GCSU Museum

In conjunction with Georgia College & State University's liberal arts mission, the GCSU Museum galleries offer faculty, students, staff and the Middle Georgia community opportunities for exploration of interdisciplinary topics. It is also home to the Flannery O'Connor Room, a permanent exhibit honoring the life and career of GCSU's most famous alumna. The Museum has a fully equipped Education Room available for special occasions, lectures and programs and functions as the official Welcome Center for visitors and prospective students and their families.

GCSU Museum is free and is open to the public Monday – Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visitors should check the GCSU Museum website, or by calling (478) 445-4391 for a listing of holiday hours. GCSU Museum is open annually.

Specific inquiries may be addressed to the curator, Shannon Morris via email at shannon.morris@gcsu.edu.

Exhibitions:

Pretty/Much Collective + Not About Beauty,
January 18 - February 15, 2012.

These collaborative mail art installations are meant to explore and compare basic concepts of beauty and the relativity of its meaning. Artists in the Collective address the theme as they see fit by producing hand-made postcards. Through 2013, the postcards will be on tour, exhibited in a variety of venues as two-dimensional wall murals and/or three- dimensional house-of-cards installations. In the end, the project will become an artist exchange with each artist receiving postcards by other P/MC artists.

Project Background: This project was conceived and is curated by Juan Alberto Negroni, assisted by Jess Marie Walker as project director. In November 2010, Juan exhibited his third solo show at the The San Juan School of Interior Design, “Not About Beauty (Religion, Politics and other Failures),”. The exhibition was complemented with a mural wall piece composed of multiple original artists’ postcards produced by the members of Pretty/Much Collective. Artists who participated became part of the collective via invitation. The collective was founded by Juan in collaboration Jess Marie specifically to create this first installation of the project.

Original Project Description :: http://juanalbertonegroni.wordpress.com/ 2010/10/12/not-about-beauty/

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Pinky/MM Bass

Doug Baulos * Angel Cardona * Merrilee Challiss * Rob Clifton * Jon Coffelt * Alec Dartley * Kate Merritt Davis * Suzanne Endsley * Jose Gabriel * Tia-Simone Gardner * Wendi Flowers Goodwin * Shea Goodwin * Alexandra Jo Hancock Sutton * Vodka Irish * Lee Isaacs * Marie Kazalia * Janice Kluge * Chris Lawson * Jasper Justice * Lee Devin * Lilly Luis * Francisco Martí * Alex McClurg * Lisa Michitti * Juan Alberto Negroni * Antjuan Oden * Scott Peek * Courtney Peterson * Malvina Pukaluk * Sharon Sanderson * Little Shiva * April Saler Smith * Jordan Smith * Cayetano Valenzuela * Jess Marie Walker * Francisco Watlington * Paul Cordes Wilm * John Lytle Wilson and Dréa Zacharenko