Current Exhibitions

Women Artists in the Kennedy Museum of Art Collections - Part I

December 16, 2011 – August 5, 2012

The three-part exhibition Women Artists in the KMA Collection will highlight paintings, prints, and 3-D work made by women artists in the 20th century. Part I will explore the work of women artists who began their career prior to the feminist movement in art in the 1970s. The work included in Part I is for the most part abstract and in the form of paintings, drawings and prints. This exhibition will place these artists within the larger art world context in which they worked, exploring the relationship between gender, art making, and abstraction.

Helen Gerardia, Lunar Circuit 1
Collection Kennedy Museum of Art

Sha Sha Higby: Costumes and Drawings

April 20 – August 12, 2012 — NOW OPEN
Opening Reception: April 26, 8 – 9:30 PM

This exhibition presents sculptural costumes and drawings by international performance/sculptural artist, Sha Sha Higby, who is known for her evocative and haunting performances using the exquisite and ephemeral body sculpture she meticulously creates herself and moves within. Elaborate sculptural costume, dance, and puppetry explore magic and emotion, creating an atmospheric world within the borders between death and life. (see event flier)

Sha Sha Higby, Glass Cloud
Mixed media performance costume

Exhibition Events

Artist lecture
Moving Archetypal Image: The Work of Sha Sha Higby
Monday, April 23
8 – 9:30 PM
Forum Theater, Kantner Hall

Artist Workshop - Part I
Sha Sha Higby: Moving Archetypal Image/ Wire Forms in Light
Wednesday, April 25
5:10 – 9 PM
Kennedy Museum of Art, Christine Demler Brown Center for Arts
2-day workshop material fee: Free for Ohio University students, general public $20 (cash & check only). Space is limited, first-come, first-served basis.

Artist Workshop Presentation
Sha Sha Higby: Moving Archetypal Image/ Wire Forms in Light
Thursday, April 26
7:30 – 8:00 PM
Kennedy Museum of Art

Artist Performance
Sha Sha Higby's In Folds of Gold
Tuesday, April 24
8 – 9:45 PM
Forum Theater, Kantner Hall
 

Artist Workshop - Part II
Sha Sha Higby: Moving Archetypal Image/ Wire Forms in Light
Thursday, April 26
5:10 – 7:30 PM
Kennedy Museum of Art, Christine Demler Brown Center for Arts
2-day workshop material fee: Free for Ohio University students, general public $20 (cash & check only). Space is limited, first-come, first-served basis.

Ceramics from the Frederick & Kazuko Harris Library Collection

April 27 – August 26, 2012
Opening Reception: April 27, 6 – 8 PM

This exhibition features a selection of ceramic vessels and sculptural works from the Ohio University Alden Library Frederick & Kazuko Harris Collection. The collection, named for the donor and artist who compiled it, is composed of fine arts books, master watercolors, ink drawings and personal sketchbooks, and also includes artwork Dr. Harris assembled by other artists in a range of media, from delicate rare ceramics to works on paper.

Stoneware Vessel, Woodfired Ceramics
Frederick & Kazuko Harris Library Collection
Ohio University

Selected Navajo Pictorial Weavings from the Edwin L. and Ruth E. Kennedy Southwest Native American Collection

April 27 – August 26, 2012
Opening Reception: April 27, 6 – 8 PM

This exhibition presents a small selection of Navajo pictorial weavings from the Museum's collection and provides a glimpse into the development of this style of weaving.

Laura Nez, Pictorial Wall Hanging, Navajo, c. 1990
Collection Kennedy Museum of Art

Butterflies in Our Midst

April 27 – September 9, 2012

Opening Reception: April 27, 6 – 8 PM

A family-friendly exhibition that features diverse collections showcasing butterflies, ranging from collections of Kennedy Museum of Art and Huntington Museum of Art, to specimens from Ohio University's Zoology Museum, and butterfly-inspired artwork of over eighty community artists. Butterfly imagery is to be found in jewelry, weaving, prints, photography, painting, ceramics, and collages.Visitors are invited to make an origami butterfly and either take it home or leave it to be included in an ongoing collaborative installation in the gallery. During the opening reception, origami artists Anne Roberts and Monica Salisbury will present butterfly origami folding techniques.

Alexander Calder, Two Butterflies, 1974
Collection Kennedy Museum of Art

Teec Nos Pos: Navajo Weavings from Kennedy Museum of Art Collection

May 4 – September 28, 2012

This exhibition highlights the bold geometric design of Teec Nos Pos weavings from the Museum's collection. Teec Nos Pos, a Navajo community in northeastern Arizona, means "Ring of Cottonwood Trees."

Unknown Weaver
Germantown Outline Rug
c. 1930-40
Collection Kennedy Museum of Art