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Artists Reception: Friday, June 20, 6–8pm Featuring the work of&nbsp;Mark Banks,&nbsp;Kathy Los-Rathsburn and Andy Paczos,&nbsp;Steel &amp; Silence&nbsp;explores the haunting beauty and enduring presence of industrial landscapes. Beauty that otherwise goes unnoticed is thrust to the forefront for this exhibition.

Steel and Silence: Paintings of Chicago's Silent Streets

Krannert Art Museum‘s major reinstallation of its pre-Hispanic Andean arts collection will center past Andean communities as active agents in the creation of their own art histories. Comprising over 700 objects, the KAM collection includes exquisite textiles, ceramics, and objects fashioned in gold, silver, wood, and shell from cultures that flourished throughout the coastal and highland regions of Peru from 1500 BCE to the Spanish colonial period.Image: Model Depicting the Manufacture of Chicha, Lambayeque or Chimu, North Coast, Peru, 1100-1470 CE. Silver-copper alloy. The Fred Olsen Collection. 1967-29-304

Andean Gallery Reinstallation

The University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art’s permanent collection encompasses over sixteen thousand artworks. Our inaugural exhibition, <a href="https://stanleymuseum.uiowa.edu/art/exhibitions/current/homecoming">Homecoming</a>, reintroduces our extraordinary collection to the public.Homecoming comprises a series of related installations.&nbsp;“Generations," curated by Diana Tuite, Visiting Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, foregrounds the University of Iowa’s history of innovative arts education and scholarship.&nbsp; "Fragments of the Canon:&nbsp;African Art from the Saunders and Stanley Collections," curated by Cory Gundlach, Curator of African Art, features African art collected by a Black Iowan, Meredith Saunders. “History Is Always Now,” also curated by Gundlach, displays the Stanley’s celebrated collection of African art in a way that emphasizes movement and cultural exchange through time and across space. Smaller, more focused installations, curated by Gundlach, include "Centering on Cloth: The Art of African Textiles," which highlights the global scope of interactions that surround the creation, use, and circulation of cloth in Africa, and "About Face: African Masks in Iowa,"&nbsp;which emphasizes the historical and artistic relationships between West and Central African masks from the world-renowned Stanley Collection of African Art.&nbsp;Developed collaboratively by curators, educators, and faculty under the museum director’s guidance, Homecoming&nbsp;illustrates the importance of our world-class collection and allows us to envision new futures in art.In order to protect sensitive works of art from extended exposure to light, many of the works on display in Homecoming will rotate every six months--meaning that there will always be something new to see during the inaugural exhibition's&nbsp;three-year run.

Homecoming

Woven Worlds&nbsp;brings together a dynamic and diverse group of contemporary artists who are redefining the boundaries of fiber art. Once considered a niche or domestic craft, fiber has emerged as a powerful medium for innovation, social commentary, and storytelling in the 21st&nbsp;century. This survey showcases works that span weaving, quilting, embroidery, soft sculpture, and textile installation, emphasizing the tactile and conceptual richness of fiber-based practices.&nbsp;

