Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute
There’s a new way of looking at art at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute. The staff has had to come up with creative ways of bringing the public to the museum. Education Director...
by Nicole Ackman · Published November 11, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
There’s a new way of looking at art at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute. The staff has had to come up with creative ways of bringing the public to the museum. Education Director...
by Nicole Ackman · Published November 10, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
In 1866, a group of businessmen and civic leaders launched the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a concept without a work of art to its name. The New York City cultural institution only acquired its first artifact—a third-century...
by Nicole Ackman · Published October 29, 2020 · Last modified April 12, 2022
Kim Kuta Dring is the Director of Education at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens in Jacksonville, FL. She oversees the Museum’s educational programs, docents, and community partnerships. After graduating with degrees in...
by Nicole Ackman · Published October 11, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
Scattered around UVM’s Fleming Museum are reminders to wear masks, follow directional signs, and observe limits on gallery occupancies. But it’s not just the signage that reminds viewers of the pandemic and the strange...
by Nicole Ackman · Published October 7, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
From a celebrated portrait of the nation’s first president George Washington to a drawing of George Floyd, University of Kentucky Art Museum’s “This is America*” examines the nation’s story — the good, the bad and the ugly...
by Nicole Ackman · Published October 5, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
At New Britain Museum of American Art, 2020 was set to be the year of the woman, to mark the centennial of women getting the right to vote. Coronavirus got in the way, shuttering...
by Nicole Ackman · Published October 2, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
Back in Wilmington’s Cameron Art Museum on Thursday, it was easy to forget that until very recently it had been closed to the public for six months due to the coronavirus pandemic. Walking through...
by Nicole Ackman · Published September 16, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
Bringing the transformative power of design to the forefront, Design Museum Everywhere goes virtual with its groundbreaking exhibition, We Design: People. Practice. Progress. Highlighting the lack of racial and gender diversity in the design field first and...
by Nicole Ackman · Published September 16, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
For the 2020 Fall Semester, Ohio University’s Kennedy Museum of Art has gone live online through the KMA Virtual Portal. The KMA Virtual Portal offers a safer option for visitors to access the Kennedy...
by Nicole Ackman · Published September 10, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
The Philbrook Museum of Art will present this fall “Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists,” the first major traveling exhibition exclusively devoted to Native women artists from all over the United States and...
by Nicole Ackman · Published September 6, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
Two close-up photos show young Black children holding “Black Lives Matter” signs at a Chicago protest this year. Like a cross on a wall, they flank two hand-colored lithographs of a white boy and...
by Nicole Ackman · Published September 4, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
The Cincinnati Art Museum has a new exhibit from Hank Willis Thomas that will examine gender and race, interconnected worldwide struggle for liberty and equality, and the importance of participation. It can all be enjoyed...
by Nicole Ackman · Published August 27, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
An abandoned playground merry-go-round listing into the grass. A grain elevator slowly falling apart. A graciously graying old house whose wrap-around porch overlooks the prairie. These were all once-loved places that have a story...
by Nicole Ackman · Published August 16, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
The exhibit “Politics & Religion” continues through Oct. 2 at the Midwest Museum of American Art, 429 S. Main St. The museum’s director, Brian Byrn, has spent three years curating the exhibit, which features...
by Nicole Ackman · Published August 10, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
In celebration of the ratification of the 19th amendment, “House to House: Women, Politics, and Place” examines two ideas: the domestic space women have dominated, and the public, political space where their voices are...
by RSmash270 · Published August 3, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
n one large gallery space in the Hickory Museum of Art, a 10-by-75-foot canvas marks the start of the museum’s latest project — an effort to promote social justice and reform in response to the Black...