Julie Green's "The Last Supper" is on display at the Georgia Museum of Art

Thanks to a generous loan from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art as part of Art Bridges’ Partner Loan Network, the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is displaying plates from Julie Green’s “The Last Supper” series through August 16. Green painted each secondhand ceramic plate with cobalt blue mineral paint to illustrate death row inmates’ final meal requests as well as the state and date of their execution. Green, who used gender-neutral pronouns, planned to create 50 plates every year until they reached 1,000 plates or until capital punishment was abolished — whichever came first. They completed the thousandth plate in September 2021, one month before their death. Of the 1,000 plates, the Georgia Museum has selected 377 that focus on the Southeast and neighboring states, encouraging local viewers to consider how their