More Free Programming at the CRMA!
Cedar Rapids, Iowa—The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art (CRMA) will start December off with a bang with four free programs!
Art Bites "Impressionism, Tonalism, and Grant Wood" with CRMA Curator, Sean Ulmer
Wednesday, December 1 at 12:15 p.m.
Join us as CRMA Curator, Sean Ulmer provides a visual twist to the classic sound bite in a 15-minute discussion of the first gallery of our American Century exhibition. We’ll look at American Impressionism and Tonalism, discussing the differences and show how this influenced Grant Wood. Free gallery admission for this program only. Art Bites is sponsored by Bankers Trust.
Lesley Wright, Director, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College
“Finding Contemporary Art in China: Nanjing, Beijing and Shanghai”
Thursday, December 2, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.
While teaching a Museum Studies course at Nanjing University for Grinnell College in the summer of 2010, Wright also took a look at the exploding contemporary art world in China. This lecture will look at the art she found in Nanjing, Beijing, and Shanghai and some of the politics and possibilities.
Lesley Wright has been director of the Faulconer Gallery since May 1999. Over the past 10 years she has overseen the staff, policies and exhibition schedule for both the Faulconer Gallery and the Print and Drawing Study Room. She currently supervises a professional staff of four, and a student staff of gallery desk attendance, docents, program assistants and an intern. She reports to the Vice President for Institutional and Budget Planning. Wright has a Ph.D. in American art history from Stanford University, where she worked with Wanda Corn. Her dissertation, Men Making Meaning in Nineteenth-Century American Genre Painting, 1860-1900, explored sentimental scenes of daily life within the context of the men who painted them and the people who collected them. She has since written entries on American genre paintings for several collection catalogues, but otherwise has turned her focus to 20th century, 21st century and contemporary art.
Before coming to Grinnell College, Wright was the curator at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art for six years, where she curated more than 20 major exhibitions and numerous smaller shows. She has taught courses in American and women's art history at Stanford University, San Francisco State, the University of Iowa, and Coe College. Her museum background includes work as the assistant to the director at the University Art Museum at UC Berkeley (now the Berkeley Art Museum) and a Luce Foundation internship at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
This lecture is supported in part by a grant from Humanities Iowa and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Doodlebugs Preschool Program at the Cedar Rapids Public Library: Czech This Out!
Friday, December 3 at 10:30 a.m.
Everyone grab a pencil and get ready to doodle! Today's program, Czech This Out!, will be held at the Cedar Rapids Public Library. Learn a little about the Czech Republic with Baruska and her Great-Grandma. Then make a stamp inspired by the Czech woodcut tradition. For more information, contact CRMA Education Director, Erin Thomas at ethomas@crma.org or 319.366.7503 ext. 203. Doodlebugs is sponsored by TrueNorth Companies.
SmArties!
Saturday, December 4 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
An afternoon of free activities for kids and families! Today we’ll be making handmade ornaments!
For more information about any of the events listed above and everything that is happening at the CRMA, please visit us online at www.crma.org or call 319.366.7503.
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The mission of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art is to excite, engage and educate our community and visitors through our collection, exhibitions and programs. The Museum’s collection contains more than 5,600 works of art by hundreds of artists, including the world's largest collection of works by Grant Wood. For more information on exhibitions or related programs call the Museum at 319.366.7503 or visit the Museum's web site at www.crma.org. Museum Hours: noon to 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday; noon to 8:00 p.m. on Thursday; 10:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m. on Saturday.