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...
Curators, registrars, preparators, communicators – all facets of museum operations must face failure, or the anxious threat of failure, at some point or another. Rarely, however, is a cataclysm so to...
August 16 brought the Annual Meeting and Reception of the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art, which highlighted the group’s activities from the past year and featured the presentation of the annual ...
Many a good idea has been scribbled on the back of an envelope. On November 9, 1918, two days before the armistice that officially ended the First World War, education professor and Athens resident Mo...
A native of Memphis, Daisy Craddock received her training in Tennessee and here at the University of Georgia, where she received a master of fine arts degree in painting. She then moved to New York Ci...
Recently, the museum graciously accepted the Colquitt family’s donation of two representative portraits by George Cooke, which will bring the museum’s holdings of Cooke’s work to five, and the campus-...
Next week, thousands of students will be returning to campus with even more joining for their first year. The Georgia Museum of Art is a great place for students to get involved, and they have many di...
On Saturday July 14, a family of three enters the foyer of the Georgia Museum of Art. Associate curator of education Sage Kincaid immediately greets them, giving them a gallery guide. Upon seeing the ...
This evening, Athens citizens and visitors are invited to enjoy several art venues for the monthly event Third Thursday. This event was started six years ago in order to “encourage attendance at Athen...
When Callan Steinmann interned at the museum, with both the education department and the director’s office, she had no idea that one day she would have the opportunity to bring these new gallery space...
Each year, thousands of new faces — ranging from excited to terrified — appear on campus, gearing up for the fall semester when they will officially be Georgia Bulldawgs. They are incoming freshman, t...
In any office environment, it is easy to get lost in your screens and pages for eight hours each day, chatting only with those in your immediate vicinity. This pattern has recently been broken at the ...
Cheryl Goldsleger, a native of Philadelphia, received her training there, in Rome and in St. Louis before coming south to teach and to create. Many viewers have responded to her early work (which is a...
One of our former public relations interns, Samantha Meyer, recently took the time to write about how her internship with the Georgia Museum of Art helped her find her ideal career path. Meyer is curr...
UGA master of fine arts degree candidate Deepanjan Mukhopadhyay calls Calcutta (now Kolkata), India, home. Mukhopadhyay received his undergraduate degree in photography at Louisiana Tech. He continues...
From Michelangelo’s David to Giacometti’s “Walking Man I,” sculpture has long paved the way for explorations of art and the human form in distinctive ways.
Do you remember the last time you said “It’s a small world”? Maybe it was when you ran into an old friend at Starbucks or found out that you share an acquiantance with a friend. For Phillip Bond, a se...
On a typical Tuesday at the Georgia Museum of Art, Todd Rivers, Elizabeth Howe and their new intern Sara Katherine package up pieces from one exhibition to prepare for the next. The tacky snap of tape...
