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...
Although there are several dates within the African-American community to commemorate the ending of legalized slavery in the United States, Juneteenth is the most widely celebrated anniversary.
Today, all of us here at the museum received a letter from our president, Jere W. Morehead. His message is a forthright and angry denunciation of racism and its concomitant evils of intolerance, injus...
I met Emma Amos around 2009 while I still worked in North Carolina. I had been thinking about her work for a while, often seeing reproductions in books such as those by bell hooks and Sharon Patton’s ...
Normally, the Georgia Museum of Art participates in the Blue Star Museums, a program organized by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) that offers free admission and special discounts to military...
Amy Miller, our shop manager at the Georgia Museum of Art, kicks off our “After Hours: Staff Favorites Outside the Museum” by sharing a childhood favorite of hers that helped ignite and sustain her pa...
I have been quarantined now for over a month. For the first part of this sequestration, I did not see anything green except broccoli, which the museum’s generous patron Todd Emily kindly brought me; I...
At a towering 89 inches tall, “The Archibald Bulloch Family” stands tall in the gallery of the Georgia Museum of Art. Painted by renowned portraitist Henry Benbridge ca. 1775, the portrait is unique t...
Georgia Museum of Art gallery guide Philip Bond shared one of his favorite works of art from the exhibition “Gifts and Prayers: The Romanovs and Their Subjects.”
The Georgia Museum of Art enriches the education of many students at the University of Georgia. Each semester the museum offers internship and work-study opportunities to provide students with unique ...
“La Confidence” caught my freshman attention on my very first visit to the Georgia Museum of Art. This painting is as tall as a person and shows a quiet secret shared between two women. Intriguing and...
At the Georgia Museum of Art, we collaborate with the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art annually to display the works of graduating master of fine arts students. This year’s exhibition ...
Brenda Wade, the Georgia Museum of Art’s administrative assistant and receptionist, will retire this month, after more than 23 years working there. She brought an easygoing, friendly and helpful natur...
This week we are spotlighting four of this year’s Lamar Dodd School of Art master of fine arts degree candidates. Though the Georgia Museum of Art is currently closed to the public, the museum has shi...
Over the coming weeks, we will spotlight some of this year’s Lamar Dodd School of Art master of fine arts degree candidates. Though the Georgia Museum of Art is currently closed to the public, the mus...
