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Woodmere Art Museum
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Adult Public ProgramsWoodmere Art Museum offers a variety of programs for adults. If you have any questions regarding our listing of art classes or art programs please contact us. Art + Architecture: Collaboration with Sam Maitin The Clubhouse at the Enclave, a community center located at 3900 Sheaff Lane in
Philadelphia, was developed by Maitin friend and patron Philip Lindy. This project was
Maitin’s last significant artistic effort and was completed after 2005, shortly after his
death. Olshin, architect on the project, who knew Sam
Maitin for 35 years as friend,
professional colleague, and neighbor, will share the story of this artistic collaboration.
The Perceptual Encounter: Thoughts about the Meaning and
Consequences of Having Our Eyes Open This slide presentation by Stuart Shils will explore various facets of visual thought.
With references to his own painting, drawing and photography, and that of others,
this richly illustrated lecture will examine the broad and specific nature of the
visual encounter, including a discussion of things that have inspired and fueled his
personal enthusiasms. Audience comments and questions will be encouraged. Sam Maitin – His Artwork, His Joy Sam Maitin’s artwork demonstrates his superb proficiency and skill with a
multiplicity of mediums. Whatever medium he commands - painting, collage, print,
and installations - its content and intent is undeniably expressive of his joyful spirit
and love of life. Join us as we celebrate this extraordinary world renowned artist. Modernism in the Early 20th Century The late19th and early 20th centuries experienced a new consciousness about what
it meant to be “modern.” Artists of this era were working to forge new possibilities
for art that rejected the “traditional.” In this two-part series we will cover two
waves of modernist thinking and art in the U.S. We will look closely at the Stieglitz
Circle of artists and also at the Dada artists in the U.S., who all, in their own
unique way, attempted to write a new language for art that considered this new,
conscientiously modern way of thinking. We will focus on artists who were working
during the 1920s to 1940s to see how artists reacted to and incorporated new
ideas, technologies, machinery, and innovations. Whether adopting a tradition of
realism or abstraction, this was a period of new ways of seeing, painting, and of
fresh new attitudes about art for art’s sake. Widening an Old Trail: John Folinsbee and the New Hope Modernists John Folinsbee and American Modernism, 1920-1940 exhibition curator Kirsten Jensen explores the rift that developed in the 1930s between the established, academic New Hope painters and the more progressive artists who began to move to the area in the mid-1920s. Folinsbee's open-minded approach to modern art earned him the respect of its practitioners, many of whom viewed him as a mediator in the conflict, and, based on the changing nature of his painting, were eager to embrace him as one of their own. Art History Classes A Complex Simplicity: Minimalism and Beyond Reduction or simplification in a work of art rarely yields certainty, but rather often creates
ambiguity and multiple interpretations in the viewer. In this course, we’ll look at a
variety of artists who use simplification in their work and explore the way that different
meanings and intentions give rise to, or attach themselves to, very similar forms.
Residing at the edge between art and non-art, a place where art can be stripped down
to its barest nature, we’ll look at Barnett Newman, Frank Stella, and Ad Reinhardt as
painters who played a role as forerunners of the Minimalist movement. We’ll also look
at the prime innovators of Minimalism with its insistence on closed, geometric forms: Gallery talks are 45 minutes long. Supported, in part, by Woodmere members, these talks are free to the public. Sunday, October 3, 3-4 pm Gallery Stroll and Book-signing with Susan Brendlinger
Smith and Cyndy Drue, grandnieces of Fred Wagner and authors of Fred Wagner –
An American Painter. Sunday, October 10, 2pm Thursday, October 14, 2pm Thursday, November 11 2pm Woodmere’s Permanent Collection is the focus of these 30-minute gallery conversations led by Woodmere docents. Free and open to the public. Thursday, November 18, 2pm, Lorell Hernandez presents American Beauties, Head to Toe. Explore late-19th and early-20th century full length portraits of women - elegant, enigmatic, iconic, and endearing - with emphasis on Woodmere’s own Summertime by Thomas Pollock Anshutz and Study in Gray and Emily with Fan by Joseph Thurman Pearson, Jr. Docent Tours Become a Docent, share your knowledge and love of art. Membership to the Woodmere Art Museum is required for art classes. Download registration form. You will be notified only if a class is cancelled. Payment for classes is due at the time of registration. Cancellation policy: Withdrawals/refund policy: Scholarships available: Publicity policy:
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