Dr. Gillian Slee's SOCI 2600 Social Problems class recently visited the Georgia Museum of Art where Alexis Gorby, the associate curator of academic and campus engagement, led students through a conversation about how artists represent and engage with social problems in their pieces.

Some of the pieces discussed included:
Artist: Julie Green
Last Supper
-Discussion around race, class, incarceration, and capital punishment

Artist: Nellie Mae Rowe (American, 1900 – 1982)
Doll (Date n.d.)
Medium Cloth, thread and found objects
Credit Line Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Sharon Cooper
-Discussion about race, gender, childhood, work, and privilege

Artist: Paul Cadmus (American, 1904 – 1999)
Playground (1948)
Medium Egg tempera on panel
Credit Line Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; University purchase
-Discussion about sexuality, relationships, youth, religion

Artist: O. Louis Guglielmi (American, born Egypt, 1906 – 1956)
Tenements (1939)
Medium Oil on canvas
Credit Line Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Eva Underhill Holbrook Memorial Collection of American Art, University purchase
-Discussion around urban poverty and housing