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The soundtrack was perform...</p><p><a class="link-directive" href="page.asp?urh=CalendarViewer&ref=&id=340">See more</a></p> </div> <div id="col3"> <p> </p><p class="header">Etched In The Eyes: David Herman, Jr.</p><p><strong>March 30, 2013 - June 15, 2013</strong> - This traveling exhibition is part of an ongoing initiative designed to document the African diaspora of the low country and Sea Islands along the eastern coastline of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Returning home to the rich so...</p><p><a class="link-directive" href="page.asp?urh=ExhibitionsViewer&id=31">See more</a></p> </div> </div> </div> <div id="global-site-container" class="clearfix"> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="masthead"> <div id="logo"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130515204150/http://www.ganttcenter.org/"><img src="/web/20130515204150im_/http://www.ganttcenter.org/web/imgs/Logo.gif" alt="Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture" title="Harvey B. 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