Explore Folk Art and Enjoy the Gibbes for Free - Sponsored by Roper St. Francis Healthcare

Event Details

Saturday, September 17 from 10am – 1pm

The Gibbes Museum of Art is pleased to announce that Roper St. Francis Healthcare will be sponsoring Community Days at the Gibbes beginning this fall. Community Days are held quarterly to offer visitors the opportunity to experience the Gibbes’ dynamic programming free of charge.

A folk art-inspired Community Day will be held on Saturday, September 17 with complimentary admission and art-making activities from 10:00am – 1:00pm. A special musical performance by The Three Dudes, a talented band of pre-teen brothers, will begin at 11:00am. Visitors can enjoy the folk art exhibition The Creative Spirit: Vernacular Art from the Gadsden Arts Center Permanent Collection in the Main Gallery as well as the exhibition In Search of Julien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre–Civil War New Orleans in the Rotunda Galleries.

The Creative Spirit: Vernacular Art from the Gadsden Arts Center Permanent Collection
Organized by the Gadsden Arts Center in Quincy, Florida, The Creative Spirit: Vernacular Art from the Gadsden Arts Center Permanent Collection is on view in the Main Gallery though October 16. The exhibition features paintings, drawings, and sculpture by the foremost self-taught artists of the American South. Centered around works of art by the most acclaimed southern vernacular artist, Thornton Dial Sr., the exhibition also includes other well known self-taught artists such as Lonnie Holley, Joe Light, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mose Tolliver, and Purvis Young.

Roper St. Francis Healthcare
Roper St. Francis Healthcare is the South Carolina Lowcountry’s only private, not-for-profit health care system. The 657-bed system consists of 90 facilities and services in seven counties. Member hospitals include Roper Hospital, Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital, Mount Pleasant Hospital and Roper Rehabilitation Hospital. Plans to build a hospital in Berkeley County are in progress. Roper St. Francis Physician Partners is a comprehensive network of more than 180 physicians that covers a complete range of primary care and 20 subspecialties.