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History of Art of the American West with Georgia Highlands College

Thursday, June 20 – Thursday, August, 22

Embark on a captivating exploration of the rich and diverse artistic heritage of the American West in this engaging class. Led by Seth M. Hopkins, Executive Director of the Booth Western Art Museum, participants will dive into the evolution of Western art over eight non-consecutive Thursday nights, beginning June 20th. Co-sponsored by the Booth Western Art Museum and Georgia Highlands College Continuing and Professional Education Department, this educational journey promises to inspire and enlighten art enthusiasts of all levels.

Course Outline

Session 1 – Earliest images of the West: works by the earliest arts in the West will be viewed within the context of American art of the time; includes artists George Catlin, Karl Bodmer, Alfred Jacob Miller and John Mix Stanley, plus the Hudson River School first generation

Session 2 – Landscapes of the West: panoramic views of the West will be discussed within the context of American art of the time, including a post Civil War shift in Western art, away from Native American subjects to the land itself, includes artists Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran and others, Hudson River School second generation

Session 3 – Remington, Russell and Friends: as early as the 1890s artists are looking back to a West that was, nostalgia becomes an important subject, looking at art by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell and their peers like W.R. Leigh, N.C. Wyeth and many others

Session 4 – Taos and Santa Fe Art Colonies: The Taos Society of Artists formed in the 1910s to promote the work of the members to museums and collectors, and bolster the markets for their work, twenty years later they had achieved most of their goals and no longer seemed necessary

Session 5 – The Cowboy Artists of America and Peers: The founding of the CAA in 1965 helps lead to an increased interest in traditional style art in the contemporary period, includes the four artists who founded the group, plus standouts like John Clymer, Frank McCarthy, Howard Terpning and Martin Grelle

Session 6 – The Miracles from IAIA: The early faculty and graduates from this school, founded in Santa Fe in 1962, help lead to an increased interest in Indigenous art in the contemporary period which stretches beyond the Native artists to others portraying the West in modern ways like Thom Ross, Kim Wiggins, Donna Howell-Sickles and Billy Schenck

Session 7 – Sculpture: Throughout the course most of the emphasis has been on paintings, during this session we full turn our attention to three dimensional art, and artists like James Earle Fraser, Phiminster Proctor, Frederic Remington, Harry Jackson, Allan Houser and John Coleman.

Session 8 – Photography: Throughout the course most of the emphasis has been on paintings, during this session we full turn our attention to photography, and investigate how the desire to shoot in the West drove much of the technical improvements made in the field, artists include Edward Curtis, Ansel Adams, Dorthea Lange, Imogene Cunningham, the Weston’s, Jay Dusard and Barbara van Cleev

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Art for Lunch: All About Spurs!

Wednesday, August 7, 12:15 pm – Booth Ballroom & Facebook Live

Larry Hobbs and Bruce Bartlett will be discussing what decides the value of antique American Cowboy spurs and pieces in their collection.

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Distinguished Songwriter Series – Adam Wheeler & Pat Alger

Distinguished Songwriter Series – Adam Wheeler & Pat Alger
Sunday, June 16, 2:00 – 4:00 pm

Presented by the Booth Writers Guild, the Distinguished Songwriter Series is a quarterly program hosted by singer-songwriter Scott Thompson that brings top Nashville songwriters to talk about their writing process, current projects and will also sing a few of their songs. Adam Wheeler has written for top singers such as Scotty McCreery and Clay Walker. Pat Alger has written many top country favorites such as “Small Town Saturday Night.”

Art for Lunch: Dave Trawinski

Wednesday, June 5, 12:15 pm – Booth Ballroom & Facebook Live

The Red River Wars of 1874
Booth Writers Guild President David Trawinski will share the research for his upcoming novel “The Untouched.” It is the genesis of events leading to and the outcome of the final effort to force the last band of the Comanche onto Fort Sill Reservation. He will highlight the Parker Fort Raid of 1836 and the Comanche raids on Linnville and Victoria Texas, including the “rescue” of Cynthia Ann Parker, the mother of future Comanche Warrior Chief Quanah Parker.

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Conversation and Book Signing with author of Longmire – Craig Johnson

Tuesday, June 4, 5:00 – 8:00 PM
Ballroom

Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Longmire mysteries, the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire. He lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population twenty-six. Don’t miss this chance to meet Craig and be some of the first to receive his newest book FIRST FROST available for purchase!

Art for Lunch: Artist Mark Lemon on the Alamo

Wednesday, May 1, 12:15 pm – Booth Ballroom & Facebook Live

Executive Director Seth Hopkins will interview artist Mark Lemon about his piece Storming the Alamo, March 6, 1836 and his depiction of the battle. This is one of the newest and largest paintings on display in the Museum.

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Art for Lunch: Allatoona and Monticello Dam

4.03.2024, 12:15 PM EDT

Georgia’s Allatoona Dam (1949) and California’s Monticello Dam (1957) are two of the many dams completed by the US Army Corps of Engineers. In the 1960 visual essay Death of a Valley, photographers Dorothea Lange and Pirkle Jones documented Monticello Dam’s construction and how it marked the end of Berryessa Valley. According to Lange and Jones, this resulted from America’s increasing water needs. Completed years before, Allatoona Dam was a precursor to Monticello in its design and construction. Today, both dams symbolize the ongoing need for fresh water. Christopher Purvis, the US Army Corp of Engineers Lead Ranger at Allatoona Lake, will present the origins and history of Allatoona Dam and how it compares to its western counterpart, Monticello Dam.

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Photography Public program with Bartow History Museum and Booth Western Art Museum Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lighting (Booth) & Picture Perfect (Bartow)

Thursday, March 21, 5:30 – 8:00 pm

5:30 pm – Join us at the Bartow History Museum for a viewing of the new camera and photography exhibit, Picture Perfect. Followed by a reception.

7:00 pm – Join us in the Bergman Theatre at the Booth Museum for a discussion on Lange and her work with guests Elizabeth Partridge (Long time Lange family friend and author of the book Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lighting) Dyanna Taylor (Lange’s granddaughter and maker of the 2014 film Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning for PBS American Masters) featuring images and clips from Taylor’s film biography.

Art for Lunch: The California School – Two Decades of Photographic Innovation

2.07.2024, 12:15 PM EDT

The California School – Two Decades of Photographic Innovation – Dorothea Lange to Edward Weston and Ansel Adams to Pirkle Jones. Collector and gallery founder Robert Yellowlees will explore the unique personal and professional synergies leading to iconic photographs of a Golden Period from the 1930’s-1950’s. with Minor White, Imogen Cunningham, Willard Van Dyke, Alma Levinson, Wyn Bullock and Brett Weston, they pushed limits and created new movements still influencing the art.

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Indigenous Concert – Fawn Wood

Sunday, January 28, 1:30 – 4:30 pm

Fawn Wood is a Cree and Salish musician from St. Paul, Alberta, Canada. She is most noted for her album Kakike, for which she won the Juno Award for Traditional Indigenous Artist of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2022. She will be performing at the Booth to talk about her musical career and share her influences. Fawn has developed a style of song that mimics her relationship with her people, herself, her family, and community.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ1P1K0sRj4

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