College of Arts & Sciences

Antionette Reames, ’12, discovered her zeal for art when she was seven, after an Orlando city bus encounter with a young rider who held a sketch book.  “My mother and I noticed he kept looking at me,” Reames said. “She eventually walked over to ask, ‘Why do you keep staring at my daughter?’  He said that he was drawing a picture of me. I was sitting in a chair with my little teddy bear. When he showed us, I just knew that's what I wanted to do.” Years later, she did just that. Taking...

After traveling 24 hours by plane and a motorized rickshaw ride through the twisting streets of Udaipur, India, to their ‘haveli’ (hotel)—a mansion several centuries old—two Georgia College & State University students were exhausted and barely able to keep their eyes open. Although they hadn’t eaten, they said they just wanted to go to bed and sleep. Trudging to their rooms, the students looked out at the stunning city—the “Venice of India”—emerging from the serenity of a lake. All...

Story by GCSU senior Cale Strickland Dr. Evren Kutlay is the spring 2024 Martha Daniel Newell Visiting Scholar. Thanks to an endowment by Georgia College & State University alumna Martha Daniel Newell, experts in the arts, humanities and social and physical sciences have been visiting campus for over a decade. Kutlay is the embodiment of scholarship and the interdisciplinary nature of Georgia College’s liberal arts mission. Born and raised in Turkey, she developed a love for the piano...

Growing up, studio fine art senior Mattie Thompson of Savannah was never one to color inside the lines. Instead, she spent most of her life not believing in her art ability until her sophomore year of high school. She took a class in painting in order to graduate and fell in love with it.  Thompson’s creation “Milly Squared” was on display at the Leland Gallery in November as part of Georgia College & State University’s Art Department exhibit, “Ephemera.” The exhibit celebrated senior...