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Regionalism - a popular mid-20th century art movement underscoring how a specific geographic area influences identity - has been declared dead. Likewise Western art, though thriving in popularity, often has been thought to be a static genre; that is, new art had to mimic the old in order to be accepted. But in the new millennium, the definition of Western art has been examined, contested and expanded beyond its once-static geographical and philosophical boundaries....
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November 8 - Founders Day at the Rockwell Museum of Western Art
October 28, 2009
CORNING, NY - On Sunday, November 8, the Museum will host Founders Day in celebration of the birthday of the Museum's late founding collector, Robert "Bob" F. Rockwell. A complete reinstallation of the Remington & Russell Lodge will be on view, comprising many of Bob's favorites. The Museum is open 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. and....
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September 8, 2009
CORNING, NY - The Rockwell Museum of Western Art is proud to present Las Artes de Mexico, from the collection of the Gilcrease Museum, scheduled to open October 17, 2009 and run through January 3, 2010. This traveling exhibition celebrates the rich and diverse artistic traditions of Mexico. Las Artes de Mexico examines over 3,500 years of art and culture, from the ancient worlds of the Mayans and Aztecs to the 20th Century works of Miguel Covarrubias and Diego Rivera.
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August 29, 2009
CORNING, NY - The Rockwell Museum of Western Art will host a reading and reception to celebrate FootHills Publishing bringing out Volume I (Poetry) of I WAS INDIAN, a Native anthology edited by Susan Deer Cloud. Susan, an award-winning, highly published Métis Indian of Mohawk, Blackfoot and some Seneca lineage, will read alongside Monty Campbell, a Cayuga poet who grew up on the Cattaraugus reservation.
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July 21, 2009
CORNING, NY- Staff from the Rockwell Museum of Western Art and the Corning-Painted Post School District traveled to Quebec City for the International Baccalaureate Conference on July 9-12. Gigi Alvare, Director of Education at the Rockwell Museum of Western Art and Eileen Bowen, District IB Programs Coordinator at the Corning City School District presented...
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CORNING, NY- Enjoy a FREE family weekend and truly see the West come to life at the Rockwell Museum of Western Art's Kids West Fest! A weekend-long fun-on-the-range Kids West is scheduled at the Rockwell Museum of Western Art for Saturday, July 25 and Sunday July 26, timed to coincide with the community-wide, Shindig. Activities for the young and young-at-heart are scheduled from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. inside the Rockwell Museum of Western Art, where visitors are encouraged to explore all three floors of the Museum's galleries.
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The Rockwell Museum of Western Art presents a Summer of Glass - contemporary monumental glass sculpture and 200 years of traditional Iroquois glass beadwork. Visions Beyond Clay: The Artwork of Tammy Garcia & Sewing the Seeds: 200 Years of Iroquois Glass Beadwork will be on display now through October 4, 2009.
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May 29, 2009
Corning, NY - Sixth Grade students from the Corning-Painted Post Area School District's Corning Free Academy participated in a yearlong arts integration program with the Rockwell Museum of Western Art. The project was designed to authentically integrate the arts into the core curriculum and demonstrate that the arts are a vital avenue to student understanding of higher thinking skills, resulting in increased student achievement.
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April 24, 2009
Corning, NY - The Rockwell Museum of Western Art will hold a public reception to honor and celebrate the life of Robert "Bob" F. Rockwell, Jr. on Thursday April 30 from 5:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. The evening will honor Bob's memory by bringing the community together to share stories, celebrate his life and to enjoy the Museum's collection of Western Art he donated so many years ago. The event will include a few words from long-time friends of Bob, cowboy songs led by Museum Trustee Bryan Lanahan and refreshments.
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April 18, 2009
Corning, NY -Robert "Bob" F. Rockwell, Jr., founding collector of the Rockwell Museum of Western Art, died on Friday April 17, 2009 at the age of 97 with family at his side at his home in Corning, NY. The Rockwell Museum of Western Art staff, board, many longtime volunteers and friends, along with the local Corning, NY community, grieves the loss of a man that contributed in countless ways to the quality of life of our region and the field of Western American art.
