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		<title>Revealing the Power of Portraits: Curators Select Works for Face Lift</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Madame Pierre Gautreau, by Antonio de la Gandara, and Mary Motte Alston, by Edward Savage. Since late spring, the curatorial staff has been working diligently on plans for the upcoming exhibition Face Lift: The Power of Portraits. Portraiture is one of the oldest and most popular forms of artistic expression and anyone familiar with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gibbesmuseum.org/gibbes_blog/?p=981</link>
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		<title>Back to School Tools at the Gibbes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Students on a guided tour discuss the painting April, by Childe Hassam. School Year 2010–2011 is here! Most teachers and students return to their classrooms the week of August 16th for another year of enlightenment. The Gibbes Museum is excited, as always, to be a part of this learning process. There are many different ways [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gibbesmuseum.org/gibbes_blog/?p=927</link>
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		<title>Revisiting The Charleston Story: New Works on View</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Untitled, ca. 1940s-50s, by Nell Choate Shute (American, 1898–1966), 2010.005.0002B Have you visited the Gibbes lately? If so, you may notice new faces in the building. Yes, we do have a few new staff members, but I am referring to the new paintings and works on paper on display in The Charleston Story. Ok, they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gibbesmuseum.org/gibbes_blog/?p=874</link>
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		<title>Curatorial Perspective: An Upcoming Exhibition Takes Shape</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Manifest, 2010, by Stacy Lynn Waddell (American, b. 1966) Over the next few weeks, the Gibbes collections and curatorial staff will be hard at work in preparation for the opening of Stacy Lynn Waddell: The Evidence of Things Unseen. On view September 3 – December 5, 2010, this exhibition will feature recent work by contemporary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gibbesmuseum.org/gibbes_blog/?p=824</link>
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		<title>Sharing a Love of Art History with the Next Generation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My name is Katie Gephart, and this summer I interned in the museum’s Education and Outreach department. In the fall, I’ll start my senior year at Washington and Lee University where I am majoring in art history and museum studies. My university professors continue to encourage my love of art history, and now—through my internship—I’ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gibbesmuseum.org/gibbes_blog/?p=801</link>
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		<title>Up Close and Personal with the Gibbes&#8217; Collection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have spent the past four years staring at slide after slide of art: Jasper Johns, John Singleton Copley, Jan van Eyck … and the Johns go on. As an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, I was exposed to the cultural and social implications behind these artists and their work. I memorized myriad names [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gibbesmuseum.org/gibbes_blog/?p=772</link>
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		<title>Artist Spotlight: Edwin Harleston (American, 1882 &#8211; 1931)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This summer the spotlight is on Charleston’s early twentieth-century artist, Edwin Augustus Harleston (1882–1931). Six paintings by Harleston are now on view in Gallery H. The works represent both his acclaimed portraiture and his landscapes of the South Carolina Lowcountry. This spotlight exhibition was inspired by the recent loan of Edwin Harleston’s magnificent 1921 portrait [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gibbesmuseum.org/gibbes_blog/?p=741</link>
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		<title>On the Street with Summer Intern Laura Kovalsky</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My name is Laura Kovalsky, and I am a summer communications intern at the Gibbes Museum of Art. I am a rising senior at the University of Alabama, but I’m enjoying living and working in Charleston for the summer. At the Gibbes—aside from my daily responsibilities of organizing press clippings, updating information for the communications [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gibbesmuseum.org/gibbes_blog/?p=718</link>
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		<title>Petite Protocol</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week the ladies from Southern Protocol taught etiquette to 4-7 year old children in the museum’s Welcome Gallery. The children learned how to set the table, politely get someone’s attention, use please and thank you, and many other lessons. To celebrate their accomplishments, the class held a reception and certificate presentation ceremony on Friday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gibbesmuseum.org/gibbes_blog/?p=709</link>
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		<title>Summer Art Camp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gibbes Summer Art Camp is wrapping up its third week of creative fun. The campers have been busy studying and making art from around the globe including Africa, New Zealand, and other faraway lands. Pictured are campers making clay necklaces with their teacher Mrs. Sally Collins. Spots are still available in the Art Story sessions [...]]]></description>
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