Welcome back, UGA faculty and staff! As you begin to prepare for the fall semester, we hope you will consider including the Georgia Museum of Art as part of your class plans. Please see below for more information about visiting the museum, arranging for educator-led gallery programs, upcoming exhibitions and more.

Curricular connections and class visits

No matter what subject you teach, we can help you facilitate connections between our collection and your curriculum. The Georgia Museum of Art invites students and faculty from all departments, colleges and schools to explore our galleries as an extension of their classroom learning. The museum offers in-person guided tours led by curators and educators, as well as self-guided class visits. Our educators can support your class content with specialized object-based gallery lessons in the permanent collection , frame your class visit around a temporary exhibition or pull works from the archives for viewing in our Collection Study room. If you are interested in learning more about how to connect to the museum or scheduling a visit, please contact Callan Steinmann, head of education and curator of academic and public programs, at callan@uga.edu or 706.583.0111.

Education programs

We offer a robust schedule of academic and public programs for campus audiences, including artist and curator talks, well-being programs such as yoga and Morning Mindfulness, art-making classes, Student Nights and more. Many lectures are recorded and posted on our Vimeo page after the fact. Check out our event calendar for more info about what’s coming up. To receive our weekly email with upcoming events, become a Friend of the Museum for free at jointhemuseum.com.

Exhibitions on view this semester

Listed below are exhibitions that will be on view at the Georgia Museum of Art this semester, along with public programs that may be of interest to you and your students. Programs are free and open to the public unless otherwise specified, and most of them allow students to get First-Year Odyssey credit. We will also be installing two drawings by Sol LeWitt in the museum’s lobby beginning August 19 and lasting about two weeks. Stop by to see them going up and be on the lookout for associated programming.

On view September 21 – December 1

Acquisitions from the past five years have often filled major gaps in the collection in ideas, materials and techniques. They have also added depth and diversity to the museum's holdings. These works chart the evolution of materials and techniques in sculpture in the 20th and 21st century. They show changes in landscape painting and portraiture over the past two centuries. Each work invites us to contemplate time passing and the changing currents of art and social history. 

Related Events

A free fall open house on September 21 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., including short gallery talks led by each of our curators from 2 to 3 p.m.

Student Night on September 26 from 6 to 8 p.m.

On view through December 1

Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599 – 1641) was one of the most successful artists of his generation, especially admired for his evocative portraits. He undertook the ambitious project of creating a series of prints depicting famous scholars, military men, nobles and artists. Van Dyck’s prints were widely copied by his contemporaries and were often altered and reprinted over the centuries. This exhibition presents prints that attest to Van Dyck’s lasting impact as printmaker and portraitist.

Related Events

A talk by exhibition curator Nelda Damiano on September 3 at 2 p.m.

On view August 10 – December 1

This exhibition is organized in conjunction with the American Liszt Society Festival at the University of Georgia’s Hugh Hodgson School of Music October 13 - 16, 2024. The event celebrates the legacy of the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886). This year’s edition of the festival focuses on the idea of the “composer-pianist” and highlights Liszt’s visits to Russia in the 1840s. Our exhibition features works on paper from the Georgia Museum of Art’s permanent collection showing Russia at the time of the great musician’s visit. 

Related Events

A talk by exhibition curator Asen Kirin on August 28 at 2 p.m.

On view August 24, 2024 – June 1, 2025

Emerging from Micah Cash’s photography series and photo book of the same name, this exhibition focuses on the built and natural environments as seen through the windows of Waffle House restaurants. Captured from locations across the southeastern United States, these images contemplate the physical and social environments and commerce that surround each location of the southern cultural icon. This exhibition will premiere a newly commissioned time-based media component of the series. This video realizes Cash’s directive to “look up” through prolonged footage of views and sounds from three Waffle Houses.  

Related Events

A smartphone photography workshop on August 24 from 2 to 4 p.m.

A talk by artist Micah Cash on September 26 at 5:30 p.m.

Student Night on September 26 from 6 to 8 p.m.

On view September 21 – December 1

In late 2005, Montreal hosted the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Government ministers, scientists, leaders of nongovernmental organizations and journalists gathered for this annual meeting of countries participating in the Kyoto Protocol, a policy aimed at reducing the emission of greenhouse gases. American photographer Joel Sternfeld gained access to the conference using newspaper credentials. He hoped to answer a question for himself: “I wanted to know if climate change was real.” What he found was worse than what he expected. “In the opinion of nearly all the participants, not only was climate change occurring, it was also about to reach a tipping point and become irreversible.” Using a telephoto lens from close-up, Sternfeld trained his camera on a range of participants to create an “archive of humanity” amid what was then a largely invisible ecological crisis. “I tried to take photographs of delegates at the moment when the horror of what they were hearing was visible on their faces. At stake, after all, is the continuation of Earth as a planet fit for us to live on.”

On view September 7, 2024 – January 12, 2025 

This exhibition focuses on George Cooke’s “Tallulah Falls,” a pivotal example of early southern U.S. painting, by considering the notion of natural wonder and the dynamics of witnessing the natural world. The exhibition places historical landscapes alongside contemporary photographs of Tallulah Gorge by Caitlin Peterson and illuminates the contradictions involved in marking off natural wonders and the paradoxes of witnessing nature.

Related Events

A conversation between photographers Jason Thrasher and Caitlin Peterson on October 24 at 5:30 p.m.

An artist talk by Tokie Rome-Taylor on October 17 at 5:30 p.m.

Yoga in the Galleries on August 15, September 19, October 17, November 21 and December 19 at 6 p.m.

Our Friends Appreciation Month Kick-Off on August 17 from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Morning Mindfulness, with guided meditation, gentle movements and slow-looking techniques, on August 23, September 13, October 11, November 15 and December 20 at 9:30 a.m

An Artful Conversation with Mallory Lind, associate curator of education, on Dorr Bothwell’s painting “For National Defense” on September 11 at 2 p.m.

Study Break at the Museum on December 4, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with free food, yoga, art activities and mindfulness programming for stress relief