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GRANT FUNDS MUSEUM’S CONTEMPORARY EXPANSION
The most visible aspect of our use of the grant so far has been the installation of two new works of art in the H. Randolph Holder Gallery, located in our permanent collection wing. Kent Monkman’s “asinnajaq” and Grey Cohoe’s “To Dawn Drummer They Rhyme” are now on the walls alongside 18th-century colonial portraits. Both paintings by Indigenous artists of other Indigenous people create conversations with adjacent works in the gallery by drawing parallels between historic portrait practices and con- temporary perspectives. The paintings celebrate the resilience of Indigenous peoples and highlight the sitters’ individuality. They also share the space with one of the works on loan from the Terra Foundation’s Collection-in-Residence program and contemporary work by Atlanta artist Tokie Rome-Taylor. Other additions to the collection using these funds include Edmund de Waal’s “Letters to Amherst, II” (which was on view this past fall as part of the exhibition “Mind the Gap”), Emma Amos’ mixed-media work “Nothing but Blue Skies,” Athens artist Jason Thrasher’s photograph “Murmur Trestle” (also on view this past fall) and Kei Ito’s “Sungazing Scroll” and “Burning Away” (both works of experimental photography that were part of the artist’s
Since November 2023, when the Georgia Museum of Art received a transformative gift of over $1 million from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, we have been busy using those funds to expand opportunities for University of Georgia students and enhance our contemporary art program for all our audiences.
Part of the H. Randolph Holder Gallery, featuring Kent Monkman’s painting “asinnajaq” at left and a work by Tokie Rome-Taylor at right.
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