One of the most famous pieces of sculpture ever created was The Thinker by Auguste Rodin. The Thinker is a large muscular male figure sitting on a rock with his…
MONDAY MUSE | Sandy Skoglund
Sandy Skoglund is an American photographer known for creating elaborate images by combining sculpture, photography, and installation art, often taking months to create and build a single set. She has…
VIRTUAL TOUR | Requiems of the Divine
Did you miss the show in person? Just want to have another look? Peep the Virtual Tour for Requiems of the Divine: Spiritual Works by Art Cislo, Jon Detweiler, Justin…
COMMUNITY EVENT | GMoA at Buchtel House: Catch Some Sunshine
The Garrett Museum of Art will be hosting a Gallery at Buchtel House on Friday, June 4, 2021 from 5PM – 8PM in conjunction with the monthly First Friday event…
MONDAY MUSE | Da Vinci Fun Facts
For this week’s Monday Muse, we thought you might like to hear some fun facts about Leonardo da Vinci. 1. Da Vinci translates to “of Vinci”, his birthplace. This was…
MONDAY MUSE | Write On
From artists to Pulitzer prize winners, woodworkers to calligraphers, one simple thing unites them all: a pencil known as the Blackwing 602. This pencil was created by Eberhard Faber in the…
SHOW OPENING | Requiems of the Divine: Contemporary Spiritual Works by Art Cislo, Jon Detweiler, Justin Johnson, and Mark Ober
“Requiems of the Divine: Contemporary Spiritual Works by Art Cislo, Jon Detweiler, Justin Johnson, and Mark Ober features artists who are inspired by spirituality and who incorporate their personal faith…
MONDAY MUSE | Amazing Art Facts
The world’s largest painting is 17,000 square feet, Sacha Jafri’s, “The Journey of Humanity” (2020), an abstraction featuring drips, whorls, and splatters of various hues. It is certified by the Guinness…
MONDAY MUSE | Fountain
“Fountain” is a readymade sculpture by Marcel Duchamp in 1917. Readymades, as he called them, disrupted centuries of thinking about the artist as a creator. Duchamp argued that “an ordinary object…
MONDAY MUSE | Ann Walgrave Warner
At the end of the eighteenth century in North America, it was still considered proper for even ladies in prosperous households to be industrious, for many believed that idle hands…