2011
03.14.11 Museum Adds Contemporary and History Pieces to Collection 03.03.11 Museum Nights Goes Underground 02.24.11New Exhibition Gives Visitors a Chance to Help Museum 02.21.11 Thin Mints and Moon Pies at Lagan Park This Saturday 02.07.11 Masterpieces Center Stage Artistic Expressions Celebrating 25 Years of Shakespeare in Montgomery, Alabama 01.31.11 Society Dell’ Arte Mardi Gras Event 01.13.11 Edmund Lewandowski: Precisionism and Beyond 01.13.11 An American Consciousness: Robin Holder’s Mid-Career Retrospective
2010
Mobile Museum of Art Scrambles for Nighttime Event
Mobile, Al – November 3, 2010 – Museum Nights is a new event organized by the Mobile Museum of Art being held Friday, November 19 from 6 to 10 p.m. Museum Nights is a free event with hors d’oeuvres, live music and a cash bar. The museum is collaborating with ModMobilian for this inaugural event which features a theatre scramble where teams write, rehearse and perform an original play within a limited time. For this theatre scramble nine teams met with ModMobilian representatives on October 27 to choose a random theme ranging from “on the road again” to “the afterlife.” The groups then had 23 days to prepare a 10-minute performance for the Mobile Museum of Art’s event. Along with the theatre scramble performances the museum galleries will be open.
The Mobile Museum of Art is planning to have Museum Nights events throughout the year. Historically, the museum has only been opened at night for member’s events and rentals. Nighttime evens like this one will allow a wider audience an opportunity to visit the museum. Including entertainment like the theatre scramble will also help to make it more engaging for guests.
Exhibition funding is provided in part by the City of Mobile, Mobile County, the Alabama State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Mobile Museum of Art hosts special exhibitions from world-famous museums and collectors throughout the year. Open Monday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Museum operations are made possible, in part, by funding from the City of Mobile, Mobile County, the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Helen Keller Statue and Exhibit Tour Comes to the Mobile Museum of Art
Mobile, Al – July 1, 2010 – The Mobile Museum of Art is the fourth stop on a statewide tour for a new exhibit featuring a statue portraying the dramatic moment that Helen Keller was liberated from the “double dungeon of darkness and silence.” The exhibit was designed to raise awareness of Helen Keller and the Foundations that carry on her work – the Helen Keller Birthplace Foundation and the Helen Keller Foundation for Research and Education. The exhibition will be on view July 27 through September 27.
“This is a wonderful opportunity for the people of Mobile to learn more about Helen Keller and how her oft-stated goal to end preventable blindness and deafness continues to inspire our global efforts in medical research,” said Robert Morris, M.D., president of the Helen Keller Foundation for Research and Education.
Mike McMackin, president of the Helen Keller Birthplace Foundation said, “We hope those who visit the statue will also visit Ivy Green in Tuscumbia to gain a firsthand appreciation of Helen’s remarkable ascent out of darkness and silence.”
Created by noted sculptor Edward Hlavka, the 1,000-pound bronze statue poised on a base of Sylacauga marble matches one on display in the main hall of the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center in Washington, D.C. The statue depicts the moment in 1887, when Keller’s teacher Anne Sullivan spelled "W-A-T-E-R" into her hand while holding her other hand under a water pump and Keller realized meanings were hidden in the manual alphabet shapes Sullivan had taught her to make.
The life-size image of Helen Keller as a seven-year-old was designed to be approachable and inspiring, especially to children. It is fully accessible from all sides so that all visitors, regardless of their personal limitations, may touch and feel Keller’s likeness.
Helen Keller, who lost her sight and hearing as a child, later learned to speak and earned a degree from Radcliffe College, the women's branch of Harvard University. She traveled the world as an adult, wrote 12 books and championed causes including women's suffrage and workers' rights. She was an internationally celebrated advocate for those with disabilities.
The tour, conducted jointly by the Helen Keller Foundation for Research and Education and the Helen Keller Birthplace Foundation, will travel to only one other location, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, before its final installation at the State Capitol in Montgomery in December.
