This Month at Maryhill
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Lori McLaughlin, Woman With Attitude II,monoprint. |
Greetings,
If you’ve spent any time at Maryhill Museum of Art, you know that we support art in the broadest possible terms. Not just inside the museum. Not just in special exhibits. We teach art, we take it outside into our gardens, we sponsor dance and music and speakers.
So the Maryhill Arts Festival August 16–17 should come as no surprise. More than 50 artists will show their work. Learning opportunities, music, food, wine and beer abound.
Please, check out details below and at our web site. But better yet, come check out all the fun that weekend. After all, we believe that there’s no such thing as too much art.
Colleen Schafroth
Executive Director
Arts Festival Offers Full Menu
of Creative Expression August 16–17
Sponsored by Columbia River Bank
In addition to its rich array of exhibits inside and out, the Maryhill Museum of Art will host a weekend of local and regional artists August 16–17 during the Maryhill Arts Festival. More than 50 artists will show (and sell) their work. The live music lineup includes Joanie's Jazz Trio, Bob Kasnick, SawCordius, Stillway & Bonham, Zjakanaka Marimba, Rich & Connie Dunnington and others. And a variety of refreshments will help nourish the appreciative: visitors can sample beer, wine and food from Casa el Mirador, the Lyle Hotel, the Glass Onion and Café Maryhill.
Among the work on exhibit will be prints from Print Arts Northwest, which also will show a variety of ways to make prints. For the Family Art Activity from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday Barbara Mason, printmaker and educator for Print Arts Northwest, will teach Gyotaku — the Japanese folk art of printing fish. The shady outdoor setting of the museum’s picnic grounds will be the destination du jour for Festival activities. Learn more.
Current Exhibitions
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After Andy Warhol, Marilyn(Announcement), 1981. Screenprint.
From the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation. © Andy Warhol Foundation. |
From Monroe to Minnelli and More, Warhol Delivers Famous Faces
Taking a turn toward the contemporary, our newest exhibit, Andy Warhol & Other Famous Faces, celebrates the distinctive vision of Andy Warhol and other artists influenced by his work. The show opened July 19, thanks to the generosity of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation, Warhol earned his more-than-15-minutes of fame for his mock-heroic treatment of icons mundane and familiar. Witness his Campbell's Soup Can, for instance, graphically inflated while, at the same time, deflated through the prosaic label Tomato. Warhol also tapped into America’s love of celebrity with a series of portraits, perhaps the most recognized of which is his hyper-cosmeticized portrait of Marilyn Monroe.
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Andy Warhol, Liza Minelli. 1964. Screenprint.
From the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation. © Andy Warhol Foundation. |
The show includes Warhol portraits of everyone from The Beatles to Sitting Bull, Liza Minnelli to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Look, also, for work from a variety of other artists who drew inspiration from Warhol and stretched their own talents. Red Grooms, for instance, offers a loving caricature of Elvis, and Japan’s Takashi Murakami celebrates pop culture imagery by magnifying his cartoonlike figure, DOB, and inserting it into playful environments. The show continues through Nov. 15 and is sponsored by Puget Sound Energy. Get further details at the musuem website.
It’s Still a Great Time
to take in Outdoor Sculpture
If you’re planning a visit to Maryhill Museum of Art (and you should be), definitely do visit our outdoor sculpture garden. You may know that the museum hosts a permanent collection of outdoor sculpture, including work by artists such as Leon White, Mel Katz and Jill Torberson. Every year, their work gains fresh company when the museum hosts the Outdoor Sculpture Invitational. This year, the sculpture garden also features the work of noted Northwest sculptors such as Alisa Looney, David Miller and Dennis Peacock. The guest sculptors will have work on display through Oct. 31. Get the full picture at the museum website.
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| Alisa Looney, Roll & Play, 2007, powder-coated, flame cut mild steel. |
Don’t Forget-- Discover Maryhill,
and Discover Art
 Any day that the Maryhill Museum of Art is open is a great day to take an Art Discovery self-guided tour. We’ve prepared booklets that help you find your way through our collection, and we’ve tried to anticipate most of your questions. Such as? You may wonder about the meaning of a piece of art. Or why an artist used a particular medium or technique. Or why you react to art as you do.
Art Discovery is a great way for families to take a museum tour. Pick an exhibit topic: Maryhill Favorites, Sculpture, Columbia River People, or Famous Faces. Fill out your guidebook, then show it at the front desk to get a free postcard. Get your Art Discovery booklets at the front desk or in the EyeSEE Resource Room. Sponsored by Judy Lackstrom and Robert Morrow.
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Looking Ahead
 Museum week, as the title implies, is All About Me (that is, if you’re in the third or fourth grade). School classes will each visit Maryhill for a full-day of art immersion during the weeks of Oct. 13–16 and Oct. 20–23. Kids will learn about making prints, self-portraits and more. Cost is a mere $3 per child. Maryhill has a special bus fund to help schools with travel costs. To reserve a date, call 509-773-3733 or email the Education Office at education@maryhillmuseum.org.
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Museum News
Now you can share Maryhill Museum of Art with friends around the globe. Maryhill offers over 20 e-postcards featuring objects from the collections. And it is easy — just follow the simple directions posted on the museum’s website… postcards
If you’re traveling around the country this summer, you’ll want to think about boosting your Maryhill membership to one of four premier tiers. With premier membership, you earn a host of reciprocal membership benefits at more than 300 museums around the country. With as little as a $100 Sponsor membership, you earn free member admission, member discounts at museum shops, and reduced-cost concert or lecture tickets. Northwest partners include: Artcentric, Corvallis; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art/University of Oregon, Eugene;
Umpqua Valley Arts Center, Roseburg; Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue;
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane;
Museum of Glass, Tacoma; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma. To learn which other museums are taking part in the North American Reciprocal Museum program, go online.
Click through to learn more about giving opportunities, send an e-mail or, to speak with a live person, call our development office at 509-773-3733.
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