Museum by @flocomuseum

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