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Third-Generation Wood Turner Creating Work of Art from Auburn Oaks for Jule Collins Smith Museum’s Permanent Collection
Released: April 26, 2013AUBURN UNIVERSITY – A portion of the recently removed Auburn Oaks at Toomer’s Corner will be turned into a contemporary work of art for the Jule Collins Smith Museum by Matt Moulthrop, a third-generation wood turner. Moulthrop’s work has been displayed in museums throughout the United States, including the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Moulthrop, an Atlanta resident, contacted museum director Marilyn Laufer after national media picked up the story about the poisoning of the Auburn Oaks. T...
African American Collection on Display at JCSM, Auburn University
Released: November 15, 2011AUBURN, Ala. - The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University presents the exhibition, Promises of Freedom: Selections from the Arthur Primas Collection, on display in the Bill L. Harbert Gallery and Gallery C from Dec. 10, 2011-March 10, 2012. Promises of Freedom features an impressive range of works from a significant private collection of African American art. The exhibition includes 75 paintings, sculpture, drawings and prints by more than 30 artists and spans a period of 150 years. Highlighting artwork by Benny Andrews, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, ...
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Pottery Exhibition Highlights Alabama Counties
Released: August 6, 2011The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art presents a new exhibition, Bacon Level, Hickory Flat, and the Illustrious Potteries of Randolph and Chambers Counties, Alabama, on view from August 6-November 26, 2011 in Gallery C. In the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth century, a collection of neighboring towns in southern Randolph County and northern Chambers County was home to some of the South's foremost potteries. The high-quality clays native to that area attracted numerous pottery-making families who emigrated from South Carolina and Georgia following the opening of Creek ter...
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EXHIBITION GIVES INSIGHT INTO FOLK ART
Released: February 7, 2011The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art will host Outsiders on the Inside: Contemporary Folk Art in the Permanent Collection, a new exhibition on view Feb. 5–April 30 in the Chi Omega-Hargis Gallery. Several Alabama natives including Bernice Sims, Jimmy Lee Sudduth and Mose Tolliver are represented in the exhibition. Outsiders on the Inside delves into the evocative world of contemporary folk art. Art of this nature has gained wide attention by museums and collectors in recent years, but scholars and critics have yet to agree on a term that accurately describes its diversity. ...
NEW EXHIBITION EXPLORES PRINTS BY EDVARD MUNCH
Released: February 4, 2011The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University presents a new exhibition, Prints by Edvard Munch, on view from Feb. 5–April 30 in the Noel and Kathryn Dickinson Wadsworth Gallery. Munch, a Norwegian artist who lived from 1863 to 1944 is world renowned for his evocative depictions of universal human emotions and experiences––love, attraction, separation and death. His widely reproduced painting, The Scream, captures in expressive brushwork the anxious psyche of modern man, overwhelmed by his perceptions of a cruel or indifferent world. Equally adept in printmaking as in pai...
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