The Gibbes Museum of Art will have two special exhibitions on view from May 4 through September 9, 2012, Mary Whyte: Working South and Places for the Spirit: Traditional African American Gardens of the South.

This exhibition showcases paintings, drawings, and sculpture by the foremost self-taught artists of the American South.

This includes the most comprehensive list of events commemorating the Civil War.

Special changing exhibits will mark sesquicentennial anniversaries of the American Civil War on a year-by-year basis and follow the lives of the Alston family and their slaves.