Sentences with phrase «year area museums»

This year area museums have lined up plenty of modern and contemporary exhibitions, but it is a little light on more historic - leaning shows.

Not exact matches

The area will be aimed at having 2 - to 7 - year - olds play in a historically themed setting, said Debbie Grinnell, vice president of museum services.

«I'm pleased that after years of false starts, we finally have a plan that works for taxpayers, the [neighboring] museums, the Park District, the Bears and the other teams and groups that use Soldier Field and the surrounding area,» Daley said at press conference at Soldier Field.

For over 100 years, the Chicago Academy of Sciences / Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum has provided Chicago area educators with tools and training to help them increase their comfort teaching science.

The plans include the construction of three museums, including a new Chicago Children «s Museum; three outdoor parks, including one with a Ferris wheel and tents for theatrical productions; a glass - enclosed park called the Crystal Gardens, which would contain a football field - size area with year - round greenery and trees; and several shops and restaurants.

Volunteers who give 50 hours a year or more of service are eligible for a volunteer membership and receive a Volunteer I.D. card, which allows: * Free admission to all Mass Audubon wildlife sanctuaries * Free or discounted access to participating area museums and attractions * Other benefits may be awarded by the sanctuary or department where the individual volunteers.

He says Niagara Falls is in the process of researching what other year - round attractions to bring to the area for people in addition to rock climbing and a museum on the Underground Railroad.

If he does make it, he may want to visit the small Sri Lankan museum that Julia Wijesinghe, an 18 - year - old Notre Dame Academy senior, recently opened in a downstairs area of the restaurant.

For example with our colleagues from the Chicago Field Museum, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology with support from the McArthur Foundation we have been able to implement for almost 10 years management plans that we developed in joint expeditions with Cuban scientists and the people from protected areas.

The audience agrees: Last year's extravaganza garnered hundreds of submissions from scientists and non-scientists alike, and drew 5,000 spectators to screenings at area bars, universities, museums, and cinemas.

Pat Druckenmiller, curator of Earth sciences at the University of Alaska Museum of the North, is leading a collaborative project with Denali National Park over the next several years to explore additional areas and make new discoveries.

Our schools have a longer school day and year, helping us keep our kids safe and engaged, ensure their success in core subject areas, and give them an immersive, well - balanced education that includes exposure to the arts, daily physical activity, and field trips to museums, performances, sporting events and, of course, college campuses.

To reach children and adults nationwide, American Humane Association is embarking on a year - long campaign starting with a national media tour, educational roadshow to schools with a traveling museum aboard its fleet of famed Red Star Rescue trucks that save animals in disasters, and a website www.Kindness100.org where readers can find a fascinating historical retrospective of «Be Kind to Animals Week,» a series of pre-K-5 curricula to teach children compassion in all areas of life, official downloadable proclamations for local, state and federal officials, and a Kindness 100 Pledge with four things people can do to improve the lives of millions — actually, billions — of animals.

She is a native of New Jersey and currently resides in the Art Museum area of Philadelphia with her husband of 29 years.

7.5 acres in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the museum features interactive experiences geared toward kids as young as six months and as old as 10 years.

The renovated common areas, including the lobby and the Mandara spa, are decorated with carvings and statuary from Rockefeller's museum - quality collection of Polynesian, Oceanic, and Asian art (the red - granite Buddha, which overlooks the grand staircase and the North Garden, dates back 1,400 years).

ATHENS Welcome drink; guided sightseeing, visit the AcropolisCORINTH Guided visitMYCENAE Guided visit of the excavations and museumEPIDAURUS Guided visit of the 2,300 - year - old open - air theaterOLYMPIA Guided visit of the archaeological site and the museum; [LF] learn how to make the traditional Greek tzatziki appetizerDELPHI Guided visit of the excavations, visit the Archaeological Museum; [LF] learn to dance the sirtaki and have a glass of OuzoMETEORA AREA Guided visit of the Varlaam and St. Stephen's MonasteriesTHERMOPYLAE Guidedmuseum; [LF] learn how to make the traditional Greek tzatziki appetizerDELPHI Guided visit of the excavations, visit the Archaeological Museum; [LF] learn to dance the sirtaki and have a glass of OuzoMETEORA AREA Guided visit of the Varlaam and St. Stephen's MonasteriesTHERMOPYLAE GuidedMuseum; [LF] learn to dance the sirtaki and have a glass of OuzoMETEORA AREA Guided visit of the Varlaam and St. Stephen's MonasteriesTHERMOPYLAE Guided visit

Next year we'll have a renewed museum café, a more spacious entrance area with a cloakroom and an extra room for educational groups.

