UPCOMING EXHIBITS (Subject to change.)

For more information, contact Teri Williams at 404-894-6663 or send an email.

Thanks to special funding from the Mead Witter Foundation and other donors, we have expanded our changing exhibit space.

The South in Black and White: The Works of James E. Routh Jr., 1939-1946
July 20, 2009 – October 2, 2009
The Robert C. Williams Paper Museum will present the exhibition The South in Black and White: The Works of James E. Routh Jr., 1939-1946 from July 20 through October 2, 2009. Organized by the Georgia Museum of Art, this landmark exhibition of James Routh's work contains prints and drawings of images gathered on his travels throughout the South during the Depression.

James Routh was born in New Orleans in 1918 but grew up in Atlanta. Routh graduated from Oglethorpe College, now Oglethorpe University, and then studied at the Art Students League in New York. Routh then applied for a Rosenwald fellowship to fund his proposed travel through the South. He planned to gather information for a series of prints, stating that he wanted to "paint a number of pictures concerned simply with scenes of everyday life in the South."

This exhibition contains the images that resulted from Routh's travel in 1940 and 1941 as a result of the fellowship. Routh sketched as he traveled through Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana during the hard years of the Depression, then later created prints and paintings from those drawings.

Washi: The World of Japanese Paper, Photographs from the Sukey Hughes Collection
October 15, 2009 – January 28, 2010
In conjuction with the Friends of Dard Hunter Annual Meeting.

Friends of Dard Hunter Juried Exhibition
October 16, 2009 – January 4, 2010
Open in the Neely Room of the Georgia Tech Main Library.