from the DIRECTOR
board of ADVISORS
Recently, I received a report on the Friends Appreciation Month, a fund- raising effort spearheaded by that group’s Outreach and Engagement Com - mittee from August 21 through September 30, 2021. The project was a great success due to their good work; for that month alone, the Friends gained 106 new members and 28 new, rejoining or returning Friend and Annual Fund members, resulting in $18,875 in annual fund revenue. I am grateful to the committee as well as to the Friends at-large for this effort, especially the chairs of the committee, Lauren Shlesinger and Elizabeth Katz. I am glad to be sharing more good news with you. The New York Times chose our show of Emma Amos’ work as one of the notable exhibitions of the past year, and Hyperallergic considered it one of the 10 best of the year. That exhibition and “Extra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery and Imagination in American Realism” swept the awards for best exhibitions of the past year at the Southeastern College Art Conference. Our exhibition of the works of Pier Francesco Foschi, as re-imagined for Italian audiences, will open next year at the Accademia in Florence. I hope we can organize a trip there and expand it to visit sites along the “Daura Highway,” including cities in Spain and France that were important in Pierre Daura’s life and career. In the South, we talk a lot about “place” and how important the notion of rootedness is to culture and to perspective. With our emphasis on visu- al-arts education, we want to expand horizons as well as “look to home” for inspiration, comfort and learning. Join us on our treks. The museum lost three of its greatest contributors and supporters recently. Ron Shelp was a dedicated collector of self-taught art, exclusively by Afri- can Americans. The exhibition of his collection, “Testimony: Vernacular Art of the African-American South,” has traveled throughout the U.S. and was avant-garde before the fact. Ron was more than a dedicated board member; he was a donor of consequence and pivotal in establishing our collections of folk and self-taught art. Every time I pass by Charlie Lucas’ horse on the small plaza near our parking area, I remember Ron’s gifts and kindnesses to the museum, and, of course, his profound love of art. We also mourn the death of Rowland Radford in December. A true advocate of the museum and our programs, Rowland supported them liberally. He and his wife Tish were early sponsors of our biennial Green Symposium in the decorative arts, and he is leaving funds to continue that beneficence. He cared about the museum and he cared about the university. Rowland and Tish traveled each time we put together a trip. Always game for one more church, always curious about local culture, never objecting to another hour or so in a museum, provincial or otherwise. Rowland bore it all with great humor and sometimes, as necessary, a bon mot to redirect me when I asked too much of our travelers. The last time I saw Rowland at his house in Atlanta, when I was leaving, he called out, “When is the next trip to Italy?” It won’t be the same without him. We are proud down here in the deep South of our storytellers, of those wits who regale us with family history and curious twists to the commonali- ties of life. One of our great raconteurs of life in this town has left us. It is hard for me to believe that Milton Leathers will not be calling me with a clever witticism, a rollicking good story or to swap some tall tales. He was a speaker at our first Green Symposium back in 2002 and he was thereafter quick to acknowledge his pride in the museum and its programs. Goodbye, Milton, until some story you told me conjures up a memory, the simplest form of prayer.
David Mulkey Carl. W. Mullis III* Betty R. Myrtle** Gloria B. Norris*** Deborah L. O’Kain Randall S. Ott Gordhan L. Patel, immediate past chair Janet W. Patterson Christopher R. Peterson, chair-elect Kathy B. Prescott Margaret A. Rolando* Julie M. Roth Alan F. Rothschild* Jan E. Roush Bert Russo Sarah P. Sams**
B. Heyward Allen Jr.* Rinne Allen Amalia K. Amaki** June M. Ball Linda N. Beard Karen L. Benson** Richard E. Berkowitz Sally Bradley Jeanne L. Berry Devereux C. Burch* Robert E. Burton** Debra C. Callaway** Shannon I. Candler*
Faye S. Chambers Harvey J. Coleman Sharon Cooper James Cunningham Martha Randolph Daura*** Annie Laurie Dodd***
D. Jack Sawyer Jr.* Henry C. Schwob** Margaret R. Spalding Dudley R. Stevens Carolyn Tanner**
Sally Dorsey** Judith A. Ellis Todd Emily
James B. Fleece Phoebe Forio*** John M. Greene** Helen C. Griffith** Barbara Guillaume Judith F. Hernstadt Marion E. Jarrell** Jane Compton Johnson* George-Ann Knox* Shell H. Knox* Andrew Littlejohn D. Hamilton Magill David W. Matheny, chair Mark G. McConnell Marilyn M. McMullan Marilyn D. McNeely Ibby Mills
Anne Wall Thomas*** Brenda A. Thompson William E. Torres C. Noel Wadsworth* Carol V. Winthrop Gregory Ann Woodruff Ex-Officio Linda C. Chesnut William Underwood Eiland S. Jack Hu Kelly Kerner Sarah Peterson Usha R. Rodrigues
* Lifetime member
** Emeritus member
*** Honorary member
Mission Statement: The Georgia Museum of Art shares the mission of the University of Georgia to support and to promote teaching, research and service. Specifically, as a repos- itory and educational instrument of the visual arts, the museum exists to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret significant works of art. Partial support for the exhibitions and programs at the Georgia Museum of Art is provided by the Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. The Georgia Council for the Arts also receives support from its partner agency, the National Endowment for the Arts. Individuals, foundations and corporations provide additional museum support through their gifts to the University of Georgia Foundation. The Georgia Museum of Art is ADA compliant; the M. Smith Griffith Auditorium is equipped for deaf and hard-of-hearing visitors. The University of Georgia does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic informa- tion or military service in its administrations of educational policies, programs or activities; its admissions policies; scholarship and loan programs; athletic or other University-admin- istered programs; or employment. Inquiries or complaints should be directed to the Equal Opportunity Office 119 Holmes-Hunter Academic Building, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602. Telephone 706-542-7912 (V/TDD). Fax 706-542-2822. https://eoo.uga.edu/
WilliamUnderwood Eiland, Director
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