Facet Winter 2024

OTHER SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

Shannon Browning-Mullis executive director, Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace

Elyse D. Gerstenecker curator of decorative arts, Telfair Museums “Collections, Commissions and Collaborations: Hand-Painted China at Telfair Museums” Katherine Jentleson Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art, High Museum of Art “From Garden to Gallery: The High Museum of Art’s Howard Finster Collection and Art Environment Curation” Lea C. Lane curator, Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts “Where Patterns: Georgia at the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts” James Langford president, Coosawattee Foundation “The Material Culture of the Muscogee Creek and Cherokee in Northwest Georgia” Monica Obniski curator of decorative arts and design, High Museum of Art “‘But now who needs pots?’ Charles Counts, Potter with a Purpose”

“Prepositions: Decorative Arts by, for and from African Americans in Savannah History”

Ashley Callahan independent scholar

“Contemporary Studio Jewelry in Georgia”

Russell Clayton independent scholar

“Building by Building, Room by Room: The Decorative Works of Athos Menaboni” Dale Couch independent scholar

“The Crescent Foot Group: New Discoveries”

Charlotte M. Crabtree independent scholar

“Views into the Vault: Georgia’s Hidden Silver Heritage”

Matthew S. Davis director of historic museums, Georgia College & State University

“Executive Elegance: Building and Interpreting Collections at Georgia’s Old Governor’s Mansion”

Advance registration at hotel.uga.edu/events/henry-green-symposium is required by January 15. The same link includes information about registering for a hotel room at the Georgia Center. You can reserve a hotel room using room group code 1078 until January 4, 2024. After that date, please call the Georgia Center to request a hotel room with block code 1078. If a room is available, you will receive the group rate.

SPONSOR THE GREEN SYMPOSIUM

Symposium Sponsors as of December 13, 2023 $5,000 Marilyn & John McMullan Anne & Bill Newton

$1,800 Brunk Auction Mary & William Burdell Jr. Kathryn & Henry D. Green Jr. Hedgerow Farms Meika & J. Hamilton Hilsman Julie G. Jenkins MOTSTA Fund/Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Reece Preservation Services, LLC Betsy & Lee Robinson Claire & G. Boone Smith III Kenneth H. Thomas William Wansley in memory of Louise Dunn Wansley and in honor of Stevi and Elizabeth Wansley

The biennial Henry D. Green Symposium and its published proceedings are funded exclusively by

Miscellaneous Gifts Mitzi Hagan Sandra S. & Cecil C. Hudson William Markert III

grants and sponsorships. Surplus revenue will be used to support the Georgia Museum of Art’s initiatives in the southern decorative arts. There are three levels of sponsorship: Keynote ($5,000) , Featured ($2,500) and Event ($1,800 ). The majority of each sponsorship is tax-deductible. Benefits of sponsorship include name recognition in a variety of printed and digital materials associated with the event, full symposium registration including evening activities and complimentary copies of the published proceedings. Completely tax-deductible gifts of any size are welcome. Contact Anna Conrad at 706.542.9914 or conradam@uga.edu to become a sponsor or receive more information. Sponsorships and gifts may also be made online at bit.ly/green-24-sponsor .

The Richard C. Owens Charitable Foundation $2,500 Terry L. Barrett Devereux & E. Davison Burch Linda & David Chesnut Lee Epting Beverly & Jeff Evans Peggy Galis Material Culture & Arts Foundation Marian & Carl Mullis III

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