The 10th Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts will be held this weekend, from Thursday January 30 to February 1 hosted by the Georgia Museum of Art at the Georgia Center. Professor of Art History, Alisa Luxenberg will be participating in the conference presenting on her current research. In addition to Professor Luxenberg, Charlotte Gaillet, currently pursuing her Masters in Art History, will be presenting as well.  

Professor Luxenberg’s presentation is titled, “Double Reading, Trouble Meaning: Masonic Symbolism in Visual Art”. Luxenberg’s research on Freemasonry and art has resulted in a forthcoming volume edited with Reva Wolf, Freemasonry and the Visual Arts from the Eighteenth Century Forward: Historical and Global Perspectives. Learn more about Professor Luxenberg and her work here. Additionally, Charlotte Gaillet will present on a botanical journal, with her presentation entitled “A Botanical View of Georgia”.

The biennial Henry D. Green Symposium will publish all the papers proceeding the conference, resulting in a volume of published scholarship that celebrates the Decorative Arts as well as its history in the state of Georgia. The symposium, celebrating twenty years of the Decorative Arts, will have presentations this year on Georgia portraiture, colonial Georgia silver, Masonic symbolism in Georgia, porcelain decoration and historic preservation on the UGA campus and more.  

Schedule:  

Friday, January 31 (Event requires registration)  

10:05 AM “A Botanical View of Georgia,” Charlotte Gaillet, master’s student in art history, University of Georgia (introduction by Dale L. Couch)

Sponsored by the Material Culture & Arts Foundation

11:00 AM “Double Reading, Trouble Meaning: Masonic Symbolism in Visual Art,” Alisa Luxenberg, professor of art history, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia (introduction by Glen Eskew)

Sponsored by the MOTSTA Fund/the Community Foundation for Northern Virginia