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Welcome to the Arts Center's KidVentures in Art
Kidventures in Art:
School Tours 2009-2010
Designed to enhance and integrate the learning experience both during your visit to the Morean Arts Center, and in your classroom. Each tour guides students through the exhibitions, exploring how various influences can affect the work of the artists. Tour includes a brief history of the artists and their work, followed by a question and answer period. Choose from several tour packages—guided tour only, or guided tour plus hands-on activities and design labs tailored to your students’ grade level! Complete information packets will be coming soon in the Pony.
Exhibitions:
January 15 – March 13, 2010
Babs Reingold: Hung Out in the Projects
Babs Reingold invokes her childhood in the projects on the East Side of Cleveland using the gallery environment. Reingold’s experience as a young Jewish girl in a tough, unsafe world comes to life within the gallery walls with her signature constructions of human hair, organza, silk, and clothesline. A sound component by artist Lin Culbertson will complete the experience. A master draftsman, many of Reingold’s preparatory sketches of the installation will also be on display.
The Sweet Escape: Photography Exhibition
Who are you when no one else is around? Teenagers and young children in private spaces are the subjects of this photography exhibition that mirrors our Word & Image theme, On My Block. Andrea Lande captures affluent young girls, Kay Denton uses vintage techniques to finish her portraits of children in the woods, and Juanita Hong juxtaposes photos of teens with written essays by her subjects of how their rooms define them. Debbie Miracolo documents the fleeting quality of youth, photographing them in their homes and their neighborhoods.
January 15 – February 24, 2010
January 15 – February 27, 2010
Glen Perotte: OPEN
OPEN transcends traditional perceptions of the portrait genre through the application of new media technology. This exhibit creates an open dialogue between artist, subject, and viewer about the relationships between imagery, personal conflict, and reconciliation. These large-scale color portraits demand that the viewer give it undivided attention.
Perotte continues his exploration of portraiture as he challenges the viewer to look past the creator’s interpretation by presenting the works as hyper-real entities. OPEN achieves two things simultaneously: forms bonds between the subject and viewer by incorporating new dimensions to the conventional portrait genre, and encourages a deeper understanding of the personal conflict and reconciliation of the subject by virtue of the scale and extreme detail of each photograph; possible only with current new media technology.
The theme of art, conflict and healing corresponds to Art Not Hate, a multi-media exhibition at the Florida Holocaust Museum by artist Bob Barancik.
The Sly, Wry Paintings of Mernet Larsen
Mernet Larsen’s large-scale, iconic paintings of angular figures in tilting spaces are instantly recognizable among art students in the Tampa Bay area. She depicts events by rendering objects and figures as geometric solids, their structures and proportions reinvented. Mernet Larsen is Professor Emeritus of Painting at University of South Florida, where she taught for 35 years, receiving the university’s highest distinctions for teaching.
Figurative Exhibition
Artists who treat portraiture and the figure in an odd, even grotesque way tie together this exhibition. In the spirit of Fernando Botero, who is famous for his baroque, rounded male and female forms, these artists approach the human body in and unforgettable way. Photographs, paintings, and drawings will be included.
To arrange a school tour, please contact our education
department at 727-822-7872 X 26.
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Accessibility
The Arts Center is accessible to persons with disabilities. Let us know of any special needs when making your reservation
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