From the Tribune Star Readers’ Forum: Nov. 2, 2009 Swope director helps students discover art Recently, the sixth-grade art classes at West Vigo Middle School traveled to the Indianapolis Museum […]
Continue ReadingInterview with Ismael Muhammad Nieves on Graffiti
Ismael Muhammad Nieves (Ish) is the guest curator for “Heartland Graffiti: writers from the Midwest” on view at the Swope October 2, 2009-January 2, 2010. This is an interview conducted […]
Continue ReadingFantastic 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 […]
Continue ReadingJ.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 […]
Continue ReadingPreparation 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 […]
Continue ReadingHoliday 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 […]
Continue Readinga walk in difused light
Last night, walking the dogs again, the moon was nearly full but behind a cloudy-almost-overcast sky. There was enough light to discern rudimentary shapes but it was diffused and projected […]
Continue ReadingInterview with Bill Elmore
Bill and I discussed his ongoing Terre Haute Heroes Project on July 3rd, 2008. The work discussed in the interview will be featured in the Swope’s fall exhibit: Terre Haute […]
Continue ReadingInterview with Al Pounders
Al and I conducted this interview in early July 2008, by e-mail because cross time zone telephone just seemed too cumbersome. The work discussed in the interview will be featured […]
Continue ReadingIndiana 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 […]
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