By Louise A. Palermo Curator of Education The COVID Pandemic’s icy fingers reached into every institution worldwide…even museums and art schools. Quickly we had to rethink learning, seeing, making, and sharing. All these months later, there is a light at the end of...
by Louise Palermo Curator of Education The Washington Art Education Association (WAEA) includes K-12 art teachers from public and private schools, administrators, museum educators, art school and college professors, retired and pre-service educators. Additionally,...
Steven L. Grafe Curator of Art Maryhill’s collections grow through donation and purchase. Recently, the museum purchased a pair of photo prints by two celebrated Indigenous photographers. One shows four young Chemehuevi boys crossing a desert road. It is a 2019 work...
In the photo above, couturier Jeanne Lanvin (French, 1867–1946) and an assistant appear with a 1945 Théâtre de la Mode mannequin. Lanvin’s career as a couturier began in 1909, when she joined the Syndicat de la Couture. Many of her early designs were inspired by her...
Steven L. Grafe Curator of Art Maryhill Museum of Art is home to nine Théâtre de la Mode stage sets, and several rotate onto view every other year. Anne Surgers replicated the décors in 1988–1990, while the miniature mannequins were being restored in Paris. They are...
Visual art community-building experience has connected artists of all ages and abilities from across the US and beyond. Serendipity led New Jersey-based printmaker Molly Gaston Johnson to Maryhill Museum of Art last summer, after she was encouraged by her college...
By Louise Palermo Curator of Education It is austere and profound studies that make great painters and sculptors. One lives all one’s life on this foundation, and if it is lacking, one will only be mediocre. Jean-Léon Gérôme Maryhill Museum of Art is full of wonder...
We’ve been serving this classic, no-fuss potato salad at Maryhill for more than 30 years. The recipe was originally created by longtime Maryhill employee Pat Perry, who also started the café at the museum in the early 1980s. Since then it’s always been on the menu and...
By Louise A. Palermo Curator of Education If you are one of the millions of people who recently purchased fabric to create the perfect, cheerful, “statement” anti-coronavirus face mask, history beat you to the “fashioned by disease” punch. In fact, many of the...
If you are anything like the rest of us, you may be filling your time with t.v. and movies. With that in mind, and with Maryhill’s diverse collection as inspiration, we’ve pulled together a watch list for both the big and small screen. 1. Sam Hill Oregon...
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