It’s rare when most of Joslyn’s education staff calendars align, but when they do we make the most of it. This year we traveled to the Des Moines Art Center (DMAC) to meet with their education staff and view their collections and exhibitions. Meet Joslyn’s Education Department Front row,…
What began as a storage room full of books and other items became a space more wonderful than any one person could have dreamed. After tedious planning, sorting, cleaning, more planning, building, bumps and hoops, this old storage room that occupied the east lower level of the Memorial Building…
Thoughts on this unique display, on view through 2014, by two of its coordinators. What do you get when you ask the staff of an art museum to submit artwork for a staff show? Inter-department collaboration and a lot of artistic talent, apparently. After Hours: Work by Joslyn…
My name is Julia Olson, and I’m the Weitz Family Fellow here at Joslyn Art Museum. I graduated from Carleton College last June, and although I was extremely excited, I was also more or less terrified to be thrust into the real world and become what my friends and…
Alexander Calder Numbered One to Seven, 1950 sheet metal, wire, paint overall dimensions: 82 x 62 in. Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska Gift of Joslyn Women’s Association Alexander Calder’s Numbered One to Seven (1950) is an artwork with a reputation that precedes itself. When I started at Joslyn in…
Recent visitors to Joslyn have had the opportunity to participate in a collaborative art-making activity. Based on Carl Andre’s Gazetteer (in the Legacy exhibition), a text-based artwork that builds word after word into a final two-dimensional piece existing, not as poetry or prose, but as an end unto itself,…
As Joslyn’s Corporate & Foundation Giving Manager, my main responsibility is to secure funding for the Museum’s exhibitions and education/outreach programs. A self-declared nerd, I love spending time online researching potential donors. And while most people cringe at the thought of writing a proposal, I actually enjoy it….