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September 2021
What’s Going On?- Artist Talk with Nancy Polo
What do a school bus and a sea monster have in common? What would you say if an artist answered COVID? Nancy Polo’s show “What’s Going On?” (September 1-30, 2021) is the artist’s attempt to make sense of Corona 19. There’s a long history of artists employing their work to record and process global health events. Art related to plagues date to the first century. The Antonine or Galen plague took place across the Ancient Roman Empire, and may have…
Find out more »The Other Half: Providing for Clarke County’s Poor
Presented in partnership with the Clarke County Historical Association. Special thanks to Warfield Homes for sponsoring this event! In the modern era, social welfare is a pretty sensitive topic, but the concept has existed for millennia. How else were people supposed to survive if they had no other means or just needed a little help? Join Archivist Melanie Garvey as she delves into Clarke County’s system of poverty relief from the county’s inception in 1836 to the end of the…
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