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I Always Come Back to Savannah: The Art of Myrtle Jones
Morris Museum of Art 1 Tenth Street, Augusta
Capturing the Immediate: Impressionism in the South: Paintings from the Permanent Collection
Morris Museum of Art 1 Tenth Street, Augusta
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Mystery at the Morris
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…
$20
The First Moment’s Observation: Paintings by Nicholas Kilmer
Nicholas Kilmer, a native of Washington, D.C., grew up in Virginia, attended American University, the Catholic University of America, and Georgetown University. After earning a master’s degree at Harvard University, he embarked on a decades-long career in education. In 1988 he founded Nicholas Kilmer Fine Art and has devoted himself primarily to his painting ever since. Since the 1970s, he…
I Always Come Back to Savannah: The Art of Myrtle Jones
Myrtle Jones, an accomplished artist, is closely associated with Savannah, her home for most of her adult life. Born in Forsyth County, Georgia, she grew up in Winder, Georgia, and worked as a hairdresser before moving to Savannah in 1943. She first took up painting in 1950, when she studied at the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences with Emil…
Capturing the Immediate: Impressionism in the South: Paintings from the Permanent 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…
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Create with Me! Watercolor Stamp-a-Palooza
Create with Me! Watercolor Stamp-a-Palooza
Kids will have a blast creating their own unique stamps and prints, turning ordinary paper into an artwork of colorful delights for the whole family to enjoy. Free for members; $5 for nonmembers. For kids, toddler to tween. Register in advance on our website here or call 706-828-3867.
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Films on Friday: Little Women (1933)
Films on Friday: Little Women (1933)
The third screen adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s enduring tale of the March family. (It was filmed again in 1949, 1994, and 2019.) This adaptation of Alcott’s novel was written by Sarah Y. Mason and her husband, Victor Heerman, and stars Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Spring Byington, Douglass Montgomery, Paul Lukas, and Edna May Oliver. FREE.
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FREE Sundays at The Morris
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Music at the Morris: Hiroya Tsukamoto
Music at the Morris: Hiroya Tsukamoto
Eclectic, immersive, and mesmerizing, the world-renowned guitarist and songwriter Hiroya Tsukamoto embodies the notion that music has no language. FREE. Funded by the Cleon W. Mauldin Foundation.