by museum | Jun 8, 2021 | Exhibits, 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 this challenging tunnel and artist’s views of this time are revealed through pigment on canvas.
Self. Family. Space. Light. Mythology. Love. Death. Patriotism. These concepts are explored and reflected in this year’s collaboration between Juliette Aristides Atelier at Gage Academy in Seattle and Maryhill Museum of Art. SEARCHING FOR BEAUTY: Artists Views through the Lens of 2020/2021 will be exhibited through July 18 in the museum’s M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust Education Center.
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by museum | Apr 8, 2021 | Education, General, News
Teachers As Artists is an annual exhibition that showcases the work of regional art educators, and is presented in collaboration with Washington Art Education Association and Tacoma Art Museum. The theme in 2021 is Connections, inviting artists to explore ways we connected to our family, our world, and our emotions during a time when we were forced to separate from those very things.
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by museum | Jan 26, 2021 | Education, Exhibits, General, Theatre de La Mode
A closer look at décors for Théâtre de la Mode exhibits in Europe in 1945 and North America in 1946 shows that the sets differed and included lost designs by George Geffroy, George Wakhévitch, Jean-Denis Malclès and Emilio Terry.
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by museum | Dec 10, 2020 | Education, General
Serendipity led New Jersey-based printmaker Molly Gaston Johnson to Maryhill Museum of Art; now she’s leading a visual art community-building experience that has connected artists of all ages and abilities from across the US and beyond.
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by museum | Apr 29, 2020 | Education, Exhibits, General
If you recently purchased fabric to create the perfect “statement” anti-coronavirus face mask, history beat you to the “fashioned by disease” punch. In fact, many aesthetics that define “beauty” in today’s market were formed by epidemics of the past. Let’s take a closer look at some historical fashion trends influenced by disease.
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by museum | Apr 6, 2020 | Education, Events, Family Fun, News, Press Releases
Maryhill is excited to launch Exquisitely Connected, a national visual art community-building experience, and we invite you to take part! Similar to The Exquisite Gorge Project, this initiative is also inspired by the Surrealist parlor game, Exquisite Corpse. But this... » Read More