Tour sponsors include the Daniel Foundation of Alabama; AT&T Alabama; Callahan Eye Foundation Hospital; Alabama Power Foundation; HealthSouth Corporation; and BBVA Compass Bank.
About the Mobile Museum of Art The Mobile Museum of Art hosts special exhibitions from world-famous museums and collectors throughout the year. Open Monday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Museum operations are made possible, in part, by funding from the City of Mobile, Mobile County, the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
About the Helen Keller Foundation for Research and Education Based in Birmingham, Alabama, USA, the Helen Keller Foundation for Research and Education strives to prevent blindness and deafness by advancing research and education. For more information visit helenkellerfoundation.org.
About the Helen Keller Birthplace Foundation The Helen Keller Birthplace Foundation preserves and manages Ivy Green, the birthplace of Helen Keller in Tuscumbia, Alabama, USA. For more information visit helenkellerbirthplace.org.
Mobile Museum of Art Showcases Local Artist
Mobile, Al – June 15, 2010 –The artistry of Marian Acker Macpherson’s (1906-1993) historical etchings will be on view in Marian Acker Macpherson: Etcher of Old Mobile, at the Mobile Museum of Art from July 23 to September 26. Born into an established Mobile family, Marian Acker Macpherson lived her whole life in the Gulf Coast city, except for the years spent attending art school in the 1920s. When Macpherson returned to Mobile after three years of art school in Boston, she realized the historic buildings, what she called “Old Mobile,” were disappearing. So she undertook to record in etchings many of these structures.
Her undertaking to capture the historic homes of Mobile resulted in two books being published with reproductions of her etchings: Prints of the Past of Old Mobile (1932) and Etchings of Old Mobile (1938).After World War II, Marian continued her interest in Old Mobile with the publication of her guidebook Glimpses of Old Mobile (six known editions, 1946-1983), which include the main reproductions of her ink drawings. In her later years, she turned to painting, executing scores of small watercolors of Mobile and environs, as well as Mardi Gras scrolls and illustrated maps of Mobile, Mobile Bay, and Gulf Shores.
This exhibit features as many of her etchings as can be located, as well as a selection of her other works. Programs being held in conjunction with the exhibition include a walking tour of Downtown Mobile with a local architectural historian examining existing structures similar to those depicted in Macpherson’s work. This exhibition is organized for the Mobile Museum of Art by guest curator Stephen J. Goldfarb. An exhibition catalogue is also available.
Exhibition funding is provided in part by the City of Mobile, Mobile County, the Alabama State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Mobile Museum of Art hosts special exhibitions from world-famous museums and collectors throughout the year. Open Monday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Museum operations are made possible, in part, by funding from the City of Mobile, Mobile County, the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
New Acquisition Included in Upcoming Exhibition
Mobile, Al – July 15, 2010 –The Mobile Museum of Art announced today the recent acquisition of a wood sculpture, titled The Blood of the Lamb, by international artist and published author Mark Lindquist. The addition of this piece, created in 1974, expands on earlier examples of Lindquist’s work that are currently part of the museum’s permanent collection. The artwork is being included in the upcoming exhibition “Wood Artistry from the Permanent Collection” on view July 23 to September 26.
“Wood Artistry from the Permanent Collection” showcases the museum's collection of wood art, developed since the late 1980s, which represents the creativity of American and International artists. Many works in the exhibition are always on view in the permanent collection galleries, but only a small percentage of the collection can be seen at any one time. This exhibition features additional examples by familiar artists, as well as artists not previously shown and new acquisitions such as The Blood of the Lamb by Linquist.
Lindquist’s early career was influenced by his father, noted woodturner Melvin Lindquist. The younger Lindquist applied the principles of sculpture and the aesthetic of Japanese ceramics to the craft he learned from his father. Mark Lindquist's work is well-known for celebrating the natural qualities of wood, from burl grain, bark inclusions, and spalting (intricate markings left behind by fungus), to cracks and the fibrous texture of the material.
In The Blood of the Lamb, Lindquist refers to the concept of sacrifice and redemption. A wall-mounted sculpture with no literal reference to the vessel, the work presaged the artist's current focus on sculptures that allude to the dilemmas of our time in the context of timeless themes.
