Exhibitions at the Katonah Museum of Art range from realism to abstraction, from ancient artifacts to cutting edge contemporary, from oil painting to any other material artists employ. Every few months the Museum is transformed. Within the school year this diverse schedule offers educators and students multiple opportunities to explore visual history and connect their Museum experience to classroom learning. In addition, every year an exhibition of student artwork is displayed throughout the Museum.
Here's what's coming up for your students.
October 3, 2010 - January 9, 2011
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| Joyce Kozloff, Voyages:Tary Islands, 2004–06, Watercolor, acrylic, collage, and cast paper 9 1/4 x 6 x 4 1/4 Courtesy of the artist and DC Moore Gallery, New York |
MAPPING: Memory and Motion in Contemporary ArtIn the Main Galleries
Maps help us find our way and chart our place in the world. With the advent of GPS and GoogleMaps, they have infiltrated our daily lives more than ever before. This exhibition will offer fresh perspectives on maps as fertile ground for artistic exploration at the beginning of the 21st century. The 60 works by 40 artists – including paintings, photographs, works on paper, sculpture, video, and a live web terminal – utilize maps in various ways to address issues such as identity, global culture, and personal memory.
What is a map? What are the traditional purposes of a map? How are maps used today? How have contemporary artists transformed, deconstructed, manipulated, and responded to mapping? On tours of this exhibition, students will explore map-based artworks that take their cue from actual locations, discuss how memory and perceptions of space and place influence their understanding of the world, and create their own map-based artwork.
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| Uri Shulevitz, How I Learned Geography, 2008, Farrar Straus Giroux, New York |
URI SHULEVITZ: How I Learned GeographyIn the Learning Center
Based on Uri Shulevitz’s childhood memories of World War II, Caldecott Honor Book How I Learned Geography illustrates how a map and his imagination took young Uri far away from his hunger and misery.
Plan a visit to this exhibition.
January 23 – May 1, 2011
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| Mark di Suvero, Untitled, 1983 Ink on paper, 24 x 17 ¾ inches |
DRAWING CONCLUSIONS: Masterworks on Paper (working title)
In the Main GalleriesDrawn from one of the premier collections of contemporary works on paper, this exhibition features 65 original drawings by 58 artists. With an emphasis on Minimal, post-Minimal, and Conceptual art, it celebrates the beauty of a fluid line, the energy of scrawling shapes, and the power of a single band of color. The works showcase a diverse range of scale, mark-making, and material choices, from intimate pastel on vellum to ash, wax, string, tape, tea, tar, cardboard, and film.
Through careful looking and thoughtful dialogue about works of art that embrace a wide range of materials and conceptual processes, students will be challenged to reconsider what they traditionally think of as “drawing” and “art.” Tours will also include an exploratory hands-on drawing activity.
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| Peter Reynolds, The Dot, 2003 Candlewick Press |
PETER REYNOLDS: Illustrations from Ish and the DotIn the Learning CenterSee delightfully simple illustrations from these two inspiring stories about children and their drawing experiences.
