The Jasper Project

Our Mission

The Jasper Project is a project-oriented, multidisciplinary arts facilitator serving the greater Columbia and South Carolina communities by providing collaborative arts engineering and community-wide arts communication.

The Jasper Project is committed to the promotion of:

1. Process - illuminating the unique processes endemic to all art forms in order to provide a greater level of understanding and respect for that discipline.
2. Community/Collaboration - nurturing community both within and between arts disciplines.
3. Narrative - creating a more positive and progressive understanding of SC culture.
4. Economy - being efficient stewards of arts funding committed to creating more with less.
   
   We are a grassroots organization made up of passionate volunteers and our board of directors.
   We have no paid staff and every dollar we raise goes directly to finding our mission.

Testimonials

"Jasper is a rock in our world. It's stone namesake represents protection, endurance and strength, and Jasper fosters these qualities as a supreme nurturer in our arts community" - Cassie Premo Steele, Poet and Author

"The Jasper Project stands above and alone in providing bold and transformative solutions to the challenge of sustaining the arts, and in affirming the impact of the arts in the midlands. As a significant community partner in the endeavors to build, share, show, teach, and learn through the arts, Jasper puts information about the arts and artists in the hands of our communities through Jasper Magazine, which distinguishes Jasper's commitment!" – Wilma Ruth King, Visual Artist