Past Exhibitions

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Shapes That Talk to Me: The Athens Scene, 1975–85

May 24, 2014 — September 28, 2014


As part of Art Rocks Athens, the museum joined the UGA Special Collections Library, the Lamar Dodd School of Art, the Lyndon House Arts Center, Ciné and others in celebrating the Athens art and music scene of the 1970s and 1980s

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Women, Art and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise

May 17, 2014 — August 31, 2014


Organized by the Newcomb Art Gallery and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, this exhibition was the largest presentation of Newcomb arts and crafts in more than 25 years

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The Lithographs of Carroll Cloar

May 17, 2014 — August 10, 2014


All of Carroll Cloar's lithographs in a single exhibition

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Master of Fine Arts Degree Candidates Exhibition 2014

April 12, 2014 — May 4, 2014


The annual display by graduating MFA candidates at the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art

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Tristan Perich: “Machine Wall Drawing”

March 20, 2014 — April 21, 2026


“Machine Wall Drawing” occupied a 60-foot wall on the museum’s Patsy Dudley Pate Balcony and created itself over the course of 6 months

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Quayola: “Strata #4”

March 20, 2014 — June 15, 2014


A multichannel immersive video installation focused on a study of Flemish paintings at the Palais de Beaux Arts in Lille

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Selections in the Decorative Arts

January 30, 2014 — June 29, 2014


This focused exhibition of decorative arts highlighted new acquisitions and other objects of importance in furniture, silver and other mediums, including a fish weathervane.

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Rugs of the Caucasus

January 30, 2014 — April 27, 2014


This exhibition included several dated examples of Caucasian rugs from 1805 to the early 20th century

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Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy

January 25, 2014 — April 20, 2014


An exhibition organized by three museums to reunite the paintings from the State Department's Advancing American Art project in 1946

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John Greenman Photographs

January 25, 2014 — March 30, 2014


Georgia artist John Greenman utilizes digital technologies to create exquisitely detailed and unmanipulated images of landscapes