Truth in Art Panel Discussion with Shannon Morris and Alyson Vuley
November 14 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Free
Join Truth in Art jurors Alyson Vuley and Shannon Morris for a panel discussion. Topics will include selection criteria, jurying process, artist trends and themes, feedback, art appraisals, networking opportunities, and more.
This panel will be useful to any working artist who intends to exhibit their work and wants to learn more about curations, jurying, trends in the art world, and more.
This event is free and open to the public, and it will also be available for virtual attendance. While it is free, please do RSVP to let us know if you will attend online or in person.
Email info@steffenthomas.org to RSVP today.
About Alyson Vuley:
Alyson Vuley is the Executive Director of the Aiken Center for the Arts in Aiken, SC. Previously, Vuley led the Steffen Thomas Museum of Art, a single-artist museum located near Madison, Georgia. Highlights from her tenure as Museum Director of STMA include curating exhibitions including Queer Perspectives featuring 13 LGBTQ+ artists from across Central Georgia & Touch Grass: Steffen Thomas, Senora Lynch, Raven Waters, an environmentally focused exhibition developed in collaboration with the Georgia Writers Museum.
Previously, Vuley was the Community Programs and Festivals Coordinator at the North Carolina Museum of History where she had the honor of coordinating two long-standing cultural festivals: the American Indian Heritage Celebration & the African American Cultural Celebration. Before moving to North Carolina, Vuley lived in the Atlanta area where she managed children and family programs at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University and, long before that, was an art teacher for K-7th grade at The Atlanta School.
Vuley took a 12-year break from Atlanta to live in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, where she managed a small beachfront resort, raised her family, learned Spanish, made art, and had many adventures. Vuley grew up in the Adirondack Mountains in New York and has a BA in Visual Art from Antioch College.
About Shannon Morris:
Shannon Morris is an Atlanta-based curator and fine art appraiser.
Morris holds an M.A. in Art History from the Savannah College of Art and Design and has spent most of her career developing exhibition and educational programs for nonprofit art spaces and university galleries.
Her leadership profile includes tenures as Gallery Director for Spruill Center for the Arts, Atlanta and Augusta University’s Mary S. Byrd Gallery of Art. At the Byrd Gallery, she also served as Guest Curator for the Westobou Gallery and oversaw the procurement of a contemporary art collection for the Georgia Cyber Centre. As the selected recipient of the
2018 Ellsworth Kelly Award, she curated the solo exhibition Phygital Muse, by Atlanta artist Bojana Ginn.
She currently manages the estate of the late artist Philip Morsberger and offers fine art appraisals & curatorial services through her business, “the curator’s studio.” She serves on the Atlanta Art Fair Advisory Board & as a founding member of CurateHers ATL.
