art term tuesday – From the Fort Wayne Museum of Art

November 18, 2025November 20, 2025

Art Term Tuesday: Kinetic Sculpture

A stainless steel and stone sculpture, a rock base and stainless top. The shapes created by stainless steel are hollow circles and and organic shapes with pointed ends. The shapes vary in size and width. The sculpture sways the individual shapes from left to right, causing them to overlap each other.

For this Art Term Tuesday, we're looking at art in motion! Follow along to see a sample of kinetic sculptures on display at FWMoA.

September 16, 2025December 4, 2025

Art Term Tuesday: Lamination

A glass sculpture with varying shapes and sized pieces of glass stacked on top of each other. From bottom to top it is made of a silver disk, glass orb, a slanted square twice the width of the sphere, a smaller square holding up the longest piece of glass that is slanted at the opposite 45 degree angle. The very top holds two chunks of glass and a smaller sphere. The entire work feels like it's balancing itself in a way similar to a jenga tower. The front of the work shows a flat, yellow, hollowed out circle.

It's all things lamination for this week's Art Term Tuesday! Step inside a space of creativity with featured studio glass artists.

August 12, 2025July 22, 2025

Art Term Tuesday: Soda-Lime Glass

A white shelf with several cubbies arranged vertically and horizontally in varying sizes. Within each section is a piece of glass art. The shelf contains works that are mainly non-objective shapes. Bright greens, purples, yellows, and reds, stand out as most noticeable.

With more glass being put on display through FWMoA's Illuminate Project, today we're exploring Soda-Lime glass! Learn how to identify this versatile medium with today's Art Term Tuesday.

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.

May 13, 2025

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.

December 17, 2024April 4, 2025

Art Term Tuesday: Painterly

Have you found yourself contemplating a work of art but struggling to find words to describe what you're seeing? Us too! Let's discuss a word to help you describe an artwork: painterly.

October 29, 2024April 4, 2025

Art Term Tuesday: Scumbling

The leaves are scattering and we're scumbling at the #fwmoa. Learn about this painting technique in our #arttermtuesday this month!

September 24, 2024April 4, 2025

Art Term Tuesday: Archive

Libraries aren't the only institutions with archives! Many institutions, including #fwmoa, have designated collections they preserve and promote. Meet the artists currently in our Special Collections & Archives in this post:

August 27, 2024April 4, 2025

Art Term Tuesday: Borosilicate Glass

There's a lot of science behind borosilicate (and, really, all) glass sculpture! Delve into this #STEAM post and see the works #nowonview at #fwmoa!

July 23, 2024April 4, 2025

Art Term Tuesday: Wash

It's wash day at #fwmoa, but we aren't doing laundry; instead, we're looking at artworks that use a wash to create contrast, texture, and color gradients. Learn how to spot this technique then put it to the test with works #nowonvie at #fwmoa.

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