Dale L. Couch, the Georgia Museum of Art’s curator of decorative art and director of the Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts, will officially retire this year (at the end of Feb...
For three years, Asen Kirin, Parker Curator of Russian Art at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia, has co-taught a course in Russia without leaving Athens, Georgia.
Even as the museum has been busy busy busy installing exhibitions in its galleries, it’s also been working on expanding its range of online exhibitions. Sometimes the online exhibitions mirror in-pers...
Virtual discussions of our exhibitions are one of many new ways of learning about art while staying home. On February 4, the museum live-streamed a virtual discussion of the exhibition “Emma Amos: Col...
Curatorial intern Santana Nash writes about her research on artist William Anderson Jr. and creating a video so that others might get to know his work, too.
What goes into designing an exhibition catalogue? Our graphic designer, Noelle Shuck, talks about some of the decisions we made for our newest creation.
One of the nicest things since the museum reopened in August has been seeing feedback coming in every time we send out surveys to folks who have reserved tickets and checked in. Not only does that fee...
The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia has received several transformative gifts over the course of its existence. The most one came at the end of 2019, when John and Sara Shlesinger o...
Emma Amos’ journey to become a distinguished artist is nothing short of extraordinary. “Emma Amos: Color Odyssey,” a retrospective solo exhibition curator Shawnya L. Harris has been working on for yea...
Dale L. Couch, the Georgia Museum of Art’s curator of decorative art and director of the Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts, will officially retire this year (at the end of Feb...
If you’ve been to the museum recently, you may have noticed the Letitia and Rowland Radford Gallery roped off as our team worked on reinstalling it. Like the reinstallation of the Marilyn Overstreet N...
August always brings the start of school tours at the Georgia Museum of Art, with thousands of elementary, middle and high school students cheerfully making noise throughout the building. So how do yo...
Although the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia has been building a strong collection of Russian art over the past few years, it didn’t have a permanent place to display those works. B...
For over 20 years, the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia has hosted a senior outreach program, in which senior centers from Athens-Clarke and nearby counties participate in a series o...
In November 2019, the Georgia Museum of Art received a gift of paintings from the Jurii Maniichuk and Rose Brady Collection. Five of these six paintings are now on view in the museum’s permanent colle...
On November 5, 2020, the Georgia Museum of Art opened the exhibition “Modernism Foretold: The Nadler Collection of Late Antique Art from Egypt,” which will be on view through September 26, 2021.
Every summer, the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia works with UGA’s Mary Frances Early College of Education, the Clarke County School District and other partners to create a program ...
Normally, we’d be organizing a film festival related to the exhibition “The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design,” but since we can’t do that at the moment, museum education intern Katie Lande...
The exhibition “The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design,” on view at the Georgia Museum of Art through January 3, features 40 exquisite chairs from the past 200 years. They function as seats ...
Several years ago, the artist and activist Art Hazelwood introduced me to the work of Ronnie Goodman. He showed me Goodman’s linocuts with subjects ranging from the plight of the homeless through his ...
