painting will be the first Terra Foundation object to engage in these conversations, displayed alongside William Edouard Scott’s “Harbor Scene” and Palmer Hayden’s “Boats at the Dock” (on loan from Larry and Brenda Thompson). Tanner, a Black artist who found artistic freedom in France, mentored and encouraged successive generations of Black artists, including Scott, Hayden and William H. Johnson, whose painting will hang nearby. Beyond their physical display in the galleries, the paintings on loan will play an active role in the mu- seum’s educational and scholarly engagements. The museum will hold public lectures by Nika Elder and Katherine Jentleson, as well as symposia and class- room tours that feature the works, and will incorpo- rate them into interactive elements of the visitor ex- perience. A partnership with UGA’s Historic Clothing and Textile Collection at the College of Family and Consumer Sciences has also allowed the museum to put clothing from various eras into conversation with both the Terra paintings and our collection. We are excited to reexamine works that may have grown familiar to us in the new contexts that these loans and their associated funding afford us.
Reif Evans, communications intern
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