There are in the region of 50 museums (and many other exhibition areas) attracting over 4 million visitors a year, so it's easy to see why Amsterdam is regarded as a major cultural centre.

For years the Marin Headlands section of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area has been a favorite destination for travelers, offering plenty of options for hiking, biking, surfing, and beachcombing, as well as the Point Bonita Lighthouse, Marine Mammal Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Bay Area Discovery Museum.

Visit our museum and craft shops, explore the unique surrounding area of the Adelong Falls Reserve with its rich gold mining past, go fossicking and find gold as they did a hundred years ago.

For year travelers avoided Lima, which would be a mistake, The country's capital is a sprawling metropolis with horrible traffic and more than its share of slums, but the plazas and colonial churches of the historic Centro are impressive, Barranco is charming, and the metropolitan area as in Miraflores, San Isidro or Pueblo Libre has the country's best museums and restaurants.

There are several volcanoes in the area that are visited by thousands of tourists each year, as well historical monuments in the capital city including but not limited to theaters, museums and governmental institutions.

Older than the Amazon, the Daintree Rainforest is a living museum of flora and fauna dating back at least 135 million years and is the largest continuous area of tropical rainforest in Australia.

Open year - round, the inn is close to some of upstate New York's most popular destinations, andthe Adirondack Museum, Gore Mountain Ski Area, Schroon Lake, and the town of Saratoga are all minutes from the Alpine Homestead B&B.

With an emphasis on works created within the last 30 years, Drawing: The Beginning of Everything is the first Albright - Knox exhibition to highlight this area of the museum's collection.

For over fifty years, Thiebaud has been a fixture of American Art, the recipient of numerous awards, with highlights including the 1994 National Medal of Arts, given by the then President Clinton, a 2001 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Design, and a 2007 Bay Area Treasure Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Art Basel Miami Beach, with GAVLAK Los Angeles / Palm Beach, Miami, FL (catalogue) Ten Year Anniversary Show, Gavlak, Palm Beach, FL and Los Angeles, CA Re (a) d, curated by Ryan Steadman, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY The Valentine's Day Cardiovascular, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA Puente, KINMAN, London, UK 2014 The Go Between: Selections from the Ernesto Esposito Collection, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy Art Basel Miami Beach, Gavlak booth, Miami Beach, FL 100 Painters of Tomorrow: New York Exhibition, One Art Space, New York, NY Inaugural Exhibition, Gavlak, Los Angeles, CA The Armory Show, Gavlak Booth, Pier 94, New York NY Painting: A Love Story, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX (catalogue) 2013 Art Basel Miami Beach, Gavlak Booth, Miami Beach, FL (catalogue) This is the Story of America, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy Rema Hort Mann Foundation LA Arts Initiative Auction, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Acid Summer, Curated by Matthew Craven, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY All Fucking Summer, Gavlak, Palm Beach, FL Whitney Museum Art Party Benefit Auction, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY MiArt2013, Gavlak Booth, Milan, Italy The Armory Show, Focus: USA, Gavlak Booth # 908, New York, NY (catalogue) Art Rotterdam, Office Baroque Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands My Echo, My Shadow, Gavlak, Palm Beach, FL 39 Great Jones, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich (catalogue) 239 Days, School of Visual Arts MFA Alumni Show, Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York, NY 2012 News From Chicago and New York City, Curated by Henning Strassburger, Fiebach Minninger, Cologne, Germany Time, After Time, Curated by ARTNESIA, Ronchini Gallery, London, UK (catalogue) SUNY New Paltz Alumni Show, Dosky Projects, Long Island City, NY What's the Point, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY It's a Small, Small World, Curated by Marilyn Minter and Organized by Hennessy Youngman, Family Business, New York, NY The Virgins Show, Curated by Marilyn Minter, Family Business, New York, NY Just the Tip, SVA MFA Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Organized in Collaboration with Mike Egan, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue) 2011 MFA Fine Arts Fall Open Studios, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY Sentimental Education, Gavlak, Palm Beach, FL Things Fall Apart, Curated by Asya Geisberg, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY Abstract Means, Curated by Richard Brooks, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY MFA Fine Arts Spring Open Studios, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY Celebrating 15 Years: Young Artists at Heckscher, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY College Art Association New York MFA Exhibition, Hunter College / Times Square Gallery, New York, NY Vuu Collective W / S 2011 Show, K&K Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2010 MFA Fine Arts Winter Open Studios, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY Emerge to be Seen, Westside Gallery, New York, NY Marks That Matter, Juried by Gillian Jagger, Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, NY The New, Art (That Matters), Oyster Bay, NY New York Art & Culture Exhibition Series, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY 2009 No Girls Allowed: BFA Thesis Exhibition, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY Best of Show: 2009 Best of SUNY Exhibition, State University Plaza, Albany, NY 2008 Crit 3: Work from Students and Alumni of SUNY New Paltz, Curated by Kathy Goodell, Spencertown Art Gallery, Spencertown, NY Somewhere I Have Never Traveled, Smiley Art Gallery, New Paltz, NY Three, Smiley Art Gallery, New Paltz, NY SPECIAL PROJECTS 2013 Shinola x Andrew Brischler, Installation & Capsule Collection, Tribeca Flagship Store, New York, NY Converse Footwear for Publicolor, organized by Grey Area COLLECTIONS Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL AWARDS AND HONORS 2015 Painting Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts

