Muskegon, Museum of Art

Book Sale
Get 30% OFF Muskegon Museum of Art Centennial Year Books
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PICTURES OF THE BEST KIND
The First Century of the Muskegon Museum of Art
By Marilyn Verduin Andersen

This limited edition full-color coffee table book tells the story of the Muskegon Museum of Art from its earliest days to its present time. Its informative and richly illustrated pages celebrate the Museum’s Centennial with a lively and informative story of the challenges and triumphs of 11 directors’ administrations, as well as the works of art and programs that distinguished their tenures.  400 pages, cloth covered hardcover with dust jacket.
$65/ $55 MMA Members Special Price 

FIFTY BY FIFTY: Celebrating 50 Years of Studio Glass
To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Studio Glass movement and the 100th Anniversary of the Muskegon Museum of Art, the MMA invited 50 artists whose work and teaching helped to define the next generation of studio glass to contribute to this exhibition. Guest curators Benjamin P. Moore and Stephen Rolfe Powell, two of the top artists in the field, selected the artists for inclusion. The accompanying book includes full-color images of the works in the exhibition, along with curatorial essays and artist statements.

10 x 10 inches, softcover, 64 pages

$19.95/ $17.95 MMA Members Special Price

Songs In Steel: The Sculpture of Caroline Lee
This exhibition of stainless, machines, and bronze sculptures, along with sketches and technical drawings, introduces MMA visitors to the work of Chicago native Caroline Lee, who has lived and worked in Paris since 1958. Lee’s sculptures, formed both organically and with machine tooling, are dynamic and aggressive, often with soaring elements whose origins can be found in her memories of long summers in Holland, Michigan, as a child. “Even though I am a wanderer from Paris,” Lee says, “my heart returns to Michigan to be re-nourished, to survive, to persevere.”  The full color illustrated book presents the story of the artist's life and work and includes curatorial essays.

10 x 10 inches, softcover, 64 pages

$24.95/$22.95 MMA Members Special Price

Innovators & Legends: Generations in Textiles and Fiber
This exhibition was organized for national tour by the MMA and guest curator Geary A. Jones. The exhibition features works by top tier, internationally celebrated fiber artists, and explores the fine art textile movement over the past century through the contemporary artwork of four generations of artists. The rich variety of assembled pieces illustrates the transformation of fibers from functional and decorative use to today’s forms created with a wide array of diverse materials and techniques. The artwork addresses issues such as narrative, identity, ecology, recycling, and political thought, and demonstrates beauty and visual richness achieved through color, pattern, texture, and form. This full color book illustrates works by all 50 of the artists represented in Innovators and Legends, along with artist statements, biographical notes, and curatorial essays. 

10 x 10 inches, softcover, 120 pages

$22.95/$20.65 MMA Members Special Price

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FEATURED SPRING ARTISTS

The Gift store has a fresh batch of high-quality marbled papers by Holland artist, Sandie Timmer that can be used as wrapping paper or for other creative uses. Handmade notecards and cupcake style boxes created by Sandie with her marbling technique are also in stock.

Sue Peterson’s handbags have won awards from the Michigan League of Handweavers. Purchase one for yourself this spring. The Traverse City area artist has been a weaver since 1986. She hand-dyes her yarns before weaving the cloth and focuses mainly on color interplay in her weaving.

Hand crafted doll creations by Linda Wells are featured in the store this spring. Linda was raised amidst a tradition of Southern storytelling and textile crafts. Doll making brings together her love of stories, and the art of expressing them through textiles, embellishments, and pattern design. Linda’s doll creations have been featured in Art Doll Quarterly and Soft Doll Magazine. More of her dolls can be viewed at www.facebook.com/LindasArtDolls.

Crash Landing: A first-time teenage flyer by Linda Wells