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Society 1858 Celebrates Donté K. Hayes as Winner of Prize for Contemporary Southern Art
The month of February was filled with celebration and conversation surrounding contemporary Southern art as Society 1858 and the Gibbes Museum of Art welcomed the 2019 Prize winner Donté K. Hayes to Charleston for the Amy P. Coy Forum and Winter Party. Hayes, a Georgia-based ceramicist, explores themes in Afrofuturism, a projected vision of an […]
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Patrick Dougherty: 2011 Factor Prize Winner
The Gibbes recently celebrated another great year of the Factor Prize for Southern Art by naming Patrick Dougherty the 2011 winner. A sculptor from North Carolina, Dougherty creates site-specific installations from twigs and branches woven together and held in place by tension. His work is fun and whimsical and awe-inspiring. And though Dougherty is a […]
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