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Mulvane Art Museum Newsletter
February 2016
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Mulvane Art Fair
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Please join us this Friday, February 5, from 5:30-7:30 pm for the opening of three new exhibitions at the Mulvane Art Museum
Hallowed Absurdities: Work by Theodore Waddell, on view through March 5, 2016
Made of road kill, animal skulls, jawbones, pelts and skins, as well as body bags, bullets, tools and actual guns, the art works in Hallowed Absurdities raise the issue of the use of guns in our society. With humor, irony and wit, Theodore Waddell's mixed media assemblages poke fun at gun collectors, question the ethics of competitive big game hunting and defend the equality of all life, be it human or animal.
Washburn University Art Department Student Exhibition, on view through March 5, 2016
This annual exhibition showcases the work of the art department's talented students. It includes art in a variety of media, including drawing, printmaking, watercolor, ceramic, textiles, sculpture, photography, mixed media and painting. The juror for the exhibition was Michael Lou Bradley, ceramic artist, graphic designer and a founding member of the board of the NOTO Arts District.(Student awards will be announced at 6pm, Friday, February 5th.
Non-Objective: From the Mulvane's Permanent Collection, on view through March 9, 2016
During the middle of the twentieth century many American artists created works that were Non-Objective, that is images in which no objects are visible. They felt that paintings could be expressive simply through their lines, shapes, colors and textures. This exhibition includes Abstract Expressionist, Color Field and Geometric Illusionist paintings. Come, learn the difference between the three different styles!
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Eugene Bavinger, Festival of the Animals
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Exhibitions
Hallowed Absurdities: Works by Theodore Waddell
January 12 - March 5, 2016
Non-Objective: From the Mulvane's Permanent Collection
February 1 - March 9, 2016
Washburn University Art Department Student Exhibition
February 5 - March 5, 2016
2016 Juried Ceramics Exhibition
March 15 - May 14, 2016
Glenda Taylor: Prairie Memories
March 15 - May 21, 2016
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Upcoming Events
I Heart Family Day in the ArtLab
February 13, 1-4pm, All Ages
Celebrate the upcoming Valentine holiday as you create artworks inspired by your love of art!
FREE!
Panel Discussion: Hallowed Absurdities: Work by Theodore Waddell
February 16, 6-7pm
David Carter, Washburn's Visiting Professor of Ethics and Leadership, will moderate a discussion on 2nd amendment rights, hunting and other topics of concern. Panelists will include Dr. Mark Peterson, Political Science and Drs. Chris Conner and John Paul, Sociology and Anthropology.
FREE!
Film: Sweetgrass
March 1, 6-7:30pm
Sweetgrass follows the last modern day cowboys as they lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth Mountains for summer pasture. This astonishingly beautiful yet unsparing film reveals a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.Theodore Waddell was a rancher in Montana.
A Carnival of Color Family Day in the ArtLab
March 19, 1-4pm, All Ages
Create a carnival of color in ArtLab as we recognize Holi, the spring festival of color, celebrated in India. Drawing, Painting and more!
FREE!
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From the Collection
Allan D'Arcangelo, American,1930-1998
U.S. Highway #1, 1978
silkscreen
Pop artist Allan D'Arcangelo is best known for his images of American highways, which he began painting in 1962. Highways, with their speeding cars, billboards and illuminated commercial signs seemed quintessentially American at a time when people were becoming more mobile and spending more time in their cars. In the early 1960s, D'Arcangelo created a series of works in which highways plunge into a distant perspective, as if they go on forever in the vast American landscape. By the middle of the 1960s, he began to focus on simplified, abstracted road signs and barriers as in this 1978 lithograph. Here directional arrows are combined with what appears to be the arm that lowers at a train crossing.
The extreme abstraction of this image aligns it with other contemporary art styles, such as the hard-edged, geometric abstraction of artists like Ellsworth Kelly. Was D'Arcangelo emulating this high art, Modernist style, or was he mocking it by finding it in ordinary, unbeautiful American signs and symbols?
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 Staff Profile - Q & A! Get to know the Mulvane Staff
Julie Myers - Curator of Collections and Exhibitions
- What hobby are you passionate about? Visiting museums. I do it everywhere I go. On one three day weekend in NYC, my husband and I went to nine different museums.
- If you could be an apprentice to any artist in history or present day, who would it be and why? Rembrandt. He had such insight into humanity.
- Favorite painting? Rembrandt's "Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph" or Velasquez' "Watercarrier of Seville."
- Favorite art period? 19th-century in America and Europe. You just can't beat Degas and Manet.
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The Healing Powers of Art: A Partnership Between the Mulvane Art Museum and Topeka's St. Francis Health Care Center
By Jane Hanni
"To distinguish pattern is an act both of discovery and interpretation, of revelation and imposition. As such, to pattern is a fundamental enactment of the connection between self and world." Meek, Sandra. "Poetic Pause."
In a continuing pattern of bringing the healing power of art to area cancer survivors, Mulvane Art Museum visited Topeka's St. Francis Health Care Center's Breast Cancer Support Group again on December 1st. Visits to St. Francis cancer support groups are an outgrowth of the Mulvane's Art & Wellness Class, a class for adult cancer survivors and their supporters. Thanks to the generous support of St. Francis Foundation, the class has been meeting weekly at the Museum for nine years.
The women of the Breast Cancer Support Group are of widely varying ages and life experiences. Beyond their common bond of breast cancer, these women are linked together by their courage and determined focus on living. The group listened to a short presentation about the Art & Wellness Class. Several women in the support group are also members of the Art & Wellness Class. They discussed the class's diverse art projects and the ways in which the class had added to their quality of life. Support group participants were encouraged to visit the Art & Wellness Class and join in the joy of making art.
Breast Cancer Support Group members used a variety of interesting yarns and jutes to create scent diffusors. Glue was brushed on the outside of glass bottles, then, starting at the bottom, the bottles were wrapped in unique patterns of line and color. Each woman then designed her own signature scent by adding a mixture of essential oils to a solution of water and alcohol.
It is hard to say who had more fun--the Mulvane visiting artist or the support group members.
The Mulvane will be bringing the healing power of art to the St. Francis Gynecologic Cancer Support Group on May 4th.
If you or someone you love is an adult cancer survivor-or significant person in a survivor's life-please visit the Mulvane's Art and Wellness Class. Create art in a class setting where laughter and friendship wrap participants in an atmosphere of support and trust.
For more information please contact: Jane Hanni by calling 785.670.2422 or by emailing her at jane.hanni@washburn.edu
Please note that the meeting times and days for the Gynecological Cancer Support Group have been changed. The group meets on the first Wednesday of every month from 6:30-8:00pm.
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Welcome New and Renewed Members!
Mary Anderson, Meg Braun, Dr. & Mrs. Maurice Cashman Jr., Dorothy Crawford, Bill Gahnstrom, Jane Hazard, Larry Hinton, Patricia Hockett, Eileen McGivern, Allyn Lockner & Barbara McCandless, Verna Pierce, Carrie Riordan, Jacqueline Stroud, Dale & Maggie Warren, Rosemary Williamson
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