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March 23, 2009
CORNING, NY- As part of a teacher in-service day today, the Rockwell Museum of Western Art hosted 48 art educators from area districts for "The Art Teacher Connection II." The program was sponsored by GST Boces and included a full day of staff development workshops that earned teachers in-service credit hours.
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March 21, 2009
CORNING, NY-"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." - Pablo Picasso. On Saturday, the Rockwell Museum of Western Art hosted, in conjunction with the Southern Tier Hospice & Palliative Care, "Good Mourning Springtime," a children's grief event that ran from 9:30 a.m. - Noon at the Museum. Children ages 6-12, accompanied by adults, spent time in the Museum's Visions of the West gallery with Gigi Alvaré, the Museums Director of Education. Alvaré also led the group in completing an art project in the Museum's Education Center. The event gave children who are grieving the death of a special person the chance to remember and reflect on their memories.
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March 10, 2008
CORNING, NY - A new installation on the third floor of the Rockwell Museum of Western Art asks the viewer to think about their own perceptions of history and how they are formed. What stereotypes do you hold of Native American cultures? From where do those ideas come? Are the scenes depicted in some of the most famous Western paintings and sculptures historically accurate? How have stereotypes of Native Americans changed over time?
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February 23, 2009
CORNING, NY-The Rockwell Museum of Western Art is pleased to announce a summer 2009 special exhibition of Tammy Garcia's work. "Visions Beyond Clay: The Artwork of Tammy Garcia" opens May 23, 2009, and runs through October 4, 2009. The one-woman show will feature 20 to 25 of Garcia's groundbreaking glass sculptures, which blend Native American symbolism and iconography with cutting-edge, contemporary forms and designs. The exhibition will showcase a number of Garcia's monumental bronze works as well, illustrating the broad range of her talent in a variety of media and her ability to translate the ancient images of her Pueblo Indian heritage and other Native cultures into a contemporary artistic idiom.
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February 23, 2009
CORNING, NY - The Rockwell Museum of Western Art in Corning, NY will feature the special exhibition, Sewing the Seeds: 200 Years of Iroquois Glass Beadwork, beginning May 23 and will be on display through October 4. The summer glass exhibition will feature over 300 of the finest pieces of Iroquois beadwork ever created by Haudenosaunee bead workers.
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February 16, 2009
CORNING, NY - Extremely critical of his art, Frederic Remington was occasionally given to destroying his original paintings. Many of his works are known today only from the reproductions. The widespread distribution of Remington's work in the popular weeklies and elsewhere led to these images becoming some of the best known visions of the West. They attest to a level of popularity that no other western artist has come close to achieving. "Remington's West & The Popular Prints" will feature a private collection of early reproductions of paintings that Remington produced on commission for popular magazines as well as the series "A Bunch of Buckskins" which Remington produced expressly to be issued as a set of prints. The prints will be joined by several paintings and bronzes from the Rockwell Museum's permanent collection of art.
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February 10, 2009
CORNING, NY - The Rockwell Museum of Western Art's special exhibition, entitled Eanger Couse: A Place in the Sun, now is on view at the Saginaw Art Museum in Saginaw, Michigan. The show traveled to Michigan after being on view at the Rockwell Museum of Western Art in Corning, NY from September 11, 2008 - February 8, 2009. The exhibition includes more than 75 paintings, drawings and photos, including 13 works from the Rockwell Museum's permanent collection and others on loan from the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, N.Y.; Cornell University's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca, N.Y.; the Saginaw Club and the Ziibiwing Center in Mount Pleasant, MI. The exhibition was jointly curated by the Rockwell Museum of Western Art and the Saginaw Art Museum.
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
CORNING, NY - The Rockwell Museum of Western Art is offering a self-guided Reflections Tour for young visitors ages 9-14 to use while they visit. The Museum features many drop-in activities free of charge as part of the "Kids Rock at the Rockwell" program. The Reflections Tour was created as a way for young visitors, of all backgrounds, to reflect on identity and heritage through the Museum's collection. Through several paintings and sculptures, the tour encourages the visitor to answer several questions. One question asks, "Do we make assumptions about other people based on their appearance?"
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