Exhibition funding is provided in part by the City of Mobile, Mobile County, the Alabama State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Mobile Museum of Art hosts special exhibitions from world-famous museums and collectors throughout the year. Open Monday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Museum operations are made possible, in part, by funding from the City of Mobile, Mobile County, the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Michael Peterson: Evolution | Revolution
Mobile, Al – July 15, 2010 –Following the unique trajectory of wood sculptor Michael Peterson over the past twenty years, Evolution | Revolution traces the evolution from the artist's early lathe turned bowls to his current, revolutionary sculptures devoid of the lathe. Over 30 sculptures, inspired by the geographic environment of the Pacific Northwest, will be on view at Mobile Museum of Art July 23 to October 3.
Turning, carving, sandblasting, bleaching and pigmenting the burl portion of trees such as madrone, maple, grass tree, elm and locust, Peterson creates sculptural works of sheer beauty and purity. He starts out with multiple wet chunks of wood which are carved and hollowed out using chainsaws. As the pieces dry, they shrink and warp in unpredictable ways that heighten their grain patterns and create rich textures. He then smoothes the edges and sometimes bleaches the pieces prior to layering them with multiple subtle coats of pigments which he often times wipes away to create the illusion of depth – much the same way painters do when using chiaroscuro techniques. Some of the sculptures are composed of individual hollowed-out units that, when stacked vertically, are reminiscent of how waves would toss driftwood into unpredictable positions on the beach.
"Evolution | Revolution” honors Peterson for his organic abstract forms, including elements reminiscent of birds, stones, driftwood and landscapes – all referring to the natural, physical realm while quietly emanating a deep sense of spirituality,” says co-curator Michael Monroe. More than 20 of his most recent sculptures will be on display adjacent to nearly 15 earlier works consisting of lathe-turned, bowl-like forms to contrast and highlight Peterson’s artistic progression over the past 20 years.
Born in Wichita Falls, Texas, Peterson now resides on Lopez Island, one of the San Juan Islands in Washington, where he draws heavily from the surrounding environment. Peterson’s work has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions over the last 20 years, and can be found in public collections throughout North America, including: the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; the Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC and the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC among others.
A catalogue with essays by Robyn Horn, Matthew Kangas and Kevin Wallace will accompany the exhibition.
“Michael Peterson: Evolution | Revolution” is organized by Bellevue Arts Museum, and co-curated by Michael W. Monroe, Director of Curatorial Affairs and Stefano Catalani, Curator. This exhibition has been made possible by the Windgate Charitable Foundation with additional support by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Exhibition funding is provided in part by the City of Mobile, Mobile County, the Alabama State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Mobile Museum of Art hosts special exhibitions from world-famous museums and collectors throughout the year. Open Monday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Museum operations are made possible, in part, by funding from the City of Mobile, Mobile County, the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Museum Summer Art Camp More Enticing than England
Mobile, Al - May 17, 2010, -When Beverly Miller gives her son Luke the choice of a summer vacation visiting relatives in England or camp, the choice for the bespectacled youth is easy. Summer camp. But not just any summer camp, Art Blast summer camp at the Mobile Museum of Art. No surprising, says his mother, “He always has a great time. He really enjoys art and the staff is very helpful.”
Luke who is almost nine now has been attending Art Blast since he was four-years-old and has taken nearly every art class the museum offers. When the family temporarily moved to Connecticut, Mrs. Miller brought her son back to Mobile so he could attend summer classes. Now that the Miller family has returned to the area Luke can always be found in one of the museums after school art classes as well as Art Blast.
Art Blast which begins June 14 is a series of week-long art classes that change each Monday. With classes that include ceramics, papier-mâché, and oil painting, Art Blast offers something for all age groups. Flexible scheduling allows students to attend from one to four classes each day. Classes are taught by certified art teachers in a fun and creative environment. The courses are open to students ages four to college and all experience levels. Reasonably priced, courses this summer include Absolutely Abstracts, Fairy Tale Fun, Outer Space Adventures and Trompe l’Oleil, paintings that trick the eye.
Youths age 14 and up can benefit from half-priced fees by donating their time as an Art Aide as little as 20 hours a week. Art Aides assist in the classroom organizing supplies for the instructors and students. Volunteers can choose four-hour morning or afternoon shifts.
