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* Program is free but registration is required; email gmoa-tours@uga.edu to reserve a spot.
CURATOR TALK: “INFINITY ON THE HORIZON” Wednesday, September 28, 2 p.m.
contribute to urgent conversations around our changing climate. In this talk, Leachman will discuss her longleaf abstractions as they relate to the history of the southeastern landscape, as well as her larger project, which examines forested and deforested sites on protected and unprotected lands in all 50 states. STUDENT NIGHT Thursday, September 29, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Join the Georgia Museum of Art Student Asso- ciation for a night of music, fun and themed activities to celebrate the latest exhibitions, including “Infinity on the Horizon” and “Kristin Leachman: Longleaf Lines.” Student Night is generously sponsored by the UGA Parents Leadership Council. 90 CARLTON: AUTUMN RECEPTION Friday, October 21, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Save the date and plan to join the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art for a reception featuring the exhibition “Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund.” Light refreshments, door prizes and more. Friends of the Museum $15 per person Friend + Annual Fund Members (Supporter level) $10 per person Friend + Annual Fund Members (Reciprocal level and above) complimentary Not yet a Friend? Visit jointhemuseum.com to join today.
TOURS AND GALLERY TALKS
Join Kathryn Hill, curatorial assistant in con- temporary art and curator of “Infinity on the Horizon,” for a gallery talk in the exhibition.
Keep an eye on our website/social media channels for the most up-to-date information. TOUR AT TWO Wednesday, July 13, 20 and 27; August 3 and 10; and September 7 and 14, 2 p.m. These drop-in public tours feature highlights of the permanent collection and are led by museum docents. SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT TOURS Sunday, July 17, August 14 and September 18, 3 p.m. These drop-in public tours feature highlights of the permanent collection and are led by museum docents. ARTFUL CONVERSATION Artful Conversation programs are 30 minutes long, focus on just one work of art and provide opportunities for close looking, open-ended dialogue and discovery. • Wednesday, August 17, 2 p.m. Works by Rocio Rodriguez with Callan Steinmann, curator of education • Wednesday, September 21, 2 p.m. Jane Manus sculpture with Sage Kincaid, associate curator of education
SPECIAL EVENTS
MUSEUM MIX Thursday, July 14 and September 15, 8 – 11 p.m. The museum’s thrice-annual late-night art party features a live deejay, free refreshments and galleries open until 11 p.m.
THIRD THURSDAY Thursday, July 21, August 18 and September 15, 6 – 9 p.m.
Athens’ established venues for visual art hold Third Thursday, an event devoted to art in the evening hours, on the third Thursday of every month from 6 until 9 p.m. to showcase their visual-arts programming. Full schedules and participants are posted at 3Thurs.org.
ARTIST TALK: JENNIFER SIREY September 13 or 14, time TBD
Jennifer Sirey’s living sculptures juxtapose the visceral and the architectural. By build- ing geometric and rigid structures to house bacteria “mothers,” Sirey collaborates with the materials she meticulously cares for. Each sculpture grows and lives within acrylic tanks, testing the boundaries of containment and presenting the bacteria as both a world of its own and an “immortal body.” In this artist talk, Sirey will discuss her larger body of work, particularly as it relates to one of her sculp- tures on view in the exhibition “Infinity on the Horizon.” ARTIST TALK: KRISTIN LEACHMAN Thursday, September 22, 5:30 p.m. Kristin Leachman launched the “Fifty Forests” project in 2010 in her adopted home state of California, examining the self-organiz- ing patterns in trees. In 2020, Leachman began the second series in the project when she traveled to an old-growth longleaf pine forest in southwest Georgia. Her research and reflections on Georgia’s longleaf forests burst forth in her paintings. They evoke the bril- liant biodiversity of this ecosystem, capture the complexities of forest conservation and
FACULTY PERSPECTIVES: JANICE SIMON Wednesday, August 24, 2 p.m.
YOUTH AND FAMILY PROGRAMS
Dr. Janice Simon is the Josiah Meigs Distin- guished Teaching Professor of Art History at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. In this gallery talk, Dr. Simon will share her perspectives on the exhibition “Graphic Eloquence: American Modernism on Paper from the Collection of Michael T. Ricker” through the lens of her expertise in American art and modernism.
Family Day is sponsored by Lucy and Buddy Allen and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art. * TODDLER TUESDAY Enjoy looking at art and storytime together in the galleries, then complete an art activity just for the little ones. This free program is designed for families with children ages 18 months to 3+ years. • Tuesday, July 12, 10 a.m.: Sink or Float • Tuesday, August 9, 10 a.m.: Mud Pies • Tuesday, September 6, 10 a.m.: Forest Finds
ARTIST TALK: CHARLES PINCKNEY Wednesday, August 31, 3 p.m.
Athens artist Charles Pinckney has been working as a metalsmith for more than 50 years, crafting jewelry and small sculptures out of metal, found objects, stones, bone and wood. In this gallery talk, Pinckney will share insights about his work currently on view in the special display “Charles Pinckney: Person- al Adornment.”
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