S 1013

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026
Bill 1013
Indicates Matter Stricken
Indicates New Matter
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A senate RESOLUTION
To celebrate the grand opening of the Jonathan Green
Maritime Cultural Center At the University of SOuth Carolina Beaufort.
Whereas, the Jonathan Green
Maritime Cultural Center at the University of South Carolina Beaufort is the
first maritime museum devoted exclusively to African-descended maritime art,
history, and culture. Named for internationally acclaimed artist Jonathan Green,
the center reflects his more than forty-five-year career interpreting the
history, dignity, and global reach of African diasporic coastal communities
worldwide through the lens of the Gullah Geechee in the Lowcountry of South
Carolina; and
Whereas, through a vast
and internationally recognized body of work spanning more than four and a half
decades, Mr. Green has created an enduring visual archive that honors the
intellectual, spiritual, agricultural, economic, artistic, and maritime
foundations built by African-descended people across the world. His art
situates South Carolina within a broader global maritime narrative,
illuminating connections between coastal communities, port cities,
international trade networks, migration, memory, and cultural continuity across
continents. His paintings do not isolate the Lowcountry; they position it as a
central node within a worldwide maritime civilization shaped by African
knowledge systems and generational resilience; and
Whereas, located within
the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, the center advances scholarship,
exhibition, and public education that formally recognizes these contributions
within local, national, and global contexts. It serves as a site of research,
preservation, interpretation, and civic commemoration, ensuring that the
foundational role of African-descended maritime communities in building and
sustaining coastal economies is permanently acknowledged; and
Whereas, the center
stands as a cultural landmark and academic institution dedicated to preserving,
interpreting, and celebrating the enduring legacy of Jonathan Green and the
maritime civilizations his work brings to light for South Carolina, the nation,
and the world.  Now, therefore,
Be it resolved by the Senate:
That the members of the
South Carolina Senate, by this resolution,
celebrate the grand opening of the Jonathan Green Maritime Cultural Center at
the University of South Carolina Beaufort.
Be it further resolved
that copies of this resolution be presented to Jonathan Green, Dr. Kim Cliett
Long, and the leadership of the Jonathan Green Maritime Cultural Center.
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