C Williams Rush Museum of African American Arts and Culture

The founder, Cassandra Williams Rush is an avid collector of all things of-and-by African Americans and began collecting representations of her culture and history in the late 1970's. In 1990, she started the business,'Art & Expressions' where she retailed and collected African American art, bronzes, dolls, figurines, textiles, ceramics, pottery, stamps, Christmas items, etc. By 2010, she had outgrown the display areas of her home and had a desire to share her collections with her hometown of Kingstree and Williamsburg County, SC. She always wanted to 'go-back to give-back'. After acquiring a building, she began renovations and in December 2010, opened the C Williams Rush Museum of African-American Arts & Culture with "A Beautiful Black Christmas', the first of many subsequent exhibitions.