This year, as we transition to a purely digital entry process, I am pleased to report that the Museum received 255 submissions from 88 Wabash Area artists. Our juror, Dr. Gregory Gilbert of Knox College, was tasked with paring that group down to 50 (or so) accepted works; a task he tackled with great enthusiasm! [...]
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2010 Annual Student Exhibition- Selected High School Works of Art
It’s been an exciting week, and the results are finally in! This year’s juror, Mr. Bernard Hagedorn, selected 71 works to be included in the 43rd Annual Student Art Exhibition at the Swope. Selected entries, and awards given, may be found below the cut. This list is sorted by category, with awards appearing at the [...]
Annual Student Exhibition–Juror & Process
Once again the Swope Art Museum is proudly hosting the Annual Student Exhibition. An institution in itself, this exhibition has been recurring for forty-three years! That’s longer than any of the exhibiting students and most of the art teachers have been alive. And although the exhibition has been going on for so very long, we [...]
Mary Fairchild MacMonnies heads South
Mary Fairchild MacMonnies’ “Garden in Giverny” has gone out on loan for a three venue traveling exhibition.
The first object from the Swope Collection on loan for the 2010 exhibition season!
“Garden in Giverny” will travel with the exhibition “Impressionists in the Garden” to the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Art Museum, then to the Tampa Museum of [...]
Preparation and Programming for “Print Shop”
Here I am, fresh, young and encourageble and I have been given the task of curating four exhibitions on printmaking. Perhaps my background should be mentioned; I have a Bachelor of Fine Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (with printmaking as my major area of study) and a Master of Fine [...]
My Top Five
In keeping with the great and grand tradition of listing my top five _____(fill in the blank). I have decided to share my top five movies. Why here, why now, what has brought this on, you ask? The recent release of “The Watchmen” has had me thinking about my top five’s of a lot [...]
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
I started my day thinking I would write about the film, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. The adapted memoir of Jean-Dominique Beauby, former editor of Elle. It was the most visually interesting film I have seen in a long time. It is shot from Beauby’s perspective, literally seen through his eyes, as he struggles [...]
Holiday at the Museum
Over the past few days, as I’ve prepared for the upcoming holidays and the exhibition openings that follow shortly there after, I could not help but think about “A Night at the Museum”. The Robin Williams and Ben Stiller film about the new night security guard (Stiller) and his adventures with the things inside the [...]
Home at Work & Working at Home
The other day, in a staff meeting (yes EVERYBODY has them these days), someone who shall not be named suggested that I write a post about what it’s like to be a working artist and an artist who also goes to work. If I kept this post short I would say “Stressful, fun and time [...]
Indiana art educators networking event.
Networking!
I love networking, or smoozing as it’s more commonly known. Maybe that is why I am 1yr out of grad school, thoroughly employed in the arts, unwilling to say ‘no’ and loving every minute of it!
This networking event was fun. Firstly I got to go to Indy for the day, not bad. Second; all [...]