Carnegie Art Museum update for Dec. 20 — Photographic Gifts-The Museum Project

During this Season of Giving, Carnegie’s collection is happily being enlarged by gifts from California-based photographers facilitated by The Museum Project, a group of preeminent American artists who express their gratitude for institutional support of photography as an art form by donating select works. Since The Museum Project began in 2012, it has donated over 4,858 prints to 193 national and international institutions’ permanent collections. Recipients have included: Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento); Johnson Museum of Art (Cornell University, NY); J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles); Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City); Seattle Art Museum; University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor); and, Weisman Art Museum (University of Minnesota).

To date images have been donated by photographers Robert von Sternberg and Darryl Curran, expanding the contemporary perspectives of Carnegie’s photographic holdings. With more gifts to follow from other members of the group, the Carnegie Art Museum wishes to convey its gratitude to The Museum Project for this curatorial windfall.

As 2018 comes to a close, we ask that you consider showing your support for the Carnegie Art Museum too. Will you make a gift today? Now matter its size, your gift with that from others help to ensure programs and exhibits continue to enrich the lives of our shared community.

Thank you for being a part of the CAM family. We hope to see you at the museum soon.

Jump into the New Year with art classes for kids ages 7 – 11, a perfect gift for your creatives!

BUILDING BLOCKS OF ART

Saturdays  – January 5, 12, 19
10:30 am-12noon              ages 7-11

Express and create while exploring the tools artists use to build works of art from line to texture and everything in between!  Each session offers a unique art lesson in which young artists are introduced to a different element of art, technique and medium inspired by the artwork currently on display of Luther Gerlach and Karen Kitchel.

Jan 5 – Charcoal Trees

Jan 12 – Dark Natural Beauty

Jan 19 -Cyanotypes

$10 per single class $24 for the series ($19 members discount)

Reservations and prepayment required / space is limited. Click here to learn more.

The Japanese Art of Marbling Workshop
Instructor:  Kathleen Kaller
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
6-7:30pm
$30 / $25 members discount

Join us to create one of a kind valentines using Suminagashi- The Japanese Art of Marbling.  Using brushes, we will float special inks on the surface of water and create original prints on paper.   You will leave this workshop with a new skill and unique valentines for your loved ones.   This is a special craft and enjoyable for all. No prior art experience necessary! All supplies included.

Reservations and prepayment required / space is limited. Click here to register.

on view through – February 17, 2019

In the aftermath of the 2017 Thomas Fire, Luther Gerlach turned his camera on the destruction and regeneration spanning Ventura county, using chemical elements gathered from the landscape to bring the power of these natural forces to life.

image: Skeletal Remains, unique silver gelatin print by Luther Gerlach, 2018.

recent landscape paintings by Karen Kitchel

This work re-frames traditional landscape imagery. Mischieviously beautiful, the paintings are made of asphalt emulsion, tar, wax, shellac, and powdered mineral pigments on canvas.  They are dirty, seductive, and imperfect. 

image: Karen Kitchel © 2016 Waterway #8 (Lake Casitas), asphalt emulsion, tar, wax, powdered pigments, shellac/canvas; 50″x50″ courtesy the artist.

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