MUSEUM NOTES
staff notes
awards The exhibition and catalogue “Emma Amos: Color Odyssey” continued to rack up awards, receiving SECAC’s Award for Outstanding Exhibition and Catalogue of Contemporary Materials. SECAC also presented the award for Outstanding Exhibition and Catalogue of Historical Materials to our exhibition “ Extra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery and Imagination in American Realism.” Both awards recognize curators who exceed expectations in the design, publication and/or community engagement of an exhibition. SECAC (formerly the Southeastern College Art Conference) is a non- profit organization that promotes the study and practice of the visual arts in higher education on a national basis. The Georgia Association of Museums (GAM) also selected “Emma Amos: Color Odyssey” for one of its exhibition awards and presented its curator, Shawnya Harris , the museum’s Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art, with the Museum Professional of the Year award. GAM is a private, non-profit statewide organization dedicated to encouraging growth and improving professional practices of museums and non-profit galleries throughout the state.
The Georgia Museum of Art received the following gifts between January 1 and March 31, 2022. gifts
Chelsea Spencer, Parker Research Assistant.
In honor of Lynn & Richard Berkowitz on their 50th wedding anniversary by Carole & Mark Cohen, Debra and Martin Darvick, Susan & Leonard Gardberg, Joanne &
In memory of Mike King by Jean and Red Petrovs
Gabriella Victorio left her position as Parker Research Assistant at the end of June. Stepping into her shoes is Chelsey Spencer , who begins work August 17. Spencer is an art history master’s student studying Russian art with Asen Kirin, Parker Curator of Russian Art. She received her bachelor’s degree in art history and psychology at Salem College, North Carolina, where she wrote her senior thesis on Russian architecture under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. She hopes to use her language skills to assist with and learn more about the Russian collection at our museum.
In memory of Nancy Lukasiewicz by William Underwood Eiland
Richard Hochman, Barbara & Jerome Montana and Phillipa Montag
In memory of Edward Neal by Betty Alice Fowler
In memory of Rowland Radford by Kathleen & Andrew Babb, Mary Ellen & Marcus Cook III, William Underwood Eiland, Marguerite and Francis Hallman Jr., Barbara F. Martin, Clare & Michael Oshaugh- nessey, Nancy See, Early & Bill Smith, Leila Taratus and Camille Yow In memory of Mary Bondurant Warren by Theresa Flynn & Douglas Hellmann
In honor of William Underwood Eiland by Lynn & Tim Callahan
In honor of Todd Emily & Brandon Reinhart by Becky & David Matheny
Isabel Walston , assistant editor, left her position at the museum to work for Tif Sigfrids, a contemporary art gallery in Athens and New York.
In honor of Bettijo Trawick by Dudley Stevens
As you know from earlier in the issue, deputy director Anneies Mondi retired at the end of May. Emily Hogrefe-Ribeiro , assistant curator of education, left the museum June 1 for a position in the education department of the Dallas Museum of Art. And Amy Miller , shop manager, has left the museum after 15 years to become the outreach and event coordinator for UGA’s Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development.
In memory of Mary Erlanger by William Underwood Eiland
In memory of Frances Y. & Henry D. Green Jr. by Julie G. Jenkins
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