museum notes Staff Notes Isabel Walston has joined the museum
delayed conference in April with the award for Creativity in Crisis: Community Impact for our Art at Home programming. The traveling exhibition “Cut and Paste: Works of Paper,” organized by guest curator Didi Dunphy as a collaboration between the Lyndon House Arts Center and the museum, snagged the GAM award for best exhibition between $1,000 and $25,000. The next traveling exhibition of that type is al- ready in the works. In the Galleries We are continuing to reinstall the permanent collection one gallery at a time. The Nancy Cooper Turner Gallery got a fresh look in April, and the H. Randolph Holder Gallery will follow in October. Newly on display in the lobby, beginning July 3, is a large painting by Barbara Rogers , who studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute with Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff and Frank Lobdell before graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied with painters Michael Goldberg and Angelo Ippolito. After a long and distinguished teaching career, she is now professor emeri- tus of painting and drawing at the University of Arizona.
staff as part-time as - sistant editor. Walston was previously a
publications intern at the museum. She has a degree in journal- ism and art history from the University of Georgia and has interned at Art Papers and Arts ATL as well as work- ing with Tif Sigfrids Gallery in Athens. Awards The museum was a grand prize finalist and recipient of an honorable mention for art books in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards for “Master, Pupil, Follower: 16th- to 18th-Century Italian Works on Paper.” The Georgia Association of Museums , for which museum public relations coordinator Michael Lachowski is a board member, honored us at its
gifts The Georgia Museum of Art received the following gifts between January 1 and March 31, 2021:
In memory of Julia Sanks by Svea & Ron Bogue
In memory of Lewis Burton by William Underwood Eiland
In honor of William U. Eiland by Betty Robertson and Patricia & Tom Wright
In memory of Ann Scoggins by Gregory Ann & Richard Woodruff
In memory of John Curtis by William Underwood Eiland
In honor of his birthday by Sam Carleton
In memory of John Scoggins by Mary Erwin and Marilyn & John McMullan
In memory of Henry D. Green and Frances Y. Green by A. Felton Jenkins III
In honor of Julie Jenkins by A. Felton Jenkins III
In memory of Anderson Scott by William Underwood Eiland
In memory of Edgar Myrtle by Samuel Carleton and Frances Williams
In memory of Larry Beard by Aline & Al Hartgraves
In memory of Irene Smith by W. Thomas Wilfong
In memory of William Power by Kathy Prescott & Grady Thrasher
In memory of Dianne Belch by William Underwood Eiland
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