Events Calendar

GCCA is proud to host the first annual Greenville County School’s Winners Show. The winning students from GCS elementary, middle, and high schools represent the best of the best from over 90 schools throughout the district!

Selections from the USC Upstate Permanent collection of works by Andy Warhol, including original silk screen prints, Polaroids, and photographs.

Join us for a morning of knitting, crochet, sewing, and any other fiber arts. Share ideas with fellow enthusiasts. Registration required. Email [email protected] or call 864-877-8722 to register.

First Exhibition features our collection of original photographs and screen prints by Andy Warhol through August 15. Hours Tuesday through Friday 10am to 5pm; Thursday 10am til 7pm; Saturday 11am til 4pm.

The Vietnam War (1954-1975) was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.  The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.  More than 3 million people (including over 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War, and more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians.

U.S. Marines move through a landing zone, December 1969. (AP Photo)

The war left a deep and lasting impression in American life, from its impact on the men and women who fought in it, to the journalists and photographers who covered it, to the millions of Americans who protested against it or supported it. Due to an uncensored press, the world knew and saw more of this war than any in history before or since.

To cover the War, The Associated Press (AP) gathered an extraordinary group of superb photojournalists in its Saigon bureau, creating one of the greatest photographic legacies of the 20^th century.  The AP won six Pulitzer Prizes for its coverage, four of them for photography.

Now, drawn from AP’s photo history of the conflict, Vietnam: The Real War, featuring a selection of 50 large-format images curated by the Associated Press, will be presented at the Upcountry History Museum.  The exhibition tells the human story of the War, from the American presence starting as a trickle of military advisers in the late 1950s, through dramatic operations involving thousands of soldiers in the 1960s, to the fall of Saigon in 1975. These are pictures that both recorded and made history, taken by courageous photojournalists.

As we begin to look back from the vantage point of half a century, Vietnam: The Real War serves as a photographic record of the drama and tragedy of the Vietnam War.

The Upcountry History Museum will include objects, archival materials and oral histories from its permanent collection to support and further illustrate the impact of the Vietnam War.  The Museum will partner with Upstate veterans and military organizations to insure the preservation and presentation of our community’s history and stories.

The Associated Press (AP) is a not-for-profit global news agency headquartered in New York.  Founded in 1846, the AP today is the essential global news network, delivering fast, unbiased news and information from every corner of the world to media platforms and formats.

Use creativity to spread kindness. Supplies provided or bring your own. Registration required. Email [email protected] or call 864-234-4904 to register.

Learn the basics of drawing various animals such as horses, snakes, and birds. Bringing your own paper/sketchbook and pencils is recommended. Registration required. Email [email protected] or call 864-234-4904 to register.

GCCA is proud to host the first annual Greenville County School’s Winners Show. The winning students from GCS elementary, middle, and high schools represent the best of the best from over 90 schools throughout the district!

The Annual Showcase is GCCA’s premier event for artists and art lovers of all ages, featuring an exhibition highlighting the talent of GCCA’s own member artists alongside a special exhibit from the 2021-22 Brandon Fellows, and a display of youth artwork created during Summer Art Camps.

Between earning a BA in Education and an MA in Journalism, Mary Pauly also earned sixty credit hours for an Associate of Arts degree in Oil Painting from the Greenville County Museum School of Art and completed the required painting-thesis, in 1988. Mary’s life experiences include always painting, a supportive husband and children, freelance commercial art, travel, teaching, and living and painting in Japan for seven years.

Art highlights especially encouraging to Mary over the years were studying in California with Dr. Betty Edwards, author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain; being juried into the SC Arts Commission Annual Exhibition by William Zimmer, Art Critic for The New York Times;  and writing interview articles for ArtScene Upstate Magazine, published by Metropolitan Arts Council in the mid-nineteen-nineties.

Hans-Peter Bolz always had the desire to become an Artist, even at an early age growing up in post-war Germany. His first-grade teacher recognized his talent and encouraged him to keep painting. Hans-Peter’s formal training consists of a course in commercial art, illustration and design with famous Art school International, Inc. He also attended several workshops in portrait, landscapes, and plein air with some of the best painters in the Carolinas. Hans-Peter prefers to paint in oil. With this medium, you are able “to push the paint around” when working wet on wet.

Selections from the USC Upstate Permanent collection of works by Andy Warhol, including original silk screen prints, Polaroids, and photographs.

Artists find inspiration by closely observing the world around them, and often, by exploring the work of other artists. In this camp, we will look at art in the Museum galleries to inspire us as we draw, paint, build, and create original works of art!

Part of the event series: Unraveled

First Exhibition features our collection of original photographs and screen prints by Andy Warhol through August 15. Hours Tuesday through Friday 10am to 5pm; Thursday 10am til 7pm; Saturday 11am til 4pm.

The Vietnam War (1954-1975) was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.  The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.  More than 3 million people (including over 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War, and more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians.

U.S. Marines move through a landing zone, December 1969. (AP Photo)

The war left a deep and lasting impression in American life, from its impact on the men and women who fought in it, to the journalists and photographers who covered it, to the millions of Americans who protested against it or supported it. Due to an uncensored press, the world knew and saw more of this war than any in history before or since.

To cover the War, The Associated Press (AP) gathered an extraordinary group of superb photojournalists in its Saigon bureau, creating one of the greatest photographic legacies of the 20^th century.  The AP won six Pulitzer Prizes for its coverage, four of them for photography.

Now, drawn from AP’s photo history of the conflict, Vietnam: The Real War, featuring a selection of 50 large-format images curated by the Associated Press, will be presented at the Upcountry History Museum.  The exhibition tells the human story of the War, from the American presence starting as a trickle of military advisers in the late 1950s, through dramatic operations involving thousands of soldiers in the 1960s, to the fall of Saigon in 1975. These are pictures that both recorded and made history, taken by courageous photojournalists.

As we begin to look back from the vantage point of half a century, Vietnam: The Real War serves as a photographic record of the drama and tragedy of the Vietnam War.

The Upcountry History Museum will include objects, archival materials and oral histories from its permanent collection to support and further illustrate the impact of the Vietnam War.  The Museum will partner with Upstate veterans and military organizations to insure the preservation and presentation of our community’s history and stories.

The Associated Press (AP) is a not-for-profit global news agency headquartered in New York.  Founded in 1846, the AP today is the essential global news network, delivering fast, unbiased news and information from every corner of the world to media platforms and formats.

The Annual Showcase is GCCA’s premier event for artists and art lovers of all ages, featuring an exhibition highlighting the talent of GCCA’s own member artists alongside a special exhibit from the 2021-22 Brandon Fellows, and a display of youth artwork created during Summer Art Camps.

Between earning a BA in Education and an MA in Journalism, Mary Pauly also earned sixty credit hours for an Associate of Arts degree in Oil Painting from the Greenville County Museum School of Art and completed the required painting-thesis, in 1988. Mary’s life experiences include always painting, a supportive husband and children, freelance commercial art, travel, teaching, and living and painting in Japan for seven years.

Art highlights especially encouraging to Mary over the years were studying in California with Dr. Betty Edwards, author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain; being juried into the SC Arts Commission Annual Exhibition by William Zimmer, Art Critic for The New York Times;  and writing interview articles for ArtScene Upstate Magazine, published by Metropolitan Arts Council in the mid-nineteen-nineties.