As the Virginia G. Schroeder Curator of Art (curator of art at Evansville’s largest museum and strongest permanent collection of art), I took it upon myself to merge the fine arts with the culinary arts and so “AJ’s Fall Fest Challenge” was born.
Read MoreThe Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science has again achieved accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums, the highest national recognition afforded the nation’s museums.
Read MoreWe landed in Evansville a few days later and I told my mom what happened. “Let’s go talk to John,” was her reply. John Streetman, Director Emeritus, and my mom served on St. Paul’s vestry together. One day after school we went to the museum, and I told John everything. He said without hesitation that I needed to be a curator. Interning for Tom Lonnberg the next three to four months further convinced me that being a curator was what I was supposed to do in life.
Read MoreBorn on October 19, 1894, in Nashville, Tennessee, Claude Curry Bohm, or C. Curry Bohm, was the son of a flamboyant muralist and actress. Due to the nature of his father’s work as a muralist and designer of the New Orleans' Mardi Gras festival, Curry grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Read MoreMeet Daniel Griffaton, Richard Carawan, and Cheyenne Miller and learn about the projects they worked on while interning with the Evansville Museum.
Read MoreIn the Johns Hopkins master’s in museum studies program, one of the courses a student can enroll in is Exhibition Strategies. The purpose of the class is to introduce the diverse strategies and approaches used in exhibition planning, development, and implementation. Also, students spend much of the semester working together in small teams, collaboratively producing a comprehensive exhibition project.
Read MoreWhen you think of Dali, what comes to mind? Do you think of his subconscious scenarios that explore the psychedelic? Do you envision Clocks? Or simply the artist’s notorious moustache? While these common portrayals defined Dali as a Surrealist, did you know he rejected the artistic style that made him internationally influential once he became a born-again Catholic in 1950?
Read MoreTo complement the Department of Art's last blog, "The Legacy of Robert and Rena Lewin," and to continue the dialog for the exhibition, "Classical and Medieval Numismatology," this blog, "The Hand or the Glove?" by Susan Colaricci Sauls shares an intimate interpretation of one of the coins on loan from the University of Southern Indiana.
Read MoreIn the exhibition, Classical and Medieval Numismatology, patrons will experience a survey of antiquarian coinage. As the Museum collaborated with the University of Evansville and the University of Southern Indiana on this installation, the Vyvoda family was pivotal in creating this exhibition because they lent most of the coinage on display. Originally owned by Robert and Rena Lewin, these coins were gifted to their nephew, Mark Vyvoda.
Read MoreMeet the Spring 2021 Curatorial Department of Art Interns.
Read MoreIf one should mention The Book of the Dead, what comes to mind? If you are like me, the first initial thought is the 1999 movie, The Mummy, in which the Book of the Dead is used to unleash a 3,000-year-old Egyptian priest who wreaks havoc on the living world. While a famous quote from the film “one mustn’t read from the book!” I assure you; it is certainly safe -and encouraged- to do so.
Read MoreWhen the picture was first examined by the Curator of Art in 2019, the picture was to be included in the 2020 exhibition, A Celebration of Women: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection. According to the picture’s museum record, the piece was titled Leonora di Toledo by Bronzino. The picture measures 25 x 33 inches and is believed to be in its original frame. Once on display, the Curator of Art sent images of the picture to a colleague, Dr. Chrystine Keener, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ringling College of Art + Design, Sarasota, Florida. Dr. Keener messaged Curator of Art indicating that the picture is not in the likeness of Leonora and asks Curator of Art if she can forward images of the picture to Pontormo and Bronzino world expert, Dr. Elizabeth Pilliod, Associate Professor of Art History at Rutgers-Camden University, Camden, New Jersey. Dr. Pilliod confirms Dr. Keener’s claim and further notes that the picture is not Bronzino. Instead, the picture is an “attribution of” or “School of Bronzino” picture.
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