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MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART APRIL 2008 CALENDAR
Tuesday, April 1 to Thursday, April 3, 5:307:30 pm
ELEMENTARY STUDENT RECEPTIONS
26th Annual Muskegon County Student Art Exhibition
Enjoy refreshments while elementary students from Muskegon area schools are on hand to talk about their creations with friends and relatives. Call the MAISD at 231/767-7267 or the Museum at 231/720-2570 for a list of the schools invited each evening. Free. Organized by the Muskegon Area Intermediate School District and the Muskegon Museum of Art. Sponsored by Comerica Bank. Media sponsor is WGVU Public Radio.
Thursday, April 3, 5:30-7:30 pm
MIDDLE SCHOOL & HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT RECEPTIONS
26th Annual Muskegon County Student Art Exhibition
Enjoy refreshments while area middle and high school students critique each other's work in this salon-style reception. Free. Organized by the Muskegon Area Intermediate School District and the Muskegon Museum of Art. Sponsored by Comerica Bank. Media sponsor is WGVU Public Radio.
Thursday, April 10, 12:15 pm
BROWN BAG FILM
Hopper
Narrated by comedian and art collector Steve Martin, this film is an introduction to the nationally-touring Edward Hopper exhibition, currently on display at the Art Institute of Chicago through May 11. This film is a must-see if you plan to go to the AIC. Don't forget to view the MMA's New York Restaurant! (30 mins.) Free admission, coffee, and cookies.
Saturday, April 12, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
O'KEEFFE SUPER SATURDAY
Free Family Fun Day
April showers bring O'Keeffe Flowers! Have fun making flower designs and learning about the life of renowned American artist Georgia O'Keeffe. Also enjoy artworks by "budding" artists in the Expressions 2008: The 26th Annual Muskegon Area Student Art Exhibition.
10:00 am and 1:00 pm Film
Women In Art: Georgia O'Keeffe (60 min.)
Take a journey and learn about the life and art of this fascinating woman.
10:00 am - 1:00 pm Guided Exhibition Tours
Explore Expressions 2008 with Museum Docent Joyce Jack-Hughes.
11:00 am - 2:00 pm Make & Take
Explore how vibrant flowers are made with patterns, lines, and colors.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 10:30 am
FRIENDS OF ART PROGRAM
Why Abstraction?
Professor Delbert Michael will give his reasons for his transformation from realist painting to abstraction.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 7:00 pm
Iddings Unleashed
WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE AT THE MUSEUM
Blade Runner (R-rated, 114 mins.)
(1982) A blend of science fiction and noir detective fiction, this film's unique postmodern production design became hugely influential within the sci-fi genre, and the film has gained a significant cult following. Harrison Ford stars as a retired cop in Los Angeles, circa 2019, when the city is a pan-cultural dystopia of corporate advertising, pollution and flying automobiles, as well as replicants, human-like androids with short life spans built for use in dangerous off-world colonization. Deckard's former job in the police department was as a talented blade runner, a euphemism for detectives that hunt down and assassinate rogue replicants. Called before his one-time superior, Deckard is forced back into active duty to battle the threat.
Thurdsay, April 24 12:15 pm
BROWN BAG FILM & TALK
James McNeill Whistler: The Lyrics of Art
Discover the inner workings of artist James McNeill Whistler and gain a better understanding of the MMA's provocative portrait by Whistler, Study in Rose and Brown, and the mystery his artwork holds. (20 mins.) Following the film, join us in the Bettye Clark Cannon Gallery for a short talk with Docent Emeritus Fran F. Fisher, about the MMA's Whistler.
Wednesday, April 30 5:30-8:00 pm
EXCLUSIVE MMA MEMBERS' PREVIEW RECEPTION & LECTURE
Sunlight in a Paintbrush: American Impressionism from Regional Collections
Sunlight in a Paintbrush tells the story of American Impressionism through the historic core of the MMA's collections, supplemented by exceptional American paintings from regional collections: the Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan; the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; and the South Bend Regional Art Museum, Indiana, among them. In addition, several outstanding works from private collections in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana will be featured. Nearly 50 works, displayed in Cannon Gallery, will represent American Impressionism in its diverse array of artistic influences. In adjoining galleries, select MMA works will provide a framework for American Impressionism through European Barbizon and Impressionist (Operhall) and American Tonalist forerunners (Cooper).