“I never worry about Luke when he is at the museum,” says Mrs. Miller. “Luke has allergies and the staff goes above and beyond to care for him.”
For more information about Art Blast call 251.208.5212 or download the class schedule on the museum's homepage.
The Mobile Museum of Art hosts special exhibitions from world-famous museums and collectors throughout the year. Open Monday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Museum operations are made possible, in part, by funding from the City of Mobile, Mobile County, the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Opening Weekend Packed with Events
Mobile, Al - April 14, 2010, -Three new shows open at the Mobile Museum of Art on April 30 all featuring female artists "Shoot'n Southern: Women Photographers, Past and Present", "Claudia DeMonte: Mapping Beauty" and "Kate Clark: Give and Take." Coinciding with the opening of these exhibitions the museum will have two guest lecturers. On Saturday, May 1 at 2 p.m., Curator of Photography for the High Museum of Art Atlanta Julian Cox will discuss trends in modern photography and take guests on a gallery tour of Shoot'n Southern which features more than 200 works by over 70 female photographers that have lived and worked in the Southeastern United States. Then on May 2 at 1:30 p.m., exhibiting artist Claudia DeMonte will discuss her exhibit "Mapping Beauty." Essentially a retrospective of the artist’s career DeMonte has used a variety of materials to create works that combine a sobering commentary on the status of women in the world with lighthearted humor.
"Kate Clark: Give and Take" also opening April 30 will present new, large-scale sculptures that explore the margins between reality and myth by Brooklyn-based artist Kate Clark. Clark's work is a synthesis of human and animal through taxidermy reminding the viewer that the exotic and wild have been undone to construct striking portraits. Clark is scheduled to speak at the museum on May 14 during a lunchtime lecture.
For more information about these exhibits click here.
Weather Proof Mardi Gras Event
Mobile, Al - January 15, 2010, - The Mobile Museum of Art will hold the second annual Family Friendly Mardi Gras event on Saturday, February 6 beginning at 9:30 a.m. Parade goers can leave their jackets and raincoats at the door and enjoy a weatherproof Mardi Gras procession inside the Mobile Museum of Art. This indoor event begins with a foot-parade through the museum galleries that includes music from the Springhill Mighty Marching Wildcats band and various throws from costumed revelers.
The Mobile Museum of Art’s Family Friendly Mardi Gras event is an exploration of the creativity, art and imagination that are fundamental traditions of Mardi Gras in Mobile. Guests can take part in a variety of art activities for the whole family like creating mini-floats, mask decorating or crafting a society doubloon. There will also be a costume contest where participants can win prizes for the best Mardi Gras outfit. Chief Slacabamorinico as portrayed by Rev. B. Wayne Dean, Sr. will also give a presentation about the legend of Joe Cain.
Admission to the event is free to all. For questions about participating in the parade, contact Howard McPhail, at 251.208.5205 or [email protected]
Paintings Reunited After More Than 20 Years
Mobile, Al – September 9, 2009 - Simka Simkhovitch’s Black Church Supper has been reunited with his earlier study of that painting after being separated for more than 20 years. The 1936 painting has been part of the Mobile Museum of Art’s permanent collection since 1984 while the study remained with Simkhovitch’s estate. The recent purchase of this revealing composition was due in part to a pair of docents, Virgina and Betty Kerth, who stumbled upon the Simkhovitch study while searching for additional information about the artist and painting for a guided tour.
“In the last year the Museum has tried to construct more tours specifically for adults,” Chief Curator Paul Richelson said. “This has prompted docents to revisit paintings which have already proven popular with our youthful visitors, and Black Church Supper is one of them.”
While preparing a specialized tour for a local university, Virginia and Betty found the study listed for sale on a gallery website operated by Simkhovitch’s granddaughter. Realizing the benefit this painting could have for the Museum, Director Tommy McPherson and Paul Richelson contacted the seller within hours of learning about the Simkhovitch study to make the purchase. The decision was made even easier by Virginia Kerth’s donation to cover the acquisition.
