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Do you love to come to museums and use your phone? Do you take pictures of your favorite artwork to save the memory or share it on social media? Read about how you can use…
Rae Sloan Bredin (1881-1933) was born in Butler County, Pennsylvania. He spent time studying at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, the New York School of Arts, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he made connections…
Looking at art in a museum can be a lot of fun. It’s even more fun when you get the chance to draw like some of your favorite Michener artists! Here are five drawing activities…
Image Credit: Tim Portlock, Sundown, 2011, archival pigment print, 54 x 72 inches, James A. Michener Art Museum. Museum purchase. A Reflection on “Sundown“ by Tim Portlock By Fiona Clark, student at the Michener since…
How might access to 3D models change the experience of sculpture? In 2015, the Michener partnered with the Google Cultural Institute 3D Operations team to digitize twenty-six objects from the Michener’s permanent collection, making these…
Image credit: Charles Rudy with Cornish Red Chicken, n.d., black-and-white photograph on paper, Charles Rudy Archival Collection. Gift of Lorraine Rudy. Courtesy of the James A. Michener Art Museum archives Charles Rudy was born in 1904,…
