CALENDAR * Program is free but registration is required; email gmoa-tours@uga.edu to reserve a spot.
ANDREA CARSON COLEY LECTURE: “FRAMING AGNES: A MULTI-MEDIA APPROACH TO TRACING TRANS HISTORY” Friday, April 21, 12:30 p.m. Presented by Dr. Kristen Schilt, associate professor of sociology, director of graduate studies and director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at the Universi - ty of Chicago. Schilt’s research interests center on sociology of gender and sexualities, culture and work and occupations. This program is presented in partnership with UGA’s Institute for Women’s Studies. 7TH ANNUAL POP-UP ARTIST MARKET Saturday, April 29, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. The Georgia Museum of Art’s Student Associa - tion hosts its 7th annual gallery and artist market event at Stan Mullins’ Art Studio at 650 Pulaski Street. Drop by to peruse a variety of art and handmade goods by student and community artists. Rain or shine! See website listing for more details. This program is generously sponsored by the UGA Parents Leadership Council. MUSEUM MIX Thursday, May 4, 8 – 11 p.m. The museum’s thrice annual late-night art party returns, featuring music by a live DJ, free refreshments and galleries open until 11. 90 CARLTON: SUMMER Friday, June 16, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Join the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art for a reception featuring a first look at the exhibition “Southern/Modern.” Not Yet Friends: $15; Friends of the Museum and Friend + Annual Fund Members (Supporter level): $10; Friend + Annual Fund Members (Reciprocal level and above): complimentary. Space is limited and advance registration is strongly recommended at bit.ly/90c-jun-23 . Not yet a Friend? Visit jointhemuseum.com to join today. Event Partners: Athens Printing Company, Barron’s Rentals, Epting Events, Guide 2 Athens and Perryander Studio.
TOURS AND GALLERY TALKS
SPECIAL EVENTS
BLACK ART AND CULTURE AWARDS Friday, April 14, 6 – 9:30 p.m.
TOUR AT TWO Wednesday, April 5 and 26; May 10, 17, 24 and 31; June 7, 14, 21 and 28, 2 p.m. Drop-in public tours featuring highlights of the permanent collection, led by museum docents. FACULTY PERSPECTIVES: AKELA REASON Wednesday, April 12, 2 p.m. Akela Reason, associate professor of history at the University of Georgia, will give a gallery talk in conjunction with “Object Lessons in American Art.” Her talk will expand on the exhibition through the lens of her expertise in American visual and material culture. Reason teaches courses in material culture, urban his- tory, museum studies and public history, and she is the director of UGA’s Interdisciplinary Certificate in Museum Studies. ARTFUL CONVERSATION Artful Conversation programs are 30 minutes long, focus on just one or two works of art and provide opportunities for close looking, open-ended dialogue and discovery. • Wednesday, April 19, 2 p.m. Renee Cox’s “The Signing,” on view in “Object Lessons in American Art,” with Callan Steinmann, curator of education • Wednesday, May 3, 2 p.m. , John Linton Chapman’s “Via Appia,” with Molly Ste - vens, education programs assistant SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT TOURS Sunday, April 23, May 21 and June 25, 3 p.m. Drop-in public tours featuring highlights of the permanent collection, led by museum docents. GALLERY TALK: “RACE, REPRESENTATION AND SELF- PRESENTATION IN AMERICAN ART” Tuesday, April 25, 1 p.m. This gallery tour, co-sponsored by UGA’s Interdisciplinary Modernism/s Workshop and the Georgia Museum of Art, will focus on the politics of race and representation in historical American art, inspired by Phillis Wheatley’s famous portrait and strategies of self-presen- tation in 1773. Led by Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, curator of American art at the museum, the tour surveys works from the 18th and 19th century on view in the exhibition “Object Lessons in American: Selections from the Princeton University Art Museum.”
Join us for the presentation of the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Award to artist Ste - fanie Jackson and the Lillian C. Lynch Citation to Annie Green. A limited number of event tickets will be available for purchase. Sponsors and their guests receive guaranteed tickets. To sponsor or for more information on individual ticket availability, visit bit.ly/bacawards-23 or email jointhemuseum@uga.edu. READING AND PANEL DISCUSSION: “CAN YOU SEE ME? HERE, IN THIS PLACE” Tuesday, April 18, 5:30 p.m. Join the Common Good Atlanta community and UGA English alumni for a reading of writ- ten works by students at Whitworth Women’s Facility. The exhibition “Art is a form of freedom,” on view through July 2, presents a spoken-word celebration of voice. Taking the form of poetry, essays, fiction and philosophy, this writing reflects the power of art to create conversations across the carceral divide. The reading will be followed by a panel discussion on art, education and the impact of higher education in and out of Georgia’s incarcera- tion system. LECTURE: KATIE JENTLESON “FROM BUCKS COUNTY BARNS TO EAGLE BRIDGE FARMS: THE USABLE PASTS OF CHARLES SHEELER AND ANNA MARY ROBERTSON ‘GRANDMA’ MOSES” Thursday, April 20, 5:30 p.m. In this talk, Katie Jentleson, Merrie and Dan Boone Curator of Folk and Self-Taught Art at the High Museum of Art, will consider how, in the decades between the World Wars, the trappings of agrarian life became touchstones for American artists, collectors and curators who were invested in uncovering a “us- able past” that could help contemporary art flourish and distinguish American cultural production from European tradition. THIRD THURSDAY Thursday, April 20, May 18, and June 15, 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 to showcase their visual-arts pro- gramming. Full schedules and participants are posted at 3Thurs.org.
YOUTH AND FAMILY PROGRAMS
Family Day is sponsored by Lucy and Buddy Allen and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art.
*TODDLER TUESDAY Enjoy looking at art and storytime together in the galleries and then complete an art activity just for the little ones. Designed for families with children ages 18 months to 3+ years.
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