September Events
A Place to Be: Landscapes from the Permanent Collection
EXHIBIT OPENS: A Place to Be- Landscapes from the Permanent Collection
September 10, 2010 - October 3, 2010
This exhibition of lithographs, paintings, and drawings have been acquired as donations over the past 31 years. Many pieces have never been seen before.
Landscape painting was the first American art to be called a national style. Depicting American topography and vegetation, the descriptive realism and idealized compositions of this type of painting fulfilled a desire that the United States develop an art of its own, distince from that of Europe. Today, "landscape" as a subject in art is fixed in the collective American imagination. One can hardly imagine a museum collection without various examples of both the natural terra firma and the cultivated garden symbolizing the wild and untouched hinterlands or the urban refinement of human civilization.
We exist in a landscape throughout our lives. These works from the MMAA permanent collection illustrate the personal vision and relationship to the land for each artist represented allowing us to imagine ourselves in "a place to be".
This exhibit is dedicated to the late Pat Warner, a museum docent for many years.
UNBROKEN THREAD: Nature and the American Imagination, Philip Koch
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Continues through 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.
Noon Time Talk: Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) 9/2/2010
Assistant Curator Stacy Jordan compares the paintings of Philip Koch with this 20th Century New England Painter.
Noon Time Talk: Landscapes from the Permanent Collection 9/9/2010
Curator Brian Byrn introduces Part I of a 2 part series dedicated to landscape paintings from the Museum's Permanent Collection - some never exhibited before this time.
Noon Time Talk: Landscapes from the Permanent Collection 9/16/2010
Curator Brian Byrn continues with Part II of his discussion about landscape paintings from the permanent collection.
Noon Time Talk: Charles Burchfield 9/23/2010
Curator Brian Byrn discusses this Midwestern artist who created fantasy landscapes inspired by his Ohio environment.
Noon Time Talk: T.C. Steele (1847-1926) 9/30/2010
Assistant Curator Stacy Jordan discusses the most famous of Indiana painters.