CALENDAR
GALLERY TALK: FASHION AND FOSCHI Wednesday, March 23, 3 p.m. Join fashion historian and UGA doctoral student Sara Idacavage for a special interactive gallery program focused on the clothing and textiles featured in Foschi’s portraits. CURATOR TALK: “IN DIALOGUE: VIEWS OF EMPIRE: GRAND AND HUMBLE” Wednesday, March 30, 2 p.m. Join Asen Kirin, Parker Curator of European Art, for a gallery talk focused on 19th-century Russian lithographs currently on view in our “In Dialogue” installation.
ZOOM LECTURE: DANIELLE O’STEEN: “LOU STOVALL AND HIS WORKSHOP, INC.: SCREENPRINTING INWASHINGTON, D.C.” Thursday, March 3, 5:30 p.m. O’Steen is curator of the exhibition “Lou Stovall: On Inventions and Color,” which will be on view at the Kreeger Museum in Washington, D.C., through April 16, 2022 . PANEL DISCUSSION: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON JENNIFER STEINKAMP AND THE TECHNOLOGY OF NATURE Thursday, March 17, 4 p.m. Led by curator of American art Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, this panel discussion will feature faculty from the Lamar Dodd School of Art, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources and State Botanical Garden of Georgia. Together the panelists will discuss Steinkamp’s “Mike Kelley” — an animated windblown tree that cycles through the seasons — in relation to the fields of contemporary art, digital media, forest ecology and botany. HOLBROOK LECTURE: ELIZABETH CURRIE: “EVERYDAY PEOPLE: DRESS AND ART IN THE ITALIAN BAROQUE” Thursday, March 24, 5:30 p.m. This talk, presented by Elizabeth Currie, lecturer and author specializing in fashion and textile history, will focus on styles of clothing, materials and accessories to show how stereotypes developed surrounding physical appearances. Drawing on visual sources, social histories, surviving garments and textiles, it will discuss how dress can shed light on contemporary perceptions of social groups who were often marginalized and offer up vital clues about their lived experiences.
TOURS AND GALLERY TALKS
Keep an eye on our website/social media channels for the most up-to-date information. TOURS AT TWO Wednesday January 5, March 2 and 9, 2 p.m. These drop-in public tours feature highlights of the permanent collection and are led by museum docents. CURATOR TALK: PRINTS BY SOPHIE TAEUBER-ARP Wednesday, January 12, 2 p.m. With Ashlyn Davis, Pierre Daura Curatorial Research Assistant. ARTFUL CONVERSATION Artful Conversation programs are 30 minutes long, focus on one or two works of art and provide opportunities for close looking, open- ended dialogue and discovery. • Wednesday, January 19, 2 p.m. Ricky Swallow, with Callan Steinmann, curator of education • Wednesday, February 16, 2 p.m. Ellis Wilson, with Sage Kincaid, associate curator of education • Wednesday, March 16, 2 p.m. Georgia O’Keeffe, with Callan Steinmann, curator of education SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT TOURS Sunday, January 23, February 20 and March 20, 3 p.m. These drop-in public tours feature highlights of the permanent collection and are led by museum docents. CURATOR TALK: CELEBRATING AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTS Wednesday, February 2, 2 p.m. Shawnya Harris, Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art, will present a special tour celebrating African American artists for Black History Month. CURATOR TALK: “WEALTH AND BEAUTY: PIER FRANCESCO FOSCHI AND PAINTING Nelda Damiano, Pierre Daura Curator of European Art, will give a gallery talk in the exhibition. CURATOR TALK: “LOU STOVALL: OF LAND AND ORIGINS” Wednesday, February 23, 2 p.m. With Shawnya Harris, Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art. IN RENAISSANCE FLORENCE” Wednesday, February 9, 2 p.m.
LECTURES
ARTIST TALK: YATIKA STARR FIELDS Thursday, January 20, 5:30 p.m. Yatika Starr Fields (Osage, Cherokee and Creek) is a painter known for his vibrant, large-scale murals. In 2019, Fields produced a series of lithographs and monotypes during a residency at Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts. In this talk, Fields will discuss his larger body of work, with a focus on that print series. “Sun Carrier Series: Scorpion Bowl” is currently on view in “Collective Impressions: Modern Native American Printmakers.” ZOOMARTIST TALK: ARTHUR TRESS Wednesday, January 26, 2 p.m. In 1968, Volunteers in Service to America commissioned photographer Arthur Tress to document the endangered folkways of Appalachia. The ravaged landscape of this region spurred an environmental awareness in his work, including a series on resource extraction and the human costs of pollution. In this conversation with curator of American art Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, Tress will discuss this early series of photographs and their impact on his decades-long photographic career. The exhibition, “Inside Look: Selected Acquisitions from the Georgia Museum of Art,” features a selection of Tress’ Appalachia photographs. ARALEE STRANGE LECTURE: DARE DUKES, “BANGING AGAINST THE BARREL: HOWCULTURAL PRODUCTION NURTURES HEALING AND POWER AT THE INTERSECTION OF PERSONAL AND COMMUNITY NARRATIVES” Thursday, February 10, 5:30 p.m. Dare Dukes’ leadership at Deep Center in Savannah transformed a creative writing program into a social justice organization that disrupted the traditional bootstraps narrative in education, and insisted on calling out white supremacy in the systems that served young people.
SPECIAL EVENTS
THIRD THURSDAY Thursday, January 20, February 17 and March 17, 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.
STUDENT NIGHT: RENAISSANCE ROMANCE
Thursday, February 10, 6:30 — 8:30 p.m. Join the Georgia Museum of Art Student Association for a night of music, fun and themed activities to celebrate the latest exhibitions, including “Wealth and Beauty: Pier Francesco Foschi and Painting in Renaissance Florence.” Student Night is generously sponsored by the UGA Parents Leadership Council.
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