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Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 7 pm
Kelly Brook, biographer, presents:
Peggy Bacon: A Life in Art
Peggy Bacon
Kelly Patton Brook and her husband Sandy Brook, son of the late Peggy Bacon, are writing a biography of Peggy Bacon. Kelly will discuss the project at OMAA with her prints and books as illustrations, plus the oral interview done with Peggy for the archives of the Smithsonian.
The biography explores Peggy's life and connections, including her famous husband, Alexander Brook; her father, Charles Roswell Bacon; her mother, Elizabeth Chase Bacon, and the artists of the Ash Can School in Manhattan, Woodstock and Maine in the 1920s and 1930s.
Hear first-hand about the research and the authors' discoveries related to this stellar artist and writer, whose work is represented in the OMAA collection.
Lecture included with museum admission: $8 adults, $7 seniors and students, members and children under 12, free. For information, please call 207-646-4909. |
| Through October 31, 2010
 Assemblage: Art of the Found Object
Assemblage first came be recognized as a legitimate art form with the cubist pasting and gluing collage experiments of George Braque and Pablo Picasso in France in 1912. These artists broke up space and shapes by using torn, cut and pasted papers as integral components of their designs. Picasso's Still Life with Chair Caning, from May 1912, is considered the first modern work of art using collage and assemblage in a three-dimensional construction. Since that time, collage and assemblage art have grown into media accepted by artists and the public.
This exhibition features contemporary and historic artists such as Joseph Cornell, Louise Nevelson, Varujan Boghosian, David Madasci, Laura McCarty, Harvee Riggs and Bernard Langlais.
Image: Harvee Riggs, Show Time, 2008, mixed media 41 1/2 x 22 x 7 1//2" Courtesy: Diane Chodkowski |
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In the OMAA Museum Shop
September Artist of the Month: J. Fred Woell,
Studio Artist Metalsmith
is a well-respected teacher, accomplished artist, and jewelry designer from Deer Isle, Maine. He uses his work as a platform to express his reaction to things he sees around him working largely with found objects that come into his life by serendipity. For more information, check out http://jfredwoell.blogspot.com/.
Image: Jewelry piece by J. Fred Woell |
| SAVE THE DATES! November 5-6, 2010
Image: Two Teapots, porcelain, by Karen Orsillo
OMAA 1st Annual Invitational Fine Art & Craft Sale
Preview Sale: Friday, November 5, 2010, 5-8 pm, $10
Sale: Saturday, November 6, 2010, 10 am to 4 pm, $5
The Museum's galleries will become a bazaar featuring 20-25 artists and craftspeople working in media of felting, furniture, glass, jewelry, metal, paintings/prints, pottery/tiles, quilts, wooden toys and more.
Proceeds benefit the educational programs at the OMAA.
For more information, please contact Susan Joy Sager, manager of The Shop at OMAA ssager@ogunquitmuseum.org or 207-646-4909
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| Visitor Information | |
Ogunquit Museum of American Art
543 Shore Road
Ogunquit, Maine 03907
Hours: 10am - 5pm, Mon-Sat; 1- 5pm, Sun. Admission: $8 adults, $7 seniors/students, free to members/children under 12 Programs included in regular admission. |
| Contact Information | Ogunquit Museum of American Art
Ron Crusan, Executive Director
207-646-4909
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