Facilities
The Murphey Art Building contains 10,000 square feet of floor space designed exclusively for the teaching of visual arts. The building includes facilities for art history, drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics, graphic design and photography. Art students have access to an eighteen seat Macintosh lab, large format color printers, individual studio spaces in painting, pottery wheels, gas and electric kilns, woodworking tools, stone carving equipment, large printmaking presses, and a photography darkroom with eighteen enlargers.
Galleries
Wesleyan College has three professional art galleries with an active exhibition schedule.
The Cowles Myles Collier West Gallery exhibits the College’s collection of paintings, prints, furniture, and objects. These include works by Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Karel Appel, and Kress Foundation works by Late Renaissance Venetian painter Cima de Conegliano, and Venetian Rococo painter Gaspare Diziani.
The Cowles Myles Collier East Gallery hosts monthly exhibitions by invited artists and periodic exhibitions by Wesleyan art students.
The Frances P. and Dennie L. McCrary Gallery also hosts exhibitions by invited artists, and is an additional venue for the exhibition of student work, as well as a space for formal critiques of student work.
Wesleyan College, Department of Art, 4760 Forsyth Rd., Macon, GA 31210, 478-757-5189.