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April 16, 2019April 4, 2025

Art Term Tuesday: Permanent Collection

Seven distinct gallery spaces, over a dozen phenomenal sculptures spread throughout our grounds, and two giant doors we try extremely hard to hide in plain sight! We’ve featured several artworks in our “Treasures from the Vault” series, offering a peek behind our “barn doors”, but we can’t possible feature everything in our collection! We have over 6,500 items in our permanent collection, so even if we featured a new piece every day it would take us 19 years to show them all. How did we get so many items in our collection? Where did they come from? Why can’t they all be on display at once? Find out in today’s Art Term Tuesday!

April 10, 2019July 7, 2020

Reality Check: There’s No Such Thing as Museum Elves

Why aren't all the museum galleries open when I visit? Why do museum galleries have to close for installation? Vice President and COO Amanda Shepard walks us through a vital museum operation, installing new exhibits, and the normal people who make it happen, without the help of museum elves.

April 5, 2019July 7, 2020

In the News: Seeing but not Looking, Slowin’ it down in the Art Museum

Slow Art Day is this Saturday! You're probably thinking, what is Slow Art Day? Slow Art Day is when we challenge museum visitors to look at five pieces of artwork for 10 minutes each. Read on to see what Katy Thompson thought about as she looked at three of our pieces for 10 minutes as a preview to the big event this weekend!

April 3, 2019April 4, 2025

Docent Dialogue: Kitchen Lithography with the Docent Corps

Still confused about creating a lithograph! Come along with the docents as they practice making their own using materials from your kitchen!

April 2, 2019April 4, 2025

Art Term Tuesday: Avant-garde

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!

March 25, 2019August 11, 2025

Treasures from the Vault: Evelynne the Etcher

Before the Internet, artists had to seek each other out to learn new techniques and discover new art forms. Follow Sachi as she traces the life of Evelynne Bernloehr Mess, a Brown County artist who, unlike her fellow oil painters, wanted to make an etching.

March 22, 2019July 7, 2020

A Horse is a Horse: FWMoA’s Looff Carousel Horse

What do museums collect? Suzanne Slick discusses a rather unusual artwork in our collection, our Prancer Carousel Horse.

March 19, 2019April 4, 2025

Art Term Tuesday: Portrait

Kaitlin Binkley, Marketing Coordinator In the simplest of terms, a portrait is a representation of a person. A self-portrait is a representation of the artist themself, like today’s #selfie. There are many generalities associated with portraits, for example, generally, portraits include the face and the person’s expression. Generally, a portrait is more staged than a …

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March 18, 2019July 7, 2020

Off the Cuff: We Love Art More than We Know

What artworks do you love? What artworks make you feel happy in your space? President and CEO Charles Shepard discusses our love of stuff, in particular, our visual stuff: from our kids fridge art to prints by well-known artists to what we find in a gallery or museum.

March 12, 2019August 11, 2025

Treasures from the Vault: Defining Iconography with Guardabassi and Liu

This week, our Treasure from the Vault and Art Term Tuesday come in one unique post! Learn about the importance of iconography in art as Elizabeth Goings uses one vault treasure and one work currently on display to break down this "stuffy" art term.