Saturday, the Brooks Museum had a wonderful family day to celebrate “Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography,” and over 400 people in attendance. We had close to 150 view the film, “Anita’s Africa,” voted best documentary at the 2007 Chicago International Children’s Film Festival. The two hands-on activities were a big hit. Visitors [...]
Entries from March 2008
March 27, 2008
Performance Art and a Picnic
A group of Brooks employees packed a picnic basket and went out to support local artist, Delbert Sisk’s performance in Overton Park.
For the last two days Sisk has been interacting with E.H. Crump’s statue in Overton Park as part of the Urban Art Commission’s 10th anniversary of temporary projects . Yesterday we heard he was hugging Mr. Crump and [...]
March 21, 2008
Art, the Global Medium.
Fred Mutebi, an artist from Uganda, is in town for a couple weeks. He has an art therapy project called “Let Art Talk” that helps Ugandan children overcome the trauma of war, HIV/AIDS, and poverty. He is one of the most energetic and hopeful people I have ever met — a true believer [...]
March 15, 2008
The Declarator Preparator
The Brooks‘ preparator, Richard Gamble, recently had an exhibit at the P&H Cafe titled Glass Eyes Scavenger Hunt. Every inch of the P&H’s walls are wallpapered with memorabillia, art, photos, posters, really anything you can think of, leaving no exposure of bare wall. Gamble wanted his artwork to be an excuse to pay attention to [...]
March 1, 2008
Preview: March 1st Wednesday “Popped Art”
The evening’s schedule:
6-9 pm Entertainment: Groove to the tunes of the Lynn Drury Band. Lynn Drury’s was the last record (“All You Need”) to be recorded at Delta Recording Studios in Clarksdale, MS before they had to tear it all down and move, with Jimbo Mathus(Squirrel Nut Zippers) engineering, producing and also playing guitar, Wurlitzer, [...]
