Category: Akron Art Museum
Countdown to Gift Giving: Day 15
Love yesterday’s Ollin Arm Candy bags? Show off your favorite candy fixation with Ollin Arm Candy Headbands. Using the same technique and materials as the bags, these headbands have no-pull elastic at base of neck to keep them in place.
Countdown to Gift Giving 2012: Day 16
Ollin Arm Candy bags are created using ancient Mayan techniques, but don’t think these are artifacts! Defective candy wrappers are upcycled to create several styles, including clutches, wristlets, purses and weekenders. It can take up to four thousand wrappers and four days for an artisan to create each tear-free and durable bag.
Countdown to Gift Giving 2012: Day 17
Art is very sweet with these Andy Warhol chocolate bars. Add a little bit of milk or dark chocolate wrapped in some of Warhol’s most famous quotes to your art-lover’s stocking this holiday.
Countdown to Gift Giving 2012: Day 18
Games by Funnybone Toys incorporate strong design principles to stimulate creativity and give your brain a workout. These games are designed to be enjoyed by players of all ages. ARRAY: Connect the cards to build a beautiful array of colors. You can play Array on a table – but for even more fun, play it on the floor and see how big your array can grow! CUBU: Visual illusion leads to confusion as you try to follow number and color sequences, don’t forget to watch
Countdown to Gift Giving 2012: Day 19
Small Business Saturday falls between Black Friday and Cyber Monday and is dedicated to driving sales to small businesses on one of the busiest holiday shopping weekends of the year. This countdown item also comes with an in-store discount. Some of the most popular products in the museum store, especially during the holiday season, are those that feature Winter Evening. By regional artist Raphael Gleitsmann, this painting – part of the museum’s collection and on view in the McDowell Galleries – documents Akron’s bustling Main
Countdown to Gift Giving 2012: Day 20
We are starting this year’s countdown with something every gift-buyer needs: wrapping paper. Don’t just wrap your presents in generic paper this holiday season! These exciting designs are the by-products of creating fine art and are actual photos taken of surfaces in the artists’ studios. Alternatively, if animal prints are more your style, we have that too. The Akron Art Museum is the exclusive venue in Ohio to carry this all-occasion, high quality paper from Wrapped LA.
Photographic Masks from the Collection
By: Eric Parrish, Curatorial Research Assistant In the spirit of Halloween, the Akron Art Museum offers its patrons a slideshow of photographic masks ranging from the literal to the abstract. You can also visit many of these works at www.AkronArtMuseum.org/collection. Perhaps the most innocent mask-wearers in the collection are the three young children – depicted wearing paper cut-out masks and standing patiently on a door-step – in Helen Levitt’s New York (1939). In contrast, Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s 1960 photograph of a boy with a masked
Studio Glass Movement
Take a peek inside a glass studio in this short video chronicling the humble beginnings of the Studio Glass Movement in a Toledo, Ohio garage under the guidance of Harvey Littleton and Dominick Labino. Learn more about the rise of the studio glass workshop in 1962 and get a look at several beautiful pieces made throughout the history of the movement. Stop into the museum to view our collection of glass sculptures by Paul Stankard and current exhibition New Artifacts: Works by Brent Kee Young
The Q Is Blue!
By Corey Jenkins, Communications Intern One of the first things visitors to the museum see is Claes Oldenburg’s bright pink sculpture Inverted Q. However if you are Vincent van Gogh, who one vision expert believes suffered from “protanopia,” the Q would appear to be blue. The Chromatic Vision Simulator app for iOS/Android was developed by Japanese vision expert, Kazunori Asad. After viewing some of Van Gogh’s pieces in an exhibition where the lighting and environment was designed to display pieces the way a colorblind person
Last Downtown@Dusk of the Summer ft. Zydeco Kings
Thursday, August 9 6:30 – 9:30 pm Come see the Zydeco Kings perform live at the Akron Art Museum on Thursday from 6:30 – 8:30 pm as part of the museum’s popular Downtown@Dusk concert series. Also enjoy a lecture from Collection Manager Arnold Tunstall, ArtCamp@Dusk for the kids, hot dogs and a cold beer from Elevator Brewing for adults. This is the LAST Downtown@Dusk of the season and is also a great chance to purchase work from local artists. The Zydeco Kings have been celebrating