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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...
Georgia Museum of Art to present highlights from Princeton University Art Museum collection
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
As the Princeton University Art Museum constructs a new building (set to open in 2024), more than 100 works of American art from its collection are traveling the country. The exhibition “Object Lessons in American Art” will premiere at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia from February 4 to May 14, 2023. Spanning the 18th century to the present, “Object Lessons” features works of...
Georgia Museum of Art and Terra Foundation team up
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
On June 1, the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia began a new partnership with the Terra Foundation for American Art when it received four oil paintings from the Terra’s renowned collection that will be on loan for the next four years. The collaboration also includes a grant for $25,000 each year of the loan to fund exhibitions and programming related to these works. The museum wil...
Georgia Museum of Art receives best in show design award
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia has received both a gold in the magazines and newsletters category and a “Best in Show” award in the 2022 Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC) Publication Design Competition for its quarterly newsletter, Facet. The competition showcases the best in the profession and provides benchmarks for regional publication efforts in southeastern museum...
What is “southern photography”?
Friday, September 16, 2022
The Georgia Museum of Art tries to answer in a new exhibition
Founded in 2012 in Columbus, Georgia, by Alan Rothschild Jr. (UGA JD ’85), the Do Good Fund has built a museum-quality collection of photography that charts a visual narrative of the ever-changing American South from the 1950s to the present. The collection includes images by more than 25 Guggenheim Fellows, five Magnum P...