Folk Art in the South: Selections from the Permanent Collection
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Local Color: Photography in the South
Local Color, an exhibition of more than forty works drawn from the Morris Museum’s permanent collection, explores the special role that color photography has played in the history of Southern photography since it was first popularized by William Christenberry and William Eggleston. In addition to those pioneers, the exhibition features work by John Baeder, William Greiner, Birney Imes, Jim McGuire, and Meryl Truett, to…
Folk Art in the South: Selections from the Permanent Collection
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.…
Recent Abstractions by Anne Marchand
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…
Veterans Explore Art with the Morris
The Morris presents Veterans Explore Art with the Morris in the 1st floor EDU Gallery. The exhibition features a variety of works created by 4 veterans who participated in the museum’s monthly Art Reach program at the Augusta VA Medical Center. Art Reach is a monthly program that engages those who seek outpatient treatment at the Augusta VA’s uptown facility. Veterans…
Films on Friday: Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
Films on Friday: Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
Just in time for Valentine’s Day is this somewhat complicated romantic comedy adapted by George Axelrod from Truman Capote’s novella of the same name. It provided Audrey Hepburn with what is generally considered her most memorable and identifiable role—Holly Golightly. Hepburn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and the film was deemed to be “culturally, historically, or…
FREE Sundays at The Morris
Artrageous!: Family Sunday – Celestial Stories
Artrageous!: Family Sunday – Celestial Stories
Storyteller Sarah Dippity joins us from Columbia, South Carolina, and recounts the myths of the gods and goddesses whom the planets and constellations are named after. Afterwards, re-create a constellation. FREE.