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Georgia Museum of Art receives $75,000 grant from Terra Foundation
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia recently received a grant for $75,000 from the Terra Foundation for American Art to support the planning process for the exhibition “The Sculpture of Edmonia Lewis.”
The exhibition, which will tour nationally, focuses on the works of 19th-century neoclassical sculptor Mary Edmonia Lewis. A talented young sculptor who traveled to R...
Richard Prince takes on the jokes of Milton Berle
Monday, February 5, 2024
Athens, GA — Artist Richard Prince has appropriated works from all over American culture throughout his career. He may be best known for his “rephotographs” in which he photographed existing photographs, then enlarged them. Starting in the mid-1980s, he began making a series of works about jokes. He started with handwritten jokes on pieces of paper, then began silkscreening the text of jokes on pa...
Georgia Museum of Art receives $1M+ grant to enhance galleries
Thursday, January 25, 2024
The grant from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation is the largest in the museum’s history
The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia recently received a major grant from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation to reimagine and reinstall the museum’s permanent collection galleries. The $1,085,000 grant is the largest in the museum’s history.
The foundation ...
Kei Ito’s cameraless photos make the invisible visible
Thursday, January 18, 2024
How do you make a photograph without a camera? Believe it or not, cameraless photography is older than photography with a camera. Artist Kei Ito uses cameraless photography to create what he calls “irradiated histories,” or works of art that address nuclear disaster and the possibilities of healing and reconciliation. His work will be on view in “Kei Ito: Staring at the Face of the Sun,” a new exh...
Georgia Museum of Art receives eight awards at SEMC
Thursday, December 7, 2023
The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia received eight different awards from the Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC) for its outstanding work. The awards were announced at SEMC’s annual meeting, held Nov. 13 – 15, 2023, in Louisville, Kentucky.
Tricia Miller, the museum’s deputy director of collections and exhibitions and head registrar, received SEMC’s Museum Leadership Aw...