How does someone get their first job as a registrar? Summer public relations intern Jeehyung Pyo interviews Grace Burns for our blog about her journey from #UniversityOfGeorgia student to intern to (now) staff member.
https://georgiamuseum.org/gmoa_blog/grace-burns-joins-georgia-museum-of-art-as-assistant-registrar/
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Wondering what's coming up next at our museum? Mark your calendars for July 19, when "Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900 - 1939" arrives at the Georgia Museum of Art from the National Portrait Gallery. Come learn more about Josephine Baker, Gertrude Stein and many other women who found personal and artistic freedom in the City of Lights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T_SLjfqPRg
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We spent the past two months redoing our sculpture garden. We opened it 14 years ago, and it needed a little care, mostly to the plant life. The new plants are native varieties for the most part, and the garden has been redesigned to create separate spaces for art and events. Learn more:
What do our interns get out of their time here? We asked THEM to tell us.
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Our museum 5th-grade tours have been going strong for decades. But they don't just benefit elementary school students. #UniversityOfGeorgia students are involved, too. Read more: https://georgiamuseum.org/gmoa_blog/5th-grade-tours-help-students-mind-the-gap/
Did you know that the #UniversityOfGeorgia has TWO sets of Jean Charlot murals on its campus? Charlot hung out on the UGA campus for three years in the early 1940s, teaching and working with students. His murals that were inside what was once UGA's journalism building recently underwent some restoration thanks to our museum and the help of a lot of people from across campus.
Katherine Rabogliatti is our Samuel H. Kress Research Fellow. But what does that mean? And what kinds of cool projects is she working on? Thanks to the #SamuelHKressFoundation, a good friend to our museum for decades, Raboglatti is connecting Kress objects nationwide. Read on for more....
Want to learn more about how artists in Soviet Ukraine found a way to express themselves against the odds? We're hosting a symposium on Ukrainian art next week, inspired by our current exhibition of Soviet-era Ukrainian paintings. This collaborative program with the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia, is a great example of how classes in all areas can help us inform us about the world today. https://georgiamuseum.org/gmoa_blog/symposium-on-ukrainian-art-investigates-cultural-and-political-history/
Want some good news in your timeline? Our every-other-year benefit just raised $240,000 for student programs at our museum, allowing us to keep training the museum staffers of tomorrow and providing all students a place of respite and connection. https://georgiamuseum.org/gmoa_blog/elegant-salute-raises-240000-for-student-programs/
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We'll keep saying it: working with #UniversityOfGeorgia students and the museum workers of tomorrow is tremendously rewarding. Two of them worked with our exhibition designer and our curator of African American art to create this new gallery within our permanent collection.
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