Specialties: Art Gallery, Kids & Adult Art Classes, Facility Rental, Historic Home Established in 1937. Founded in 1937 and housed in the historic Nicholas Ware mansion (c. 1818), the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art is Augusta's only independent nonprofit visual arts school and gallery. Our mission "is to provide opportunities for visual arts education and to develop visual arts awareness an...Specialties: Art Gallery, Kids & Adult Art Classes, Facility Rental, Historic Home Established in 1937. Founded in 1937 and housed in the historic Nicholas Ware mansion (c. 1818), the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art is Augusta's only independent nonprofit visual arts school and gallery. Our mission "is to provide opportunities for visual arts education and to develop visual arts awareness and appreciation throughout the greater Augusta community".see more