For Immediate Release Gibbes Museum of Art Awarded National
Endowment for the Arts Grant Gibbes is the only museum in South
Carolina to receive the NEA Grant in 2007 (Charleston, SC) – The
Gibbes Museum of Art has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the
National Endowment for the Arts in support of a major traveling
exhibition and accompanying publication titled Landscape of
Slavery: The Plantation in American Art. In its 40-year history,
the National Endowment for the Arts has awarded more than
120,000 grants that have brought art to Americans in communities
large and small. Past funded projects include the Sundance Film
Festival, PBS’s Great Performances series and Spoleto Festival
USA. The Gibbes is the only museum in South Carolina to receive
an NEA grant in 2007. “The National Endowment for the Arts,
through its support of this exhibition, has made an important
statement about the significance of the Gibbes Museum of Art and
its contributions to the study of American art” says Todd Smith,
Gibbes Executive