GMOA Images on the Move

It's not just the Paolo Schiavo that's out seeing the greater world. Several other of our images are on the road. Art Rosenbaum's "McIntosh County Shouters," last seen on the GMOA billboard pictured somewhat blurrily above, is currently at the Morris Museum of Art, in Augusta, Ga. The exhibition "Down South: Paintings by Art Rosenbaum, Photographs by Margo Newmark Rosenbaum" is on display there through Nov. 6. Our Romare Bearden, usually on display in the new permanent collection galleries, is temporarily out of the building too. It's appearing in "Romare Bearden: Southern Reflections," a centennial celebration of the artist, at the Mint Museum of Art, in Charlotte, N.C.

Art Around Athens (and Beyond)

Mark your calendars for this coming Monday (December 6), at Ciné in downtown Athens, where Neil Rosenbaum, son of the artist Art Rosenbaum, will be at a special screening of his new feature documentary, "Sing My Troubles: Visits with Georgia Women Carrying Musical Traditions into the 21st Century." Art is also featured in the documentary, visiting these musical artists and talking with them about their memories and life experiences. The film will show at 5 and 7:30 p.m., with a live musical performance (including some of the folks featured in the movie) at 6:30 p.m., and a Q&A with Art and Neil following the later screening. Admission is $12. GMOA patrons may remember that Neil also made a documentary about his father that accompanied his exhibition at the museum in 2006-7 and is included with the exhibition catalogue, "Weaving His Art on Golden Looms: Paintings and Drawings by Art Rosenbaum."

An Evening with Art Rosenbaum

"The World at Large" Art Rosenbaum, mural painted in conference room at University of Georgia Center, 2001

On Thursday August 12, the Rialto Room in Hotel Indigo-Athens will host “The Art Show: An evening with Art Rosenbaum and friends.” Rosenbaum, a native of New York and previously a professor at UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art, is an acclaimed painter, muralist, illustrator, collector and performer of traditional American folk music. He was the first Wheatley Professor in Fine Arts at Lamar Dodd, and received the Governor of Georgia's Award in the Humanities in 2003. He also won a Grammy for Best Historical Album in 2008.

The evening will last from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. The itinerary follows:

6:00-8:00 p.m. Reception for new work by Art Rosenbaum and Margo Newmark Rosenbaum, Mercury Art Works at Hotel Indigo

8:00-10:00 p.m. Performance by Art Rosenbaum with special guests: The Georgia Crackers, Phil Tanner’s Skillet Lickers and The Around the Globe Sea Chantey Singers

Concert tickets are available for $25. To buy in advance, click here.

The Art of: Music

Art Rosenbaum

The Art of: Music will take place next Tuesday, October 20! Hosted by the Young at Art committee of the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art, the event will be at Stan Mullins Studio on Pulaski Street from 7 to 10 p.m., with parking at the Leathers Building across the street. Art Rosenbaum, a Grammy Award-winning musician and artist, will perform old-time and bluegrass music with the Around-the-Globe Sea Shanty Singers and Hawk-Proof Rooster, featuring Charlie and Nancy Hartness and Earl Murphy. Refreshments will follow the performance.

Art Rosenbaum taught at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia for many years and was the subject of a retrospective at GMOA in 2006. Stan Mullins, local artist and former student of Rosenbaum’s, uses an old cottonseed oil refinery as studio space. The museum staff is excited to be working with Mullins and Rosenbaum as well as using Mullins’ studio as a venue.

“The Art of” series consists of entertaining and educational events that celebrate craft beyond the traditional fine arts. The series is also part of “GMOA on the Move,” which is keeping the museum active in the Athens community and beyond.

Today is the last day to RSVP! Call 706.542.0830 for reservations and more information. The event is co-sponsored by Stan Mullins and The Athens Blur Magazine. The cost is $15/person for Friends of GMOA and $20 for non-members.

The Art of: Music

Here's the invitation to our next "The Art of" event, The Art of: Music, to be held at Stan Mullins Studio (thanks, Stan!) on Pulaski Street, with Art Rosenbaum and friends supplying music. If you've never been to Stan's, it's pretty magical and also very Athens. Paper invitations will go out in next week's mail, but you Internet-savvy folk, as usual, get a jump on what's what. Click on the front and back for bigger versions, and we hope to see you there Oct. 20.

Art Around Athens

Today (Thursday, July 2) is your last day to catch the exhibition of North Georgia Folk Festival posters drawn by Art Rosenbaum that's been on display at Ciné all too briefly. Installed as part of AthFest, the posters date from as far back as 1984 and depict musicians who have performed at the festival.



ATHICA also has a new exhibition up, Emerges III: Journeys, which consists of new work by three young local artists and one team of artists. Curators Mary C. Wilson and Erin McIntosh selected the artists from more than two dozen entries, and their work is more conceptual than in previous years. New this year is a satellite space in the Bottleworks complex at 337 Prince Avenue, where Robert August Peterson’s American Male, Age 32 (2009)--a multimedia installation using five video projectors and four speakers--can be experienced. ATHICA is open Thursdays from 6 to 9 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 6 p.m. and by appointment (although it's closed this Friday due to the July 4 holiday). Tonight at 7 at ATHICA and 8:30 at the Bottleworks is "Walk & Talk," in which you can meet the artists, the curators and Dr. Amy Ross, UGA Geography Professor, for a discussion of the ideas behind the exhibition.

Congratulations, Art!

We mean Art Rosenbaum, of course, the celebrated painter, Lamar Dodd School of Art instructor for many years, and documenter of folk music, who snagged a Grammy Sunday in the "Historical Album" category for his work in that area. Athens blogger Gordon Lamb has a nice post about Art's award, complete with a YouTube video of Art discussing his The Art of Field Recording II, and the Athens Banner-Herald has an article today by Julie Phillips complete with a sampling from The Art of Field Recording I, the set for which he received the Grammy.

Art had a retrospective here at the museum in 2006-2007, which produced an exhibition catalogue, Weaving His Art on Golden Looms: Paintings and Drawings by Art Rosenbaum, that also includes a documentary by his son, Neil Rosenbaum, It's Not What You Think It Is. The documentary covers Art's history, his approach to painting (which he takes from the Old Masters, building up layers of color to produce deeper, more vibrant flesh tones), and his recording work. An excerpt from the documentary can be watched below:



For ordering information for the exhibition catalogue/film, click here.