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Georgia Museum of Art to participate in Blue Star Museums

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will participate this summer in Blue Star Museums, a program organized by the National Endowment for the Arts that offers free admission and special discounts to military personnel and their families from Armed Forces Day (May 20) through Labor Day (September 4).

Blue Star Museums is a partnership between the National Endowment for the A...

Incarcerated women organize museum exhibition at UGA

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

One audience that museums rarely reach is incarcerated people, even though they make up a significant portion of the U.S. population. The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia has been working on a collaborative project with Common Good of Atlanta for several years to bring art into Whitworth Women’s Facility, a prison in northeast Georgia. The exhibition “Art is a form of freedom” fe...

Georgia Museum of Art receives awards for patron and exhibition

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia received two awards at this year’s Georgia Association of Museums (GAM) annual conference, held in Cartersville. GAM President Marcy Breffle and award committee co-chairs Melissa Swindell and Karin Dalton presented the museum with the awards for Patron of the Year (to Alan Rothschild Jr.) and Exhibition Category #3 ($25,001 – $99,999) for “Rec...

Georgia Museum of Art showcases Sky Hopinka’s “Lore”

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Ho-Chunk artist Sky Hopinka won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2022 for his filmmaking. One of these videos, “Lore,” is on view at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia through September 24, 2023. “Lore” is a short film that examines the nature of storytelling and reimagines the transmission of memories and knowledge. Hopinka’s films open up conversations surrounding Indigenous people ...

Black History Month at the Georgia Museum of Art

Friday, January 27, 2023

Each year, the Georgia Museum of Art hosts its annual Black Art and Culture Awards, featuring the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Award and the Lillian C. Lynch Citation. Respectively, these two awards honor a living African American visual artist with a significant Georgia connection in an effort to raise their profile and an African American leader who has made a significant contribution to Afri...