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Show • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • THIS MAY AT THE UMFA • • • • • • • • • • ·- Textile Tuesday IJ:\IFA Bl • • • • • • • • The UMFA's CoUections D, currently undergoing an ext, re-cataloguing project of thf textile coUection. As part of than three hundred textiles , their storage mounts and ph catalogued, cleaned, and rearchival-quality materials fo preservation of these pricelt Highlights from this coUectic Willis W. Ritter coUection ol blankets and rugs, as weU a: UMFA's African textile coll • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Be sure to check out the !J updates on this project. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Upcoming Free Events Exhibition Hi • • • • • • • • Third Saturday for Families: Make Your Own Paintbrush Saturday, May 18 11-4 pm Many artists throughout time have created their own paintbmshes from available materials. On this Third Saturday, you can make your own brushes out of unusual material and then use them to paint. Funded in part by Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts, and Parks Program (ZAP) and OluKai. Highlights of the Collection Tour I Free with Museum Admission First Wednesday of the Month 16:30 pm Every Saturday and Sunday 11:30 pm Experience the UMFA galleries through a thirty-minute tour with a docent. No pre-registration necessary. • • • • • • • • • • • - A new hands-on , interactive exhibition at the UMFA invites visitors to create the artwork themselves. Drawing Lab , which opens May 17, is inspired by the idea that mark-making is a fundamental human impulse and that there is no wrong way to do it. Museum visitors of any age or artistic ability are welcome to participate. The exhibition will be on view until August 25 in the Emma Eccles Jones Education Gallery of the UMFA. Current Exhibitions salt 7: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye On view through June 23, 2013 sail 7: Lynelle Yiadom-Roakye is the seventh installment in the Museum's series of exhibitions featuring new and innovative art from around the world. For her first solo exhibition in the western United States, British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye will show never-before exhibited oil paintings. Employing a palette and brushwork not unlike that of traditional western portraiture, Yiadom-Boah.-ye's luscious, gestural paintings consider the role of the black figure, as both subject and author, in the art historical canon . U11titled (c. I by Mike Disfu featured i Mike Di.5/ armer: Cleb11r11< Disfarmer photographed pe, austere backdrop with few natural northern light, and rr a wall that separated the da area where his patrons posf Disfanner's subjects couldr made his exposures, which the awkward and unique po signature of his style. Beca1 minimal approach, his irnagf of hard work and the vagari faces and demeanor of the "penny portraits." See this I many more in the UMFA g, Image Credits: Too-Detail r-im~s, • • • • • • • • • • Exhibition Opening Mav 17: Drawing Lab May 6- 8, prior to the opening of the exhibition, University of Utah art students will participate in a collaborative drawing marathon. The results of this drawing experiment will be on view in the gallery throughout the exhibition to inspire and embolden the creativity of all visitors. • • co11r:tP<..v _ • _,___ _ _ • _ 1 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • |
