Madison Museum of Fine Art

The Making Master's Reception is happening now until 6 pm! We have refreshments, music, and plenty of art. Come see us!

Don't forget that today is Open Museum Day and the Making Masters Reception! The museum will be open to celebrate Open Museum Day and Smithsonian Museum Day from 10am-5pm. The reception for the 8th Annual Making Masters Exhibition will be from 4-6. Come out and see us and help celebrate our events!

Don't forget that Saturday is Open Museum Day in Madison! The museum will be open to celebrate Open Museum Day and Smithsonian Museum Day from 10am-5pm. The reception for the 8th Annual Making Masters Exhibition will be from 4-6. Come out and see us on Saturday to help celebrate our events! This image is of Master students hanging a drawing during the installment of their work last Sunday.

Here is a sneak peak at the installation today for the 8th Annual Making Masters Exhibition. Come out on Saturday September 24 for Open Museum Day and the Making Masters Reception. The museum will be open from 10am-6pm.

Take a retreat from the heat by visiting this oil on panel winter scene by celebrated American artist Edward Glannon (1911-1992). The artist ground his own colors, painted on panels he built himself, and constructed and carved frames to match individual paintings. Skaters- The Inlet c.1955

Please welcome MMoFA's 2016 UGA Graduate Interns for the 8th Annual "Making Masters" Exhibition this Autumn Claire Dempster is an MA student in Art History and graduate assistant at the University of Georgia. Her research interest include earthworks, performance and contemporary art practice. Her current project looks at the intersection between minimalism and memorial design. She has held internships at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Pulse Contemporary Art Fair and ...received her BA in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012. Margaret Hankel received her BA in Art History from Columbia College Chicago in 2009. She worked as a freelance photographer and archivist in Chicago for six years before continuing her studies in art history at UGA. Her areas of interest include 19th and 20th century art, the history of photography, and the art and politics of the Weimar Republic. Her current research for the MA thesis concerns photography of New Objectivity.

Cristina Vergando's solo exhibition of "Then and Now" opens in New York City on Friday April 15 and runs through May 15.

Please join MMoFA in welcoming 2016 graduate student museum intern Sarah Elizabeth Yawn of Kingsland, Georgia. A graduate student in Historic Preservation at the University of Georgia, Yawn previously earned her B.A. in anthropology at UGA, achieving Dean’s List and the Melissa Hague Scholarship Award. Yawn’s previous museum experience includes curatorial work in history museum settings including the UGA Museum of Natural History. At MMoFA, Yawn will curate artworks for the museum’s on-line exhibition British Intelligence: Museum Collection of 21st Century British Art. For more information on art museum internships at MMoFA, call 706-485-4530 or email [email protected]

THIS WEEK Axis Fine Art Installation, Inc. delivered several large Cristina Vergano paintings gifted by Peachtree Capital. MMoFA intern Victoria Pitts and museum board member Wayne Brantley assist installers Ben and Judson of Axis in the receipt of the artworks and help re-stretch one large painting for display at the museum.

Please welcome Victoria Pitts, 2016 Museum Intern. Resident of Byron, Georgia, Pitts is a sophomore honors student and President’s List honoree pursuing an Art History major with a minor in Museum Studies at Georgia College and State University. Her professional experience includes graphic design for the Wesley Foundation, Fundraising Chair for Zeta Tau Alpha to support Breast Cancer Awareness and Education, and mural design in numerous public spaces. At MMoFA Pitts will serve as Exhibition Manager for the museum’s upcoming exhibition of paintings by Cristina Vergano listed by Blouin Art and Auction as one of the top 50 women artists to watch around the globe. For more information on art museum internships at MMoFA, call 706-485-4530, email [email protected].

Many thanks to Peachtree Capital for the recent gift of Flowered World with Paisley by Italian born Cristina Vergano who painted the work while living in Georgia before relocating to New York City. Here Peachtree Capital COO Eric Burnette stands before the painting with Museum Director Michele Bechtell. Photo by Scott Reeves

MMoFA Celebrates Easter with a focal view of this 2015 gift painted by Georgia artist Henry Ransom and titled "Sheetscape: The Gift."

SLOW ART DAY! APRIL 9 On April 9 at 11am, Madison Museum of Fine Art (MMoFA) hosts Slow Art Day with over 200 other museums around the world. The free event highlights five museum works that participants will view and contemplate and subsequently meet at a local cafe to share impressions. A 2001 study revealed that Metropolitan Museum visitors viewed artworks only 17 seconds on average, a habit called visual grazing. The Louvre discovered that visitors viewed the iconic ...Mona Lisa a mere average of 15 seconds. And the swift virtual view of art via the internet can miss important creative attributes the artist intended. By slowly experiencing a piece of art, viewers can discover the power of visual art without an expert guide. Five MMoFA artworks selected for contemplation feature gifts of art to the MMoFA collection, created by Georgia artists: The monumental Untitled bronze sculpture by George Beasley gifted by American Airlines, Traffic by Joseph Perrin gifted by Elizabeth Sheerer, Henry Ransom’s Sheetscape: The Gift, Christina Vergano’s Paisley gifted by Peachtree Capital, and Birdman by David Driskell. A charitable educational art institution, MMoFA promotes the value of visual art education, teaches the great traditions of visual art, demonstrates how visual art masters nourish lifelong learning and enhance the quality of life. For reservations to the free event call 706-485-4530 or email [email protected] . Birdman by David Driskell, one of five artworks to be featured on Slow Art Day April 9 Sign Up TODAY!