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Tag Archives: ceramics

Middle School Camp Cummer!

by , in Education, Programs

Jun

28

Help your middle schooler become the next Norman Rockwell and sign them up for Middle School Camp Cummer! This one-of-a-kind camp is the only game in town for fine arts instructions over the summer for middle schoolers.

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Camp Cummer 2018

by , in Art, Education

Apr

03

Spring Break has passed and summer is quickly approaching, which means it is time to start looking at summer activities for the kids!

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October is Art Beyond Sight Awareness Month

by , Director of Art Education in Art, Behind the Scenes, Community, Education

Sep

30

October marks Art Beyond Sight Awareness Month in museums and cultural institutions around the world. In contribution to the effort to raise awareness of disability, accessibility, and inclusion, the Cummer Museum displays its annual exhibition of artwork from the Women of Vision program during this month. Installed in the Museum’s Art Connections area, the show is open to the public and features works in of printmaking, ceramics, painting, and sculpture.

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“Ink, Silk, and Gold” at the Cummer Shop

by , in Art, Behind the Scenes

Jun

29

The exhibition catalogue for Ink, Silk, and Gold: Islamic Treasures from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is now available in the Cummer Shop.

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Happy Birthday to Janet Fish, Painter of ‘After a Wedding’ from the Museum’s Permanent Collection

by , in Art, Behind the Scenes

May

18

Born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 18, 1938, Janet Fish was raised on the island of Bermuda and came from a family of artists. Her grandfather, Clark Vorhees, was an American Impressionist painter, while her father was an art history teacher, and her mother, Florence Whistler Fish, was a sculptor and potter. Fish knew from a young age that she wanted to pursue the visual arts. She was talented in ceramics—having access to her mother’s kiln—and initially intended to be a sculptor.

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Inside the Women of Vision Program

by , Director of Art Education in Behind the Scenes, Education

Oct

05

The Museum’s Art Beyond Sight programs provide specially designed art education and art-making experiences for individuals who are visually impaired: including touch tours of the Museum, classroom outreach to the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind, and Women of Vision, a group which has made the Museum their meeting place for the past 18 years. This program represents…

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