The Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, SC, is pleased to announce a holiday-themed Community Day on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009, with complimentary admission and family activities from 10am – 1pm, sponsored by the Junior League of Charleston. The Junior League of Charleston Community Days are held quarterly to offer visitors the opportunity to experience the Gibbes’ dynamic programming free of charge.
Thank you Junior League of Charleston!
The Celebrations Community Day will include holiday art-making activities for children as well as holiday performances by Mt. Pleasant Presbyterian Church Children’s Choir, Ashley Hall Caroline’s Carolers and Ashley Hall Lower School Strings. Beverages will be provided by Rising High Café.
Visitors to the Gibbes will be able to enjoy the exhibit, Brian Rutenberg: Tidesong, organized by the Jerald Melberg Gallery in Charlotte, NC, which features abstract landscape paintings – two of which are thirteen feet wide – by South Carolina native Brian Rutenberg. Inspired by the landscape and waterways of his home state, Rutenberg’s work combines brilliant color with expressive brushwork to create visually stunning abstract paintings. The exhibit will be on view in the Museum’s Main Gallery, through Jan. 10, 2010. This exhibition accompanies the release of Brian Rutenberg: The Sensation of Place, the first ever major monograph on the artist’s paintings and drawings. (An excellent holiday gift for any art lover or yourself.) The exhibition includes recent paintings on canvas and works on paper that explore the artist’s fascination with the landscape and quality of light along the South Carolina coast. The book will be available in the Gibbes Museum Shop. You can read an article about this exhibit at Carolina Arts at this link. Also see our Oct. 09 cover featuring a work by Rutenberg at this link.
Brian Rutenberg
This exhibit falls into the “Do Not Miss” category. You can read a previous blog entry by me at this link.
On view in the Museum’s Rotunda Galleries, through Jan. 10, 2010, is the exhibit, Daufuskie Island: Photographs by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe. The artist’s fascination with Daufuskie Island began during visits to the neighboring resort island Hilton Head, SC, with her husband, Arthur Ashe, in the 1970s. Her interest resulted in a compelling group of photographs that document life on Daufuskie through sensitive, intimate portraits of island residents.
Also on view in the Gibbes’ First, Second and Third Floor Galleries, is the ongoing exhibit, The Charleston Story. Drawn from the museum’s permanent collection, this exhibition highlights significant people, places, and periods from Charleston’s beginning as a British colony, through the American Revolution, the later ravages of the Civil War, and culminating today as a culturally diverse and dynamic community.
Established as the Carolina Art Association in 1858, the Gibbes Museum of Art opened its doors to the public in 1905. Located in Charleston’s historic district, the Gibbes houses a premier collection of over 10,000 works, principally American with a Charleston or Southern connection and presents special exhibitions throughout the year. In addition, the museum offers an extensive complement of public programming and educational outreach initiatives that serve the community by stimulating creative expression and improving the region’s superb quality of life.
For further information contact the Gibbes by calling 843/722-2706 or visit (www.gibbesmuseum.org).
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