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Student and Teacher Opportunities
High School Artwork Needed!
Get your students ready for the fifth annual juried exhibition Young Masters: Work by Savannah River Area High School Students. Opening February 14, 2012, the show will feature artwork by teens from across the CSRA. We need your help with submissions! Please print out and distribute the application, and prepare your class’s work for entry. Judging from last year’s fabulous exhibit, this show is destined to be a testament to your students’ exceptional talent and your outstanding art instruction. Download an application. 

Want to learn more about the Morris’s teacher and student opportunities? Download our current school programs guide or call Michelle Schulte at 706-828-3865.
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Young Masters exhibition at the Morris Museum of Art

Field Trips
Make your 2011–2012 school year field trip plans today!

Free Public School Tours!
The Morris is pleased to announce that we now offer free tours for K–12 public schools, thanks to a generous grant from the Creel-Harison Foundation. Activity fees for optional art projects and workshops still apply. To book a tour today, call 706-828-3867. 

FIELD TRIP SPOTLIGHT


Jonathan Green, Daughters of the South, 1993.
Oil on canvas. Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia.
Math and Art for Grades 4–6
Travel through the museum discovering art and math concepts every step of the way. Finish off the tour by creating a radial design during an optional art workshop. Book your group today by contacting Caroline Cady.

Don’t Forget to Participate in the Annual
Combining Voices Literary Competition
View the artwork, write a poem or short story, and win prizes during Combining Voices, a special literary competition and tour opportunity designed for students in grades 4–12. Participants verbally and visually respond to selected paintings from the Morris Museum’s permanent collection. While students do not have to visit the museum to enter, experiencing the objects firsthand is highly recommended.

Visit our web site to view the five paintings, print out the guidelines and entry form, and learn more about the tour opportunity.

View all of our other tour offerings online.
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Upcoming Programs
From concerts to family days, the Morris offers a variety of after-hours and weekend programs.

Saturday, January 14, 21, 28, noon–4:00 p.m.
Artist Workshop: Watercolor Techniques with Weigle, Morris, and Swanson. Artists Lucy Weigle, Lillie Morris, and Caroline Swanson individually instruct three lessons, with each focusing on a different watercolor technique and style during a series of Saturday workshops. All materials included. Members, $120; nonmembers, $140. Paid registration due now.

Sunday, January 15, 2:00 p.m.
Music at the Morris: The Galen Kipar Project
The Galen Kipar Project blends folk, classical, jazz, and blues into original compositions. FREE.

Sunday, January 15, 2:00–3:30 p.m.
Sunday Sketch
Sketch in the galleries, with materials supplied by the museum. Check-in in the activity room. FREE.

Friday, January 20, 7:30 p.m.
Southern Soul & Song: Mountain Heart with Tony Rice
At the Imperial Theatre. For tickets, call the box office at 706-722-8341 or go to www.imperialtheatre.com.
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The Galen Kipar Project

Sunday Sketch

Mountain Heart

Exhibitions

Mary Whyte, Spinner, Textile mill worker,
Gaffney, South Carolina, 2007. Watercolor
on paper. Greenville County Museum of
Art, to be purchased with funds raised
by the 2011 Museum Antiques Show.

Working South:
Paintings and Sketches by Mary Whyte
December 3, 2011–March 11, 2012
Renowned watercolorist Mary Whyte captures in exquisite detail the essence of vanishing blue-collar professions from across ten states in the American South. From the textile mill worker and tobacco farmer to the sponge diver and elevator operator, Whyte has sought out some of the last remnants of rural and industrial workforces declining or altogether lost through changes in our economy, environment, technology, and fashion.
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Margaret Murphy, Afternoon Shadows,
ca. 1936. Watercolor and graphite
on paper. Morris Museum of Art,
Augusta, Georgia. Gift of the Robert
Powell Coggins Art Trust.

The Murphys of Savannah
December 13, 2011–February 26, 2012
The Murphy family of artists were central figures in the cultural life of Savannah as artists, teachers, and organizers and leaders of the Savannah Art Club and the Association of Georgia Artists. They were all well trained and highly skilled, as the small sampling of their work on display attests. The Morris Museum of Art houses the largest institutional collection of paintings and works on paper—more than one hundred and sixty pieces—by the Murphy family of artists.
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William Greiner, Blue Heart, Houma,
Louisiana, 1989. Image courtesy
of the artist.

Local Color:
Photography in the South
Closes January 29, 2012
Selected from the Morris Museum of Art's permanent collection, the exhibition includes work by some of the South's most important photographers, including Dave Anderson, John Baeder, William Christenberry, William Eggleston, Janos Enyedi, William Greiner, Birney Imes, Greg Kinney, Jim McGuire, and Meryl Truett. With subjects ranging from rural landscapes and near-forgotten small towns to small-town eateries and abandoned cabooses, this exhibition explores and celebrates the region.
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Ida Kohlmeyer, Composition 95-22, 1995. Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia.