Because conservation is generally behind-the-scenes I want to share this link to a blog written by Christina O’Connell. http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2011/04/28/less-is-more/
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AAM 2011 Update
I just returned from the 2011 annual meeting of the American Association of Museums in Houston, TX. I visited museums, talked with numerous colleagues and sat through several amazing sessions. I also sat through several really boring sessions. The thing I’m taking away from my time there is a reading list. There were so many [...]
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 [...]
New Swope Exhibition, Still Life: Quiet Revelation
Varaldo Cariani, Bowl of Zinnias, 1962 A new exhibition of still life paintings from the Swope Art Museum collection has opened at the Museum and is on view through August 20, 2010. Still Life: Quiet Revelation features over twenty-five paintings from the late nineteenth-century to the present illustrating many different perspectives on the still life. [...]
Encounters with two paintings and a conservator
The first thing I used to think of when I heard the word tempera was that powdered paint we used in elementary school. Of course I didn’t know then that tempera (paint using a binder of protein such as egg or milk) can be traced back to ancient Egyptian culture, or that it was 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 [...]
Twin Cities Museums
From Saturday until Wednesday, I was in the Twin Cities at the Association of Midwest Museum annual conference held in St. Paul, MN. I met a lot of people, got several new ideas from other institutions and had a wonderful time exploring the various museums around the area. Some highlights:
Fantastic Dinner
Monday evening, Ann Albano, executive director of the Cleveland Sculpture Center, was in Terre Haute to finalize the jurying of the 65th Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition. She had done the preliminary work long distance, but came this week to see the submissions she accepted in person and decide awards. It’s an exciting and eclectic [...]
J.R. Cox’s White Cloud Included in Iowa and Pennsylvannia Exhibitions
John Rogers Cox White Cloud 1943 Oil and acrylic on canvas 37 x 45 ½ inches Swope Art Museum Collection, 2000.07 John Rogers Cox (1915-1990), a Terre Haute artist and the first director of the Swope Art Museum, portrayed the Midwest through a fantastical lens focused on the minutia of the American landscape. Often called [...]
