Join Dr. William U. Eiland, Director of Georgia Museum of Art, as he discusses the Highlighting Contemporary Art in Georgia exhibition initiative. Dr. Eiland will illuminate the collaborative nature of putting together the Cut & Paste exhibition as well as the museum's approach to connecting more Georgians to the arts.

This talk will be held on Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 6pm. The exhibition will be open before and after the talk. 

Free & Open to the Public

For more information, contact Virginia Howell at 404-894-5726 or Virginia.Howell@rbi.gatech.edu 

About Dr. Eiland: 

A native of Sprott, Ala., William Underwood Eiland is the director of the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia. He took a B.A. degree summa cum laude from Birmingham-Southern College and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Virginia.

Eiland has been the recipient of a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, a Danforth Teaching Fellowship at the University of Virginia, a research fellowship from the University of Georgia’s Willson Center for The Humanities and Arts, and a Museum Professionals Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has edited and contributed to more than 60 publications, including Art Papers, Georgia Journal, US Art, Ceramics Monthly, Southern Antiques and English Literature in Transition. Notably, Eiland authored The Truth in Things: The Life and Career of Lamar Dodd, published by the University of Georgia Press and Nashville’s Mother Church: The History of the Ryman Auditorium.

He has served on the boards of the American Association of Museums, the Southeastern Museums Conference and the Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries; was a trustee of the Association of Art Museum Directors; and was chairman of the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Advisory Panel for the National Endowment for the Arts. He also served as the vice chairman of the board of the American Association of Museums and has completed in 2015 a five-year term on the Accreditation Commission as its Vice-chair. Since 2013 he has been a trustee of the International Council of Museums.

Among his many honors, Eiland most recently received the American Alliance of Museums Distinguished Service Award, in recognition of his contributions to the field on a national level. In 2010, Eiland was inducted into Sigma Pi Kappa, an international fraternity of historical preservationists, and received the Outstanding Alumnus Award from Birmingham-Southern College. He received the James Short Award from the Southeastern Museums Conference in 2008, for distinguished service in the museum profession, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries in 2007.  

In addition to his service as director of the Georgia Museum of Art, he is on the graduate faculty of the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia.

Organized by the Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, and the Lyndon House Arts Center. This exhibit is supported in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. The Council is a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.