Simka Simkhovitch was thirty-one years old when he came to the United States from his native Russia in 1924. His principal inspiration drew upon the experiences of his daily life. The study for Black Church Supper depicts an African-American woman serving guests seated at a table. The woman is leaning close to a diner with an apparent smile on her face. However, the final painting has a more somber feel with the woman’s smile replaced with a solemn expression and no longer face to face with the diner. Having visited Mississippi around the time Black Church Supper was created it is possible the scene depicted is one Simkhovitch witnessed while visiting the South. Both paintings are currently displayed side by side in the Museum’s Katharine C. Cochrane Gallery.
New Exhibitions Opening at the Mobile Museum of Art
Mobile, Al - September 9, 2009–This fall the Mobile Museum of Art will house four traveling exhibitions spanning 200 years of artistic expression and showcasing an array of mediums including ceramics, glass and aquatint etchings. The first exhibit scheduled to open features works by Japanese born ceramicist in his self-titled exhibition Jun Kaneko. Beginning September 25th, guests can view some of the most technically triumphant ceramic sculptures ever created. Kaneko pushes the limits of traditional one-piece fired-ceramics creating sculptures in excess of 10 feet high, once considered impossible to produce. The range of works in this exhibition reveals the artist’s technical and innovative abilities in a display featuring approximately 40 ceramic sculptures, drawings and paintings from the past two decades.
Special programming for this exhibit includes a lecture by Assistant Professor in the Department of Fine and Performing arts at Spring Hill College who is a former student of Kaneko. Pieter Favier will share “insider” information about Kankeo’s process from inspiration to execution during a tour and gallery talk of the exhibit. The tour is set for Tuesday, November 10th at 2 p.m. Jun Kaneko closes December 6th.
Considered the last of the “old masters” and the “first modern artist” Francisco Goya’s Los Caprichos are wrought with bitter satire and despair as he attempted to analyze the human condition and denounce social abuses and superstitions of his time. This exhibit includes eighty prints of the series from an early first edition, three examples from other Goya print series and nine works on paper by much later artists, testifying to the lasting impact of Goya’s set of masterpieces.
Both Pardon the Genius: The Wearable Art of Earl and Tod Pardon and GlassWear: Glass in Contemporary Art explore jewelry as an expressive form of wearable art but in very different ways. As the name suggests GlassWear focuses on the use of glass as a medium for jewelry. This exhibition conveys the potential of glass in jewelry by provocative concepts and masterful techniques. Pardon the Genius however merges disparate aspects of modern art into jewelry with the use of contrasting colored gems made even more brilliant when combined with the enameling in these pieces created by the late Earl Pardon and his son Tod.
Special programming for Pardon the Genius and GlassWear include a jewelry making discussion and workshop with the owner/operators of Knot Just Beads and a lecture about bead making as a as a means of survival for an African tribe. On November 14th, Melody MacDuffee will talk about the obstacles faced by a tribe in Ghana as they try to provide an income through bead making in her lecture called Soul of Somanya. Then on December 6th, just in time for the holidays Knot Just Beads will host a jewelry making discussion and workshop where participants will learn some innovative ways to turn mementos into wearable art.
The exhibitions Francisco Goya: Los Caprichos, Pardon the Genius: The Wearable Art of Earl and Tod Pardon and GlassWear: Glass in Contemporary Art will be open between October 3rd and January 2nd.
Museum operations are made possible, in part, by funding from the City of Mobile, Mobile County, the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional funding provided for Jun Kaneko, GlassWear and Goya by Mr. and Mrs. Riley B. Smith, Dr. and Mrs. Leon McVay, III and The J. L. Bedsole Foundation respectively.
Francisco Goya: Los Caprichos was organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, in association with Denenberg Fine Arts, West Hollywood, Calif.
GlassWear: Glass in Contemporary Jewelry is co-organized by the Museum of Arts and Design, New York and the Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Germany. This exhibition is accompanied by a catalog published by the Museum of Arts and Design and the Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Germany.
