Rosenbaum Mural

The World at Large

The Art Rosenbaum Mural at the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts

Art Rosenbaum (1938-2022) was a world-renowned Athens artist, musician, and folklorist who was a professor of art at UGA for 30 years. In 2001, he created a mural in the offices of the Willson Center (then known as the UGA Center for Humanities and Arts and located on the first floor of the Psychology Building) titled “The World at Large.” Though the Willson Center relocated to its current location on Lumpkin St. in 2013, the mural remains in Psychology Room 164 today.

“A great university provides opportunities of all kinds for its scientists, scholars, artists, teachers, students, and visitors to explore the world scientifically, sociologically, aesthetically, and culturally and to make significant contributions to our global society’s intellectual and artistic life. One such contribution, the newly created mural by Art Rosenbaum in the Center for Humanities and Arts, communicates the splendid variety of activities that the University of Georgia sponsors in the humanities and the arts at the beginning of the twenty-first century.”

Karen A. Holbrook
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs (1998-2002)
The University of Georgia
2001