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Westmoreland Museum of American Art
Westmoreland Museum of American Art to be featured in
"The Visionaries", a public television series.
The Visionaries, a public
television series that profiles the work of
non-profit organizations all over the world,
will produce an episode featuring the work of
the Westmoreland Museum of American Art (WMAA)
and their success in creating regional
partnerships to strengthen arts education and
awareness. The episode will be distributed to
public television stations across the country as
part of the eleventh season beginning in Fall
2004. Of the 103 non-profit organizations
profiled by The Visionaries, the WMAA is the
first museum.
The mission of the Westmoreland Museum of
American Art is to educate, inspire and enrich
the public through the presentation of American
Art and to create an experience in which the
arts are enjoyed, understood, and can thrive.
The Museum, located at 221 North Main Street in
Greensburg, is one of only three museums in
Pennsylvania with a focus on American art.
This year, you will find a number of important
exhibitions, programs, and lectures set to bring
the arts to life in Westmoreland County.
MAY 2004
Along the Lincoln
Highway
An exhibition of paintings, photographs, and
works on paper depicting or interpreting sites
along the Lincoln Highway (Route 30) in
Pennsylvania. The exhibition also includes maps,
postcards, and other memorabilia and ephemera
that celebrate the historic roadway -- the first
coast-to-coast highway. Runs through May 30,
2004.
Mountain Suite:
Highway across the Alleghenies
These photographs by Richard A. Stoner examine
the Lincoln Highway and the Allegheny Plateau
region, near the site of the former Grandview
Ship Hotel, from a topographic perspective,
while at the same time, highlighting some of the
many landmarks that have stood the test of time
along this celebrated roadway. Runs through May
30th, 2004.
Ultra Realistic
Sculpture by Marc Sijan
An exhibition featuring
ultra realistic sculptures of a security guard,
baseball player, a bathing beauty, among many
others that are incredibly lifelike, sensuous,
and graceful that they seem always on the verge
of movement. The pores in the skin, the tiny
hairs, and the veins, even the bald spots, the
blemishes, the individual shapes of the faces
that make human beings so similar, yet so
unique: these are the essence of what makes Marc
Sijan’s work so compelling. These sculptures
will be scattered throughout the permanent
galleries for visitors to happen upon. Runs
through June 6, 2004.
THURSDAY EVENING
LECTURE
Travel Tales from the Lincoln Highway by Brian
Butko, historian and author. May 6 at 7 PM.
Enjoy a lecture/slide presentation on the
Lincoln Highway from a national perspective. Mr.
Butko will discuss what people wrote about their
early trips on the Lincoln Highway and how our
nostalgia clouds the difficulties of early
travel.
Mr. Butko is a leading
authority on the Lincoln highway as well as the
author of the Pennsylvania Traveler’s Guide: The
Lincoln Highway (1996, 2002), and is currently
at work on a two books to be released in 2005:
Greetings from the Lincoln Highway which will
cover the entire coast-to-coast route; and
Roadside Giants, in which he and his wife,
Sarah, are writing about larger-than-life
commercial buildings and signs such as Lucy the
Elephant, teapot cafés, drive-thru donuts, and
“Muffler Men” mascots that they found along the
roadway. Brian is the editor of Western
Pennsylvania History, the quarterly journal of
the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania.
He served for nine years as a board member for
the Society for Commercial Archeology, dedicated
to 20th century roadside culture, and was a
founding board member of the Lincoln Highway
Association.
BROWN BAG LECTURE
Gallery Talk: Along the Lincoln Highway by WMAA
Curator, Barbara L. Jones. Wednesday, May 12 at
noon
Join Barbara Jones as she discusses the
organization of the exhibition Along the Lincoln
Highway.
WESTMORELAND JAZZ SOCIETY
Presents Scott Anderson & WQED Studio A Friends,
Thursday, May 20
Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. Admission is
payable at the door. $10 for WJS members, $15
for nonmembers and $3 for students. Each
admission includes two drink tickets. Call
724/837-1500 ext. 27 for more information or
visit
www.wmuseumaa.org
JUNE 2004
Westmoreland Museum of
American Art Juried Biennial
A juried exhibition featuring the work of
southwestern Pennsylvania artists within a
100-mile radius of Greensburg. Runs June 13th
through July 11, 2004.
WESTMORELAND JAZZ SOCIETY
Presents Jazz in June at St. Clair Park 2004,
Friday, June 18
Performances begin at 7:00 p.m. Free Program.
Call 724/837-1500 ext. 27 for more information
or visit
www.wmuseumaa.org.
AUGUST 2004
Alfred H. Maurer: The
First American Modern: August 1 through October
17, 2004
This exhibition, organized by the University of
Minnesota’s Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, in
Minneapolis, examines the full spectrum of the
artist’s career. Maurer was an active member of
the American avant-garde in the early years of
the 20th century. His academic training in New
York and Paris shaped his work before the turn
of the century. After spending nearly 10 years
in Paris, Maurer turned to his own
interpretation of Cubism and Fauvism to become
one of the most important American modernist
painters of the century. A ninety-page catalogue
accompanies the exhibition of 22 oil paintings,
11 gouache or watercolors, and 19 drawings.
Melting and Blooming:
Glass Art by Joelle Levitt: August 1 through
October 17, 2004
This exhibition features the work of the 2002
recipient of the WMAA exhibition award selected
from the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh annual
exhibition at the Andy Warhol Museum. Levitt’s
describes her work as “fantastical creatures
that would appear perhaps on some silicon
planet.” She has been experimenting with blowing
small components at the furnace and then melting
them together to form a creature or flower in
the kiln. She combines elements from both the
natural world and her imaginary one to create
her glass sculptures.
NOVEMBER 2004
30th Annual Holiday
Toy and Train Exhibition November 21 through
January 30, 2005
An exhibition of the Museum's collection of
antique and modern toys, supplemented with loans
from private collections.
The Westmoreland County Museum of Art could not
do it without memberships. So give yourself a
gift that does everyone good-yourself, your
family, your Museum, and your community. Treat
yourself to a membership and you'll receive a
year's worth of excitement, friendship, fun,
education, fulfillment and satisfaction.
The Westmoreland County Museum of American Art could
not do it without memberships.
For more information on the
Westmoreland Museum of American Art
221 N. Main Street, Greensburg, PA
Call 724/837-1500 ext. 27
or visit their website at
www.wmuseumaa.org.
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