Augusta University experts are available to comment on issues relating to the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, cybersecurity and election meddling, the importance of ballot design, neuropolitics, and physical bias against female candidates.
Paper ballots may be safe from hackers, but they are not safe from voter error.
Starting this fall, students can participate in a new, intimate Living Learning Community dedicated to the arts.
What are "wicked" problems, and how do we solve them? One hint: User innovation is key.
The Ceramics & Sculpture Studio has nearly doubled its size and includes dedicated facilities for each step in the creative process.
Hosted by the College of Nursing, the LASER Talks will be a collaborative presentation of the College of Nursing and the Department of Art & Design.
Augusta University has named Scott Thorp, the university’s chair of the Department of Art and Design, associate vice president for Interdisciplinary Research. His role became effective January 8, 2018. In this part-time position, Thorp will act as an advocate for the university’s research...
On Friday, Feb. 10, at the opening of the Outliers exhibition at the Westobou Gallery on Broad Street, Scott Thorp, chair of the Augusta University Department of Art, announced a partnership between the Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and Westobou that will provide more...
Throughout the month of January, the Department of Art invites the Augusta University community to visit the Mary S. Byrd Gallery of Art to see works by artist Amy Pleasant. Known within the contemporary art world for her drawings, paintings and ceramic sculptures, Pleasant’s exhibition will...
Augusta University’s Department of Art, collaborating with the College of Education, will host a second LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talk on Tuesday, Sept. 13, from 6-8 p.m. in the JSAC Ballroom, located on the university’s Summerville Campus. The forum, part of a world...
“Augusta is the perfect city for building a transformative art department. The timing and circumstances are right,” Scott Thorp, chair of the Department of Art at Augusta University, writes in a new blog. Read about efforts to grow the program with new career-focused art majors...
The work of Master of Fine Arts students from across the state is currently on display at the Mary S. Byrd Gallery as part of Augusta University’s first ever Trifecta Exhibition. Curated by MFA students Jessamy McManus and Courtney Ryan of Georgia Southern University, the exhibition, which runs...
In 2005, Cheryl Goldsleger, Augusta University’s William S. Morris Eminent Scholar in Art, had an exhibition at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington. When she returned for another exhibition in 2013, the academy had started a program called DC Art and Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER)...
New York. Chicago. San Francisco. Washington. Augusta, Georgia. These cities all have one thing in common. They were included in a top 10 list of U.S. cities for art lovers by AARP. Augusta has a vibrant, and growing, art community that includes the Morris Museum of Art, Gertrude Herbert Institute...
Augusta University Art Department Chair Scott Thorp will be speaking at ICONIC, the second gallery exhibition at the Community Gallery of Augusta. The show, juried by Thorp, will have an opening reception from 5-9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 4, at 600 Broad Street, and run through the month of December...
Leadership Augusta, the long-running leadership development program, is getting a big dose of Georgia Regents University Thursday as it turned its attention to the arts. Known for his ideas about creativity, Scott Thorpe, chair of the Department of Art, gave a presentation, as did Dr. Samir Khleif...
Scott Thorp has a long and storied history of artistic study. Thorp, who was named chair of the art department earlier this year, previously worked at the Savannah College of Art and Design as a professor and as design coordinator for the school of foundation studies. Before that, he lived and...
In the national conversation on racial inequity, one group is continuously left on the sideline-those who were here first. Given that Native Americans precedently inhabited America, one would think their inalienable rights should at least match those of any settlers. But as history demonstrates...
Scott Thorp has big plans for Georgia Regents University’s Department of Art, and creativity plays a huge role in what he aims to do. Thorp, recently named chair of the art department, joined the university in July. Previously, he worked at the Savannah College of Art and Design as a professor and...
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