Special Tours Announced

Enjoy free drop-in tours of A Portrait of Greenville on eight Sundays in May and June, 2010. Scheduled for 2:00, these free gallery talks are an entertaining and informative way to explore this popular new exhibition.

Veteran docents Dick Manchester, Mike Murphy, Nancy Barry, and John Bies will lead these special tours. Note that there will not be a drop-in tour on Mother's Day, May 9.

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Greenville, South Carolina, is a community both vigorous and gracious, a community that traces its past to the textile industry and its future to manufacturing, finance, and new technology. It is located between Atlanta and the Atlantic Ocean, just an hour from the high mountains of the Appalachain chain.

In 2010, you are invited to see Greenville, past and present, in paintings and photographs by major national and regional artists whose work has been brought together in A Portrait of Greenville, an exhibition that gathers together projects commissioned by the Greenville County Museum of Art over the past twenty-five years. Favorites by Stephen Scott Young are combined with new works by Andrew Lenaghan and John Moore, as well as Southern artists such as Edward Rice, William McCullough, and Tim Barnwell. The result is a selection of images both urban and rural, both modern and nostalgic, both historic and contemporary.

A Portrait of Greenville coincides with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the annual Museum Antiques Show, which has raised millions of dollars in support of Greenville’s acclaimed collection of American and Southern art. The Museum has planned a schedule of special programs to enhance the public's enjoyment and understanding of the exhibition, and it includes gallery talks, lectures, studio classes, and a community day at the Museum on July 17.

Free tours of the exhibition are available by appointment to groups of ten or more. To make a reservation, contact Terri Steck at 864/271-7570, ext. 17 or send her an email.