-- In light of a potential merger with their local neighbor LACMA, MOCA is reportedly considering a five - year agreement with D.C.'s National Gallery of Art wherein the two institutions would collaborate on programming, research, and exhibitions — though the arrangement would not provide the beleaguered Los Angeles institution with any financial or fund - raising assistance, two areas in which the museum needs the most help.

She has exhibited her work widely in various Bay Area venues over the past twenty years with solo shows including: Kimball Gallery, deYoung Museum, Living Shaman Museum of the SF Presidio, Gallery 190, UCSF Memory & Aging Center, and Ruth's Table.

After 30 years at the Gammlia museum area we moved to the new museum building by the shores of the Umeälven River, right next to Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå Institute of Design and Umeå School of Architecture.

[v] In 1967, he joined Wanda Hansen's gallery, and that same year, his work was included in Funk, an exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum of the University of California, dedicated to the funk art of the San Francisco Bay area.

Jay DeFeo at Mitchell - Innes & Nash May 1 — June 7 Last year's Jay Defeo retrospective at the Whitney Museum confirmed the Bay Area artist, who lived from 1929 to 1989, as one of postwar America's great, unsung artistic figures.

Recent group exhibitions include «Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards» at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; «Drawing the Line» at The Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA; «Exonome» at the Consulate General of Mexico, San Francisco, CA; «Selections from the Collection,» BAM / PFA, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; «Regarding Truth, An Exhibition of Work by Artadia Award Winners» at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA; «Hair Rising» at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA; «2004 SECA Art Award» at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; «Wall - to - Wall» at The Drawing Center, New York, NY; «In My Empire Life is Sweet» at DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY; «Next New» at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA; «Commission» 04» at the San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA; «Warped Space» at CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA; «Cream» at ArtsBenicia, Benicia, CA; «Comers... up and 2» at Jay Jay Gallery, Sacramento, CA; «M.F.A. Exhibition» at Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA; «Graduating Student Exhibition» at S.M.F.A., Boston, MA; «Post-Baccalaureate Class Exhibition» at S.M.F.A., Boston, MA; «S.M.F.A. Annual Juried Exhibition» at S.M.F.A., Boston, MA; «Post-Bac» at S.M.F.A., Boston, MA; «B.F.A. Honors Student Exhibition» at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH; «Graduating Students Exhibition» at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH; «Collective Sculpture Exhibition» at Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain; and «Collective Drawing Exhibition,» Leon, Spain.

Bronx Calling: The Second AIM Biennial features cutting edge work by New York area emerging artists who participated in The Bronx Museum of the Arts» Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program in the last two years.

«We significantly strengthened our holdings across all collecting areas this year, demonstrating a sustained commitment to a diverse collection representative of a wide range of artistic media and periods, with particular emphasis on work by Southern artists,» said Rand Suffolk, Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr., director of the High Museum of Art.

Major recent shows in the San Francisco Bay Area have included Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, July - September 29, 2013, at the De Young Museum, San Francisco; an exhibition of small works at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, in the town of Sonoma, CA, June 6 through August 23, 2015; and Matisse / Diebenkorn, a major show highlighting Matisses's influence on Richard Diebenkorn, at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, from March 11 to May 29, 2017.

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art: The Bay Area has seen more than its share of new visual - arts buildings in the past year, but the Manetti Shrem Museum at UC Davis is the first certifiably new mMuseum of Art: The Bay Area has seen more than its share of new visual - arts buildings in the past year, but the Manetti Shrem Museum at UC Davis is the first certifiably new mMuseum at UC Davis is the first certifiably new museummuseum.

Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present, Curated by Dan Nadel, Matthew Marks, New York, NY 1995 Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in Early California Art 1934 - 1957, Oakland Museum, UCLA Hammer Museum of Art and Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, UT 1993 Selections from the Permanent Collection - California: Art from the 1930s to the Present, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1989 Forty Years of California Assemblage San Jose Museum of Art, Fresno Art Museum and Joslyn Art Museum 1986 California Sculpture: 1959 - 1980, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1985 Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945 - 1980, Oakland Museum 1984 Contemporary American Wood Sculpture, Crocker Art Museum, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Huntsville Museum of Art and Chrysler Museum The Dilexi Years 1958 - 1970, Oakland Museum 1982 100 Years of California Sculpture, Oakland Museum Northern California Art of the Sixties, De Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara 1976 California Painting and Sculpture: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and National Collection of fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution 1975 Masterworks in Wood: The Twentieth Century, Portland Art Museum First Artists» Soap Box Derby, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1971 Continuing Surrealism, La Jolla Museum of Art 1969 An American Report on the Sixties, Denver Art Museum American Sculpture of the Sixties, Grand Rapids Art Museum 1968 On Looking Back: Bay Area 1945 - 62, San Francisco Museum of Art The West Coast Now: Current Work from the Western Seaboard, Portland Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum and De Young Museum 1967 FUNK, University Art Museum, Berkeley, and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Philadelphia Museum of Art 1966 Twenty Drawings: New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York Two - Dimensional Sculpture, Three - Dimensional Painting, Richmond Art Center, CA 1964 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art 1962 Fifty California Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, Walker Art Center, Albright Knox Art Gallery and Des Moines Art Center Public Collections

Dozens of 6 through 18 - year - olds will exhibit their fine art at Tacoma Art Museum this month as TAM hosts Young Artists Shine: Boys & Girls Clubs of America, featuring works created by students who participate in Puget Sound area Boys & Girls Clubs (BGCA).

In concert with the Nasher Museum of Art's exhibition, Building the Contemporary Collection: Five Years of Acquisitions, which includes twelve artists represented in 30 Americans, and reflects the art and culture of the African diaspora, visitors can appreciate the richness and range of contemporary works in two Triangle - area venues.

Each year, nearly 4,000 school children experience docent - led tours, including over 3,000 students from 40 + area schools whose school received reimbursement for the cost of their transportation to and from the Museum.

18th Biennial Exhibition of Prints from Collections of Members of the Washington Print Club Every two years The Washington Print Club, in association with an area museum or gallery, mounts an exhibition of prints from members» collections.

In addition to the Whitney's signature works — Alexander Calder's «Circus,» Edward Hopper's «Early Sunday Morning,» Andy Warhol's «Green Coca - Cola Bottles,» Georgia O'Keeffe's «Summer Days» and Jasper Johns's «Three Flags» — the show will include many areas of collecting that the museum has sought to strengthen in recent years.

Pitman joined the DMA as deputy director in 2000, after spending five years in San Francisco as executive director of the Bay Area Discovery Museum.

After closing for three years, the museum has re-emerged in a massive new building, at a scale outstripping even New York's Museum of Modern Art, and houses a substantially beefed up collection of art after 1945 — albeit one funded more by Bay Area titans of retail and finance than the notoriously stingy millionaires of Silicon Vmuseum has re-emerged in a massive new building, at a scale outstripping even New York's Museum of Modern Art, and houses a substantially beefed up collection of art after 1945 — albeit one funded more by Bay Area titans of retail and finance than the notoriously stingy millionaires of Silicon VMuseum of Modern Art, and houses a substantially beefed up collection of art after 1945 — albeit one funded more by Bay Area titans of retail and finance than the notoriously stingy millionaires of Silicon Valley.

Initially based on donations and lacking a clear collecting policy, in the past few years the collection has focused on the museum's areas of interest.

This exhibition was not only successful in demonstrating the active collector base in the area that is supportive of the Columbus Museum, but highlighted challenging contemporary artworks the Museum will acquire (or has «recently» acquired in the past 60 years).

Over the years, NOMA has cultivated a dedicated group of local and national collectors who have championed the museum's work in this area and donated important works to the permanent collection.

For example, together we provide tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars in direct support to artists in Atlanta every year through an array of programs initiated by Artadia, Flux, The Forward Arts Foundation, the Hudgens Center, the Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs, MOCA GA and others, including the Antinori Fund at the High Museum used for acquisitions of drawings by artists based in the Atlanta - metro area.