Tag Archives: Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
Origami Fosters Connections
Posted on February 20, 2013
Like origami artworks held together via paper tucked into compatible pocket folds, collaboration is key to Woodson Art Museum programs for all ages. Often, as staff members plan and work alongside community partners, we develop soft spots for these people. Michael assists visitors on opening day. Roman with Little Masters... Read More
Family Field Trip Yields Benefits
Posted on February 06, 2013
The A.C. Kiefer Educational Center is a 4K and early childhood center that supports families and enhances development of 3- to 5-year-old children and takes family field trips in the Wausau community to model teaching skills for parents and ways to integrate classroom curriculum into daily life. Each month, A.C.... Read More
Shaker Exhibition Jogs Family Memories
Posted on January 16, 2013
Woodson Art Museum staff can easily get attached to exhibitions, and I have to admit that I’ll be sad to see the Shaker exhibition exit our galleries next week. This winter, Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection offered visitors a journey back to an intriguing chapter of American... Read More
A Hand- and Heart-warming Campaign
Posted on January 09, 2013
About fifty Wausau-area community members will be a bit warmer during the remaining cold winter months, thanks to Woodson Art Museum visitors’ generosity through the Wisconsin Department of Tourism’s Big Bundle Up campaign. The Woodson Art Museum, one of two Big Bundle Up drop-off locations in the Wausau area, collected... Read More
Curatorial School in Session
Posted on November 28, 2012
One of the benefits of working at the Woodson Art Museum is being privy to the installation of temporary exhibitions such as Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection. As the unofficial “muscle” of the operation, most of my work during installation week revolves around moving artwork, exhibit cases,... Read More
The Who, What, Where, and Why of Woodson Art Museum Visitors
Posted on November 20, 2012
Who are Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum visitors? What brings more than 50,000 people each year to the Museum for first, repeated, and frequent visits from throughout the Wausau area, region, country, and world? Volunteer Museum greeters, in the course of their welcome, casually inquire and later note visitors’ responses... Read More
Discovering Cuba
Posted on November 14, 2012
On Wednesday, October 31, fifteen intrepid Woodson Art Museum travelers and I departed for Havana from Miami on a charter flight. Two additional members of our group, delayed by Hurricane Sandy, caught up with us the next day. Thanks to a People-to-People license for travel to Cuba, the Woodson Art... Read More
A Window on Woodcarving
Posted on November 06, 2012
The three-day Wildfowl Woodcarving Workshop taught by northern Illinois woodcarver and veteran teacher Bob Guge, November 2 – 4, mesmerized Woodson Art Museum visitors who dropped in to watch the nine participants working on their projects. “Visitors walked around and were awed by it,” said workshop participant Susan Meyer, adding... Read More
Inspiration, Seared Indelibly
Posted on October 17, 2012
The art of pyrography is more than wood burning. An artist uses a tool – heated to as high as 1,000 degrees! – to scorch the surface of natural materials such as wood, paper, gourds, or leather. With the same price of admission – always free – Woodson Art Museum... Read More
Bright-eyed and Bushy-tailed: A Newbie’s Take on Birds in Art
Posted on September 12, 2012
I survived. The Birds in Art opening festivities served as my institutional initiation, and I can now say with confidence that I’m a part of the Woodson Art Museum family. It all began to sink in Friday – how truly special Birds in Art is and what this annual exhibition... Read More
