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Columns::September 4, 2001
UGA cannot use race in making admissions decisions, court rules
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Work in progress
Campus Closeup
Kudos
Banking division changes its name to Bursar’s Office
Spatig is appointed the new associate director of admissions
Campus Scenes
Slice of (a writer’s) life
Campus News
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| Art Rosenbaum’s mural ‘The World at Large,’ celebrating the programs sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and Arts, is on display in the center offices in the psychology building. Photo by Peter Frey |
‘World’ premiere
New mural depicting humanities and the arts at the university will be unveiled September 4
By Jennifer Messer
jlmesser@uga.edu
Art Rosenbaum, the first Wheatley Professor in the Fine Arts at UGA, will unveil his newest mural, The World at Large, on Sept. 4 in the Center for Humanities and Arts, located in room 164 of the psychology building. The center will celebrate the
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| Rosenbaum overpainted the prepared surface in acrylic paints. Photo by Peter Frey |
completion of the mural with a four-day, public open house, from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Sept. 4-7.
Rosenbaum will present a public lecture discussing the mural on Sept. 6 at 5:30 p.m. in room 117 of the visual arts building.
Rosenbaum’s mural celebrates the programs sponsored and organized by the Center for Humanities and Arts at the beginning of the 21st century. It immortalizes the engagement of faculty, students and visitors from around the world in a variety of activities: dance, music, drama, photography, film, art, poetry and scholarship.
The mural also commemorates the efforts of the center to increase intercultural understanding. It pays tribute to President Jimmy Carter and Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, the first two recipients of the Delta Prize for Global Understanding, a joint project of the Center for Humanities and Arts and UGA’s Center for International Trade and Security.
“When the Center for Humanities and Arts moved into the psychology building, I was delighted to have an area given to us to redesign as a conference room,” says Betty Jean Craige, the center’s director. “The long wall gave me the opportunity to invite Rosenbaum to create a mural that would depict the humanities and the arts at the university. A wonderful feature of this work of art is that it need never be destroyed, because it has been painted on canvas that can be removed from the wall and transferred to another wall should the building ever be razed.”
Rosenbaum began work on the mural in the center’s conference room in January 2001. While the work was in progress, faculty brought their classes to view the unfinished mural. Carmon Colangelo, director of the Lamar Dodd School of Art, brought the school’s board of visitors, and Rosenbaum brought his own painting students, some of whom he had portrayed in the mural.
Rosenbaum, who has taught at UGA since 1976, executed previous mural commissions at the University of California at Los Angeles Law School (1973), in Dothan, Ala. (1993), and at Chateau Elan Winery near Braselton (1989).
He has been a recipient of many awards for studio work and teaching, including a Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts individual artist fellowship in 1985, a Fulbright teaching professorship to Germany in 1984-85 and a Sandy Beaver teaching professorship at the University of Georgia from 1994 to 1997. He was a senior teaching fellow at UGA in 1998-99, and was named the first Wheatley Professor in the Fine Arts in 2001.
Rosenbaum also is a performer, collector and scholar of traditional folk music. His fieldwork in Georgia, Indiana, New York and Scotland has produced archival material in the Indiana University Folklore Archives, the University of Georgia Libraries and the Archives of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
As a solo performer, he has appeared in major folk festivals in the United States and Europe, and has played banjo in several tradition-oriented string bands.
His books include Old-Time Mountain Banjo, Folk Visions and Voices: Traditional Music and Song in North Georgia and Shout Because You’re Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition on the Coast of Georgia.
From his field work have come over 20 documentary audio recordings (LPs, cassettes and CDs), which he produced and annotated; radio and television documentaries; and several books which he wrote and illustrated. |
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