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Artist Spotlight • Exhibitions • Permanent Collection
Artist Spotlight: Corrie McCallum (American, 1914–2009)
Our current exhibition, Breaking Down Barriers: 300 Years of Women in Art, features over 30 groundbreaking women artists, each with their own compelling story and artistic vision. Included among this […]
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Designing the New Galleries
We have made great progress on plans for the Gibbes renovations since my earlier post in October. The first phase of the gallery designs and plans were approved and the […]
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Women’s Council Auxiliary: Giving Back for Over 60 Years
In March of 1950, five women—Mrs. E. E. Wehman, Mrs. Ashby Farrow, Mrs. H. Evans Townsend, Mrs. James Wilson, and Mrs. C. Smith Toms—gathered in the museum to discuss the […]
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Artist Spotlight: Margaret Bourke-White
Since Margaret Bourke-White’s iconic images will be featured in both of the Gibbes’ upcoming exhibitions—Breaking Down Barriers: 300 Years of Women in Art and Camera Works: Masters in Photography—we thought […]
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Looking to the Past to Plan for the Future
After 28 years as a designer at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I decided to start my own museum design business. My first client was the Annual Winter Antiques […]
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Artist Spotlight: Sam Doyle (American, 1906–1985)
The Gibbes has an amazing collection of 10,000 objects. With so many objects and only so much gallery space, at any given time, the vast majority of our collection remains […]
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The Globb: Our Nameless Blog
Whether you are a loyal blog follower or joining us for the first time, it is clear by your attention that you are a fan of the Gibbes Museum. In […]
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What I Did this Summer—Becca Goes to Camp
I’ve been volunteering with curator Sara Arnold for a couple of years, and I’ve been able to work on a variety of interesting projects. I have helped document the Alfred […]
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Japanese Art and Charleston: Inspiration from Abroad
If you’ve visited the Gibbes Museum in the past few weeks, you may have noticed some different objects in The Charleston Story exhibition. We’ve changed out a number of works, […]
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Curatorial Perspective: The Creative Spirit
The Gibbes staff members are making preparations for the opening of our next Main Gallery exhibition The Creative Spirit: Vernacular Art from the Gadsden Arts Center Permanent Collection. Logistical planning […]
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