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Upcoming Exhibitions!
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Albert Bloch, "Rest on the Flight into Egypt"
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We've got three new exhibitions opening at the Mulvane in just a few weeks. The first is Albert Bloch: Scenes from the Life of Christ, opening October 23rd. Bloch was born in 1882, was an art faculty member at the University of Kansas, and he frequently painted religious scenes. You'll see a selection of these paintings at the Mulvane as we head into the holiday season.
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Marguerite Perret, "Persistence of Flowers"
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On November 6th, we will open Washburn University's Art Department Faculty Exhibition. You will see the works of faculty like Marguerite Perret's "Persistence of Flowers." Her artist statement explains, "Flowers have long been a symbol of madness, most famously in Shakespeare's Ophelia. Here both the flowers and the women reassert themselves, unwilling to be diminished or forgotten." The art department faculty work is in an array of mediums including, graphic design, sculpture, painting, installation, printmaking, and more! Visit the Mulvane soon!
October 23 through November 21, 2015
An exhibition of Day of the Dead Memory Boxes.
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Upcoming Events!
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Tom Parker
Bad Weather Over Topeka
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Brown Bag Lunch & Gallery Talk
ArtLab Family Day - Day of the Dead
October 24, 1-4 pm
Mulvane Art Museum will be honoring the Day of the
Dead with an ArtLab Family Day a little early this year. Not to be confused with Halloween,Día de los Muertos (November 1 & 2) is a time for people to remember friends and family members who have died. The goal is to pay respect to late loved ones, honor their lives and acknowledge the fragility of life. Join us in ArtLab to create a variety of artworks and handcrafts that you can use for Day of the Dead decorations.
Art of Remembrance
Creating Your Own Memory Box
October 31, 1-4 pm
Kathy Tarr, a Florida artist, will guide you in creating a "Nicho." Using vintage items, distressed methods along with found and recycled objects, you will create your own memory box. Bring your own photographs and mementos, and we will provide everything else.
FREE but registration required! Call 785-670-2420 to register. This class is limited to ten people so register soon!
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From Our Collection:
Celebrating Dia de los Muertos
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Alberto Garcia, "Ahora si...(Now)," etching with aquatint, 1951
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Alberto Garcia Maldonado, Ahora Sí, 1951, etching and aquatint.
The Mulvane Art Museum owns twenty-nine prints by the Mexican artist Alberto Garcia Maldonado (1920-1967). Many of Maldonado's works portray themes related to the Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), observed November 1st and 2nd each year.
Day of the Dead has roots that extend more than 3000 years into the past. Aztecs celebrated the dead, welcoming their spirits back to the land of the living once a year with food, music and dancing. During the Spanish conquest, the conquerors exerted their influence on the tradition, and the resulting mash-up created the Day of the Dead celebration as we now know it.
Ahora Sí by Alberto Garcia Maldenado, depicts a woman with a skeleton head and large black wings. According to Sergio Alvarado, of the Secretaria de la Cultura y las Artes of the state of Yucatan, the title is an expression that can be translated as either "It's my turn" or "Now you did it" or "You are going to get it," possibly implying some kind of a threat.
Maldonado was born in Progresso, Yucatan, Mexico. He studied at the Escuela Popular de Arte in Merida, Mexico, and later taught at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in the same city. He was active in the Yucatecan Society of Engravers. He showed in numerous group exhibitions and had several one-person shows in Mexico, California, Washington and New York. Like many of his generation, Maldonado was very interested in the art of pre-conquest Mexico; indeed he worked on several archaeological digs. He was inspired by the work of graphic artist José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913). Posada used skeletons as characters in journalistic cartoons, and it is his graphic images that popularized La Calavera Catrina which is associated with Día de los Muertos today.
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DIY: Birdie Dolls from the Art Lab
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Here's an art project that you can make all year round using supplies you have around your house! We've had so much fun making birdie dolls in the ArtLab, and you can make them at home too!
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You'll need badminton birdies and all sorts of different art supplies such as feathers, fabric, markers, glue, scissors, pipe cleaners, yarn and anything else you can think of. The sky is the limit!
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In the spirit of Halloween, I decided to make a gypsy/fortune teller doll to illustrate the creation process. First I gave her a purple bandana, gluing fabric to the cork base of the birdie.
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Then I got to work on her patchwork dress, which I made simply by pushing all different sorts of patterned fabrics through the slots of the birdie.
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Finally I gave the gypsy a face and hair using a marker and a gold hoop earring with a yellow pipe cleaner. Every fortune teller needs a crystal ball as well so I made hers by wrapping white wire around a bead. She's holding it with a pipe cleaner arm!
All done!
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