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August 5, 2025August 11, 2025

Treasures from the Vault: Curlee Raven Holton

Silhouette of a man's bust, covered in grey words. The background is also grey-toned, with windows, tree branches, a lamp post, and abstract shapes filling the background.

In this month's Treasures from the Vault we find a print by artist Curlee Raven Holton. In this piece, Holton visualizes the thoughts and feelings of someone experiencing memory loss.

July 22, 2025July 22, 2025

Art Term Tuesday: Ephemeral Art and Chalk Walk 25

A chalk square in the style of a Degas painting, Two Dancers on the Stage. Two ballerinas, one in the foreground on pointe with arms posed up and to the right. The other in the background leaning forward slightly, arms open wide. Both ballerinas are wearing flower crowns, with wide, white tutus, and are looking to each other.

FWMoA hosted the 25th annual Chalk Walk! This is the largest community art event in the region, and it connects to this month's Art Term Tuesday: Ephemeral Art.

July 5, 2025June 30, 2025

Saturday Studio: Duct Tape Purse

A small, square, black and pink duct tape purse.

Saturday Studio is taking inspiration from our current handbag exhibit, "My PURSEonal Favorites"! Follow along to learn how to make a duct tape handbag of your own!

June 17, 2025June 5, 2025

Art Term Tuesday: Personification

A small lime green and sun yellow lidded clay vessel. The surface has flecks of deeper greens and lighter yellows dotted evenly. Small coils of clay are positioned like wrists resting on the vessel's "hips". The lid of the vessel is domed with a slight point at the top.

It's time for Art Term Tuesday! These imaginative works all center on the theme of today's term: Personification. Check out works from the permanent and visiting collections at FWMoA.

May 24, 2025May 15, 2025

Saturday Studio: Exquisite Corpse

A wall quilt with bright yellows, pinks, blues, oranges, and greens. Two figures stand in the foreground, one propping a boom box on their shoulder. Both are wearing leather jackets and roller skates. While the figures look human, the heads are taken from wolf heads.

This Saturday Studio is inspired by the FAILE exhibit at FWMoA! Learn how to make this entertaining and collaborative art project, Exquisite Corpse.

May 13, 2025

Art Term Tuesday: Rückenfigur

The back of a woman's head and shoulders. Brown hair up in a bun, a flower-patterned shirt, and minimal jewelry. No facial features are visible.

It's Art Term Tuesday! Read on to learn how you can use this new term in artistic conversations: Rückenfigur! We'll see examples from FWMoA, now on display in Truthful Illusions: Realism in the Age of Abstraction.

April 29, 2025May 6, 2025

Art Term Tuesday: Art Critique

A group of adults within an art gallery, gathered in a circle around a work for discussion.

The topic for today's Art Term Tuesday is: Art Critique! Children's Education Associate, Miranda Dyson, walks us through how to apply art critiques in a helpful way.

April 19, 2025April 1, 2025

Saturday Studio: Mold Making

A tray full of art supplies: colorful modeling clay, rocks, buttons.

In the #saturdaystudio we are experimenting with mold making! Join Education Intern, Zoe Niverson, in this at home adaptation of sand casting.

April 10, 2025April 1, 2025

National Poetry Month: Scholastic Awards Writers

A book cover reading, "Presented by the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, a Regional Affiliate of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Northeast Indiana and Northwest Ohio. Dramatic Script and Poetry." The cover of the book is navy blue and has six images of student artwork.

In celebration of National Poetry Month, we're highlighting a few works from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Read these award winning poems from our region's students!

April 1, 2025April 4, 2025

Art Term Tuesday: Armature

A life sized, glass, transparent figure. Arm raised, it's holding the wires attached to a much smaller transparent angel

It's time for Art Term Tuesday! Today our Director of Education, Alyssa Dumire, gives insight to the uses of armature in art. Learn more by viewing examples found here at #fwmoa