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Artists’ Collections in the Archives: Digitizing Cleveland’s Artistic History | by Cleveland Museum of Art | CMA Thinker | Sep, 2022

By Sara Kunkemueller, Digitization Intern, Ingalls Library and Museum Archives

This summer time, I joined the Ingalls Library and Museum Archives as a digitization intern. My operate involved many assignments, from updating metadata to scanning textbooks for the Web Archive, but significantly of my time was committed to digitizing artists’ collections in the archives. The first elements I scanned ended up John Paul Miller’s sketchbooks.

Miller (1918–2013) was a renowned Cleveland jeweler. Acquiring graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA), he returned after Military service in Environment War II to be part of the school’s personnel as a professor. At the exact time, he began producing parts for local jewellery keep Potter & Mellen. Although Miller was qualified in industrial design and style and spent his profession targeted on jewelry, he also harbored a deep like for watercolor and produced equally photographs of his travels and a selection

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Ep 122 Things we Wish we’d Known as Beginner Artists

On today’s art podcast we are going to talk about the things we wish we had known when we were beginner artists. And hopefully, it might help some of our listeners who have just started out.

Ep 122 Things we Wish we’d Known as Beginner Artists


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So the first thing I wish, is that I had realised at a much earlier age, that art was the thing that I was going to enjoy and be good at.

If I had known, then I would have put so much more time into it, and much earlier on in my life.

The

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Erwin Timmers at Artists & Makers Studios

Artists & Makers Studios on Parklawn Travel in Rockville will welcome invited Artist Erwin Timmers along with Artists of the Washington Glass School for the show “A Demonstrate of Hands” with two additional displays and an Open up Studio occasion. 

The November 4th Very first Friday night opening will operate from 5pm – 9pm. Delight in supplemental displays – “X marks the spot” with Resident Artists, and Gallery 209 Artists exhibiting their latest do the job. 

Dutch-born Erwin Timmers is the equally the co-founder and Director of the Washington Glass University and a person of the planet’s earliest “eco-friendly” artists. 

Art by Erwin Timmers

His operate “references sociological and environmental troubles of problem to him, largely how we, as a society, eat and discard cherished resources. For this subject the choice of components results in being a far more crucial dialogue, so Erwin endeavors to use recycled products to categorical ideas and strategies of

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Artists’ Gardens – George Van Hook

Inspiration Shut at Hand

Artists’ Gardens

George Van Hook

Iris, 30 x 24", Oil, © George Van Hook
Iris          30 x 24″          Oil          © George Van Hook

   In response to our “Inspiration Close at Hand” simply call for paintings established in artists’ gardens or other personal areas, we received these five pictures from artist, George Van Hook. Even though inspiration can be located far and huge, many of us have discovered “diamonds in personal backyard”, specially all through the confinement of the pandemic. There can be great artistic positive aspects to painting a additional intimate and personal globe throughout the changes of mild and time.

The Flower Farm, 12 x 16", Oil, © George Van Hook
The Flower Farm          12 x 16″          Oil          © George Van Hook

   George wrote to us, “I typically commit a fantastic part of the summer season months portray the determine in the several beautiful flower gardens that encircle our household in Upstate New York. We’ve lived below for nearly 30 five years, and from

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Don’t Miss These 5 Eerie Artists and Their Unnerving Art!

The many topics that encompass art are large and varied. The kinds that actually stick with us appear to be to be artworks of a extra macabre nature or artists that endure tragic events and job them in their get the job done. Maybe it is what they built, how they made it, or the underlying tale at the rear of a piece or the artist’s past that helps make an impression. Whichever the cause, these artists and their innovative eyesight will be all over for centuries to occur.

Get a appear at these 5 eerie artists and their unnerving artworks!

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1. Ivan Albright

Magic Realism is an artwork movement that brings together real looking approaches with topics of a surreal character. Ivan Albright is a important artist regarded as the “master of

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A Graffiti Story” Spotlights the Journeys of Five Artists

Tracing the emergence of graffiti from an underground subculture into a legitimate profession, Duality: A Graffiti Story — directed by Ryan Dowling — focuses on the struggles and successes of five noted graffiti artists. In the Buffalo 8 documentary feature film, legendary writers Meres One, Dual, Sloke, Jaber and Never1959 share their challenges and ventures as they reflect on their personal journeys in this ever-evolving culture.

Many graffiti writers — who were initially deemed as vandals for their tagging and illegal interventions — now earn wide recognition and respect for their stirring murals that grace cities across the globe. Their aesthetics have made their way inside and outside a range of upscale properties from luxury hotels to major corporations — who court them to enhance the “coolness” of their brands.

Once working mainly clandestinely, these artists now foster community, as they share their talents openly with others

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