Looking at, Talking about, and Appreciating Art
Lauren Wolfer, Associate Curator of Special Collections & Archives Jiha Moon’s art blends Asian cultural influences and American pop culture, masking dark themes with humor using multimedia approaches. Earlier this year you may have seen her lithograph on display in Landfall Press: Five Decades of Printmaking; now, we have a whole gallery of her works …
Inspired by our current exhibition "Fantastic Realms", we're celebrating the arrival of May flowers by making fairy friends (and houses). Learn how to make your own fairy-populated village in this #saturdaystudio:
Can you name all the "Old Masters" in Western art history? Learn what marks a master from an apprentice in this #arttermtuesday:
VP & COO Amanda Shepard discusses the history of art through the realist homage works of Gabriela Gonzalez Dellosso, now on view at #fwmoa, and Dellosso's desire to both acknowledge and tell the stories of past women in the arts.
It's National Poetry Month, and to celebrate we're spotlighting one of our region's American Voices Nominee's, whose poem won a Gold Key in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.
The Hoosier Salon is marking its 100th Anniversary this year, and FWMoA is spotlighting the artists who earned the prestige of inclusion in an exhibition this summer. Learn more about the history of the Salon itself before viewing the artworks in this #historicalhighlight:
Staff at #fwmoa are playing favorites! Asking us for our favorite piece in the collection is an impossible task...but our favorite work #nowonview? High School Education Intern Maddie Rey was able to answer that: Richard Royal's Untitled blown glass piece.
We recently welcomed a new glass artist into our #permanentcollection, and his sculpture is there to welcome you in when you visit our Glass Wing! Meet Marvin Lipofsky in this #nowonview:
It's #slowartday so we're taking a slow day in the studio and playing a game of I Spy! What do you notice in an artwork the longer you look? Inspired by Bertil Vallien, we made our own artworks full of objects to study at. Learn how in this #saturdaystudio by our Education Teen Intern, Madeline Rey.
In celebration of National Poetry Month, the Teen Council at #fwmoa hosted the museum's first Ekphrastic Poetry Contest. Poems written about works of art from our permanent collection, read the awarded ekphrastic pieces here:
A technique that creates a textured, tactile experience for the viewer, talking about impasto also makes us hungry! Learn more about the process of impasto in this #arttermtuesday and see it in action in works by #jihamoon and #tarawill #nowonview.