Art is Life Augusta

Anthony Shoals, Broad River, Georgia Oil on Canvas by Philip Juras

The Morris always has something fresh and interesting.  We love this very “Garden City” exhibition & lecture:

Description from the Morris Museum:

Sunday July 31st at 2 pm., Morris Museum of Art FREE to visitors. 

Lecture: Bartram’s Living Legacy. Dorinda Dallmeyer, director of the environmental ethics certificate program at the University of Georgia and editor of Bartram’s Living Legacy: The Travels and the Nature of the South, moderates a panel discussion about the book and William Bartram’s history. Participating essayists include artist Philip Juras, John Lane, associate professor and director of the Goodall Environmental Studies Center at Wofford College, and Dr. Drew Lanham, professor of wildlife biology at Clemson University. Reception and book signing follow.

The work of Philip Juras will be exhibited at the Morris until July 7th:

Philip Juras: The Southern Frontier, Landscapes
Inspired by Bartram’s Travels

While there are written descriptions of the Southern wilderness before European settlement—particularly by the eighteenth-century naturalist William Bartram—almost no images exist that document it. By recreating these images, Philip Juras acquaints viewers with many of the important and imperiled ecosystems that remain in the South today—remnant natural communities that benefit from greater public awareness. Juras, a native of Augusta and a graduate of the University of Georgia (where he earned a BFA in drawing and painting and a master’s degree in landscape architecture), lives and works in Athens, Georgia.