Category: Collection
Relief Podcast: Move
This monthly podcast brings listeners joy and comfort to their day. The Akron Art Museum’s staff shares insights from their own lives combined with conversations about the collection and interviews with regional artists and musicians. Join us the first Friday of every month at noon. LISTEN NOW! Move Gina talks about movement with Stephanie Petcavage, Collections Manager and Exhibition Registrar. Deep Dive with Sloane Sloane explores Honoré Guilbeau’s lithograph, For Art’s Sake. Shop Talk with Benedict Scheuer Relief Podcast Music Jordan King is a multi-instrumentalist
Relief Podcast: Adventure
This monthly podcast brings listeners joy and comfort to their day. The Akron Art Museum’s staff shares insights from their own lives combined with conversations about the collection and interviews with regional artists and musicians. Join us the first Friday of every month at noon. LISTEN NOW! Adventure Gina talks about adventure with Museum visitors. Deep Dive with Sloane Sloan explores Maurizio Pellegrin’s sculpture, The Sea. Shop Talk with Muti Relief Podcast Music Jordan King is a multi-instrumentalist based in Cleveland, Ohio. His various recording
To Uncertainty
Honoré Guilbeau had early aspirations as a dancer, but soon after enrolling in classes at the Art Institute of Chicago, she shifted her focus to printmaking. Her thoughts were never far from dancing however, and she often featured dancers and theater scenes in her works. In this print, the three dancers and their movements appear somewhat enigmatic. Their forms seem to emerge from the same core, yet they have separate upper bodies. Or, the figures could all represent the same dancer at different moments in
Cooking with the Collection: Patrick Nagatani
Learn the history of this Japanese-American dish along with the recipe.
Cooking with the Collection: Claes Oldenburg
What do you think Inverted Q would taste like? Maybe a little like strawberry?
Cooking with the Collection: Pablo Picasso’s Herb Soup
This recipe will carry you from the South of France to heaven on waves of tasty tonal values.
Unchanged: Seascapes
The photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto asked himself “What would be the most unchanged scene on the surface of the earth?”
Cooking with the Collection: William Merritt Chase
This regular series uses the Akron Art Museum’s collection as a source of inspiration for home-cooked meals. When I was invited to cook up a post for our Cooking with the Collection series, the first thing that came to my mind was cod — both the painting by William Merritt Chase that hangs in the museum’s McDowell Galleries and the tasty, flaky fish that I often enjoy eating at home. Turning to the painting first, I’m particularly glad to rope it in here because I’ve
Cooking with the Collection: Robert Motherwell
Talk about an abstract RECIPE that is not only driven by an unquenchable need for chocolate, but is also an expressionistic gesture drawing in food!
Cooking with the Collection: Claes Oldenburg
This regular series uses the Akron Art Museum’s collection as a source for inspiration for meals to cook at home. Links to recipes at the end of the post. Most visitors to the Akron Art Museum experience Claes Oldenburg’s work. He, with his wife Coosje van Bruggen, were the creators of Inverted Q, the large painted concrete sculpture occupying an honored position at the front door. While the keen observer might pick out the shape of the letter Q on first glance, this large form feels
