Come explore this Southern collection though a truly unique guided experience where you will uncover hidden gems and discover secrets among the artworks. A trained museum docent, a rogue journalist and you will work together to uncover artists’ secrets, discover a hidden drawing, learn about a missing painting, and find the Southern connection among the works in this Southern collection…
This expansive exhibition includes figurative, still-life, and landscape paintings by many well-known and some previously undiscovered impressionist painters who worked in the South. Driven by the passionate interest of museum founders Sissie and Billy Morris, the museum has made impressionist painting an important focus of its collection since the start. More than three galleries are devoted to this groundbreaking exhibition. Although…
With this exhibition, we celebrate the ninetieth birthday of museum founder Billy Morris. The year of his birth was momentous in more ways than can be detailed here. Donald Duck made his film debut. And the Roosevelt administration entered its first full year; its impact on American artists was profound, nowhere more so than in the South. The Public Works…
Paint a ceramic sugar skull piggy bank, inspired by the traditions of el Día de los Muertos. It’s a lively and creative way to honor Mexican culture while having fun with the whole family! Members, free; nonmembers, $5. For kids, toddler to tween. Register in advance on our website here or call 706-828-3867.
This post–World War II film stars Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, who plays an industrial tycoon goaded into running for president, only to have his campaign thrown into turmoil by his idealistic wife. As good for the interplay between its two stars as for its story. FREE.
A Deep Harmony Thrumming in the Mixture: Recent Work by Kathryn Keller includes thirty-five of her beautifully rendered watercolor and oil paintings of landscapes, cityscapes, interiors, and still life subjects. Her works evokes a sense of familiarity—a sense of place—and are silent, subtle salutes to the South and the Southern way of life. From towering, majestic trees in a pasture providing shade on a hot summer day…
Categorized as indie-folk-rock and alt-country, Shaun Piazza is a talented singer-songwriter, who has shared the stage with music legends such as Jason Isbell, the Avett Brothers, and the Godfather of Soul, just to name a few. FREE. Funded by the Cleon W. Mauldin Foundation.
Artist Micah Cash will discuss his photographs from the book Waffle House Vistas, now in an expanded second edition, published by the Bitter Southerner. His photographs of the vistas through Waffle House windows take us on a journey through the South’s changing landscape from the ever-constant maroon booths of Waffle House. A reception for artists Micah Cash and Kathryn Keller…
Artist Kathryn Keller will discuss her work featured in the current exhibition A Deep Harmony Thrumming in the Mixture: Recent Work by Kathryn Keller with Kevin Grogan, director of the Morris Museum of Art. Members, $20; nonmembers, $25; lecture only, $15. Catered lunch included. Place paid reservations by October 9 online here or call 706-828-3867.
This installation features images from Micah Cash’s two most recent books—Waffle House Vistas (published in 2019 and expanded and republished in 2022 by the Bitter Southerner) and Dangerous Waters: A Photo Essay on the Tennessee Valley Authority (published in 2017 by the University of Tennessee Press.) Micah Cash uses the visual languages of landscape and architecture to explore narratives of…
Written, produced, and directed by Jesse Stephen Freeman, this film documents the life and work of artist Steffen Thomas. Film screening, 6:00 p.m., followed by a reception with Freeman. FREE. RSVP to 706-828-3867.
Join us for the launch of Southern Voices: Fifty Contemporary Poets, a new poetry anthology coedited by Tom Mack and Andrew Geyer. Hear three Georgia poets—Chelsea Rathburn, the poet laureate of Georgia; Travis Denton; and Ed Wilson—read from the anthology. A reception and book signing follow. FREE. RSVP to 706-828-3867. Sponsored by the Authors Club of Augusta and the English…
Join us for our annual spooktacular Halloween extravaganza: Boo Bash! Enjoy a frightfully fun day with free activities like face painting, decorating mini pumpkins, coloring treat bags, trick-or-treating in the galleries, and a selfie photo corner! FREE. Sponsored by Good Earth Produce & Garden Center ▪️Murphy Auto Group ▪️ Phoenix Printing ▪️Security Federal Bank
An art history professor at Georgia State University, Connor Hamm will discuss his research on the art of Edwin and Elise Harleston, husband and wife. His paintings and her photographs made them an important part of the Charleston Renaissance as they chronicled the resurgence of their city in sensitive portraits of its Black residents during the 1920s. FREE.
The Manchurian Candidate (1962), a classic political thriller starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, and Angela Lansbury in a performance so scary that she gives a bad name to both Communists AND mothers. FREE.
Inspired by the impressionist paintings on display, use markers and rubbing alcohol to create swirling, light-filled artworks. Transform plain paper into impressionistic masterpieces that capture the essence of color and movement in a fun way. FREE.
