From the Fort Wayne Museum of Art
Looking at, Talking about, and Appreciating Art
We've compiled a list of blog posts highlighting artists who have exhibited throughout the Hoosier Salon's 100 year history. Whether you've seen the exhibition at #fwmoa and want to know more, or now know more and want to see the exhibition, we hope these posts help you find a new favorite Indiana artist!
Special Collections & Archives Curator at #fwmoa Lauren Wolfer just returned from the Venice Biennale, held every two years it transforms the island into an immersive art extravaganza, to see artist Jeffery Gibson's installation "the space in which to place me". Learn more about the festival and artist in this post:
Walk like a robot! Education Assistant Naomi Vanderleest is #playingfavorites with this Dan Dailey sculpture at #fwmoa. As she leads school tours, she asks her group to show and tell how this figure would move. What do you think?
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.
Staff at #fwmoa is playing favorites! After almost two years, we finally got our VP and Chief Programming Officer Colleen Huddleson to choose a work she loves. See the childhood memory this stop motion film by high schooler David Goldfuss sparked in this #playingfavorites:
We're lost in the charm of Sharm! Sharmalene Gunawardena bring us into her "shop", the photography studio, to describe her process creating her latest work: "Lost in the Charm of a Hidden Alley".
Staff at #fwmoa are playing favorites! Our Teen Council roamed the galleries to find their favorite piece #nowonview. See Promyse Williams' pick in this post:
Lauren Wolfer, Assoc. Curator of Special Collections & Archives It’s spooky season! Are you still looking for the perfect Halloween costume? For this Friday the 13th, we thought we’d share with you some ideas from a handful of the over 1,000 prints gifted (!!!) to us by rock poster artist Chuck Sperry. In doing so, …