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Art Museum awarded five honors in publication competition

The Southeastern Museum Conference, a regional museum professional organization, has awarded the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art five different honors in the 21st Annual SEMC Publication Competition contest this year. The winning entries were announced and displayed at the annual meeting in Charleston, W.Va., from Oct. 13 through Oct. 16 of this year.

Four of the awards were directed to the JCSM's outstanding in-house designs, which included: the catalogue and invitation for "Dale Kennington: Subjective Mythologies," which captured two gold awards; the September

through December 2008 museum newsletter and the 2009 Auburn University Art Department Studio Faculty Catalogue, which both garnered silver awards; and honored with a silver award for content was the publication "A Present for My Country" John James Audubon's American
Voice by Taylor Littleton.

For more information on this and other activities contact Marilyn Laufer, JCSM director by calling 844-1486 or by e-mailing her at laufema@auburn.edu.

Museum to showcase 'Advancing American Art'
The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art is featuring a selection of some of the museum's most treasured pieces from its "Advancing American Art" collection. The exhibit opened on Oct. 24 and will run through Jan. 23 in the Chi Omega-Hargis Gallery. The 36 paintings and works on paper in this collection constitute one of the most significant components of the museum's permanent collection. Acquired by Auburn University in 1948, when Auburn was known as Alabama Polytechnic Institute, they were originally part of a group of artworks assembled by the U.S. State Department in 1946 to demonstrate the ascendancy of American modern art. The current exhibition features paintings by Arthur Dove, Jacob Lawrence, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe and Ben Shahn. For more information on the works of art in the museum's "Advancing American Art" collection, go to this link.

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