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Art to Go Lands at Mt. Zion Elementary
The Gibbes Museum provides in-school art education through a program called Art to Go. We send teaching artists into the classroom to work on hands-on art projects inspired by the […]
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A Girl Named Sally
This post is the second in a series about the Poets in Schools writing program at Burke High School. Read the previous entry by Jonathan Sanchez about his work with […]
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Face Lift: Caption This!Week Eight: Character Study
Halloween is just around the corner. These works of art capture the theme of costume and disguise. Ghosts and gobblins may abound this holiday, but these creative characters—Ichikawa Danjuro VI […]
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Poets in Schools Find Inspiration at the Gibbes
Last year, 50 students from Burke High School, many of whom had never been to the Gibbes or any other art museum, spilled out of a bus on a December […]
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Face Lift: Caption This!Week Seven: The TaTa Sisterhood
In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness month, we propose this pair of nudes from our Face Lift exhibition: on the left, Iaida, by Isabel Cohen Doud and on the […]
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Face Lift: Caption This!Week Six: I Spy
In these self portraits, the artists turn the tables and become their own subjects. Let the unusual and somewhat comedic compositions inspire you to “Caption This!” Read the full terms […]
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Face Lift: Caption This!Week Five: Me and My Shadow
Week Five’s comparison shows two very different styles of portraiture, but the juxtaposition of the images makes it appear that there’s a conversation going on. Tell us what you think […]
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Face Lift: Caption This!Week Four: There was a Little Girl…
There was a little girl, Who had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, She was very good indeed, But when she was […]
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Face Lift: Caption This!Week Three: Charles and Louis Manigault—Father and Son
This week’s portraits depict a nineteenth-century father and son duo. Charles Izard Manigault and his son Louis Manigault shared an appreciation for art, but chose to explore their interests along different […]
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Artist Spotlight: William Halsey (American, 1915–1999)
When the first-ever public exhibition of Solomon Guggenheim’s collection of non-objective art debuted at the Gibbes in 1936, it brought shock and dismay to some in Charleston’s art circle. The […]
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