South Carolina S 1013: Jonathan Green Maritime Cultural Center

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2025-2026 Bill 1013 Text of Previous Version (Mar. 17, 2026) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 1013

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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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