News Amiri dose portait for Jasmine Guy, best known for her role as Whitley on “A Different World,” visited Hilton Head, and later the Hilton Head Island Boys and Girls Club and the Elliott House in Beaufort to kickoff a Women for Obama group in the Lowcountry. Amiri Receives the new emerging artist award from The historic Penn Center in South Carolina Heritage Days Celebration is a cultural event celebrating the Gullah/Geechee/Sea Island history, folk arts, food, music, crafts, and West African cultural legacy. Located at the Penn School, one of the first schools for enslaved Africans on St. Helena Island, visitors can experience the unique setting of the 50-acre historic campus of Penn Center. Special events for the weekend include "The Heritage Symposium and Sea Island Breakfast" featuring an educational panel presentation on "Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement." Featured artist, Jonathan Green, will appear at Juried Art Exhibition and Poetry Competition on Saturday, Nov. 10th. Selections from the Hewitt Collection of African-American art will be on display at the historic Penn Center's York W. Bailey Museum during the Heritage Days Celebration through December 14. The exhibition will feature more than 25 works by such renowned artists as Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Ernest Crichlow, James Denmark, Eugene Grigsby and Jonathan Green.
 
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