The museum closes early today at 3:00 PM for our quarterly staff meeting. Schokko Café will be closing at 2:00 PM. We will resume regular hours tomorrow, August 8, from 10:00 AM–10:00 PM. Installation image of "New Encounters: Reframing the Contemporary Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art" by Luke Stettner.
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Columbus Museum of Art’s mission is to create great experiences with great art for everyone. Whether we are presenting an exhibition, designing an art-making activity, or giving visitors directions, we are guided by a vision to connect people and art. CMA nurtures that connection and removes barriers between our community and our collection. CMA’s galleries are filled with works that manifest creativity. Our collection includes outstanding late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American and European modern works of art. We house the world’s largest collections of works by beloved local artists Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, Elijah Pierce, and George Bellows; and acclaimed collections such as The Photo League and the Philip and Suzanne Schiller Collection of American Social Commentary Art. A commitment to contemporary art, folk art, glass, and photography continues the Museum’s dedication to showcasing art of our time. CMA is where creativity and the daily life of our community intersect and thrive, as we champion new and different ways of thinking and doing. We celebrate the creative process and provide opportunities for people to cultivate and discover the value of creativity in their own lives.
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Updates
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FINAL WEEKS! Both of our current special exhibitions featuring the work of Robin F. Williams and Marie Laurencin close August 18. #FreeSundays includes free access to both of these incredible exhibitions! "Robin F. Williams: We’ve Been Expecting You" highlights recurring themes including the body, gender and identity expression, digital trends and artificial intelligence, folklore, and the supernatural. "Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris" explores Laurencin’s career, from her self-portraits to her collaborative decorative projects; from her early cubist paintings to her signature work — feminine and discreetly queer — that defined 1920s Paris.
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Our next Community Day is NEXT Sunday, August 11, from 10:00 AM–5:00 PM. Admission is completely FREE and open to everyone! Celebrate the last days of summer with retro back-to-school themed activities. Enjoy creating giant doodles in the garden, joining subject-themed 10 Minutes on the Dot sessions, listening to music by CitizenDorians from Candy Rain, playing lawn games, snacking on frozen treats from Rime Time Curiously Crafted Pops, making Lisa Frank-inspired journals, dancing with FLUX + FLOW : Dance and Movement Center, and more! CMA Community Days are supported by Art Bridges Foundation's Access for All. Learn more and register here: https://ow.ly/eoyB50SQsKE Video created by Reel Hoot Productions.
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A huge thank you for the amazing turnout at last night’s opening reception of "Greater Columbus: The 2024 Greater Columbus Arts Council Visual Arts Awards Exhibition." Discover this stunning exhibition in the Upper Level Walter Wing on your next visit! "Greater Columbus" features work by artists in central Ohio who have been recognized for their outstanding talent. Presented biennially, the exhibition represents a continuing partnership between the Columbus Museum of Art and the Greater Columbus Arts Council. Congratulations to the featured artists of the 2024 exhibition: Dillon Beck, Brett Davis, Marsha Mack, and Alek Shabazz! Art Makes Columbus #ArtMakesCbus
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Presenting and Connecting at #TheWayForward, #AMM_2024 Several of our amazing team members are at the Association of Midwest Museums' summer conference this week at Hilton Columbus at Easton, leading their own sessions and attending those of other Midwest and #OhioMuseums! We look forward to all of the great ideas and connections that they'll be bringing back to CMA.
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It’s Thursday, and you know what that means—BAM Thursdays! If the weather’s not on our side, we’ll move the fun indoors. Fingers crossed for sunshine! 🌞 BAM (Bar, Art, Music) Thursdays are perfect for meeting local artists, listening to new DJs, discovering favorite works in the collection, and making new friends. The best part? It’s all free, including gallery access from 5:00–10:00 PM. Tonight, enjoy a live art-making session with artist Arris’ J. Cohen from 6:00–8:00 PM and get ready to dance to music by DJ Titonton Duvante all night long. See you there! BAM Thursdays is proud to have support from Bank of America. #BAMThursdays
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Joint Us for Summer Art Breaks! Starting today through August 15 Every Tues., Wed., and Thurs. 10:00 AM–1:00 PM Sensory hour is 10:00–11:00 AM Take a break with summer art making activities in My CMA Studio! Summer Art Breaks are included with cost of admission and open to all ages. This program is supported by Battelle and the City of Columbus. Learn More: https://ow.ly/ZbLn50SLNAx
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💄 Celebrating #LipstickDay with this work by Gina Beavers! Experience this incredible work up close and in-person in the Upper-Level Walter Wing on your next visit to CMA. Since the mid-2010s, artist Gina Beavers has made paintings based on online makeup tutorials, a popular genre of amateur video content on YouTube and TikTok. To create this sculptural painting, she uses her face as a canvas, first photographing her lips painted in the style of three well-known modern artists—Georgia O’Keeffe, Mark Rothko, and Piet Mondrian—and then synthesizing the results into a three-dimensional painted collage. Installation featuring Gina Beavers, Painting Georgia O'Keeffe, Rothko and Pink Mondrian on my lips, 2021. Acrylic and foam on linen on panel. On loan from the Scantland Collection
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We are looking forward to #TheWayForward #AMM_2024 this week! In addition to hosting two workshops on Wednesday, July 31 (one with Sarah Lagrotteria and Just Bloom,) and being a stop on the Downtown Museum Hop in the evening, several of our team members will be presenting throughout the conference, including: Amanda Kepner, Hannah Mason-Macklin, Carol Padilla Perez, Caitlin Lynch, and Rachel Burns-Watson. See you soon!
#TheWayForward #AMM_2024, in collaboration with #OhioMuseums, kicks off today with Virtual Day programming & we are soooo excited! Attendees: check your inbox (or spam) for instructions for accessing today’s activities & tag us when you post about the day online. See you soon!
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Our Deputy Director of Learning & Engagement, Jennifer Lehe, shared this image from last week's Summer Institute for Authentic Learning, of participants winding down after a long day of learning. Jen's featured session explored the Cultivating Creative & Civic Capacities framework (C4) as a set of "roles" for creative change. CMA is happy to connect with featured local artists, educators, and speakers as well as partner with Partnerships for All on this annual conference to reimagine, reconnect, and empower. Learn more about C4: https://lnkd.in/gHpMe3Nw
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