Workshop participants get an up-close view of artwork from the CAU Art Museum collection
We kicked off this semester’s first GLAM Faculty Development Workshop in Clark Atlanta University Art Museum’s object study classroom on August 20th. The museum’s newly created object study classroom is the perfect setting for close study of art works from the permanent collection that are rarely seen or exhibited. Dr. Maurita Poole, Director of Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, facilitated an insightful discussion on the creative process of two artists represented in their permanent collection. AUC faculty from multiple disciplines closely examined Roy DeCarava’s Pickets alongside Atlanta-based photographer Shelia Pree Bright’s photographs of protests in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. to consider how artists record and depict important current and historical events. Although DeCarava is most widely known as a photographer, the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum’s collection holds one of his earlier works on paper – a seriograph of two men walking a picket line.
