Tag: inspiration
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
Relief Podcast: Reflection
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! Reflection Seema and Gina talk about the reflections and the various places we find them. Deep Dive with Sloane Sloan explores Dieter Appelt’s photograph Der Fleck auf dem Spiegel, den der Atemhauch schafft. Shop Talk with Tom Roese
Relief Podcast: Capture
This monthly podcast brings listeners joy and comfort to your 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! Capture Seema and Gina talk about the photography as an artist’s tool, choosing subjects for photographs, and what it means to be a photographer. Deep Dive with Sloane Sloan explores Daido Moriyama’s photograph Inu No Kioko Shusho (Memory
Relief Podcast: Togetherness
This monthly podcast brings listeners joy and comfort to your 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! Togetherness Seema and Gina talk about the different forms of “togetherness” and how people have fostered those moments over the past couple of years. Deep Dive with Seema: Thursday by Sam Gilliam Shop Talk with Terence Hammonds Printmaker
Relief Podcast: Nostalgia
This monthly podcast brings listeners joy and comfort for these uncertain times. 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! Nostalgia This week the topic is Joy. Seema and Gina talk about the fleeting nature of joy and where they’re finding joy in this challenging moment. Deep Dive with Seema: Strawberry Koolaid Heart by Bea Nettles Shop
From Rattles to Rothko: Art Babes at Akron Art Museum
by Dominic Caruso, Design, Marketing and Communications CoordinatorIn a recent online article (“From pacifiers to Picassos: Museums cater to a younger clientele”) for the Washington Post, contributor Vicky Hallett wrote about the growing trend for museums of all kinds to offer programming and specially-designed spaces for children as young as newborns. While some institutions have been at it for some time (the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia has been running a baby-tour program since 2007), others have created programs relatively recently, for number of different
Great Moments in Art #038; Ale
by Theresa Bembnister, Associate CuratorIn anticipation of this Friday’s Art & Ale (get your tickets here), I’ve assembled this list of three instances where beer inspired artists to create remarkable works of art. Jasper Johns casts beer cans in bronze to spite fellow artistTitle: Painted Bronze/Ale CansMedium: Oil on bronzeYear: 1960According to the now legendary story, Willem de Kooning, a painter known for his large-scale, gestural canvases, badmouthed gallerist Leo Castelli, exclaiming the “son-of-a-bitch” could sell two beer cans as art. When word reached Jasper
NEO Geo Studio Visits
By Theresa Bembnister, Associate CuratorIf philosopher Alan Watts is right, and museums are the places art goes to die, then the artist’s studio must surely be the birthplace of a work of art.For the record: I disagree with Watts. But I do relish the opportunity to see art in its native studio environment, before it’s displayed on the museum’s pristine walls. The context of an artist’s workspace offers clues as to how or why a particular artwork was made.Studio visits made up a large part
Venice Biennale, Part Three
Chief Curator Janice Driesbach recently travelled to Italy where she experienced the Venice Biennale 55th International Art Exhibition. This is the third post in a series of three. Read the first post here and the second post here. Venice is awash with tourists, although we had a nice conversation with a native Venetian one day. Among visitors, Italian seems to be the predominant language, followed by German. British and Australians are numerous among English speakers. An English couple we encountered directed us to the Richard