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Ernest A. Finney, Jr. Cultural Arts Center

Ernest A. Finney, Jr. Cultural Arts Center

The Ernest A. Finney, Jr. Cultural Arts Center, a 501c3 organization located at 1510 Laurens Street, Columbia, South Carolina, (formerly the Southern Electric building) officially opened in the summer of 2022. This new center is home to African American culture, art, and expression. It is also a long-awaited gathering place for community conversations. The new center is in the historic Robert Mills district and just across from the historic Waverly Community, and a stone’s throw from the one-hundred-year-old railroad tracks that have long defined small-town southern life in America.

The focus of this Cultural Arts Center is on the making of art, the keeping of community, living Black history, and the ongoing generational celebration of music, visual art, poetry, dance, theatre, the culinary arts, and other community building and life sustaining activities.

We know that art and culture can powerfully shape and reshape a community. Therefore, we begin our work at the intersection of historical Black cultural expression and modern creative artful ideas, in hopes of building conversations and alliances in our many communities, while also spreading the word about the power of art to inform and bridge our 21st century world. The Ernest A. Finney, Jr. Cultural Arts Center wishes to be an incubator for progressive notions of what it means to be an involved, informed, and engaged creative human being — no matter that human beings age or background.

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LOCATION

Ernest A. Finney, Jr. Cultural Arts Center

1510 Laurens Street, Columbia, SC 29204

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PARKING INFO

Directions to The Ernest A. Finney, Jr. Cultural Arts Center

  • We are located at 1510 Laurens Street, Columbia, SC 29204.
  • We are between Hampton Street and Taylor Street.
  • Right next to Railroad BBQ, located on the corner of Laurens Street and Hampton Street.
  • We share a fence with Railroad BBQ.

We have a parking lot and there is public parking on Hampton Street.

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