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Sculpture added to GSU collection
Betty Foy Sanders' latest gift provides new dimension
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Betty Foy Botts, daughter of Betty Foy Sanders and former Georgia Gov. Carl Sanders, speaks Saturday about the newest addition to the Betty Foy Sanders Georgia Artists Collection Touching Ground, a ceramic stoneware sculpture by artist Debra Fritts. Sanders has donated more than 40 works to the collection since 1967.
Seated with her feet on the ground but catching herself as if preparing to rise, the woman in Touching Ground by Georgia ceramic artist Debra Fritts adds a three-dimensional form to a corner previously dominated by paintings of a soaring eagle and Coach Erk Russell. Touching Ground is the latest work that Betty Foy Sanders has given to Georgia Southern University for the Georgia Artists Collection, which she inaugurated in 1967. Her daughter Betty Foy Botts presented the sculpture Saturday at the GSU Center for Art and Theatre.
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