This year the Museum received 320 submissions from 115 artists. The juror, Janie Welker, was tasked with paring this down to around 65 objects. Below is a list of the selected artworks and artists. Congratulations to everyone who was accepted, and those who were not accepted are encouraged to submit again next year. Artist, [...]
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2011 Annual Student Art Exhibition – Accepted High School Entries & Award Winners
Award Winners (Award, Artist, Grade, Medium, Title, School) Best In Show- Randy Wagner, grade 12, paper mache, Gunner, South Vermillion High School 2-D 1st place -Zach Pearson, grade 12, newspaper, magazine collage, Off-White, Terre Haute North Vigo High School 2nd place -Tyesha Washington, grade 9, pastel, Be Proud, McLean High School 3rd place – Kendra [...]
Conservation… yes we can!
Yesterday the curator and I retrieved two paintings from the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s conservation lab. They had been sent to conservation because one had an abrasion and both were dirty. The Museum staff keeps a running list of objects that need conservation. Prioritized by the severity of damage and how soon they’ll be exhibited, [...]
66th Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition
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! [...]
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 [...]
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 of [...]
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 [...]
