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AUGUSTA, GA (AUGUST 2020) The 2021 Porter Fleming Literary Competition, now in its twenty-seventh year, recognizes outstanding fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and plays. Writers age 18 and older who reside in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee are invited to enter. The deadline for submissions is February 10, 2021. The competition awards cash prizes totaling $7,000. Entry forms and guidelines can be found on https://www.themorris.org/porter-fleming-literary-competition/ The competition is administered by the Morris Museum of Art, with the…
Read MoreThe Morris Museum of Art announces the publication of Art as Experience: Richard James Olsen and the Vietnam War, the record of the exhibition Vietnam Transformed: The Art of Richard J. Olsen,  that appeared at the Morris November 9, 2019–February 16, 2020. It had appeared previously at the Zhou B Art Center in Chicago, and is now on view in a slightly modified form at the Steffen Thomas Museum of Art in Buckhead, Georgia. “Richard Olsen, for many years a member of the faculty…
Read MoreThe Morris Museum of Art has been awarded a $5,000 grant for its art education programs by the Georgia Council for the Arts (GCA), a division of the Georgia Department of Economic Development, as part of the GCA’s initial disbursement of grants for fiscal year 2021. “This initial round of funding awarded by Georgia Council for the Arts serves to support the critical work arts organizations and artists are doing in communities to foster connectivity, rekindle joy, and support lifelong…
Read More[AUGUSTA, GA – MAY 16, 2019] –Today, the Morris Museum of Art announces it has joined museums nationwide in participating in the tenth summer of Blue Star Museums, a program which provides free admission to our nation’s active-duty military personnel and their families this summer. The 2019 program will begin earlier than in past years, launching on Saturday, May 18, 2019, Armed Forces Day, and ending on Monday, September 2, 2019, Labor Day. Military can find the list of participating…
Read MoreAUGUSTA, GA (APRIL 2, 2019)—The winners of the 2019 Porter Fleming Literary Competition have been announced by the Morris Museum of Art. They are: FICTION First Place: Pastor Polar, by Frank Honeycutt, Walhalla, South Carolina Second Place:Elsie ‘Peaches’ Boulware, Age 69,by Jon Tuttle, Florence, South Carolina Third Place:Summertimeby William Phillips, Jr., Augusta, Georgia. Honorable Mention:Surely Notby Alexander Lee, Nashville, Tennessee Judge: Matthew Neil Null is a novelist (Honey from the Lion) and short story writer. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’…
Read MoreWe just received word that Wier / Stewart wracked up at the Augusta Advertising Federation annual ADDY awards celebration Saturday night—they won a Silver and a Judges Choice ADDY Award for the new design of the Morris Museum website AND won a Gold and a Best of Show in Print for the museum’s 2018–2019 Southern Soul & Song concert series posters!
Read MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Nicole McLeod MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART 706-828-3815 nicole.mcleod@themorris.org AUGUSTA, GA (DECEMBER 7, 2018)—The board and staff of the Morris Museum of Art mourn the loss of Louise Keith Claussen, first director of the Morris Museum of Art, who died on Thursday, December 6, 2018 in Sarasota, Florida. She was 71. “In one way or another, our dear friend Keith Claussen was closely associated with me and my family for more than 45 years,” noted William S.…
Read MoreThe Many Things that Fall in Between: Recent Work by Baker Overstreet March 1–May 19, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Nicole McLeod nicole.mcleod@themorris.org 706-828-3815 “In the presence of the paintings, the symmetry and the anthropomorphism recede into a none-issue, giving way to currents of paradoxical pleasure streaming off those tough, unforgiving surfaces.” — Thomas Micchelli, hyperallergic.com, March 30, 2013 AUGUSTA, GA (NOVEMBER 2018)—The Many Things that Fall in Between: Recent Work by Baker Overstreet opens to the public…
Read MoreRecent Abstractions by Anne Marchand January 26–April 14, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Nicole McLeod nicole.mcleod@themorris.org 706-828-3815 Recent Abstractions by Anne Marchand Opens at the Morris Museum of Art, Saturday, January 26, 2019 AUGUSTA, GA (26 NOVEMBER 2018)—Recent Abstractions by Anne Marchand, opens to the public Saturday, January 26, 2019 at the Morris Museum of Art. The exhibition, which features twenty-five bold, colorful, large-scale abstract paintings by renowned artist Anne Marchand, remains on display through April…
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