About – Uncharted

At Uncharted, we tell stories about professional creatives in South Carolina from all backgrounds and in all industries. We profile creatives in our directory, conduct short-form interviews, and pair them with aspiring creatives in a new podcast. Our stories show South Carolina has a thriving creative economy, from small business owners to designers in large corporations.

How We Started

Uncharted is an initiative of The Athenaeum Press at Coastal Carolina University, an innovative publishing lab where interdisciplinary teams of students, faculty, and community transform ideas into real projects. Since our founding in 2012, over 300 students have worked on over 20 regional, multimedia projects. Our alumni are innovators in storytelling across a number of industries: ed tech, museums, marketing, and design. We wanted to tell our alumni’s amazing stories and learn how the Press experience prepared them for the professsional world.

In 2023, we found a partner to help achieve that goal. ArtsGrowSC, the educational arm of the SC Arts Commission, offered us a unique partnership to tell the stories not only of our alumni but also of all creatives in and from the state. We would partner on this initiative with their new Creative Careers Studio, a resource that all of us wish we had as we were wondering “What can we do when we grow up?” in high school and college.

So far, we’ve interviewed close to 100 creatives in the state, and we’ve completed five episodes of our podcast: Creative Paths.