Tag Archives: Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
Teatime Connections
Posted on April 13, 2011
Time and temperature are two keys to making the perfect cup of tea. That’s what I learned from Rishi Tea demonstrations presented this past weekend during the opening of Mad About Teapots: From the Racine Art Museum and Almost Alice: New Illustrations of Wonderland by Maggie Taylor, on view... Read More
Erin’s Adventures in Museumland
Posted on April 06, 2011
The Woodson Art Museum galleries are transforming this week. Good Design is being dismantled and Almost Alice: New Illustrations of Wonderland by Maggie Taylor and Mad About Teapots: From the Racine Art Museum are taking its place. Venturing into the galleries this week is a “down-the-rabbit-hole” experience; nothing is quite... Read More
Making Magic from the Museum’s Collection
Posted on March 30, 2011
The 2011 Student Art Exhibition has ended. It’s time to install a new exhibition from the Woodson Art Museum’s collection. I eagerly anticipate each change, which brings a new wall color, different artworks, and an entirely new feel to the galleries. With the opening of each collection exhibition I repeatedly... Read More
Design Time
Posted on March 23, 2011
Since the late January opening of Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller and It’s Herman Miller Time: Today’s Furniture Makers Respond, all of us at the Woodson Art Museum have been counting down to the launch of the Design Studio on March 22. The live-date has finally come, and without... Read More
Art History 101 – A Monthly Dose to Boost Cultural Health
Posted on March 09, 2011
Last summer the Woodson Art Museum added a regular dose of art history to our events lineup. These noon-hour programs are designed to feature a different artist whose work complements the exhibition on view. That style then is woven into the hands-on projects planned for children in monthly Little Masters... Read More
Snow Sculptors Display Magic in Motion
Posted on March 02, 2011
Team USA snow sculptors say they’re just big kids who like to play in the snow. But after seeing them toil in bitterly cold conditions hour after hour, it’s clear that this trio is driven by a white-hot determination to deliver. For twenty-two years, Mike Martino, Tom Queoff and Mike... Read More
Playing in the Snow
Posted on February 09, 2011
There’s an old joke about art historians and how we fall asleep when the lights go on! ** Left to right: Mike Martino, Tom Queoff, Mike Sponholtz If you follow this “logic,” Team USA Snow Sculptors – Mike Martino, Tom Queoff, and Mike Sponholtz – come to life when the... Read More
Classroom Learning + Workplace Application = Enhanced Education
Posted on January 19, 2011
It’s a topsy-turvy world. A year ago, I was a student at Northcentral Technical College. This week, an NTC marketing instructor is job shadowing me at the Woodson Art Museum, to see how a non-profit art museum carries out its marketing efforts. How quickly things can change. Doors can open,... Read More
Year-end Review Shows Impressive Woodson Collection
Posted on January 05, 2011
Throughout the past few weeks, newspaper, magazine, and television reporters have done stories about 2010: the year in review. Some of the memories are uplifting, while others. . . . Remember the anguish waiting for the Chilean miners to be rescued? Or, the lurching of your stomach as images of... Read More
Many Pieces Assembled for Magical Mural
Posted on December 15, 2010
“Picking up the pieces” is a fitting slogan for last week’s Woodson Art Museum artist in residence Amy Weh. Amy is a mosaic artist who spent the week working with more than 300 students. The students ranged in age and grades from four year-old kindergarteners through high school seniors. Amy... Read More
