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Oglethorpe University Museum of Art celebrates its 25th anniversary this summer by exhibiting more than 100 works from its permanent collection. Included are numerous works acquired by founding director Lloyd Nick, which illustrate the permanent collection’s long-standing strength in the areas of 19th century French art, as well as works of art from the Far […]
Dr. Brent Runnels plays and discusses the music of 19th-century American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk. The American composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk fused elements of music from nineteenth century Europe, America and the Caribbean into a unique musical mixture that laid the groundwork for ragtime and jazz. He drew inspiration from his Haitian heritage […]
Haiti, 1964. Francois Papa Doc Duvalier’s repressive regime has forced once-successful artist Edwin into hiding, turning him into a walking ghost. When Edwin finds a young man building a boat to escape to America, and persuades him to pose for a painting, he finally feels alive again. But with cries for revolution resounding through the […]
The city of Port au Prince was hard hit by the earthquake of 2010 resulting in a tremendous loss of life and of cultural records. Both the city’s main museum, the Centre d’Art and the largest single collection, the Musee Galerie d’Art Nader, were destroyed and with them, thousands of paintings were lost. In a […]
January 18 – April 21, 2018 Oglethorpe University Museum of Art The exhibition Stories Without an End: Power, Beauty and Wisdom of Women in African Art of the Mehta Collection includes a selection of 50 classically carved wooden sculptures and masks drawn from the collection of Dileep and Martha Mehta. The exhibition represents art from […]
This lecture is presented as part of the exhibition "Stories Without an End: Power, Beauty and Wisdom of Women in African Art of the Mehta Collection" on view through April 21, 2019. Ms. Anne Gahongayire was formerly an External Relations and Partnership Development Officer with The Grandmother Project, a nonprofit organization that promotes the rights […]
This lecture is presented as part of the exhibition "Stories Without an End: Power, Beauty and Wisdom of Women in African Art of the Mehta Collection" on view through April 21, 2019. Taylor Roberts '21 is a student at Oglethorpe University studying Arts Administration. She is a Sophomore Senator in Student Government as well as […]
This lecture is presented as part of the exhibition "Stories Without an End: Power, Beauty and Wisdom of Women in African Art of the Mehta Collection" on view through April 21, 2019. Dr. Hellman is the Curator of African Art for the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University and is the lead curator for […]
This lecture is presented as part of the exhibition "Stories Without an End: Power, Beauty and Wisdom of Women in African Art of the Mehta Collection" on view through April 21, 2019. Elizabeth H. Peterson is Director of the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art. Professor Peterson developed the current exhibition Stories Without and End: Power, […]
This lecture is presented as part of the exhibition "Stories Without an End: Power, Beauty and Wisdom of Women in African Art of the Mehta Collection" on view through April 21, 2019. Dr. Mario Chandler, Professor of Spanish at OU, has interests in Medieval and Golden-age Spanish literature with particular emphasis on trans-Atlantic approaches. He […]
The Oglethorpe University Museum of Art will once again participate in Smithsonian magazine’s Museum Day, an annual national celebration of ‘boundless curiosity’! Museum visitors will receive free admission at the museum on Saturday, September 21, 2019 with a Museum Day ticket, available online. The Museum Day ticket provides free admission for two people and may […]
In genre-defying vignettes, author Jenn Shapland interweaves her own story with Carson McCullers’s to create a vital new portrait of one of America’s most beloved writers, and shows us how the writers we love and the stories we tell about ourselves make us who we are. Shapland will appear in conversation with OU Professor Jessica […]
The Oglethorpe University Museum of Art presents a virtual conversation with Maria Cristina Tavera, a Latinx artist, independent curator, and activist influenced by her transnational upbringing. Her exhibit, “Promesas de Papel/Paper Promises,” will be featured in the upcoming virtual OUMA exhibition set to premiere on October 30th. Tavera’s work explores race, ethnicity, gender, migration, and […]
Featuring music of George and Ira Gershwin, "A Gerswhin Afternoon" is an intimate jazz performance held in the spacious Skylight Gallery at the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art. "A Gershwin Afternoon" will be performed by Director of Music Dr. Brent Runnels and special guests: Joe Grandsen on trumpet; Neal Starkey on bass; and Justin Chesarek on drums *All attendees are […]
This lecture by John Daniel Tilford, Curator of Collections at the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art, will focus on the rich artistic heritage of both the Gee's Bend community of quilters in Southern Alabama and late 19th/early 20th century potters of the old Edgefield District in South Carolina. Once dismissed as purely practical and utilitarian objects, the […]
This lecture by Oglethorpe University Museum of Art Curator of Collections, John Daniel Tilford, will examine numerous works in the exhibition "Indian Miniatures from the Mehta Collection," which were once in the collection of the great curator and scholar, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy.
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