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Downtown@Dusk: JD Eicher & The Goodnights
Thursday’s Downtown@Dusk concert will feature Light Rock band JD Eicher & The Goodnights from 6:30-8:30 pm. Concert goers can also enjoy Short Films curated by Akron Film+Pixel and food from Old Carolina BBQ while kids make fun and wacky art during the museum’s ArtCamp@Dusk. Attendees will be delighted by JD Eicher & The Goodnights soft, rich music this Thursday. The band, comprised of JD Eicher (vocals/guitar), Dan Prokop (keys), Jim Merhaut (bass) and Ryan Kirk (drums/percussion), provides listeners and audiences with exceptional subtle pop music.
Surrealist Game: The Exquisite Corpse
By: Alison Caplan, Director of Education The Surrealists didn’t have Apples to Apples or Pictionary in their day, but they did participate in parlor games that helped get their creative juices flowing. In the 1920’s, surrealist artists played a game based on chance and accident called Exquisite Corpse. The goal of the game was to make a kind of collaborative collage using words or drawings. The name Exquisite Corpse is the result of an early game, where the finished sentence read “The exquisite corpse will
Downtown@Dusk: The Wanda Hunt Band
Downtown@Dusk continues this Thursday, July 25 from 6:30-8:30 pm with a performance from the oldschool R&B group Wanda Hunt Band. Concert attendees can also enjoy a discussion from musician Jacob Trombetta and food from Old Carolina BBQ while kids can participate in hands-on art activities during ArtCamp@Dusk. Concert goers will be fully entertained by the big band instrumentation and outstanding musicianship of the Wanda Hunt Band. For twenty years, the Wanda Hunt Band has been delighting audience across Northeast Ohio with an impressive rhythm section,
This is Real! Installing Real/Surreal at the Akron Art Museum
By: Liz Carney, Curatorial Assistant Have you ever wondered what happens behind closed gallery doors when the museum is changing its exhibitions? Lots of work goes into installing an exhibition. Most importantly, it takes a lot of time and care to take works of art from their crates to the gallery walls. Each artwork comes in its own travel frame, which is specially padded and shaped to fit it. Paintings are usually bolted to the bottom of their travel frames to keep them from shifting
Downtown@Dusk: Horns and Things
The museum’s popular Downtown@Dusk concert series will continue on July 18, 2013 from 6:30-8:30 pm with a performance from the contemporary jazz ensemble Horns and Things. Concert goers can also enjoy a gallery talk with Chief Curator Janice Driesbach and food from Urban Eats while kids partake in fun art activities during ArtCamp@Dusk in the museum’s classroom. Attendees will thoroughly enjoy Horns and Things’ dynamic and explosive sound during their performance this Thursday. This vivacious group has been performing live around the country for over
Downtown@Dusk: The Speedbumps
This week’s Downtown@Dusk features Kent-area band the Speedbumps. Concert attendees can also enjoy a discussion from Collections Manager Arnold Tunstall and food from Old Carolina BBQ while kids are entertained by fun art activities during ArtCamp@Dusk in the museum’s classroom. Concert goers will be delighted by the Speedbumps’ eclectic sound and organic feel. Through the utilization of hollow-bodied instruments like cello, upright bass, ukulele and acoustic guitar, the Speedbumps produce music that is both approachable and relatable to any audience. The Speedbumps have opened for
Preparing for Real/Surreal
By: Janice Driesbach, Chief Curator This week, painters came in to work on one of the galleries where we are installing Real/Surreal , changing the walls from white to dark blue and gray. For much of the past month, Joe Walton (our Chief Preparator and Exhibition Designer) and Chris Ross (Preparator) have been working with curators to determine the design of our installation. Part of that process involves painting color samples and placing them in a ½-inch scale model of the museum’s galleries. This allows
Real/Surreal is Coming Soon
By: Janice Driesbach, Chief Curator It’s just over four weeks before Real/Surreal opens and Akron Art Museum curatorial, education and design staff have been planning the installation for months. Although the exhibition is organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, we are personalizing it for our Akron visitors. Our efforts respond to input we received from our constituents in surveys and a focus group last fall. We learned our visitors are interested in knowing about the historic context in which the artists were working,
On View Now: Changes to the 1899 Building
Did you know that every few months, our collection galleries change? Rotating the selection of artwork on view enables more of the museum’s collection of over 5,000 objects to be displayed, helps to protect fragile works, and creates an ever-changing visitor experience. Last week, museum curators treated staff to a gallery talk about three works recently installed in the museum’s 1899 building. These works are in close proximity to one another, but are very diverse in their subjects and materials. Brinsley Tyrrell, Flooding, 2011 This
First Downtown@Dusk of 2013 is Thursday, June 20!
Beginning June 20, the popular free concert series Downtown@Dusk will return for its 29th season with Lost State of Franklin. Every Thursday this summer from 6:30-8:30 pm, the Akron Art Museum will be showcasing a lineup of fantastic music from a variety of local bands. Concert attendees can also enjoy a gallery tour with Director of Education Alison Caplan while kids are entertained by hands-on activities during ArtCamp@Dusk. The Cleveland rock-a-billy trio of Lost State of Franklin will entertain concert goers with their unique sound: