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...
Maui-native Noelle Shuck moved from Hawaii to Georgia when she was a young girl. After living in Atlanta for a few years, Shuck and her mother moved to Athens. There Shuck’s mother married the owner o...
The permanent collection at the Georgia Museum of Art features an intricately crafted mahogany chair and chest of drawers in the Nancy Cooper Turner Gallery, possibly crafted by Thomas Day. According ...
With everyone talking about a “new normal” during this crisis, I am anxious that we do not see it as a perpetual “abnormal” or that we dwell in nostalgia for the “old normal.” Neither I nor the staff ...
We're still working on ways to bring the museum to you while we're temporarily closed. Luckily, we already have some resources that are available to you for free, including fantastic teacher packets t...
Last month the Georgia Museum of Art honored Kevin Cole with the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Award and John H. Morrow with the Lillian C. Lynch Citation at the Black History Month Dinner and Award...
Can you name five women artists? Yes? No? Maybe?
Family Day: Women Sculptors on Saturday, March 7, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Georgia Museum of Art can help you add three women sculptors to your ...
The Georgia Museum of Art Student Association hosts three Student Nights per year at the the museum—two in the fall, one in the spring—but the spring Student Night is a little bit different.
In 2012, Brenda A. and Larry D. Thompson generously donated a collection of 100 works of art celebrating the African American culture and experience. Since then the couple has also funded an endowment...
On January 25 – 26, 2002, the inaugural Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts, “The Savannah River Valley to 1865: Fine Arts, Architecture and Decorative Arts” brimmed with more than 400 par...
After hearing Daniel Ackermann deliver his Green Symposium keynote address, all visitors are encouraged to come by the museum for the quarterly 90 Carlton reception.
For nine years, Patrick Dean entertained the masses with his comic strips through various sources of media including Flagpole Magazine, Athens’ alternative newsweekly and several other notable covers....
During my semester as a public relations intern at the Georgia Museum of Art, I have watched the 500-piece “Mummy Mysteries” jigsaw puzzle in the office workroom transform from a nothing more than a j...
Let me preface this by saying that I love Bette Midler. I love her brass, her sass, her humor, and the way she squares up against the world and dares it to come after her. She's wonderful.
Seven of Athens’ established venues for visual art participate in Third Thursday, a local, art-centric event held in the evenings on the third Thursday of every month.
The holiday season is known for encouraging quality time with family and friends. On a regular basis, the Georgia Museum of Art hosts monthly Family Days to bring families together to learn about wor...
Along with frigid temperatures, hot cocoa and pumpkin spice cravings and doorbuster sales, the holiday season ushers in a time of reflection. Here at the Georgia Museum of Art we want to pause to ackn...
If you are searching for a thoughtful holiday gift for a loved one and at a highly discounted price, look no further. The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is hosting its annual holid...
