https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTinIB4G2dk Recently, Professor of French Jay Lutz gave a virtual lecture on the French poet Benjamin Péret, who resided in Mexico through the 1940's. It was there that he encountered the works of Rufino [...]
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art will host a virtual conversation with Latinx artist Maria Cristina Tavera, an independent curator and activist influenced by her transnational upbringing in Minnesota [...]
Oglethorpe University alumna and Oglethorpe University Museum of Art Advisory Board Chair Karen Head, Ph.D. has been selected as the inaugural Poet Laureate of Fulton County. She was nominated to the position after completing a [...]
Dear Friends of OUMA, We are moving into a remote platform which is completely free for everyone! We look forward to a time when we may once again open our doors and welcome all of our [...]
Sophomore Hayleigh Stonham ’22 is among only 15 undergraduates selected for the Mellon Summer Academy, to be held in August at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. This is the third consecutive year an Oglethorpe student has been selected. [...]
The Southeastern Pastel Society has awarded scholarships to two aspiring Oglethorpe art students. Scholarship recipient Julia Preston '22 explores the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. Art History majors Hayleigh Stonham '22 and [...]
On February 9, 2020, The Oglethorpe Museum of Art will offer free admission from noon to 5 p.m. for "Super Museum Sunday." As a part of the Georgia History Festival, this event highlights the founding [...]
The Oglethorpe University Museum of Art will once again participate in Smithsonian magazine's Museum Day, an annual national celebration of 'boundless curiosity'! Museum visitors will receive free admission at the museum on Saturday, September 21, [...]
A surprise sculpture, a book with a dark past and other treasures unveiled Torrential rain did not keep them away. Well before the opening hour of 9 a.m. on June 8, more than 30 people [...]
On June 8, the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art hosted 'Hidden Treasures Unveiled,' an Antiques Roadshow-inspired event, where attendees could bring their valuables and antiques for appraisal by specialists in fine art, decorative arts, Asian [...]