Woven Worlds

<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.gqh-2BaxUzlo7XKIuSly0rC-2Fc4ce2SDpH5WBMhYM8Lg3siSTH1K4Ta9caIZIe-2BHV5HWB1k_a1zzESVdmgLIQ4rlql6kbXT9QXaGGWYBxHAPtO1QqWO5GLp4idxebnEhHBD62Papsj-2FEMdnG4nN1Qo796g0RxGgCD6tZhe9AwtUHIFq1tAylqDj842HkNV4wYVNY4xw2-2BQRyLH350l2-2BlQzfW6YDfr4aHgb4D01O4V1XnAuCrmfndJVAtAZxIKVpmElbKGy0Jt9sSvGTy7LzUOi-2BmAyqOnlvvft86rzmlvICAR9SGMNUmkyejUtP-2F2JG2lxdbR7VYNwKjV1n694Qo9hyqlI-2Fs6TLLH4JYq88ri-2FUncbbr3pDZ3Wln0l5HXDl91SUgWY2p2-2F4XdfDBwvNAlwne4OkSQSENF4vp-2FbMOV3-2Bb2jFL4Y-3D" target="_blank">Frederik Meijer Gardens &amp; Sculpture Park</a>&nbsp;announces that the exhibition&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.gqh-2BaxUzlo7XKIuSly0rC-2Fc4ce2SDpH5WBMhYM8Lg3uL1Wn2dPQRSOrTl3Av4-2BIoqEGm_a1zzESVdmgLIQ4rlql6kbXT9QXaGGWYBxHAPtO1QqWO5GLp4idxebnEhHBD62Papsj-2FEMdnG4nN1Qo796g0RxGgCD6tZhe9AwtUHIFq1tAylqDj842HkNV4wYVNY4xw2-2BQRyLH350l2-2BlQzfW6YDfr4aHgb4D01O4V1XnAuCrmfndJVAtAZxIKVpmElbKGy0Jt9sSvGTy7LzUOi-2BmAyqOiqkemdUW9QEEg7g327d7qnNX6DKy1Fqxqk7cPlUrk2kpyYQhIoOcAD0uhOHNolwBHm-2BQBmgtdzfyLqUn-2FBamHjenneVeyFHBehBV9XVllwCDk4GLfQ-2FghATruY3DOCjMhZ1nqF-2BndCV3dyBZGMkuO0-3D" target="_blank">BUSTED: Contemporary Sculpture Busts</a>&nbsp;will be on view April 4 through September 20. This eye-opening exhibition showcases the ancient sculpture tradition of the bust as radically transformed by 21st-century artists.Busts—partial renderings featuring the head and shoulders—are central within sculpture history, having ancient origins in Egyptian funerary masks and Greek herms (square stone pillar with a carved head). For millennia, the main function of sculpture busts has been to aggrandize nobility and divinity, and to preserve the likeness of distinguished figures. While the bust genre fell out of favor within 20th-century art, it has experienced a revival among contemporary artists who enlist it to grapple with themes of identity, mortality, power and history.“Throughout art history, the sculpture bust has proven to be a uniquely potent format for capturing and celebrating individuals,” said Suzanne Ramljak, the exhibition’s curator and Vice President of Collections &amp; Curatorial Affairs at Meijer Gardens. “As the exhibition title suggests, contemporary artists have cracked open this ancient tradition, activating a critical dialogue about who we are, how we are remembered, and the ways in which bodies carry meaning.”BUSTED&nbsp;offers engaging human representations by 15 exceptional artists from around the world, many of whom have never exhibited at Meijer Gardens: Elia Alba, Dean Allison, Radcliffe Bailey, Barry X. Ball, Sanford Biggers, Layo Bright, Michael Ferris Jr., Salvador Jimenez-Flores, Leonid Lerman, Sebastian Martorana, Paul McCarthy, Jonathan Monk, Elise Siegal, Rose B. Simpson and Jessica Stoller. Together their works bring guests face to face with a rich array of human types and identities.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This ambitious and inclusive exhibition, part of Meijer Gardens’ 30th&nbsp;anniversary programming, will feature dozens of works by artists from diverse cultural backgrounds, using materials ranging from traditional marble and bronze to less conventional media like fabric, glass, and holography. Guests will encounter striking interpretations of the genre, from historical revisionism to intimate portraits of friends and family to poignant meditations on mortality.Regardless of material or approach, all the sculptures in&nbsp;BUSTED&nbsp;encourage viewers to consider the nuance and variation in individual countenance and to reflect on what truly makes people human. The exhibition’s dynamic selection also demonstrates the continued vitality of figural art as a means of addressing both timeless concerns and today’s most pressing issues.&nbsp; Exhibition Programming:&nbsp;Unveiling&nbsp;BUSTED: A Curator's Tour&nbsp;April 13, 2–3 pm&nbsp;&nbsp;Join exhibition curator Suzanne Ramljak for an insightful tour of&nbsp;BUSTED, as she delves into the exhibition’s diversity of materials and styles, while probing key themes in art history, identity, and human representation.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Exhibition Explorations: Contemporary Sculpture Busts&nbsp;May 25, 2–4 pm&nbsp;Join a Meijer Gardens educator for an engaging exploration of sculpted busts, followed by a lively hands-on interpretive activity ideal for all ages.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Gallery Activity: Thought Bubble&nbsp;&nbsp;Every day during the exhibition&nbsp;Stop by our creativity station and find images of key sculpture busts. Imagine what the figures might be thinking, jot down your ideas, and place your thought bubble on the matching image.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For more programming and information about&nbsp;BUSTED: Contemporary Sculpture Busts, visit&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.gqh-2BaxUzlo7XKIuSly0rC-2Fc4ce2SDpH5WBMhYM8Lg3uL1Wn2dPQRSOrTl3Av4-2BIoEXg-_a1zzESVdmgLIQ4rlql6kbXT9QXaGGWYBxHAPtO1QqWO5GLp4idxebnEhHBD62Papsj-2FEMdnG4nN1Qo796g0RxGgCD6tZhe9AwtUHIFq1tAylqDj842HkNV4wYVNY4xw2-2BQRyLH350l2-2BlQzfW6YDfr4aHgb4D01O4V1XnAuCrmfndJVAtAZxIKVpmElbKGy0Jt9sSvGTy7LzUOi-2BmAyqOknWQ7hE-2FWnvbGX0BcVsEQbNV9kymWskdv2RZXoUsPEyt-2BMMRcwu8L-2F86gNILahc8WKLuVByTsC6cOXcidGyoIALsUU8Npd-2B6VA3KgYfu8xfUIHNtpjwC-2FUd1Skqm09eFcDXL-2FR6f2THUVhDCNVukBo-3D" target="_blank">MeijerGardens.org/BUSTED</a> BUSTED: Contemporary Sculpture Busts&nbsp;is made possible by:The Meijer FoundationFrederik Meijer Gardens &amp; Sculpture FoundationBotanic and Sculpture Societies of Frederik Meijer Gardens &amp; Sculpture Park&nbsp;About Frederik Meijer Gardens &amp; Sculpture ParkFrederik Meijer Gardens &amp; Sculpture Park, one of the world’s most significant botanic and sculpture experiences, was named the 2023 and 2024 Best Sculpture Park in the United States by USA Today’s 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards and listed as the 90th-most-visited museum in the world by&nbsp;The Art Newspaper, the leading global art news publication. Education programs welcome 80,000 students and guests each year. Culinary Arts &amp; Events offerings include weddings, corporate meetings and award-winning catering. The 158-acre main campus features Michigan’s largest tropical conservatory; one of the country’s largest interactive children’s gardens; arid and Victorian gardens with bronze sculptures by Edgar Degas and Auguste Rodin; a carnivorous plant house; outdoor gardens, including a replica 1930s-era farm garden; an 8-acre Japanese garden featuring contemporary sculpture; and a 1,900-seat outdoor amphitheater garden, showcasing an eclectic mix of world-renowned touring musicians each summer. The permanent collection highlights hundreds of sculptures from internationally acclaimed artists Magdalena Abakanowicz, El Anatsui, Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Mark di Suvero, Marshall Fredericks, Henry Moore, Michele Oka Donor, Beverly Pepper, Jaume Plensa, Auguste Rodin, Richard Serra, Yinka Shonibare CBE and Ai Weiwei, among others. Indoor galleries with changing sculpture exhibitions have presented shows by Jonathan Borofsky, Edgar Degas, Jim Dine, Richard Hunt, Cristina Iglesias, Rebecca Louise Law, George Segal, David Smith, and others.

