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Folk Art in the South: Selections from the Permanent Collection

Morris Museum of Art 1 Tenth Street, Augusta

Folk art—often characterized as outsider, visionary, or self-taught—varies widely in medium and subject matter. The range of descriptive terms applied to it does little to describe the imaginative ways in which folk artists express deeply personal ideas in visual language. They employ readily accessible materials, including found objects, to produce their work, putting mundane materials to fresh and ingenious uses.…

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Recent Abstractions by Anne Marchand

Morris Museum of Art 1 Tenth Street, Augusta

Anne Marchand was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She says that growing up in such a colorful environment, redolent with Spanish, French, and African influences, left a lasting impression on her color sensibility. She traveled widely throughout the South, which had a similarly profound effect on her developing visual vocabulary of form and color derived from nature. She earned a bachelor’s…

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The Many Things That Fall in Between: Recent Work by Baker Overstreet

Morris Museum of Art 1 Tenth Street, Augusta

Baker Overstreet’s first solo show at the Morris Museum of Art features new paintings—in the artist’s words, “wildly colorful” works on panel, ranging from the very small to the very large. Predominantly abstract, they reference many things—“ghastly hybrid animals, seductresses, deviant clowns, and many things that fall in between.”  These paintings represent a new direction for the artist: “to explore the…

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Morsberger + Huffington

Morris Museum of Art 1 Tenth Street, Augusta

Two Morris Museum favorites—Anita Huffington and Philip Morsberger—are featured in a joint exhibition showcasing Anita’s marvelous, tabletop-sized sculptures and Philip’s equally marvelous (and wholly new for him) oil pastel drawings.   Huffington earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the City College of New York before embarking on a career as a sculptor that is now in its sixth decade. She…

Films on Friday: The Pelican Brief (1993)

SRP Auditorium at the Morris Museum

This American legal and political thriller, based on a novel of the same name by John Grisham, stars Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington. The screening is followed by a discussion. Admission and refreshments are free.