Jim Barsness

Coming up this Wednesday, February 4, at 5:30 p.m. in the M. Smith Griffith Auditorium at the museum is the annual Willson Center for Humanities and Arts/Georgia Museum of Art Annual Lecture, which will be delivered by Jim Barsness this year. Barsness was born in Bozeman, Mont., in 1954, and currently teaches as an associate professor in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia. His work was recently featured in "More is More: Maximalist Tendencies in Recent American Painting," organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee; and "New Directions,"organized by the Columbus Museum, Columbus, Ga. Barness will discuss his recent work in the lecture, which is free and open to the public, and is cosponsored by the museum and by the Willson Center.