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Georgia College & State University Museum
Campus Box 43 Milledgeville, GA 31061 Phone: (478) 445-4391 Map |
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GCSU Museum
In conjunction with Georgia College & State University's liberal arts mission, the GCSU Museum galleries offer faculty, students, staff and the Middle Georgia community opportunities for exploration of interdisciplinary topics. It is also home to the Flannery O'Connor Room, a permanent exhibit honoring the life and career of GCSU's most famous alumna. The Museum has a fully equipped Education Room available for special occasions, lectures and programs and functions as the official Welcome Center for visitors and prospective students and their families. GCSU Museum is free and is open to the public Monday – Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visitors should check the GCSU Museum website, or by calling (478) 445-4391 for a listing of holiday hours. GCSU Museum is open annually. Specific inquiries may be addressed to the curator, Shannon Morris via email at shannon.morris@gcsu.edu. |
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Museum Exhibition Schedule
Upcoming Exhibitions at the GCSU Museum: GCSU Museum announces two new exhibits for the Fall 2010 semester. Collocations by Mickey Smith and Stories by Jessica Bruah. Collocations by Mickey Smith Collocations by Mickey Smith features photographic installations documenting bound periodicals and journals in public libraries. These reference materials are currently being replaced by their online counterparts including several of the titles photographed throughout the course of this project. A collocation is the act of combining two or more words that correspond to some conventional way of saying things using noun phrases such as strong tea or weapons of mass destruction. About the series and her creative process, Mickey states, “Searching endless rows of utilitarian text, I am struck by the physical mass of knowledge and the tenuousness of printed work as it fades from public consciousness.” Collocations will be on view in the museum’s Entry Gallery. Jessica Bruah began her body of work entitled Stories when she decided to merge her love for fiction with her interest in photography. Jessica sees each image as its own individual narrative containing an anonymous character, seemingly unaware of the lens, whose face is never shown. In addition to fiction, Jessica is inspired by film and any other creative endeavor that discusses gender, identity and/or domesticity. Although she plays the dual role of both artist and subject, Jessica states, “These self-portraits do not concern the notion of self but rather the idea of constructing reality.” Each carefully constructed reality depicts a vague and bizarre scenario that is assembled through the aid of costumes, props, studio lighting and posing in addition to the manipulation of a view camera. Stories will be on view in the museum’s Focus Gallery. Mickey Smith Mickey Smith (b. 1972, Duluth, MN) received a BA in photography from Minnesota State University, Moorhead in 1994. Mickey works as a Conceptual artist and photographer. Americans for the Arts recently chose Collocations (Nature), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, as one of the 40 best public art works in their 2010 Year in Review curated by Helen Lessik and Fred Wilson. Collocations references Mickey’s most recent editions to her ongoing series Volume. Images from this series have also been exhibited in New York, China and Russia. She is represented by Invisible-Exports in New York. Mickey’s has also received the McKnight Artist Fellowship for Photography, the Winter 2007 Hey! Hot Shot Award and grants from FORECAST Public Art Affairs, CEC ArtLink and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Jessica Bruah received a BFA in photography with a minor in fiction writing from Columbia College in Chicago and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Jessica’s work has been exhibited in Chicago, New York, Toronto and Seattle. Among her honors is the receipt of the Magenta Foundation’s Emerging Photographers, Flash Forward Award and the Winter 2006 Hey, Hot Shot! Show. |
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