Welcome back to school! As this new year begins, we would like to invite you to take advantage of the many great opportunities we offer for students and teachers.

Student and Teacher Opportunities

Be Our Guest!
Tuesday, August 24, 2010, 4:30–6:00 p.m.
Join us for Educator Appreciation Night, an evening of gallery talks, art activities, and light refreshments. Free to all public and private school teachers, administrators, support staff, and their families and friends.

Wanted: A Few Good Teens
Do your students want to meet artists, explore the arts in our community, make art, or exhibit their work? Then encourage them to apply for the Morris Arts Council (MAC). Specially designed for enthusiastic high school students ages 15–19, MAC events include studio tours with some of Augusta’s most successful artists, art-making workshops led by professionals in the field, and participation in ArtBiz, the annual luncheon focusing on careers in the arts.

Please print and distribute the application to all your students. While many teens will apply, only twenty-five will be selected for the committee. Applications are due by August 27. Accepted applicants will be notified by September 5. The first meeting is Tuesday, September 21.

New School Programs Guide Arriving Soon
Keep an eye on your mailbox for our new school programs guide in August. The comprehensive pamphlet lists all of our new and improved school tours and services. Can’t wait till then? Download a copy today!

Appropriated Materials and
Contemporary Collage Workshop
Saturday, September 18, 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Artist Raoul Pacheco introduces various collage techniques to transform ordinary materials such as old comic books, vintage paper, and other neglected cultural flotsam into works of fine art. Museum members, $30; nonmembers, $35. Paid registration due September 10.

Student Art Needed
We are currently accepting applications from interested teachers to display student work in the Activity Room Gallery during the months of August 2010 through July 2011. Art instructors from schools and organizations in the CSRA are eligible to submit exhibition proposals to show work completed by students in grades Pre-K–12. The space is available for two-month periods, with each show lasting approximately eight weeks.

Download a proposal form.
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Activity Room Gallery at the Morris Museum of Art.

Field Trips
Make your 2010–2011 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

Combining Voices Annual Literary Competition
and Tour Opportunity
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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Edward Rice, 923 Telfair, 1982–1985. Morris Museum of Art, Augusta Georgia. Donated by Bankers First Savings Bank in honor of T. Richard Daniel.

Upcoming Programs

Art as a Window to the Mind
Thursday, August 12, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Contemporary painter and sculptor Don Cooper, whose work is heavily influenced by Eastern spiritual philosophies, and Alex Mabe, Ph.D., professor and clinical psychologist at the Medical College of Georgia, discuss the psychological implications behind the artist’s work, with a focus on the impact of his experiences in the Vietnam War and the process of healing through art. Reception follows. Free to invited guests and Morris Museum members.

Terra Cognita: Baker Overstreet
Thursday, August 26, 5:00–7:00 p.m. Reception at
5:00 p.m.; lecture at 6:00 p.m.
During the third in a series of four lectures, artist Baker Overstreet discusses his abstract paintings. FREE. Join the Contemporaries to attend a private after-party with the artist. Call 706-828-3803 for information.

Sunday Sketch
Sunday, August 29, 2:00–4:00 p.m.
Sketch in the galleries with materials supplied by the museum. Check-in in the activity room. FREE.

Music at the Morris: Music of the Baroque Period
Sunday, August 29, 2:00 and 3:15 p.m.
Members of the Augusta State University faculty present two performances of the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. FREE.

Call 706-828-3867 to register for education programs.

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Don Cooper, A Connection to the Whole, 2008. Courtesy of the artist.

Baker Overstreet

Exhibitions

Marcus Kenney, Down
with the Evil Empire, 2007.
Courtesy of the artist.

Painters' Reel: Contemporary Painting in Georgia
June 19–September 26, 2010
Organized by the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Macon, this exhibition features work by eleven of Georgia’s most accomplished and famed contemporary artists.
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Carl Blair, Have You Seen
My Mother?, 2007. Courtesy
of Hampton III Gallery.

Unhindered by Seriousness: Sculpture by Carl Blair
July 3–August 29, 2010
Using nature as a point of departure, Blair, one of South Carolina’s most admired artists, has created a world populated by whimsical three-dimensional creatures of his own creation.
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Download our 2010–2011 School Programs Guide!

The Morris Museum's School Tours and Teacher Services guide. Download a pdf here.

Image: Larry Connatser, Untitled, c. 1980. Acrylic on wood. Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia.