EXHIBITIONS
These exhibitions are sponsored by the Talbot County Arts Council and the Maryland State Arts Council.
Robert Rauschenberg: ROCI Works from the National Gallery of Art
December 5 through March 6, 2016
Curator-Led Tours: Friday, January 15, 12noon & Tuesday, February 9, 12noon
As one of America’s most iconic 20thcentury artists, Rauschenberg (1925 – 2008) was a painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop Art movement. He is best known for his Combines of the 1950s, in which nontraditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations. Robert Rauschenberg: ROCI Works from the National Gallery of Art is the first exhibition of ROCI artworks in Maryland. The Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange (ROCI, pronounced “Rocky,” the name of the artist’s pet turtle) was established in 1985 to enable and support Rauschenberg’s collaborations with artisans and workshops abroad and to promote world peace and understanding. Over a six-year period, Rauschenberg created works in host countries all over the world to be included in exhibitions in each country and donated a work of art to each location. The various exhibition catalogues included contributions by local poets, writers, and journalists.
Announced at the United Nations in December 1984, ROCI involved the artist making and presenting work while traveling with a team of assistants through 11 countries, including China, Tibet, the U.S.S.R. and former East Germany, as a way to foster cross-cultural dialogue. Some works remained in their original sites as gifts and others traveled with the ROCI team to be shared with future participants. Rauschenberg personally funded the project, which concluded with the exhibition Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange of over 125 works at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, in 1991, attracting 414,000 visitors.
Robert Rauschenberg:
Kyoto, Sri Lanka, and Thai Drawings
December 5 through March 6, 2016
Curator-Led Tours: Friday, January 15, 12noon & Tuesday, February 9, 12noon
“Rauschenberg: Kyoto, Sri Lanka, and Thai Drawings” is the first of two exhibitions featuring works by Robert Rauschenberg. As one of America’s most iconic 20thcentury artists, Rauschenberg (1925 – 2008) was a painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop Art movement. He is best known for his Combines of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations. Curator Anke Van Wagenberg has worked closely with David White, Senior Curator at the Rauschenberg Foundation in New York. The Foundation agreed to loan 17 ROCI-related drawings, made by the artist in Thailand, Sri Lanka and Kyoto, Japan. A new aspect of the exhibition is The ROCI Road to Peace: Experiments in the Unfamiliar and the involvement of Nicole Bray, graduate of the MA Contemporary Art program at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York, and winner of the inaugural Rauschenberg Foundation Emerging Curator Competition (2015). Bray will bring The ROCI Road to Peace: Experiments in the Unfamiliar to the Museum as a contemporary extension of the exhibition.
AAM Faculty Exhibition
December 5, 2015 – March 6, 2016
The Museum’s Faculty Exhibition features artworks created by 14 of the Museum’s instructor artists and represents the institutions broad range of class offerings. Works in a variety of media including drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics, digital art and photography will be on display. Exhibiting instructors will include Paul Aspell, Katie Cassidy, Rosemary Cooley, Heather Crow, Constance Del Nero, George Holzer, Matthew Hillier, Susan Horsey, Joan Machinchick, Patrick Meehan, Diane Mullaly, Christopher Pittman, Lynn Reynolds and Sahm Doherty-Sefton.
Many of the award-winning faculty artists have exhibited nationally and their works have been included in museum collections around the world, and featured and reviewed in prestigious arts journals and magazines.
John Ruppert: Grounded
Continuing through March 31, 2016
Sculptor John Ruppert’s recent work on display at the Academy Art Museum includes elegant shapes he forms from chain-link fabric and cast metals. As a great technician with a passion for
blurring the lines between natural and man-made materials, Ruppert uses cast metals such as iron, aluminum, copper, or bronze to explore this idea. This is evident in the set of Pumpkins
displayed in the Museum’s front yard, which are cast in various metals. At first glance it is hard to distinguish between the different types of metal. Ruppert’s cast Pumpkins are in several
collections on the West and East Coasts, including Grounds for Sculpture, Trenton, NJ, and now in Easton. He is represented by C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD; John Davis Gallery,
Hudson NY; Eight Modern, Santa Fe, NM; and was the first Distinguished Visiting Artist for SANDBOX at Washington College, in Chestertown, MD. Ruppert investigates the relationship between natural systems and human decision making.
LECTURES
Robert Rauschenberg and the ROCI Artworks
Speaker: Don Saff, PhD, Artistic Director of ROCI, Director of Saff Tech Arts & former Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
January 29, 6 p.m.
ADULT CLASSES
Intermediate/Advanced Pottery
Instructor: Paul Aspell
Two 6 week sessions: January 11 – February 15 AND March 7 – April 11, 2016
Mondays, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Intermediate and Advanced Potter’s Wheel
Instructor: Paul Aspell
Two 6 week sessions: January 11 – February 15 AND March 7 – April 11, 2016
Mondays, 1 – 3 p.m.
Intermediate and Advanced Hand Building Pottery
Instructor: Paul Aspell
Two 6 week sessions: January 13 – February 17 AND March 9 – April 13, 2016
Wednesdays, 1 – 3 p.m.
Beginning/Intermediate/Advanced Pottery
Instructor: Paul Aspell
Two 6 week sessions: January 13 – February 17 AND March 9 – April 13, 2016
Wednesdays, 6- 8 p.m.
Basic Drawing: Value and Composition
Instructor: Katie Cassidy
6 weeks, January 12 – February 16
Tuesdays, 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Pastel Painting: Skies, Land and Water
Instructor: Katie Cassidy
6 weeks, January 13 – February 17
Wednesdays, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Extrapolations: Finding the Essence of What You See
Instructor: Wendy Cohen
1 day Workshop, Saturday, January 16, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
3rd Annual Winter Challenge – A Painting a Day for 30 Days!
Instructors: Diane DuBois Mullaly & Katie Cassidy
5 weeks: January 16, 23, 30, February 6, 13
Saturdays 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Large Studio Paintings
Instructor: Matthew Hillier
6 weeks: January 23 – March 5 (no class February 6)
Saturdays: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Introduction to Printmaking
Instructor: Sheryl Southwick
4 weeks: January 28 – February 18
Thursdays, 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
CHILDREN’S CLASSES
Home School Art Classes
Instructor: Constance Del Nero, Ages 6 – 9 years
Instructor: Susan Horsey, Ages 10+
Early Winter Session: January 8 – February 12
Late Winter Session: February 19 – April 8
NEW PROGRAM!
Travel the World at the Academy Art Museum
Children ages 6+ and their parents
Saturday, January 9, 2016, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Mini Masters Academy
An Early Enrichment Program for Children ages 2-4
In Partnership with the Smithsonian Early Enrichment
After-School Art Club
Students in grades 4 through 7
Instructor: Susan Horsey
Eight Thursdays, January 14 – March 3
Art Plus In Service Day Activity
Talbot County Public Schools
Ages 6-10
Friday, January 22, 2016, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
For further information on any exhibitions, classes, or programs or to register, visit academyartmuseum.org or call 410-822-2787.
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