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During the summer, we will include weekly events and programs happening at the Morris Museum of Art! Be sure to check out our new summer tour option available now as well as the various camps for students of all ages!

Student and Teacher Opportunities
Want to learn more about the Morris’s teacher and student opportunities? Download our current school programs guide or call Michelle Schulte at 706-828-3865.

Field Trips
Make your 2012–2013 school year field trip plans today!

Free Public School Tours!
The Morris is pleased to announce that we now offer free tours for K–12 public schools, thanks to a generous grant from the Creel-Harison Foundation. Activity fees for optional art projects and workshops still apply. To book a tour today, call 706-828-3867.

TOUR SPOTLIGHT
Musical Journey
Explore different styles of music while viewing and discussing a variety of paintings from the permanent collection as well as from our temporary exhibition, Window on the West: Views from the American Frontier. Take part in our optional art project, where we create a map using oil pastels and watercolor. Book your group today by contacting jenna.tankersley@themorris.org.

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Richard Lorenz, Following a Trail, ca. 1900. Oil on canvas. The Phelan Collection.

Upcoming Events and Programs
Friday, July 6, Noon
Films on Friday: High Noon
Fred Zinnemann’s post-war classic stars Academy Award winners Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. After viewing the film, museum director Kevin Grogan leads a discussion. Participants are encouraged to bring a lunch. FREE.

Sunday, July 8, Noon–4:00 p.m.
Artrageous! Family Sunday: Wild Wild Westival
Grab your hat and boots and bring your cowboys and cowgirls to enjoy a day of Wild West activities. Learn roping tricks, hear cowboy stories and music, sample chuckwagon cuisine, and create down-home crafts during a family celebration of everything Western. Sponsored in part by Augusta’s Kicks 99 WKXC. FREE.

Thursday, July 12, 10:00–11:00 a.m.
What’s in the Box? Native American Tales
Learn about the Hopi Indians and weave a Native American handicraft with materials from the box. Museum family members and parents, free; nonmembers, $4 per participant. Registration required. 

Friday, July 13, Noon
Art at Lunch: The Reel West
Jim Dunham, director of special programs at the Booth Western Art Museum, discusses his thirty-year career working in the Western entertainment business, teaching movie stars how to handle guns on the big screen. Members, $10; nonmembers, $14. Lunch by Honey from the Rock Café. Paid reservations due July 11. 

Sunday, July 15, 2:00–3:30 p.m.
Sunday Sketch
Sketch in the galleries, with materials provided by the museum. Check-in in the activity room. FREE.

Sunday, July 15, 2:00 p.m.
Music at the Morris: Jim McGaw
Jim McGaw plays traditional American folk music, jazz standards, and original songs on a hammer dulcimer and guitar. FREE.

Monday, July 16–Friday, July 20, 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Summer Camp at Episcopal Day School:
Around the World in Five Days
Take an artistic journey. Learn about five artists from five different places in the world and create art projects inspired by their travels. Appropiate for students in rising first grade, through fifth grade. $140 per student. Call 706-733-1192.

Monday, July 23–Friday, July 27,
11:30 a.m.–3:00 p.m. each day
Summer Camp: Drawing Jam! with Jay Jacobs at Augusta Preparatory Day School
Explore a variety of drawing materials and styles, from realism to animation, while participating in creative games and off-the-wall exercises. Call 706-828-3808.
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Louis B. Akin, Hopi Maiden, ca. 1910. Oil on artist's board. The Phelan Collection.

Jim Dunham


Jim McGaw

Exhibitions


Henry John Sylvester Stannard, Lily
Pond, Goldney House, Bristol, 1933.
Watercolor on paper. The Elsley Collection.

Golden Afternoon:
English Watercolors from the Elsley Collection
Closes July 1, 2012
Art collector and horticulturist John Elsley discusses his collection of nineteenth-century paintings of Victorian-era English gardens, followed by a reception featuring heavy hors d'oeuvres and drinks in the galleries. Sacred Heart Garden Festival ticket holders and Morris Museum members, $5.00; nonmembers, $10.00. Call to RSVP.
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Brian Rutenberg, Spring Tide, 2010.
Oil on linen. Morris Museum of Art,
Augusta, Georgia.

The Morris at Twenty
Opens July 7
This exhibition emphasizes acquisitions made over the past ten years—an unusually rich period marked especially by the addition of the Julia J. Norrell Collection, with particular strength in folk art and photography. The bequest of the Larry Connatser Art Trust added the work of an important contemporary Georgia artist, and purchases made through the Passailaigue Art Acquisitions Fund further enriched the permanent collection. Finally, the support of the museum affiliate groups the Morris Collectors and the Friends of African American Art has also made possible important acquisitions. The recent purchase of a painting by Brian Rutenberg, which is here displayed for the first time, was made possible by the Morris Collectors.

Exhibition Opening Reception and Lecture:
Strange Fruit and The Morris at Twenty
Thursday, July 19, 6:00 p.m.
Artist Joseph Norman discusses his current exhibition of lithographs drawn from the museum’s permanent collection. Reception follows. FREE.

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John James Audubon, American Bison
or Buffalo, ca. 1843. Lithograph, hand
colored. The Phelan Collection.

Window on the West:
Views from the American Frontier
Closes July 22, 2012
This exhibition of highlights from the collection of Arthur J. Phelan offers an intriguing glimpse of the American West through sixty objects, including paintings large and small, as well as gem-like works on paper in a variety of styles.
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Bob Trotman, Go Getter, 2011. Wood, terra-cotta,
wax , and tempera. Collection of the artist.

Office: Sculpture by Bob Trotman
Closes September 30, 2012
As a contemporary artist, Bob Trotman is fascinated by what he describes as the "noir narrative of life at the office." His wooden people, often surprisingly posed, evoke both humor and anxiety and, taken together, offer an absurdist vision of an imaginary corporate purgatory.

The Morris Museum's Student Tours and Teacher Services guide. Download a PDF here.