News and Events | Montana Museum of Art & Culture | September 2014 

 
In This Issue
Through September 27, 2014
Special Events
MMAC Celebrates 120 Years
MMAC Interns
Artwork of the Month

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Meloy & Paxson Galleries 

UM PARTV Center

 

  

ACADEMIC YEAR
GALLERY HOURS

AUGUST 25, 2014 - MAY 16, 2015

Tues., Wed., Sat. 12 - 3pm
Thurs. and Fri. 12 - 6pm

SUMMER GALLERY HOURS 

Wed., Thurs., Sat. 12 - 3pm
Fri. 12 - 6pm

 

THROUGH SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

 

Sandra Dal Poggetto: Meditations on the Field

 

Meloy and Paxson Galleries

 

Helena-based artist Sandra Dal Poggetto is featured in a solo exhibition of new and recent works. 

Dal Poggetto uses an abstract language and fragments of the western landscape-hide, feathers, wood and wire-to create evocative paintings and drawings. Pulitzer-Prize winning author/critic Mark Stevens describes her works as "truthful reflection[s] of our culture's complex relation to the landscape of the West." 

In addition to displaying her artwork, Dal Poggetto selected objects from the museum's Permanent Collection to illustrate different philosophical and aesthetic understandings of the human relationship to the natural world. Through Dal Poggetto's re-contextualization of these works, she probes, questions and reveals the past, calling for a renewed connection with nature.

 

Banner Image: detail, Sandra Dal Poggetto, Relict #5, ca. 2013, 

15 x 15 inches, courtesy of the artist
 

Image: detail, Sandra Dal Poggetto, Breed #7, ca. 2012, 

47 x 42 inches, courtesy of the artist 

SPECIAL EVENTS


Thursday, September 11, 2014, 7:00pm, Meloy Gallery

UM PARTV Center

In the Gallery with artist Sandra Dal Poggetto who will share an overview of her new large-scale American Fork paintings within the exhibition

 

Thursday, September 25, 2014, 5:00 -5:45pm, Masquer Theatre

UM PARTV Center

A conversation with artist Sandra Dal Poggetto and Mark Stevens, Pulitzer Prize-winning

author of DeKooning: An American Master

AND

5:45-7:00pm UM PARTV Center Lobby

Closing Reception

 

Docent tours available upon request.

All events are open to the public. All tours begin in the PARTV Center Lobby.

  

MMAC CELEBRATES 120 YEARS 

 
Russian Icon Silver cover
 
In 2015, the MMAC Permanent Collection celebrates its 120th anniversary. To commemorate this important event, MMAC published the first-ever handbook of the collection, The Art of the State, which presents 120 pieces carefully selected from the overall 11,000 objects. A series of birthday celebrations are planned to take place throughout the year. As such, the treasures featured in this publication will be on display in an exhibition in the Meloy and Paxson galleries in the PARTV Center from January 22- May 23, 2015.

The image, Icon of Mary Theotokos is among the reproductions highlighting details of original artwork in the MMAC Permanent Collection. They are currently on display on the lower level of Main Hall.

This collection belongs to the students, faculty and staff of the University of Montana and all Montana citizens. To purchase a handbook, donate to the building fund, or find out more about upcoming exhibitions, visit www.umt.edu/montanamuseum/ or call 243-2019.
 
Image:  Artist unknown, Icon of Mary Theotokos, 15th century Egg tempera, silver repose and wood support
Approximately 9� x 12 inchesDonated by Stella Duncan 

 

THANK YOU GARRETT, WELCOME KRISTINA

 
MMAC Interns
 

Garrett Bryant recently completed a summer internship at MMAC. Garrett took numerous art and art history classes while pursuing his EdD candidate in Educational Leadership. For his internship, he focused on cataloging the Martin S. Ackerman Foundation donation of American and British prints and photographs. This fall, Garrett will continue his studies while assuming a new role assisting Nathan Lindsay, Associate Provost for Dynamic Learning, with academic assessment. Goodbye and Best of Luck, Garrett!


 

MMAC welcomes Kristina Myer, who is completing her BFA with interest in curatorial work. During her time at UM, she served as co-director of the UC Gallery, helping to bring a variety of innovative artists to the gallery. At MMAC, Kristina will lend her writing skills to develop art historical summaries, artist biographies, exhibition labels and grant narratives. 


 

ARTWORK OF THE MONTH 

   

This Month's Feature: 

 

Titled: Niagara Falls, Canada

Artist: Robert von Sternberg

Medium: digital print from film negative

Size: 11 x 17 inches

Donated by the artist

 

The Museum Project is a collective of American photographers active since the 1970s and 1980s dedicated to advancing the medium of photography. Beginning in 2012, these artists began to offer artworks to preeminent museums as a way to express their gratitude for the institutional support of and commitment to photography as an art form. Participating museums include the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, MO; Princeton University Art Museum, NJ; and the Peabody Essex Museum, MA, among others. MMAC received 24 works by the following artists: Barry Andersen, Betty Hahn, Darryl Curran, Jane O'Neal, Judith Golden, Kenda North, Robert Fichter, Robert von Sternberg and Todd Walker. 

  

 

 

 

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