The American Art Forum at Carleton College: Our Treasures and Seminar on Paul Manship

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Saturday, April 14, 2012 
9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
$25 for AAF members.
$40 for Annual Members.
$50 non-members. Click here to find out how to become a member.

Weitz Center for Creativity
Carleton College
320 Third Street
Northfield, MN 55057
 

Join the American Art Forum for a day of learning, lunch, and leisure at the new Weitz Center for Creativity at Carleton College in Northfield. All costs for transportation to Carleton College and lunch are included in fees above.

 

SCHEDULE

9 a.m.
Bus departs from the parking lot at St. Paul Academy at 9 a.m. sharp (please plan to arrive 15 minutes early.)

10 a.m. to noon
Seminar: Paul Manship and the Minnesota Museum of American Art.

Paul Manship is one of the great 20th-century sculptors, and he just happens to have been born in St. Paul, Minnesota.  Best known for his statue of Prometheus at Rockefeller Center in New York, the Minnesota Museum of American Art has one of the best collections of his work anywhere, over 378 works in media from bronze to plaster to working sketches and drawings.  Six of his remarkable sculptures will appear in the exhibition Our Treasures: Highlights from the Minnesota Museum of American Art, on view at Carleton College from March 30 to May 8, 2012.

Speakers include:
Kristin Makholm, Ph.D., Executive Director, Minnesota Museum of American Art; Rebecca Reynolds, American decorative arts scholar and curator of the Margaret and John Manship collection, Gloucester, Mass.; and Kristin Cheronis, sculpture conservator, Minneapolis.

12:15
Lunch

1:00 to 2:45 p.m.   
Tours of the Our Treasures exhibition in the Perlman Teaching Museum and the new Weitz Center for Creativity—designed by Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle Architects.

 

For more information, contact Jessari Sutton at jsutton@mmaa.org, or 651-797-4057.

 

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Private Art Collection Tour

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Saturday, June 23, 2012,  3 p.m.
Exclusive to AAF members.

Art and nature come together in this summer tour of a private collection in Dellwood, Minnesota. More information to come, but mark your calendars!

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Trip to Milwaukee with the American Art Forum

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October 4 - 7, 2012
Exclusive to AAF members.

 

Have you ever experiences the riches of the Milwaukee art scene? join MMAA Director Kristin Makholm for a weekend trip that will include a tour of the Milwaukee Art Museum (where Kristin was a curator for several years), private collections, Frank Lloyd Wright architecture, and more. Details to come, but plan on heading to Milwaukee with the American Art Forum!