CALENDAR Program is free but registration is required; email gmoa-tours@uga.edu to reserve a spot. Part of UGA’s 2023 Spotlight on the Arts Visit arts.uga.edu for a full list of programs across campus
ARTFUL CONVERSATION: THOMAS HART BENTON Wednesday, November 8, 2 p.m. Artful Conversation programs are 30
VanDiver, associate professor of African and African American art at Vanderbilt Univer- sity; Shawnya Harris, Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art at the Georgia Museum of Art; and Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, George Putnam Curator of American Art at the Pea- body Essex Museum. This program is part of the University’s Signature Lecture Series. MUSIC IN THE GALLERIES: “JAZZ CLASSICS OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY” Thursday, November 16, 5 – 6 p.m. Step back in time and enjoy a selection of American music from 1900 to 1950, presented in the galleries of “Southern/Modern.” This program, performed by student musicians in a jazz quartet from UGA’s Hugh Hodgson School of Music, will showcase an hour-long set of great American jazz standards. Fea- turing Iain Cooke on bass, Michael Solomon on piano, Patrick Sorah on drums and Levi Brown on saxophone. STUDENT NIGHT: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GEORGIA MUSEUM OF ART! Thursday, November 16, 6 – 8 p.m. Join the Georgia Museum of Art Student Association for refreshments, door prizes and themed activities to celebrate the museum’s 75th birthday. Student Night is generously sponsored by the UGA Parents Leadership Council. HOLIDAY BOOK AND FRAME SALE Tuesday – Sunday, December 5 – 10, during open hours Come shop for loved ones at the museum’s annual holiday book sale, featuring new and used publications in all genres and fine gallery frames. Credit cards accepted. Those who have books they’d like to donate should call 706- 542-4662. STUDY BREAK AT THE MUSEUM Wednesday, December 6, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Need a break from studying for final exams? Students are invited to drop by the museum during regular public hours on Reading Day to grab a coffee, study in our lobby or take a pause and enjoy the art in the galleries. Visit georgiamuseum.org/calendar for a full sched- ule of drop-in events offered throughout the day. This program is presented in partner- ship with UGA’s office of Student Care and Outreach and sponsored by the UGA Parents Leadership Council.
TOURS AND GALLERY TALKS
minutes long, focus on just one work of art and provide opportunities for close looking, open-ended dialogue and discovery. Join Callan Steinmann, curator of education, for a conversation about Benton’s “Study for Planting (Planters).”
CURATOR TALK: POWER COUPLE: PIERRE AND LOUISE DAURA IN PARIS Wednesday, October 4, 2 p.m. Nelda Damiano, Pierre Daura Curator of Eu- ropean Art, will give a gallery talk about our latest “In Dialogue” installation. TOUR AT TWO Wednesday, October 11, 18 and 25; November 15 and 29; and December 6, 13, 20 and 27, 2 p.m. Drop-in public tours featuring highlights of the permanent collection, led by museum docents. GALLERY TALK: MODERNIST WOMEN POETS IN THE SOUTH Thursday, October 12, 1 p.m. Sarah Harrell, assistant professor of English at Georgia State University, will give a gallery talk in conjunction with the exhibition “Southern/Modern.” Her talk will expand on the exhibition through the lens of her expertise on early-20th- century women’s poetry in the U.S. South and Caribbean. Dr. Harrell will discuss modernist poetry that developed synchronously with modern visual art in the southern United States; she will also talk about significant historical and cultural contexts in which the region’s modernist literature and art are both grounded. SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT TOURS Sunday, October 15, November 12 and December 17, 3 p.m. Drop-in public tours featuring highlights of the permanent collection, led by museum docents. CURATOR TALK: NANCY BAKER CAHILL: THROUGH LINES Wednesday, November 1, 2 p.m. Kathryn Hill, curatorial assistant in contemporary art, will give a gallery talk in the exhibition.
SPECIAL EVENTS
MUSEUM MIX Thursday, October 5, 8 – 11 p.m.
The museum’s thrice-annual late-night art party features a live DJ (Oliver Domingo), free refreshments and galleries open until 11 p.m. THIRD THURSDAY Thursday, October 19, November 16 and December 21, 6 – 9 p.m. Athens’ established venues for visual art hold this event devoted to art in the evening hours on the third Thursday of every month to showcase their visual-arts programming. Full schedules and participants are posted at 3Thurs.org.
EXTENDED REALITIES: INTERSECTIONS OF ART, AUGMENTED REALITY, LAW AND ETHICS Thursday, October 26, 5:30 p.m.
Join us for a cross-disciplinary panel featuring artist Nancy Baker Cahill and professors from areas across UGA, including the College of Law, to discuss intersections of art, hyper ob- jects and the entanglement of ethics and law around these emergent technologies. Join us afterwards to honor the artist with a reception and sneak preview of the exhibition “Nancy Baker Cahill: Through Lines.” HOLBROOK MEMORIAL PROGRAM: MAKING THE SOUTH MODERN Thursday, November 9, 5:30 p.m. Join us for a dynamic conversation about the American South’s contribution to 20th-centu- ry modernism, which developed through var- ious styles, themes and artists and emerged around key sites of artistic instruction like the University of Georgia and the vanguard programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities across the region. This panel is presented with the special exhibition “South- ern/Modern.” Panelists will include: Rebecca
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