The John Michael Kohler Arts Center worked closely with the Lenore G. Tawney Foundation to acquire hundreds of key components from the artist’s last studio environment in 2019, with assistance from Kohler Foundation, Inc. The 486-piece collection includes artwork, collages, assemblages, furniture, and supplies. An installation of Tawney’s studio environment is on view at the […]
Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe featured in the 2020 Milwaukee Film Festival
Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe featured in the 2020 Milwaukee Film Festival
The Milwaukee Film Festival starts Thursday October 15, and this year’s lineup includes the John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s short documentary Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe. The festival is being held virtually this year, so the 197 selected films will be streaming online October 15-29. The documentary features interviews with collaborators from the Mirror […]
Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe receives 2019 George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award
Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe receives 2019 George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award
The Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) has honored Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe with the 2019 George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award for excellence in art publishing.
Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe to open at John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe to open at John Michael Kohler Arts Center
A series of four exhibitions explores Lenore Tawney’s life and impact, offering a personal and historical view into her entire body of work.
Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 to open at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 to open at the Whitney Museum of American Art
This exhibition of over eighty works by more than sixty artists foregrounds how visual artists have experimented with the materials, methods, and strategies of craft over the past seven decades.
Weaving Beyond the Bauhaus on view at the Art Institute of Chicago
Weaving Beyond the Bauhaus on view at the Art Institute of Chicago
Presented on the centenary of this foundational organization, Weaving beyond the Bauhaus traces the diffusion of Bauhaus artists such as Anni Albers and Marli Ehrman, and their reciprocal relationships with fellow artists and students across America.