Underwood House Gallery
Location: 102 South Columbia Street | Milledgeville, GA 31061
Hours : Please call 478-445-4572 for exhibition hours, or to schedule an appointment.
Leland Gallery
Location: Ennis Hall | West Hancock Street | Milledgeville, GA 31061
Hours: Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Current Exhibits
MISSED ATTENDANCE – An Installation by Joseph Guay
In response to the 2018 mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, Guay began creating public art installations to capture complex opinions about the epidemic that has forced a generation of students to grow up practicing active shooter drills. Leland Gallery at Georgia College is proud to present “Missed Attendance,” a powerful installation that explores how gun violence has changed the American classroom, forcing us to consider: “What is the future of education?” Working within the frame of collective memory, Guay immerses us (physically and psychologically) in a memorial to lost lives and lost values.
Joseph Guay is a photographer, sculptor and conceptual artists with a studio practice in Atlanta Georgia. His visual art focuses on the political and social issues we face in America. His politically charged exhibition of paintings and sculptures entitled “Remnants of the Human Condition,” for example, paid tribute to Trayvon Martin, Alton Sterling, and Eric Garner, plus World Trade Center and Boston Marathon bombings, and Pulse Nightclub and Sandy Hook Elementary mass shootings. Guay’s work is represented in prominent private and public collections (such as of Elton John and the High Museum), and has been featured on CNN Español and in numerous publications including Billboard Magazine, Art Papers, Faces – Grafiche Dell’Artiere
MISSED ATTENDANCE
An installation by Joseph Guay
January 14 - February 11, 2026
Dorothy Leland Gallery | Ennis Hall
Georgia College Department of Art
A reception will be held on Wednesday, January 28, 2026 from 5-6:30 p.m. with an artist talk at 5:30p.m. in Leland Gallery.
Previous Exhibits
2025
Senior Capstone Exhibition: [ Synergy ] - Spring 2025
“Synergy” is a group exhibition showing the works of 14 students from the Department of Art at Georgia College & State University. This exhibit as a whole covers works in illustration, graphic design, painting, photography, and installation. This exhibition will run through April 16, 2025, at the Leland and Underwood galleries.
The Monuments Project
Julia Morrisroe, Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of Florida
January 13 - February 6, 2025
Dorothy Leland Gallery | Ennis Hall
GCSU Department of Art
A reception will be held on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 from 5-7p.m. with an artist talk at 5:30p.m. in Leland Gallery.
Funding Provided by the Mamie Padgett Foundation.
2024
Capstone Exhibition
Class of 2024
Friday, October 25th - Wednesday, Nov 15th
Reception: Wednesday, November 13th: 5:00 to 6:00pm
ETHIOPIC: Writing System of Africa
Abraham Abebe
https://anbassadesign.com/
September 19- October 17
Reception, Wednesday September 25, 5pm-7pm
The project aims to develop a multi script type family for use in publication and way-finding system, supporting both Ethiopic and Latin. Its primary purpose is to ensure consistency, enhance aesthetics, improve legibility, facilitate navigation, and promote safety within the writing system. The typeface family offers a variable option, providing a range of weights to optimize performance and flexibility.
Abraham Abebe was born and grew up in Ethiopia. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Art, Graphic Design at the Georgia College & State University.
As a studio artist, Abraham exhibits regularly both in the USA and abroad. His paintings, drawings, and installations have been featured in eleven solo and more than fifty group exhibitions. Abraham is the author of an experimental typography book, “Professor Fuzo: Poems and Short Stories”, published in 2018, and a book of poetry, “Eggmel”, published in 2012. Both books were written in his native language Amharic. Abraham holds an MA degree in Type and Media from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK), The Netherlands, Postgraduate Certificate in Typeface Design from the Cooper Union, New York, Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art and Bachelor of Fine Arts (Cum Laude) with concentration in Graphic Design, Painting and Drawing from the University of Nevada Las Vegas, Associate of Art Degree with Distinction from Truckee Meadows Community College as well as Diploma of Vocational in Business Office Technology from Sierra Nevada Job Corps Center.
Jaime Johnson Aelavanthara
August 19- September 12, 2024
Reception- Wednesday August 28, 5pm-7pm
Tethered, sepia toned photograph from the series Where the Roots Rise
Jaime(Johnson) Aelavanthara grew up in the woods of Mississippi where whippoorwills, coyotes, and other wild animals outside her window became her daily melody. Jaime received her B.F.A. from the University of Mississippi in Imaging Arts & completed her M.F.A. in Photography at Louisiana Tech University in 2014. Currently an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Tampa department of Art + Design, her work explores themes of the human condition and an interconnectedness with nature. She has actively exhibited nationally and internationally in venues such as the Mississippi Museum of Art, SEITES Gallery, Canada, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Her work has been used as cover art for literary works including The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded (Persea Books, NY), and Venus in Furs (Roads Publishing, Dublin). Most recently, Aelavanthara won SOHO Photo Gallery’s 2017 International Portfolio competition and was awarded a solo exhibition at SOHO Photo Gallery, NY. Jaime Aelavanthara has been recognized as a finalist in 2014 and 2015 for the Clarence John Laughlin Award, which recognizes photographers who utilize the medium of photography for creative expression. In 2015, Aelavanthara won the Grand Prize in Maine Media Workshops’ international competition Character: Portraits and Stories that Reveal the Human Condition. Aelavanthara's work has received past funding through a visual arts fellowship award from the Mississippi Arts Commission in 2016.Her work is in public and private collections including the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, and the International House Hotel in New Orleans.
Capstone Exhibition (Class of 2024) October 25 - November 13
“Aspire” is a group exhibition showing the works of 4 students from the Department of Art at Georgia College & State University. This exhibit as a whole cover works in graphic design, illustration, print, multimedia and animation. This exhibition will run through November 15th 2024, at Leland Gallery in Ennis Hall.
Transeuntis Mundi Derive 01
Cândida Borges (Brazil/US) and Gabriel Mario Vélez (Colombia)
www.transeuntismundi.com
February 22 - March14, 2024
Reception February 22, 5-7p.m.
Rowing Forward Looking Back
Works by Hannah Israel
https://www.hannahisrael.net
January 8, 2024 - February 6, 2024
Reception and Artist Talk, January 25, 2024, 5-7p.m.
2023
Natural History Recomposed: New Paintings by T. David Downs
September 7 - October 19, 2023, Underwood House Gallery
Sergio Suarez: As a Revelation, Time Presents Itself…
August 21-September 14, 2023, Leland Gallery at Ennis Hall
Tear
Hannah March Sanders
September 21 – October 14, 2023
Reception and Virtual Artist Talk
October 5, 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Virtual talk at 5:30 p.m.
As a Revelation, Time Presents Itself…
Sergio Suarez
August 21-September 14, 2023
Reception and Artist Talk August 24, 5-7pm
ESTEBAN PATINO
Visiting Artist Exhibition
February 16 - March 16 2023
Reception March 7 5-6pm
Leland Gallery
Horsepower
Cedric Smith
January 12- February 9, 2023
Reception January 12th, 5-7pm