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September 2007 Washington Online Calendar Events |
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September 2007 Washington Online Calendar Events |
          
Tacoma/Seattle
September Events and Programs at Tacoma Art Museum EVENT: Opening Celebration for Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt Saturday, September 29, 6 pm Gee’s Bend is a small rural community nestled into a curve in the Alabama River southwest of Selma, Alabama. The town’s women developed a distinctive, bold, and sophisticated quilting style based on traditional American and African-American quilts, with a geometric simplicity reminiscent of Amish quilts and modern art. The women of Gee’s Bend passed their skills and aesthetic down through at least six generations to the present. The work of some of today’s Gee’s Bend quilters is on view in Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt. The event is free for members and $10 for non-members. FREE Third Thursday The Quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend Thursday, September 20, 6 pm FREE Third Thursday is generously sponsored by the Boeing Company and Columbia Bank. FREE Third Thursday programming is generously supported by the Gary E. Milgard Family Foundation. Second Tuesday: Northwest Jewelry This monthly series of lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on workshops is tailored to older adults. Every Second Tuesday of the month, adults age 65 and older receive reduced museum admission of $3.25. September’s program features internationally recognized artist and past president of the Seattle Metals Guild Micki Lippe. She discusses the development of her work as well as the Northwest studio art jewelry movement. The lecture will be followed by a jewelry-making activity in the Open Art Studio. Second Tuesdays are made possible in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Create a Home for Birds EXHIBITIONS: Sparkle Then Fade CLOSING September 3, 2007 Sparkle Then Fade features artists who employ highly reflective materials such as mirrors, Mylar, resin, and plastics to hold attention and generate powerful metaphors for the complexities of life. Through these various media, the artists engage the fleeting nature of time, beauty, permanence, and memory to offer provocative commentary on celebrity and power, the promises of consumer culture, the persistence of racism, and the personal sense of self. Nationally recognized artists such as Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Alice Wheeler, Marilyn Minter, Kathryn van Dyke, Josiah McElheny, 0100101110101101.org, and assume vivid astro focus, will be on view with Northwest artists such as Alex Schweder, Jack Daws, and Claude Zervas. This exhibition is organized by Tacoma Art Museum. Sparkle Then Fade is generously sponsored by Click! Cable TV. The Quiet Landscapes of William B. Post Tacoma Art Museum pairs an exhibition of photographs by William B. Post with selections from the museum’s permanent collection of Japanese woodblock prints. Post was a preeminent pictorial photographer at the turn of the century. His style reflected Japanese aesthetics with soft focus, still life images, and poetic rural scenes. Many artists of the time were strongly influenced by ukiyo-e prints (translated as pictures of the floating world), which celebrated life during the Edo period (1603-1867) in Japan. To highlight the artistic affinity between Post’s photography and Japanese prints, Tacoma Art Museum presents these works together in the Weyerhaeuser Family and Boeing Company Gallery. Drawing from its remarkable collection, including several recent gifts from the collection of Dr. Alfred Buck, the museum reveals this conversation across cultures. The exhibition demonstrates the breadth of the collection, with prints dating from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Both exhibitions focus on the observation of nature in all seasons. The Quiet Landscapes of William B. Post is organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and is traveling nationally. The exhibition is generously sponsored by The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and City Arts Magazine. 36 Views of Japanese Woodblock Prints: Selections from the Collection is organized by Tacoma Art Museum. The exhibition is generously supported by the Tom and Jane Yotsuuye Family. Veiled Northwest: Photographs by Mary Randlett Through January 27, 2008 Working for more than half a century, Mary Randlett is one the region’s most celebrated photographers. Known primarily for her portraits of regional artists and writers, Randlett also has captured the powerful beauty of the Northwest landscape. Organized by Tacoma Art Museum, Veiled Northwest is the first museum exhibition of Randlett’s landscape photographs. Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt OPENS September 22, 2007 Through December 9, 2007 The quilters of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, are celebrated for melding traditional quilt making and individual artistic expression. Their distinctive style, which more closely resembles modernist abstract paintings than traditional quilts, is now well known throughout the country as a result of the exhibition The Quilts of Gee’s Bend. Following the enormous public response to the initial exhibition, Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt further examines the resurgence of interest in quilting in Gee’s Bend and introduces new artists and motifs in works ranging from the early twentieth century through 2005. Tacoma Art Museum will be the only West Coast venue for this exhibition. Immediately following Gee’s Bend, Tacoma Art Museum brings local voices to the galleries with Threads that Bind: Works by Pacific Northwest African American Quilters, on view December 18, 2007, through February 17, 2008. Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt has been organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Tinwood Alliance, Atlanta. Local support provided by Key Foundation–a Foundation funded by KeyBank. Cecilia Beaux, American Figure Painter OPENS September 29, 2007 Through January 6, 2008 During her lifetime, Cecilia Beaux was widely regarded as one of the foremost artists working in the United States. Fiercely independent, she traveled widely in Europe, studying art in Paris. Returning to the United States, she became the first full-time female faculty member at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she taught drawing and painting for twenty years. She is primarily known for her paintings of children and portraits of high society. By the turn of the century, she was a world-renowned portraitist competing for patronage against other artists such as James Abbott McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, and Mary Cassatt. Her forty-year career represents a compelling and under-examined chapter in the history of American art. This exhibition explores questions of gender, class, and place in the context of Beaux’s reputation as an important professional artist at a time when male artists dominated the profession. Cecilia Beaux, American Figure Painter is organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Major support is provided by The Henry Luce Foundation. This exhibition is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of “American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius.” Telling Stories: Selections from the Permanent Collection Through Autumn 2008 This thematic selection from Tacoma Art Museum’s permanent collection explores how artists capture the spirit and essence of narrative tales. Following closely the narrative structure of stories, themes include character (portraiture), setting (landscape and still life), and plot development and resolution (figurative works). The exhibition includes many favorites from the museum’s collection, surveying works made from the late 1890s to the present in a vast array of media. Highlights include well-known paintings such as The Two Sisters by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Ballet in the Park by Everett Shinn. The art of the Northwest is showcased with works by Jacob Lawrence, Joseph Park, Barbara Earl Thomas, Patti Warashina, and others. The exhibition is organized by Tacoma Art Museum. Local support is generously provided by Robert Half International. ### HOURS – Tuesday – Saturday 10 am – 5 pm, Third Thursdays 10 am – 8 pm, Sunday 12 – 5 pm. Open Monday Memorial Day through Labor Day. ADMISSION – Adult $7.50, Student/Military/Senior (65+) $6.50, Family $25 (2 adults and up to 4 children under 18). Children 5 and under free. Third Thursdays free. Members always free. CONTACT – 253.272.4258, www.TacomaArtMuseum.org, info@TacomaArtMuseum.org |
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