Busted: Contemporary Sculpture Busts

Legacies on Display: The Forbidden and Venerated Arts of BurmaTaking Museums to the Streets:&nbsp;Using Fine Art for Protest, Courtesy of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics,&nbsp;<a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://www.politicalgraphics.org/" target="_blank">www.politicalgraphics.org</a>

Legacies on Display: The Forbidden and Venerated Arts of Burma

The Raclin Murphy Museum of Art presents the first monographic exhibition in forty years of the work of Walter Osborne, one of Ireland’s most-heralded artists. The exhibition charts Osborne’s trajectory from his student days in Dublin and Antwerp through his sojourn in Brittany and his early practice in England before returning to his native city in 1892 to care for his niece and aging parents following the death of his beloved sister Violet. Through his depictions of Dublin’s streets, parks, public spaces, domestic interiors and gardens, countryside, and most importantly its people, a vision of a vibrant––if divided––Ireland emerges. Osborne’s experiences abroad and his commercial acumen helped establish Dublin’s unique brand of Modern painting rife with the possibility of change. Iconic works by the artist on loan from the National Gallery of Ireland, Hugh Lane Gallery, Hunt Museum in Limerick, Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, and private collectors in Ireland and the United States offer a rich tapestry of life and art in Ireland at the close of the nineteenth century.&nbsp;This exhibition is made possible by the Donald and Marilyn Keough Foundation with additional support from the J. Brien and Maggie Murphy Endowment for Exhibitions, James and Barbara O’Connell Family Fund for Exhibitions, Friends of the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, Charter Membership, and in partnership with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies. Image: Walter Frederick Osborne (Irish, 1859–1903),&nbsp;Mary Guinness and Her Daughter Margaret, 1898. Oil on canvas, 54 × 60 inches (137.2 × 152.4 cm) unframed. Heritage Gift, 2023, National Gallery of Ireland Collection, NGI.2023.16. Photo credit: Photo, National Gallery of Ireland

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