If everything goes as planned, there will be many more than six Emily Nelligan drawings on the freshly painted yellow walls of the Long Gallery when the Ogunquit Museum of American Art opens its doors for the season on July 1.
Welcome back to OMAA Online and our Artifacts Series! Today, join OMAA Curator and Collections Manager Ruth Greene-McNally as she discusses a Cubist-inspired watercolor painting by Romare Bearden. In celebration of the close of the school year, the video includes an outdoor drawing exercise appropriate for younger audiences.
If you’ve been following our ARTifacts Series, you may recall an earlier post sharing our behind-the-scenes preview of OMAA’s re-creation of Charles Woodbury’s Perkins Cove studio. Today, as part of OMAA Online, Curator and Collections Manager Ruth Greene-McNally and Preparator Larry Hayden provide a progress update as they install original artifacts on loan to the museum for the upcoming exhibition, “Charles Woodbury: Open Studio.” OMAA is grateful to exhibition sponsors Elizabeth Cutler & Joanna Manikas and the Maine Bicentennial Commission for their support. Stay tuned for updates on the completed project and be sure to share your questions and thoughts in the comment line!
Other new hires include Jaynelle Hazard, director at the Greater Reston Arts Center in Reston, Va.; Amanda Lahikainen at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Maine; and Matthew Clarke at the Design Trust for Public Space in Manhattan. Becca Hoffman is the new managing director of three art fairs — in Aspen, Chicago and Palm Springs.
