Julia Kilgore has joined the museum staff as Pierre Daura Curatorial Research Assistant. She was previously a provenance research assistant and a museum host assisting with special events and other museum experiences at the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University (EMA).
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 classic survey text, African American Art since my undergraduate days at Yale.
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 passion for visual-arts museums.
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 did not feel the sun on my shoulders; and I did not speak to or hear the actual, unfiltered voice of another human being. I listened too much to what the French call the “speakerines” on television, but at times, they moved me with stories of the everyday heroism of doctors, nurses, first responders, grocery clerks, bank tellers — all those people who continue their tasks in an age of quarantine and fear, all those on the proverbial front lines of the pandemic.
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.”
“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 distracting, the work of Elizabeth Jane Gardner is one of the most popular and striking works that hang in the museum.
