The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia (UGA) has announced a $1 million grant from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation.

The largest grant in the museum’s history will be used to reimagine and reinstall the museum’s permanent collection galleries and expand opportunities for UGA students, ensuring that they benefit from enhanced engagement with the museum’s collections and staff. The grant also will fund new acquisitions of contemporary art that will be installed in the galleries alongside the museum’s existing collection, creating new conversations, and suggesting new ways to see and organize knowledge. Going forward, the museum plans to generate ideas for new installations through conversations with contemporary artists.

“This generous grant from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation is truly transformative,” said museum director David Odo. “The foundation’s investment in the museum will enable us to think deeply and broadly about contemporary art and museum practice and to act boldly to implement research-based, meaningful change in the galleries.”

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