For the Eyes of History: Photographs by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashethrough July 10.

Born in 1951 in Chicago, Moutoussamy-Ashe is best known for her street photography focusing on the everyday lives of families residing on Daufuskie Island in South Carolina. Her creative and informative images about everyday happenings around the island have left a legacy of visual memories for the next generation of Daufuskie Island families. She also has done extensive research on the lives and photographic work of black women photographers over the last century resulting in her book, Viewfinders Black Women Photographers.

One of Our Own: Anna Heyward Taylor through August 21.

A descendant of a wealthy cotton-planting family from Columbia, SouthCarolina, Anna Heyward Taylor (1879-1956) was one of the artists in the Charleston Renaissance - a group active between 1915 and 1940 - did etchings and prints of Charleston scenes. These works were widely circulatedand brought national recognition to the area. She exhibited and presentedone-woman shows frequently throughout her career at such places as the MarieSterner and Milch Galleries (both in New York City); the National Academy of Design; the Philadelphia Art Alliance; the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; the Gibbes Museum of Art; and the Columbia Museum of Art, to name a few.

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If you go

The Museum is located at the intersections of Main at Hampton streets in the heart of downtown Columbia, S.C. and is open Wed., Thu., Sat, 10 a.m.-p.m., Fri., 10 a.m.-9 p.m. and Sun. 1- 5 p.m. They are closed Mon. and Tue. and major holidays

Admission is $5 for adults; $2 for students and $4 for seniors, ages 60 and over;

Every Saturday is free courtesy of Blue Cross Blue Shield.

For more information call (803) 799-2810 or go online to www.columbiamuseum.org.