SC Arts Commission

South Carolina Arts Commission Board Chairwoman Flavia Harton will resign from the board effective Oct. 16.

After an about 40-minute Oct. 1 virtual meeting, the Greenville Gay Men's Chorus and the Proud Mary Theatre Company in Spartanburg walked away with no state funding and no explanation as to why the funding requests were denied by the South Carolina Arts Commission.

At an Aug. 20 board meeting, commissioners authorized about $3.7 million in grant funding for more than 170 recipients. Funds head to museums, orchestras, festivals and other arts groups throughout South Carolina.

In 2017, a collection of residents, musicians, and at least one globetrotting conductor realized that Rock Hill was the largest city in the Carolinas that…