Visual Art Exhibitions and Galleries
explore our galleries, experience contemporary art
Our galleries showcase contemporary artists and provide dedicated spaces for our UWG student artists to exhibit their work. Galleries are open to throughout the fall and spring semesters with an active exhibition schedule. We also invite talented artists and art historians to give talks throughout the academic year, creating opportunities for further demonstrations and discourse.
Admission is free to campus and community.
Exhibitions and EventsGallery Spaces Facilities
Exhibitions and Events
Charly Palmer: Blackwell Prize in Painting
Charly Palmer: Blackwell Prize in Painting
Artist Talk:
Tuesday, October 8 / 6 p.m.
Campus Center 108, UWG Carrollton
Exhibition: October 1-25
Reception and Gallery Talk:
Wednesday, October 16 / 5-8 p.m.
The Vault Gallery, Newnan
This year's Blackwell Prize in Painting winner, Atlanta-based artist Charly Palmer, is known for saying “Art should change the temperature in a room.” And for more than 30 years, his art has spoken for itself. In every painting, Palmer bears witness to African ancestry and contemporary experiences—rhythmic, visual stories that shift what each viewer believes. Read more
Dominic Lippillo: Stories We Tell Ourselves
Dominic Lippillo: Stories We Tell Ourselves
October 10-31, 2024
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 10, 5-7 p.m.
3rd Floor Library Gallery
In Stories We Tell Ourselves, memory, landscape, and vernacular images coalesce in a series of constructed photographs. Read more.
Gallery Spaces
Visual Arts Building Gallery
The Visual Arts Building showcases a range of exhibitions in its gallery and provides a space for students to learn by experience, curating their own shows to prepare for professional careers.
The Vault Gallery
The Vault Gallery is a state-of-the-art designed space inside Newnan's Wadsworth Auditorium that holds diverse exhibitions of community interest in partnership with the City of Newnan.
Emergency Art Gallery
A boutique micro-gallery for installations, the Emergency Art Gallery is located in the exit for classroom 1301 in the TLC Building.
The closest parking lot is beside the Townsend Center.
Gallery Spaces
facilities
Humanities Building: Studios for painting, drawing, and animation; labs for photography and graphic design; and classrooms for art education and history are located in the newly renovated Humanities Building, a 30+ million dollar state-of-the-art project, redesigned specifically for the arts.
Visual Arts Building: Visual Arts Building is also a new space created to house a printmaking studio, sculpture studio and foundry, and ceramics studio.
Campus Map
Locate buildings and parking for our UWG Carrollton venues and facilities on the campus map or consult the above directions for each venue via Google Maps.