2023 Albert Simons Medal of Excellence Award winners Marion & Greg Werkheiser.
CHARLESTON, SC, USA, October 11, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — The School of Charleston’s College of the Arts will current Marion and Greg Werkheiser, pioneers within the international follow of cultural heritage regulation and trailblazers within the use of rising know-how in heritage tourism, with the celebrated Albert Simons Medal of Excellence throughout a ceremony on October 12, 2023.
Prior recipients embody His Royal Highness King Charles III and Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley, amongst different achieved leaders in civic design, architectural design, historic preservation, and city planning. The award honors Albert Simons (1890-1980), who had an influential 60-year profession as an architect and preservationist and who spearheaded the founding of the College of the Arts. This yr’s award features a $10,000 prize generously supplied by Albert and Theodora Simons III.
The ceremony will embody a lecture by the Werkheisers about cultural heritage as a human proper, an idea they advance by the work of their two ventures. Their regulation agency, Cultural Heritage Companions, PLLC, resolves instances and controversies involving the safety and preservation of artwork, antiquities, archaeology, structure, historic landscapes, sacred websites, and residing traditions, together with particularly Indigenous and Black heritage. Their software program firm, ARtGlass, has led the worldwide emergence of Augmented Actuality in tourism at iconic historic websites and sights whereas championing accessibility of rising know-how, elevating marginalized tales, selling civics schooling, and enhancing sustainable tourism.
The Werkheisers acknowledged, “We’re delighted to direct the highlight of this recognition towards the concept that the Simons household has lengthy championed: the preservation of our previous is important to constructing a greater future.”
The Simons Medal is awarded yearly by the College of the Arts’ Historic Preservation and Group Planning Program. The occasion, which begins at 5:30 PM, is free and open to the general public. A reception will comply with.
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About Cultural Heritage Companions, PLLC:
Cultural Heritage Companions, PLLC is a mission-driven regulation agency based in 2010 to zealously advocate for the preservation, safety, and promotion of international cultural legacies. To leverage the knowledge of humanity’s previous to create a greater current and future, CHP is dedicated to offering knowledgeable authorized counsel and strategic steerage to be certain that each tangible and intangible components of our shared human heritage are safeguarded and celebrated for generations to come. The CHP group consists of legal professionals, authorities affairs professionals, archaeologists, tribal liaisons, artwork students, and follow administration personnel. The agency has places of work in Richmond, VA, Washington, DC, NYC, NY, and London, England. See www.culturalheritagepartners.com.
About ARtGlass:
ARtGlass, an Augmented Actuality know-how firm primarily based in Richmond, Virginia, and Milan, Italy, develops software program and methods that allow purchasers to simply prepare dynamic digital content material over views of real-world objects and locations by smartglasses, tablets, or smartphones. ARtGlass has emerged because the world’s main developer of AR experiences for cultural websites, with hundreds of thousands of thrilled guests at iconic museums, historic and archaeological websites, and different sights. Go to www.artglassgroup.com.
About School of Charleston and Historic Preservation and Group Planning program:
Situated within the coronary heart of historic Charleston, South Carolina, the School of Charleston is a nationally acknowledged, public liberal arts and sciences college. Based in 1770, the School is among the many nation’s prime universities for high quality schooling, pupil life and affordability. The School’s Historic Preservation and Group Planning program develops leaders within the administration of cultural heritage and the constructed setting. It approaches the themes of historic preservation, architectural and city design, planning, and architectural and city historical past as a gaggle of associated disciplines that collectively enable graduates to efficiently compete in varied employment and graduate alternatives. Go to artistory.cofc.edu/hpcp.
Christine Grubbs
Cultural Heritage Companions
+1 908-361-3017
christine@culturalheritagepartners.com
