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Museum celebrates meeting of art and science
Monday, October 15, 2018
Rebecca Rutstein is both an award-winning artist and an ocean explorer. This fall, as UGA’s Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding, she will embark on her fifth deep-sea expedition/artist’s residency, with a team of scientists led by the University of Georgia’s Samantha Joye and the University of North Carolina’s Andreas Teske. While the scientists study hydrothermal vents and the unique...
Georgia Museum of Art takes home gold at Southeastern Museums Conference
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia won two awards in publications design and two for exhibitions at this year’s Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC) annual meeting, held October 8–10 in Jackson, Mississippi. The museum’s outstanding quarterly newsletter Facet, designed by Athens firm The Adsmith, took home the gold in the Newsletters and Calendar of Events category. “Clint...
AC Carter to play Museum Mix
Monday, September 17, 2018
The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will host Museum Mix on Thursday, September 27, from 8 to 11 p.m. All of the galleries will be open for the late-night art party. DJ .53 will be blasting your favorites, and free refreshments and snacks will be provided. The event is free and open to the public.
AC Carter, a second-year master of fine arts student in sculpture at the Lam...
Sculptor Richard Hunt fuses diverse influences
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Art and experimental zoology aren’t the most obvious of pairings, but sculptor Richard Hunt worked in an animal lab at the University of Chicago as a teenager, earning money to pay for college. The result was an influence that has spanned his six-decades-long career, which will be on view in “Richard Hunt: Synthesis.” This exhibition organized by the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of G...
Georgia Museum of Art hires Nelda Damiano
Friday, August 31, 2018
After a national search, the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia has hired Nelda Damiano as its Pierre Daura Curator of European Art, effective immediately. Damiano comes to the museum from the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, in Jacksonville, Florida, where she was associate curator. At the Cummer, she organized exhibitions, conducted primary and original research on its permanen...