Special Exhibition Tours

Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art

Examine images of plantation life in the American South as it is portrayed by more than seventy-five artists with works ranging from photographs to mixed-media works. Afterwards, take part in an optional hands-on art activity.

Program length: tour 45 minutes; optional art activity 45 minutes
Grades: 5–12
Available between August 23 and October 19, 2008.

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Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, Mending a Break in a Rice Field from the series A Carolina Rice Plantation of the Fifties, circa 1935. Courtesy of the Gibbes Museum of Art/Carolina Art Association, Charleston, South Carolina.