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Category: Visiting Artists Archives - Gibbes Museum of Art

Visiting Artists • Press Releases • Exhibitions

The Gibbes Museum of Art Announces 2023 Special Exhibitions and Visiting Artists

The Gibbes Museum of Art is pleased to announce its schedule of special exhibitions and class of Visiting Artists coming to the museum in 2023. The lineup of exhibitions explores a vast array of topics, encouraging visitors to engage and learn about new art forms and genres and advancing the museum’s four themes of health […]

Visiting Artists

End of Residency Q + A with Visiting Artist, Francis Sills

Interviewed by Erin Glaze, Director of Contemporary Initiatives and Public Engagement Francis Sills was born and raised in central New Jersey, relocating to Charleston, SC in May of 2011. Exposed to the wonders of the natural world at an early age through hiking and fishing, his childhood was spent drawing and constructing things out of […]

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End of Residency Q + A with Visiting Artist, Camela Guevara

Interviewed by Erin Glaze, Director of Contemporary Initiatives and Public Engagement Camela Guevara is a fiber artist and painter residing in Charleston, SC. She creates handmade monuments to unsung labor. Employing traditional techniques of the past and re-contextualizing everyday objects, the artist subverts capitalistic ideals of consumption with a can-do attitude and self-reliance. During her […]

Visiting Artists • Museum Store • Press Releases

The Gibbes Museum of Art Opens New Art Sales Gallery

Charleston, S.C., August 26, 2020 – The Gibbes Museum of Art is pleased to announce the opening of the new Ruth and Bill Baker Art Sales Gallery. The gallery, located on the first floor of the Gibbes Museum of Art, will exhibit works by the museum’s visiting artists, available for purchase. The Gibbes’ Visiting Artist […]

Museum from Home • Visiting Artists

A Rotating Gallery in an Editor’s Historic Charleston Apartment

It’s sort of an unexpected gallery space. Or at least, I didn’t expect it. My one-bedroom apartment in a historic building on Meeting Street lets the light in with nine stained glass windows and a parterre garden below. Last year friends helped me paint one accent wall dark gray and install a floating shelf. Periodically […]

Museum Store • Museum from Home • Visiting Artists

Resources for Artists during COVID-19

In times of crisis, artists are often among those most affected. The Gibbes Museum’s manifesto states, “[W]e believe art is the difference between merely existing and being truly alive. That’s why we immerse ourselves in every part of it – from fine art to craft – from nurturing its creation and celebrating its multicultural presentation […]

Visiting Artists • Behind the Scenes • General

A Glimpse Into Studio 2 With Visiting Artist Tim Hussey

If you haven’t stopped by the Gibbes recently, and more specifically Studio 2, we hope you will before May 19 to meet Tim Hussey, our current Visiting Artist (see Open Studio Hours below). Hussey recently shared with us some insights into what he’s working on now and some of his inspirations! What are you working […]

Visiting Artists • Permanent Collection • Artist Spotlight

A Conversation with Stacy Lynn Waddell

For the past several years during March – Women’s History Month – The National Museum of Women in the Arts has been asking the question: Can you name 5 women artists? The campaign calls attention to the fact that women remain underrepresented in museums, galleries, and auction houses. The Gibbes will participate in this initiative […]

Visiting Artists • Artist Spotlight • General

A Glimpse Into Studio 1 with Visiting Artist Madame Magar

My residency as a Visiting Artist at the Gibbes Museum is inspired by the miniature portraits in the Permanent Collection. The miniatures have been a source of inspiration for many years, recalling my early days in Charleston visiting the mesmerizing miniatures’ charming gallery. As a dress maker and textile artist, art evolved through my cloth […]

Education • Visiting Artists • Programs

A Glimpse into Studio 2 with Visiting Artist Carey Morton

After completing my graduate studies at Clemson University, I was fortunate enough to join the studio art faculty at the College of Charleston. The good news kept coming as I was later informed that I had been selected to participate in the long-term Visiting Artist residency in partnership with the Gibbes Museum and College of […]