Please join us for light appetizers, wine and great company
to celebrate the opening of
FRAGMENT: Sampling the Modern
Leslie Baum, Diana Guerrero-Maciá, Jessica Labatte, Adam Scott
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Cody Hudson: Flip Your Wig
Friday, May 3, 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Exhibition Programs
Art on the Run
Saturdays from 10 am-2 pm
Families are invited to make art inspired by FRAGMENT: Sampling the Modern and Cody Hudson: Flip Your Wig. Enjoy the exhibitions before sharing a free creative experience with your children led by EAM’s staff and volunteers. Projects change every two weeks.
EAM Artivity
May 4-August 18
Inspired by EAM’s newest exhibition Fragment: Sampling the Modern, Artivity welcomes families to design a collage on EAM’s windows. Taking a new spin on the popular mid-century toy “colorforms” guests can create original designs by layering images of popular toys and household items directly on the windows of the Museum. Use decals of cars and tools to design a house that will overlook the adjacent park or rearrange the decals of toy animals to tell a story. See it all illuminated by the summer’s sun. Fun for all ages.
Better Photos = Higher Return. Photography Workshop with Jessica Labatte
Saturday, May 11, 2013 at 10:30 am
Adult Program, Free with Museum Admission
Looking to raise mad money for the summer? Join exhibiting artist and photographer Jessica Labatte to learn simple styling and lighting techniques to elevate the quality of your images for Ebay, Craigslist, or any online marketplace. Your unwanted objects will never look so good! Bring your own camera and object(s) to photograph. Please email fhumphreyhill@elmhurtartmuseum.org to register.
Friday Night Artist Talk: Diana Guerrero-Maciá
Friday, May 17, 2013 at 6:30 pm
Diana Guerrero-Maciá discusses her fabric collages of borrowed symbols and forms that are reminiscent of modernist paintings and graphic design.
Fear No [Abstract] Art with Adam Scott
Friday, May 31, 2013 at 6:30 pm
Though avant-garde abstract art emerged more than one hundred years ago, specifically in painting, what is encompassed by the term “abstract” has long been questioned and never tightly defined. Join exhibiting artist Adam Scott for a lively discussion about what makes abstraction important, powerful, and relevant today.
Modernist Textiles with Diana Guerrero-Maciá
Saturday, June 8, 2013 at 10:30 am
Ages 3-10 accompanied by adult, Free with Museum Admission
Create your own Modern Art Masterpiece! In this workshop exhibiting artist and School of the Art Institute of Chicago professor Diana Guerrero-Maciá will show you how to create textile collages using simple techniques like line drawing, cutting shapes, ironing, and stitching. Please email fhumphreyhill@elmhurstartmuseum.org to register.
Friday Night Artist Talk: Leslie Baum
June 21, 2013 at 6:30 pm
Leslie Baum selects and reworks particular passages of modern paintings, incorporating them into her own work. Baum shares her art historical sources in addition to thoughts behind her installation in Mies’ McCormick House.
Friday Night Artist Talk: Adam Scott
Friday, July 26, 2013 at 6:30 pm
Painter Adam Scott explains his new collage-based work that translates the materiality, and often the peculiarity, of our cultural landscape into dynamic, undulating abstractions.
Friday Night Artist Talk with Jessica Labatte
Friday, August 2, 2013 at 6:30 pm
Learn more about Jessica Labatte’s photographs of carefully arranged found objects and materials that play with reality and illusion.
Collaborative Collage with Leslie Baum
Saturday, August 3, 2013 at 10:30 am
Family Program, Ages 5 and up, Free with Museum Admission
Explore the galleries at the Elmhurst Art Museum like never before. Based on her process of painting from the work of other artists, exhibiting artist Leslie Baum will take you into the galleries to draw directly from works in the exhibition Fragment. You and your family will return to the studio to cut up your drawings, editing out favorite fragments and recombining these sampled pieces to make a wholly unexpected family collage. Please email Fhumphreyhill@elmhurstartmuseum.org to register.