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Summer Art Camp (For ages
10-12)
July 11 - July 15 from 8:45
a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
PICTURE IT! Portraits and
Me. Westmoreland Museum of
American Art, 221 N. Main
Street, Greensburg.
Pre-Registration is
required. Cost per week is
$110 for members and $120
for non-members.
Registration fee includes
all art supplies, weekly
field trip or special event,
guided museum tours,
t-shirt, and daily snack.
Call 724/837-1500 ext. 10 or
visit
www.wmuseumaa.org for
more information.
Children will learn about
the art of creating a
portrait using paint and
other media, and spend a day
with a photographer. Campers
will also take a field trip
to the Silver Eye Center for
Photography in Pittsburgh to
explore the art of
photography.
Summer Art Camp (For ages
10-12)
July 18 - July 22 from 8:45
a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
PICTURE IT! Art All Around
Us. Westmoreland Museum of
American Art, 221 N. Main
Street, Greensburg.
Pre-Registration is
required. Cost per week is
$110 for members and $120
for non-members.
Registration fee includes
all art supplies, weekly
field trip or special event,
guided museum tours,
t-shirt, and daily snack.
Call 724/837-1500 ext. 10 or
visit
www.wmuseumaa.org for
more information.
Children will learn about
landscapes, seascapes, and
everything in between.
Campers will explore the
WMAA collection and create
landscapes of their own.
They will also take a field
trip to the Carnegie Museum
of Art and create a hands-on
contemporary work of art
taught by the Carnegie's art
teachers.
CURRENT AND UPCOMING
EXHIBITIONS
Through July 17
Walker Evans and James Agee:
Let Us Now Praise Famous
Men.
Westmoreland Museum of
American Art, 221 N. Main
Street, Greensburg. Call
724/837-1500 ext. 27 or
visit
www.wmuseumaa.org for
more information.
In 1936, photographer Walker
Evans and writer James Agee
set out on assignment for
Fortune magazine to document
the daily lives of tenant
families in the Deep South.
They spent three weeks in
Hale County, Alabama living
with and recording the
routines of three
sharecropper families. The
words and images they
produced became the
celebrated book Let Us Now
Praise Famous Men, published
in 1941. Intensely honest
and moving, the book and its
accompanying images have
become a classic American
account of rural poverty
during the Depression. The
exhibition includes 76
vintage prints by Evans
supported by a selection of
original letters and
documents by Agee. Organized
by Curatorial Assistance
Traveling Exhibitions,
Pasadena, CA.
Through July 17
Charlee Brodsky: A Town
Without Steel, Envisioning
Homestead.
Westmoreland Museum of
American Art, 221 N. Main
Street, Greensburg. Call
724/837-1500 ext. 27 or
visit
www.wmuseumaa.org for
more information.
This exhibition explores
Homestead, one of the most
distinctive and ethnically
diverse working-class
communities in the
Pittsburgh region. Homestead
has a rich labor history and
has been transformed
recently from a dying steel
town to a place that now
hosts an enormous shopping
complex, which has been set
down on the land that once
was the home of the famous
steel mill that Andrew
Carnegie bought from Henry
Clay Frick in 1883. Her
photographs attempt to
capture and understand the
relationship between the old
and the new Homestead, and
the old and new America.
This program has been
supported in part by the
Pennsylvania Humanities
Council and the National
Endowment for the
Humanities' We the People
initiative on American
history.
August 7 through October
23
American Scenery: Different
Views in Hudson River School
Painting.
Westmoreland Museum of
American Art, 221 N. Main
Street, Greensburg. Call
724/837-1500 ext. 27 or
visit
www.wmuseumaa.org for
more information.
The Hudson River School,
considered by many to be the
first truly American school
of painting, flourished
between 1825 and 1875. The
movement began with artists
witnessing the optimism of
the new world and ended with
those who had seen, in that
same five decades, the
tumultuous results of the
growing pains of their young
country. Uniting these
artists was a belief in
natural religion, the
magnificence of nature, and,
specifically, the
significance of the fresh,
untamed American scenery
reflecting our national
character. This exhibition
will examine the underlying
motivations these painters
had for concentrating on
landscape subjects, grouping
artists by pairs and series,
either intended as such by
the artists or around
recurrent themes. The
purpose of these groupings
is to enable the viewer to
more readily understand the
artist's objectives by
actively engaging in these
comparisons and contrasts.
WMAA Director Judith O'Toole
is writing the accompanying
catalog, in addition to
organizing the exhibition.
August 7 through October
23
Patty Gallagher: The Dream
of Trees.
Westmoreland Museum of
American Art, 221 N. Main
Street, Greensburg. Call
724/837-1500 ext. 27 or
visit
www.wmuseumaa.org for
more information.
A surreal costume,
performance, and
installation artist, Patty
Gallagher will create a
site-specific exhibition to
compliment the paintings in
American Scenery: Different
Views in Hudson River School
Painting. |
