From the Fort Wayne Museum of Art
Looking at, Talking about, and Appreciating Art
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:
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.
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 …
Naomi Vanderleest, Education Assistant Art comes in many different forms in our lives, even makeup applied to one's face. While the application of makeup is similar to painting or drawing, some artists take this a step further by using makeup as their medium. Look at this artwork below, currently on display in Indiana Artists Club …
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, …
This week #fwmoa educators were inspired by abstract art, in particular, the collages of Carlos Mare, now on display. See how they reused old artworks to create something new, just like Mare!
The staff at #fwmoa has spent their summer reading, so we've got some recommendations. First up: Grayson Perry's "Playing to the Gallery" which helps us look at contemporary art--a genre of art that often leaves us asking: what am I looking at?!
As we put the finishing touches on our newest installations in "The Art of the Skateboard", #fwmoa Maintenance Assistant Michelle Cano reflects on one of her favorite installation works that entered the permanent collection on a much smaller scale.
Staff at #fwmoa are playing favorites! A curator who works primarily with the permanent collection, Lauren Wolfer has many favorites (we won't tell the other works!). Her current pick? A new glass work by artists Tim Tate & Michael Janis.
How do we classify avant-garde art? Not to be confused with an art movement, like Impressionism or Abstract Expressionism, the avant-garde are the innovative, experimental individuals who begin the movements we learn about in art history. Read on to find out when an artist can be called avant-garde and who decides!