Through the Decades: 75 Years of the Georgia Museum of Art

University of Georgia students in Callan Steinmann’s Introduction to Museum Studies (FCID 5010/7010) class during the fall semester of 2023 organized this pop-up exhibition, rendered here in an online version. “Through the Decades: 75 Years of the Georgia Museum of Art” features a selection of works on paper drawn from the museum’s permanent collection, showcasing the diversity and range of the museum’s collecting history since it first opened to the public in November 1948.

The split-level course includes both undergraduate and graduate students, who worked on the exhibition as part of a semester-long project. Introduction to Museum Studies is a foundations class for the Museum Studies Certificate Program at UGA, and the students represent many areas of study across campus, including art history, historic preservation, art education, history, classics and studio art. Students worked in groups to select works of art acquired by the museum in each decade of its history. They researched the art and artists, then wrote extended interpretive labels for each object.

View the exhibition