MUSEUM NOTES
staff notes:
in the news: Shawnya L. Harris , Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art and in-house co-curator of “Southern/Modern” was featured on WABE’s “City Lights” program in August. Program host Lois Reitzes spoke with Harris and Jonathan Stuhlman, senior curator of American art at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, about the exhibition. Listen to the full interview at: http://bit.ly/southernmoderncitylights . Antiques and the Arts featured an in-depth review of “ Southern/Modern .” Author James D. Balestieri praised the exhibition, noting that “the works on view provide much-needed counterpoint to the prevailing argument that the American South is principally a site of nostalgia for its antebellum past. In truth, and without shying away from the effects of Jim Crow laws and Lost Cause lamentations on art, the exhibition shows artists in the South as far more in tune with Modernist precepts than American art history indi- cates.” Read more at: https://bit.ly/3L4kMf4 Museum associate curator of education Mallory Lind was featured in the Athens Banner-Herald about her work out- side of her role at the Georgia Museum of Art. Lind recently became the executive director of the Little Athens Children’s Museum, a mobile museum that brings interactive play expe- riences to children in Athens. Read more at: https://bit.ly/3P0YMDh Museum Magazine featured Winslow Homer ’s “Taking Sunflower to Teacher” from the Georgia Museum of Art’s permanent collection on the cover of its July/August 2023 issue. The painting was a gift from museum founder Alfred H. Holbrook. Museum permanent collection artist Rebecca Rutstein , known for her popular piece “Shimmer,” was featured on the National Endowment for the Arts blog in July. Rutstein is a multidisciplinary artist and ocean explorer who has spent over two decades working at the intersection of art and science. In a candid, unedited interview, she says that “Shimmer” is an example of how her “work is really about joy; it’s about reveling in the wonder of nature. There are plenty of important artists addressing climate change in their work, and while I’ve created data-driven work before, my general approach is to shed light on the beauty and sublimeness of the natural world.” Read more: https://bit.ly/RutsteinNEA Ed Tant , retired longtime museum security guard, was featured in the New York Times this summer in an editorial about his disapproval of climate change protests targeting museums. https://nyti.ms/47StEOR
Jeffrey Richmond-Moll , curator of American art, announced his departure from his position at the museum in August. Beginning in October, he will become the George Putnam Curator of American Art at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. During his nearly four-year tenure at the museum, Richmond-Moll made enormous contributions at the museum, organizing nearly 30 exhibitions and perma- nent gallery rotations, expanding the museum’s collection of American art and making great strides in addressing gaps in the museum’s holding of works by female artists and artists of color.
Kathy Hufford.
The museum welcomed two new staff members this summer. Mallory Lind , who joined the museum as the assistant curator for education in May, was hired as the new associate curator of education in August. Kathy Hufford also joined our staff this summer as the new business operations specialist. In other developments this summer, the museum added a nursing and lactation room for staff on the 1st floor of the museum. We are proud to report that our intern program remains strong, with 18 interns at the museum, the most we’ve ever had, this fall semester. A testament to the importance of our internships, our former interns continue to impress. Former intern Kimberly Gaitonde (’19-’20) was recently featured in Yellowstone Art Museum’s Member Magazine, Triptych, as the newest member of that museum’s curatorial staff. An - other former intern, Catherine Huff , who served as curatorial research intern (’15-’17) to the curator of American art, was highlighted by Columbia University’s Teachers College for her “In the Field Project” that asks the question: What art is important to you in your neighborhood? Learn more at: https://bit.ly/alumArtFieldProject
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