​Touring the Albany Museum of Art and writing about an art object will be especially profitable for three high school students and three college students.
 
The AMA’s annual A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words essay contest launches Aug 31 and continues through Oct 1. The top three essayists in each of the two categories—high school and college—will receive cash prizes at an awards ceremony scheduled for Thursday, Oct 14 at the museum.

​European Splendors: Old Master Paintings from the Kress Collection opens Thursday, Aug 26, 2021 at the Albany Museum of Art with a special opening reception for AMA members.

​The exhibition opens to the public on Friday, Aug 27.

The exhibition of 29 Renaissance and Baroque paintings was organized by the Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, S.C., with support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in New York. It was made possible at the AMA through support from the Walter and Frances Bunzl Family Foundation.

​“The AMA is deeply honored to host these rare examples of Renaissance and Baroque painting from the Columbia Museum of Art and its incomparable Kress Collection,” AMA Executive Director Andrew J. Wulf, Ph.D., said. “This partnership is a symbol of what great alliances can accomplish as we share these cultural treasures with all our communities in Southwest Georgia.”