New Museum Programs in July
Mobile, Al – June 30, 2009 –Two new programs for adults and families are being featured in July at the Mobile Museum of Art. The first of these programs is a tour series titled Art for Appreciation’s Sake. This three-part tour series is aimed at helping art novices and life-long learners get more out of their museum and travel experiences. Museum docent and 2009 Heart of Gold Merit Award winner Gail Z. McCain will discuss selected artworks with participants seated in front of pieces in the gallery. The first lecture is being held Sunday, July 12th with subsequent lectures on July 19 and 26. Attendance at each tour is strongly encouraged but isn’t necessary. Lectures begin at 2:00 p.m. and last approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
July will also feature a gallery talk and exclusive studio tour with exhibiting artist Casey Downing, Jr. who will provide guests a rare opportunity to visit his working studio. According to Donan Klooz, curator of exhibitions, Downing is considered to be the first Mobile artist to have made a living as a local, full-time sculptor. In conjunction with Casey Downing, Jr.: Past and Present currently on display at the Mobile Museum of Art, the artist will share information about his work and insight into his artistic processes. The program will be held on July 25. Space is very limited and reservations are required. Contact Darby Ulery (listed below) for more details about this program.
In addition to these programs the Museum continues to offer walk-in tours twice weekly. Every Wednesday and Saturday at 2:00 p.m. museum docents take guests through the Museum’s special exhibitions and/or highlights of the permanent collection. Family oriented tours are also being offered each Thursday in conjunction with Market in the Park.
For more information about any of these programs visit the Museum’s website at www.MobileMuseumofArt.com or contact Darby Ulery at [email protected] or call 251.208.5210.
Museum Helps Bring Local Artists and Children Together
Mobile, Al – June 30, 2009 –The Mobile Museum of Art is putting local artists and children together to create unique works of art for an upcoming fundraising event. Each December the Mobile Ballet raises money for a different non-profit children’s organization through their debutante Nutcracker Ball. This year the Mobile Ballet has chosen to support Woody’s Song, a local school for Autistic children, which is set to open this fall. The children of Woody’s Song and local artists are working together to create artworks that will be auctioned off at the event.
The twenty children selected to participate were paired with local artists all of whom graciously donated their time to work with the children. June 27th was the first of two days selected for the children and artists on work on their projects in the Museum’s Education Wing and were assisted by debutantes from the Mobile Ballet. The children ranged in age from five to nineteen and created pieces made using watercolors, acrylics and print making. A second group of children will be at the Museum on July 18th to work with their “paint partner” to create the additional artworks to the auction.
The Mobile Museum of Art hosts special exhibitions from world-famous museums and collectors throughout the year. Open Monday-Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Summer Art Camp In Full Swing
Mobile, Al – June 22, 2009-It’s not too late to sign up for the Mobile Museum of Art’s summer art camp, Art Blast! Weekly classes began June 15 and continue through August 7 for a total of seven weeks of exciting, educational and just-plain-fun studio-art classes for ages 4-18. Themed classes include Fairy Tale Fun, We Dig Dinosaurs and Outer Space Adventures.
In July, Walter Anderson fans can join in the Art Blast! class Everything Walter Anderson. For those who like variety, An Artist a Day or Art with Everything promises to inspire the eclectic artist. For the older student, our line-up includes portraiture, drawing, oil painting, and trompe l’oeil classes. Of course the Museum’s ever-popular pottery/ceramic classes are available for all ages.
We offer all day programs for ages 7 and up, with a lunch option from the Palette Café. Art Blast! instructors are all experienced teachers-and artists in their own right. The Mobile Museum of Art’s Education Department is dedicated to facilitating access to and encouraging active, thought-provoking interaction with the arts. For more information about Art Blast! click here.
Museum Receives $50,000 For Capital Campaign
Mobile, Al – June 10, 2009–The Crampton Trust recently made a generous donation of $50,000 to the Mobile Museum of Art for use in the capital campaign. The Crampton Trust, established in 1994 and Mrs. Katharine Crampton Cochrane have been long-standing supports of the Museum and its mission. This donation brings the remaining balance of the capital campaign to under $1 million dollars.
Donations such as this one by The Crampton Trust allows the Mobile Museum of Art to continue its mission to provide a place where people enrich their lives through interaction with the visual arts in thought-provoking and creative ways that nourish and delight the mind and spirit.
The Mobile Museum of Art hosts special exhibitions from world-famous museums and collectors throughout the year. Open Monday-Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