Exclusive Members' Preview Reception 5:30-7:00 pm
Lecture at 7:00 pm by William H. Gerdts
Thursday, May 1
SUNLIGHT IN A PAINTBRUSH SPECIAL EXHIBITION TOURS
Join the MMA staff for guided, in-depth tours of Sunlight in a Paintbrush during its first open-to-the public day. For your convenience, select from the following times:
11:00 am with Senior Curator, E. Jane Connell
2:00 pm with Curator of Education, Cathy Mott
6:00 pm with E. Jane Connell
April, date and time t.b.a.
WEST SHORE GRAPHIC ARTS SOCIETY PROGRAM
A field trip to the studio of master printer Jonathan Clemens.
EXHIBITIONS
Through April 20, 2008
Sonja Blomdahl: Incalmo/Glass
Wiener Gallery
Exhibition of 35 works drawn from the artist's personal collection celebrates her career as a master artist. Blomdahl bases her colorful and vibrant forms on classical Greek container forms, but infuses her own sensibility and technical skill to transform them into distinctly modern artworks. She has exhibited internationally and her work is held in many significant public and private collections. She owns and operates her own studio in Seattle and teaches at the renowned Pilchuck Glass School. Organized by the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts and is the artist's first solo museum exhibition. Tour is sponsored by Barrie and Laura Harmon, Jimmy and Margaret Lowder, Barry and Corinna Wilson, Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation, and Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass. The Muskegon presentation of the exhibition is underwritten in memory of Bob and Corky Tuttle by John Knott Tuttle and the Tuttle family. Broadcast media sponsor is WGVU Public Radio.
Through April 27, 2008
Expressions 2008: 26th Annual Muskegon Area Student Art Exhibition
Walker Gallery A
Artwork by Muskegon Area K-12 public and non-public students is displayed in this popular annual exhibition co-organized by the Muskegon Museum of Art and the Muskegon Area Intermediate School District. Underwritten by Comerica. Media sponsor is WGVU Public Radio.
Through May 4, 2008
Rapture: Recent Paintings by Maria Tomasula
Walker Gallery B
Tomasula's vibrant, luminous paintings boast an eerie beauty in their tightly rendered trompe l'oeil still lives. Flowers, fruit, meat, insects, and other natural objects are portrayed within shallow spaces reminiscent of early Christian icons, their semblance to martyrs and saints becoming metaphors for human spirituality. Her rich artworks explore religion, life and death, and the wonder of the natural world. Exhibition Features approximately 20 new works and is organized by the Snite Museum and Zolla Lieberman Galleries. Tomasula currently teaches in the department of Art History and Design at the University of Notre Dame. Broadcast media sponsor is WGVU Public Radio.
May 1 through August 10, 2008
MMAsterpieces
Wiener Gallery
While the Impressionism exhibition Sunlight in a Paintbrush is installed in the Cannon, Operhall, and Cooper galleries, many of the MMA's great masterpieces will be on display together in the Wiener Gallery. This selection includes: John Steuart Curry's Tornado Over Kansas, Henry Ossawa Tanner's The Holy Family, Joos van Cleve's Saint Jerome in Penitence, and Lucas Cranach's portraits, Martin Luther as Knight of George and Katharina von Bora. Watch for a new, revised installation of works from the permanent collection coming to the Cannon, Operhall, and Cooper galleries in the fall, following the conclusion of the Sunlight in a Paintbrush exhibition. MMAsterpieces is underwritten by Hooker|DeJong Architects and Engineers.
May 1 through August 31,2008
Early Impressions of Ox-Bow
Office Gallery
Complements the MMA's exhibition, Sunlight in a Paintbrush: American Impressionism from Regional Collections. Paintings, works on paper, posters, broadsides, and photographs selected from the Ox-Bow and Art Institute of Chicago archives introduce visitors to the early history of Ox-Bow as a school of outdoor, or plein air, painting and its impact on the Impressionist movement in the Midwest. The exhibition has been organized by the Muskegon Museum of Art in cooperation with the Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists' Residency.
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