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The Charleston Renaissance: Art, Architecture, Literature, and Music
Morris Museum of Art 1 Tenth Street, Augusta
Week of Events
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.…
Modern Masters: Group ƒ/64
Photographs by Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Willard Van Dyke, Brett Weston, and Edward Weston Works from the Bank of America Collection April 27–July 21, 2019 Modern Masters: Group ƒ/64 features forty-four photographs by five of its legendary members—Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Willard Van Dyke, Brett Weston, and Edward Weston. Many of the f/64 photographers are now regarded as some of…
The Charleston Renaissance: Art, Architecture, Literature, and Music
If you have not had the opportunity to view The Charleston Renaissance, be sure to do so before it closes on Sunday, October 27. Organized by guest curator Jay Williams, the exhibition includes art from the Morris Museum’s permanent collection and special loans from the South Caroliniana Library of the University of South Carolina. It includes paintings, drawings, and etchings…
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Films on Friday: The Vikings (1958)
Films on Friday: The Vikings (1958)
With a screenplay by the Atlanta-born novelist Calder Willingham, this film stars Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Ernest Borgnine, and James Donald. Its story concerns the intense rivalry between a Viking prince (Douglas) and a slave (Curtis), who vie for the attention of the beautiful Princess Morgana (Leigh), fated to marry a loathsome English king. Unbeknownst to the rivals,…
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Author Event: Poet Jessica Greenbaum
Author Event: Poet Jessica Greenbaum
Poet and author Jessica Greenbaum, who has published three books and received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Society of America, will read her work and discuss the connections between visual art and poetry. FREE.
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FREE Sundays at The Morris
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Artrageous! Family Sunday: Charleston Renaissance
Artrageous! Family Sunday: Charleston Renaissance
Staff from the Charleston Museum will be bringing Bragg Boxes from their collection to share with us. Laura Bragg, who developed these traveling school exhibits for children during the Charleston Renaissance, became director of the Charleston Museum in 1920. She was the first woman to run a publicly supported museum in the United States. FREE.
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