Up now at the Georgia Museum of Art: American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print From the GMOA website: This exhibition illustrates the fascinating fusion of art with popular culture and music history. Featuring the work of one of the nation’s oldest and continuously printing shops—Nashville, Tennessee’s Hatch Show Print—it highlights the uniquely American posters produced to advertise everything from vaudeville shows, state fairs and stock car races to the Grand Ole Opry, Elvis Presley and Herbie Hancock.  The exhibition, created by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) and the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum, is supported by America’s Jazz Heritage, A Partnership of the Wallace Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution. For more information about this exhibition and others, visit: http://www.georgiamuseum.org/art/exhibitions/on-view/american-letterpress-the-art-of-hatch-show-print
This Wednesday, August 24th: “Tour at Two” at the Georgia Museum of Art! Join Paul Manoguerra, chief curator and curator of American art, in the lobby for a tour of this exhibition that includes the first wide-scale display of images from Dodd’s sketchbooks.Don’t miss it! This is the last week that this exhibition will be on display.RSVP here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136509663108367
The Georgia Museum of Art is hosting another amazing Family Day tomorrow! Come to the first floor classroom between 10-12am and partake in Abstract Adventures. Children get to make their own abstract art (parents can, too!) and tour the galleries with worksheets that make viewing abstract art an interactive experience. For more information, or if you’re interested in volunteering with future Family Days (they happen every month!), visit: http://www.georgiamuseum.org/index.php/calendar/event-all/family-day-abstract-adventures/2011/08/13
Thursday, July 28th at the Georgia Museum of Art- a film screening of “Visible Silence: Marsden Hartley, Painter and Poet” at 7pm! From the GMOA website: Using more than 60 of Marsden Hartley’s paintings and drawings, as well as many photographs from collections around the world, director Michael Maglaras traces Hartley’s life and work from its earliest beginnings in Lewiston, Maine, through his travels in Europe and the United States and ends with his secluded life in a remote Maine fishing village. Special guest Maglaras will speak about the film. Introduced by Paul Manoguerra, chief curator and curator of American art (65 minutes, NR). For more information, please check out: http://www.georgiamuseum.org/index.php/calendar/event-all/film-series-artists-biographies2/2011/07/28
If you haven’t made it to the Georgia Museum of Art to see Salvador Dali’s illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy, you’re in luck- you have 4 more days to see it! From the GMOA website:  “The interdisciplinary nature of this exhibition especially befits a university museum,” says Lynn Boland, GMOA Pierre Daura Curator of European Art and the exhibition’s in-house curator. “In addition to connecting 14th-century Italian literature and 20th-century visual art, the suite also makes references to, for example, hyperdimensional geometry.” Read more at: http://www.georgiamuseum.org/about/pressroom-item/dali-illustrates-dantes-divine-comedy-on-view-at-the-georgia-museum-of-art
Traveling this summer? Passing through Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta? Make sure to stop by the special exhibition, “All Creatures Great and Small.”  Featured in this exhibition are works from the Georgia Museum of Art’s permanent collection and Carl Mullis. “ Paintings, sculptures and mixed-media creations by such folk masters as Howard Finster and Mose Tolliver and by such outstanding but relatively unheralded contemporary artists as Jim Lewis and Ted Gordon are on display in the Atlanta airport’s T gates. The majority of artists featured have spent their lives in the South, including the following artists from Georgia: Michael Crocker, Finster, Willie Jinks, R.A. Miller and O.L. Samuels.” Check out this article on the GMOA’s website and a link to an upcoming film documentary about the art: http://www.georgiamuseum.org/art/exhibitions/on-view/all-creatures-great-and-small 
This Wednesday, June 8th at the Georgia Museum of Art: “The Art of Disegno” Tour From the website: Meet docents in the museum lobby for a tour of Italian prints and drawings, many of which are on extended loan to the museum from the collection of Giuliano Ceseri. Free and open to the public. 2-3pm. http://www.georgiamuseum.org/calendar/event-all/tour-at-two-the-art-of-disegno-italian-prints-and-drawings-from-the-georgia/2011/06/08 Image: Giambattista Tiepelo (Venetian, 1696-1770), “Death Giving Audience,” from the “Capricci,” 1743-49
From the Georgia Museum of Art: Digging Daura, Letters from Emile Bernard Written by UGA art history major and summer intern Joanna Reising, this blog post series on GMOA’s blog Curator’s Corner (http://gmoa.blogspot.com) addresses the history behind the letters between Bernard and Daura. The museum houses these letters in the Daura archive. “Pierre Daura met Émile Bernard in 1914, when Pierre came to Paris and began work in Émile’s studio…During Pierre’s time in Émile’s studio, the two became close friends. Two letters sent from Émile to Pierre provide a small window into the relationship between the two.(3)…The first letter, undated but written around 1914, is a short message letting Pierre know that Émile stopped by to see him but no one was there. Émile says that he wants Pierre to come by his studio…On the back of the letter, Émile included two sketches of a nude woman. One sketch is done in graphite and is smaller and seems to be a preparatory study for the second sketch. The second sketch appears to be done in ink and ink wash and shows a light and airy representation of the female form. The sketch employs the dark contour lines that Émile was famous for, and suggests Émile’s emphasis on the generality of nature, which Émile mentions in his second letter to Pierre.” Read more at: http://gmoa.blogspot.com/2010/07/digging-daura-letters-from-emile.html
“Romance on her mind,” by Janis Mars Wunderlich Wunderlich is one of the 5 featured female artists in the documentary “Who Does She Think She Is?” The Georgia Museum of Art is holding a screening of this film in conjunction with Women’s History Month today at 4pm in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, room S151. After the film, a panel discussion including Dr. Tracie Costantino (Art Education), Professor Didi Dunphy (Art X), and Professor Margaret Morrison (Painting and Drawing) will occur. This will be a great event, hope to see you all there! Who Does She Think She Is?: http://www.whodoesshethinksheis.net/ Georgia Museum of Art blog post: http://gmoa.blogspot.com/2010/03/gmoa-in-newsdont-forget.html Janis Mars Wunderlich: http://www.janismarswunderlich.com/
Georgia Museum of Art’s Family Day: Pop-up Valentines Saturday, February 13, 2010, 10am-12pm at the Lyndon House Arts CenterJoin the Georgia Museum of Art for a Valentine’s Day celebration. Use the works of art you see in the galleries to inspire your own pop-up Valentines. Heart-shaped treats will be provided. Co-sponsored by the Lyndon House Arts Center. http://www.uga.edu/gamuseum/calendar/family.html
From the Georgia Museum of Art’s blog (http://www.gmoa.blogspot.com/): This Friday, February 5, the Found Footage Festival will be at Ciné. The festival showcases such odd (and very funny) videos as infomercials, training videos and cable access shows found at garage sales, thrift stores, warehouses and even in dumpsters. http://gmoa.blogspot.com/2010/02/found-footage-festival-at-cine.html
From the Georgia Museum of Art’s blog (http://www.gmoa.blogspot.com/): Heart & Soul: A Celebration of Black History Month (1/22-2/20) Featured Artists: Gwen Patterson, Harold Rittenberry, John Ahee, Margo Candelario, Margaret Warfield, Sammie Nicely, Warren Fletcher, & Yvonne Studevan http://www.myocaf.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=68&Itemid=134
“Treading, an installation by Judith McWillie’s undergraduate studio art class currently on view in the main hall leading to our temporary offices in the old visual arts building, is a work that fulfills this requirement of relevance.” -Dr. Lynn Boland http://gmoa.blogspot.com/2009/12/treading.html