THE GOOD WORK OF MANY museum helps preserve murals on campus
by Kelsey Schoenbaum, communications intern
Paintings conservator Libby Hatmaker with Edith Frances Hodgson’s mural “Communication of the News” in Brooks Hall.
Above the building’s three sets of front doors are frescos that show per- sonifications of music, theater and the visual arts. Renowned muralist Jean Charlot (1898 - 1979) painted them during his three-year residency at UGA in the 1940s, but they weren’t his only work on the campus. Just around the corner, less known but no less striking, are his murals inside Brooks Hall on Herty Drive. Thanks to a newly completed restoration project in- volving people from all over campus, the preserved murals are back to their original vibrancy and will be enjoyed for decades to come.
As you walk down Baldwin Street on the University of Georgia campus, you may spot the striking facade of the Fine Arts Building.
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