The Many Things That Fall in Between: Recent Work by Baker Overstreet
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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…
The Many Things That Fall in Between: Recent Work by Baker Overstreet
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…
Morsberger + Huffington
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…
Art at Lunch: Off the Wall and Onto the Page: the Story of a Screenplay
Art at Lunch: Off the Wall and Onto the Page: the Story of a Screenplay
Matthew Buzzell, Associate Professor of Communication at Augusta University, will discuss the research methodologies he employs in his cinema-centric creative scholarship. Members, $12; nonmembers, $16. Catered lunch included. Paid reservations due March 13.
FREE Sundays at The Morris
Music at the Morris: Corelli Camerata
Music at the Morris: Corelli Camerata
This newly formed, string-based chamber orchestra plays baroque, classical, and contemporary music. FREE. Music at the Morris is made possible by the Cleon W. Mauldin Foundation.
Exhibition Opening: Morsberger + Huffington
Exhibition Opening: Morsberger + Huffington
Celebrate Philip Morsberger’s birthday and the opening of his joint exhibition with Anita Huffington. View Morsberger’s latest drawings and Huffington’s recent tabletop sculptures while feasting on birthday cake and toasting the artists! FREE.