Join in on this Saturday Studio's portrait project! Learn about continuous line and blind contour drawing, while seeing examples from one of the Ghost Army's figure artists, Jack Masey.
Saturday Studio: Organic Portraits
Treasures from the Vault: Art Cislo
Art Cislo, an artist familiar to Fort Wayne residents, creates compelling portraits and figures through printmaking. Learn more about these works in the #fwmoa permanent collection.
Now on View: Marie Goth
It's always exciting day at #fwmoa when we get new artworks and we've had quite a few of them over the past few weeks. Take a peek at a new painting #nowonview in "From Their Indiana Home".
Saturday Studio: The Medium of Makeup
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 …
Treasures from the Vault: Nancy Lutz
It's Labor Day weekend! Today, #fwmoa is celebrating by looking at two artists, George McCullough and Noel Dusendschon, at work in these portraits by fellow artist Nancy Lutz. What labor goes into the art that we look to look at?
Treasures from the Vault: Mr. & Mrs. George Smith
Works by unknown artists can be difficult to analyze. Today, we play art detectives to see what we can find out about this set of portraits in the #FWMoA collection.
Treasures from the Vault: Raphael Strauss
To celebrate the beginning of "No-Shave November", we've combed through the #FWMoA collection to find the wildest, freest hair and beards.
Treasures from the Vault: Robert Reid
Here at FWMoA, we are super excited for spring and flowers, so much so, we chose this floral portrait of a woman by American Impressionist Robert Reid for this week's vault treasure.
The FWMoA Fridge: Feelings
On the FWMoA Fridge…Feelings! See how some of our visitors to the Early Learning Center at the museum have grappled with their feelings through art!
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 …