Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art

Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art is located in Augusta, Georgia, in the home of former Augusta Mayor and United States Senator Nicholas Ware. Olivia Herbert founded the Institute in 1937. The original name for the Institute was the Augusta Art Club; it was later renamed in memorial to Olivia Herbert's daughter, Gertrude Herbert Dunn. The two primary missions of the Institute are art education and visual arts exhibition.

Education activity

Facilitating the art education mission of the Institute is a certification by the Georgia Council of Arts as a Teacher Professional Learning (TPL) provider current as of 2007. [cite web |url=http://gaarts.org/documents/TPLGrant_Aug07_rev01.pdf |title=Teacher Professional Learning (TPL) Grant |accessdate=2007-08-01 |date=30 August 2006 |format=PDF |work= |publisher=Georgia Council for the Arts (Georgia State government)] Among other certified providers is Emory University.

Ware's Folly: the building housing the Institute

Construction of the home in which the Institute is housed was completed in 1818. The building is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [cite web
url=http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/ga/Richmond/state.html
title=GEORGIA - Richmond County |accessdate=2007-08-01 |date=26 January 2006 |format=Index Listing
work=National Register of Historic Places |publisher=United States Federal Government] The building bears the nickname Ware's Folly, which derives from the high cost of the construction, $40,000 in 1818 or c. $12,000,000 in 2007, and the extravagant interior detailing. [cite web
url=http://www.warefamilyhistory.com/ |title=Ware Family History
accessdate=2007-08-01 |author=Wanda Ware DeGidio |date=25 April 2008]

References

* cite encyclopedia
last = Fay | first = Robin
editor = [http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/about/Index.jsp?id=t-5 Editorial Advisors]
encyclopedia = New Georgia Encyclopedia
title = Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art
url = http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1048
accessdate = 2007-07-31 | edition = On-line | date = 21 October 2005
publisher = Georgia Humanities Council (primary)
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Notes

External links

* [http://www.ghia.org/ Homepage for the Institute]
* [http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/Augusta/index.html Augusta, Georgia, a National Park Service "Discover Our Shared Heritage" Travel Itinerary]