Just in time for Halloween, The Georgia Museum of Art has hatched what you might consider a creepy, more immersive embodiment of a supernatural pop-up exhibition. The exhibition “Trick or Treat”, presented by the museum’s education interns: Catie Cook and Andrew East, features a fun selection of spooky, scary, and supernatural works from the collection selected by the education interns themselves.
While tricks and treats offer a conventional way to celebrate this spooky season, the museum’s education interns like to get creative while also getting into the holiday spirit. Cook and East conjured up a selection of art history’s scariest masterpieces, featuring symbolic skulls, spiders, crows, and other hair-raising works of art. Designedly, they selected 13 works of art to show on October 13th– a fitting theme number that has instilled fear and evolved superstition.
“This is the first pop-up exhibition of works on paper curated by museum interns, and we hope to continue it in the future as a series once a semester. It’s a great way to showcase some of the incredible works on paper in our collection that don’t often get shown in the galleries. Each pop-up will have a different theme, and will feature about 10-15 works of art pulled from our archives, on view for just one night only on a select Thursday evening. “
Pop-up exhibition: “Trick or Treat” will take place Thursday, October 13, from 5 to 9 pm in the Shannon and Peter Candler Collection Study Room of the Georgia Museum of Art. Education interns, Catie and Andrew, will be available to visitors to show-and-tell the elements of horror amidst the dark art they selected. As always, the event is free and open to the public, especially for the scare-seekers.
You may register for tickets on the Georgia Museum of Art’s website beforehand or at the front desk upon arrival. If you do the former, check in at the front desk once you arrive.
By Elizabeth Benavides
