July Events
UNBROKEN THREAD: Nature and the American Imagination, Philip Koch 7/1/2010
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June 4, 2010 - September 5, 2010
In conjunction with the 31st Anniversary of the Midwest Museum of American Art, we present an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Maryland artist Philip Koch with an Opening Reception for the Artist on Sunday, June 6, from 1-4pm. The exhibit continues through September 5. Koch is no stranger to the midwest having been the subject of an exhibit at MMAA in 1995 and, earlier in his career, having graduated with an MFA degree from Indiana University in Bloomington in 1972. The museum acquired the painting, "Edward Hopper's Road", in 1995 after the artist's first exhibit.
The exhibition contains a group of drawings, pastels, and paintings that Koch created over the past seven years at various locations in New England. In his travels to Cape Cod and several places in Maine, he followed in the footsteps of artists from the past from the early 19th Century onward to present. Koch lives in Maryland and is senior Professor of Fine Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore. He has achieved national renown as an outstanding landscape painter. Koch feels that artist predecessors influenced his creativity throughout his career. He considers himself very much part of the "unbroken thread" that has evolved through the tradition of depicting New England in art for over 200 years.
Koch's first landscape paintings were done in the hills of southern Indiana in the early 1970's. A former abstract artist, Koch turned to working in a realist direction after seeing the work of Edward Hopper. Since 1983 Koch has enjoyed 12 residencies in Hopper's former painting studio on Cape Cod. Fine Art Connoisseur magazine labeled Koch a "contemporary master."
For more information about the painter Philip Koch go to www.philipkoch.com
Noon Time Talk: John Frederick Kensett (1816-1872) 7/1/2010
Assistant Curator Stacy Jordan discusses the work of this 19th Century American painter.
Join us at 12:20 pm for this FREE lecture.
Noon Time Talk: Frederick Edwin Church (1826-1900) [Film] 7/8/2010
This film traces Church's career from early strudies of the Hudson River Valley to the late, more monumental, natural wonders of South America. (29 minutes)
Join us at 12:20 pm for this FREE film presentation.
Children's Summer Art Camp 7/12/2010
JULY 12 - JULY 16
The Midwest Museum offers a new series of summer Art Camps for students ages 5 (who have completed kindergarten) through age 12. Enrollment in all Art Camps will be limited to 20 students.
Fee is $45 which includes all materials.
Ages 5-7 years meets from 12:30 - 2:00 pm Monday-Friday.
Ages 8-12 years meets 2:30 - 4:30 pm Monday-Friday.
Students will be lead on an adventure in creating drawings, watercolors, mixed media works and collages, while utilizing the museum's permanent collection of American Art for inspiration.
Call 574.293.6660 for registration.
Noon Time Talk: Charles Woodbury (1864-1940) 7/15/2010
Curator Brian Byrn presents a lecture on Charles Woodbury.
Join us at 12:20 for this FREE lecture.
Bus Trip to GRAND RAPIDS 7/20/2010
The first Bus Trip of the summer takes us to the Grand Rapids Museum of Art on Tuesday, July 20. We will view the exhibition, "Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914)", that examines the work of forty-three American painters drawn to Holland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These artists established colonies in six communities in the Netherlands. Inspired by their pastoral surroundings as well as the great tradition of seventeenth-century Dutch art and the work of the contemporary Hague School, these American artists created visions of Dutch society inspired by a nostalgic yearning for a pre-modern way of life.
On the second leg of our journey we will visit the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park to see the work of Dale Chihuly. Dale Chihuly, the most sought-after glass artist in the world, returns for a second exhibition to celebrate the 15th Anniversary of Meijer Gardens. His works will be displayed at 15 sites, from the English Perennial Garden at the entryway to the Frey Boardwalk in the wetlands. Included are chandeliers, glass towers up to 30 feet high, floating spheres, reeds rising from the earth, the sun, the moon, and a rowboat full of glass.
FEE: $50. Call for reservation and timetable at 574.293.6660.
Payment due upon reservation.
Noon Time Talk: Edward Hopper (1882-1967) 7/22/2010
Curator Brian Byrn discusses the career of Edward Hopper.
Join us at 12:20pm for this FREE lecture.
Noon Time Talk: Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) 7/29/2010
Assistant Curator Stacy Jordan presents a talk on Rockwell Kent.
Join us at 12:20 pm for this FREE lecture.