Category: Artwork
Book Club: The Private Lives of the Impressionists
Thursday, January 26 6 pm The Private Lives of the Impressionists By Sue Roe From Art theft to the scandalous lives of artists, the museum’s book club is never boring. January’s book club selection will transport readers to the studios, salons and rowdy riverside bars of Paris as readers discuss The Private Lives of the Impressionists by Sue Roe. Filled with maps and illustrations, Roe’s book is a lively biographical take on the key artists of the impressionist movement. Book club will also include a
Congrats to our Share Your Landscape Winner
Congratulations to Barbara Hacha, who’s photograph First Light won the Akron Art Museum’s Share Your Landscape contest. Thank you to all who submitted your favorite landscapes. Here’s what Barbara had to say about First Light, “…is a photograph I took at dawn from the basket of a hot air balloon as we were ascending near the Sangre Crista mountains near Albuquerque, NM. It was absolutely quiet, except for the intermittent sound of the burner firing and the yips of coyotes below.”
Holiday mART Artist Spotlight: Jennifer Worden
In few words, how would describe the style of the pieces that you will be selling at Holiday Mart? My pieces lean towards the modern; I’ll have recycled glass table-top trees created for this holiday season, in addition to recycled glass wall art and recycled glass in copper jewelry. What is your art background? The only formal training I’ve had was a pottery class in high school. When it comes to my glass work, I’m self taught. I spent more hours that I can recall researching glass
Art Blooms! Kaleidoscope 2011 Opening Day!
September 22-25, 2011 Akron Art Museum paintings, sculptures and Paula Nadelstern’s kaleidoscope quilts are coming to life in the form of flowers. Akron Garden Club is returning to the museum with Art Blooms! Kaleidoscope 2011, a Garden Club of America (GCA) flower show, with exhibits in floral design, horticulture, photography and botanical jewelry. • Floral designs inspired by the exhibitions displayed throughout the galleries • Fine art landscape and horticultural photographs • Hand-crafted dried botanical jewelry • And more! WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY! To
Detroit Disassembled Opening Reception at Queens Museum of Art
Andrew Moore’s photographs of the Motor City are sublime—beautiful, operatic in scale and drama, tragic yet offering a glimmer of hope. They are the subject of Detroit Disassembled, an exhibition organized by the Akron Art Museum and currently on view at the Queens Museum of Art in New York. On Sunday, September 18 the Queens Museum of Art is hosting an opening reception. Spending three months in Detroit during 2008 and 2009, Moore found its citizens’ mood to be resilient and resourceful rather than tragic.
Inspiration from an Akron Art Museum Visit
By Bridgette Beard, Communications Assistant Earlier this year the Art & Nature elective class from Old Trail School visited us after learning about Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s use of fabric, cloth and textile. The students were able to view Christo’s Wrapped Walk Ways (Project For J.L. Loose Park, Kansas City, Missouri), 1978,in the Art Inspection room because it is not currently on view at the Akron Art Museum. Inspired by this work they returned back to school to plan “Covered Light Posts,” an environmental installation. This
Kusama Chair on World Tour; Sculpture by Donald Lipski on View in June
By Bridgette Beard, Communications Assistant If you have been in the museum in the last couple weeks you might have missed something in our Sandra L. and Dennis B. Haslinger Family Foundation Gallery. Where there was once two iconic chairs by Yayoi Kusama, there now is only one…for the time being. Akron Art Museum’s white Arm Chair has left the Akron Art Museum to become part of a world tour retrospective of Yayoi Kusama organized by the Tate Modern in London, England. ABOUT YAYOI KUSAMA