Jim Clark visits "All Creatures"

Our exhibition "All Creatures Great and Small" is still on view at Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport through April 2012 (across from T gates 12 through 14), and if you haven't made time to go see it yet while passing through the airport, please do. Our photographs don't convey what fun it is. Jim Clark, who created the pike he's posing with above, and his wife, Jean Walbridge, recently sent us these pictures of their visit to the exhibition. She also informed us that the Folk Art Society of America is having its conference in Atlanta next year (Oct. 11-15) and is planning a trip to GMOA. We'll be excited to see the attendees! Thank you, Jim and Jean, for letting us know you enjoyed seeing the exhibition.

GMOA's Booth at Folk Fest 2011

Mary Koon and I had an adventuresome day yesterday setting up our table at Folk Fest! But, it turned out great and will hopefully catch people's eye and attention. We want as many as Folk Art buffs as possible to know about "All Creatures Great and Small" at the Hartsfield-Jackson Airport.

Here are some pictures of the booth. More pictures to come of my adventures at Folk Fest!

– Jenny Williams, PR Coordinator

Folk Fest

Slotin Folk Art's annual Folk Fest begins tomorrow (Friday, Aug. 19) at the North Atlanta Trade Center in Norcross and continues through the weekend. Friday admission costs $15, but you get a T-shirt and free weekend readmission. Folk Fest is always a lot of fun, and this year GMOA has a table (which two of our staff members are setting up right now) to promote "All Creatures Great and Small." Stop by and pick up a brochure!

All Creatures Evidence

Our director was passing through the Atlanta airport this week and made his way over to the T Gates, where our exhibition "All Creatures Great and Small" is on view until April 2012. He snapped some photos with his phone, so you can see how it looks on display, with the video running.

If you're heading out on exciting journeys any time soon, please stop by the T Gallery and take a look. If you email us your photos at gmoapr@yahoo.com, we'll post them here.

All Creatures Great and Small is up!

Y'all, after much planning and then quite a bit of work, including a late-night install at Hartsfield-Jackson International Atlanta Airport, the exhibition "All Creatures Great and Small" is up. Featuring works by self-taught artists that depict animals and are drawn from GMOA's collection and from the collection of Carl and Marian Mullis of Atlanta, it will be on display in the T Gallery at the airport's T Gates through April 2012, so if you're going to be in the airport, build some extra time into your visit to stop by and take a look.

Larry Forte, who installed the exhibition along with curator Paul Manoguerra, head preparator Todd Rivers and David Vogt and Katherine Marbury of the Airport Art Program, made this short video from the photographs he took during the install. What they don't reflect is how late at night most of this was.

The other major part of the exhibition was the production of a film that will loop alongside the display, directed by David McClister of Lampshade Films, who has worked with the Avett Brothers among many other famed musicians. The first part covers general information about the museum, and the second part features interviews with many of the artists whose work appears in the exhibition.

Georgia Museum of Art presents All Creatures Great and Small from Georgia Museum of Art on Vimeo.

GMOA Exhibition Travels to Hartsfield-Jackson Airport

Part of the Airport Art Program, Department of Aviation, Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, “All Creatures Great and Small,” a special exhibition from the Georgia Museum of Art’s permanent collection and the collection of Carl Mullis, features works of art depicting animals created by self-taught American artists. Paintings, sculptures and mixed-media creations by such folk masters as Howard Finster and Mose Tolliver and by such outstanding but relatively unheralded contemporary artists as Jim Lewis and Ted Gordon will soon be on display in the Atlanta airport’s T gates. The majority of artists featured have spent their lives in the South, including the following artists from Georgia: Michael Crocker, Finster, Willie Jinks, R.A. Miller and O.L. Samuels. Watch here for news on when the exhibition will be open.