Staff reports
Penn Center’s York W. Bailey Museum is hosting a solo exhibition featuring painting and sculpture by the South Carolina folk artist Bruce Ingram through Monday, Nov. 30, 2026.
The exhibition showcases Ingram’s mastery of visual storytelling through memory and found objects.
An opening reception will be held from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, July 18, providing an opportunity for the public, collectors, and press to meet the artist and view the collection first-hand.
In the exhibition, Ingram, who lives and creates his art in Horry County, South Carolina, invites viewers into a deeply personal dialogue with artwork reflecting the griot (oral storytelling) tradition of his family. The artworks on display visually tell the stories Ingram has grown up with, and reflect generations of African-American history in rural South Carolina.
Ingram utilizes sustainably sourced wood and recycled objects, adding these elements of the past into his paintings and sculptures, evoking a powerful emotional response.
“Bruce Ingram’s body of work represents the importance of African-American oral histories by using creative and unexpected ways to honor and remember the past,” said Monique deLaTour, Exhibits and Interpreter Lead at Penn Center.