August Events
UNBROKEN THREAD: Nature and the American Imagination, Philip Koch
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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
32nd ELKHART JURIED REGIONAL: Call for entries
CALL FOR ENTRIES:
The 32nd Elkhart Juried Regional will take place from October 8-December 5, 2010. Over $30,000 will be awarded to Artists in this show.
Entries must be hand delivered for the Elkhart Juried Regional from September 11 - September 25 , Monday-Friday 9:00am-5:00pm, or Saturday & Sunday 1pm-4pm.
This all media competition is open to Artists from a 21 county area in northern Indiana and southern Michigan. Artists may submit one entry for $25 or two works for $40. Artwork must be original in concept and exection, created within the last 2 years, not completed under instruction, and not previously exhibited at the Midwest Museum or any other competition within the region.
Jurors for the exhibition will be Jacqueline Moses, Painter, Chicago Illinois, and Nick Antonakis, Painter and Professor of Art & Chairman of the Art Department, Grand Rapids Community College, Michigan.
Contact the museum for more information at 574.293.6660
Call for Artists: Elkhart Juried Regional Prospectus-Click to download pdf file
Entry prints full size on legal size paper. Prints reduced size on standard sized paper.
Children's Summer Art Camp 8/2/2010
AUGUST 2 - AUGUST 6
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: FILM- Winslow Homer 8/5/2010
Curator Brian Byrn introduces a film from the National Gallery about this reclusive painter who made Maine his home.
Join us at 12:20 pm for this FREE film.
Noon Time Talk: F. Childe Hassam (1859-1935) 8/12/2010
Assistant Curator Stacy Jordan discusses some of the works by this American Impressionist who helped found the art colony of Old Lyme, Connecticut.
Noon Time Talk: Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) 8/19/2010
Curator Brian Byrn talks about this Modernist from Maine who was a part of the Alfred Stieglitz circle.
Noon Time Talk: Arthur Dove (1880-1946) 8/26/2010
Curator Brian Byrn connects this Modernist to his roots in New England.
Join us at 12:20 for this FREE lecture.