Art Museum
The University Art Museum plays a complex role as a part of a state university and also as an active public art museum. Seeking to educate, entertain, and enrich the lives of members of the University and community residents, the museum is also a primary educational resource in which students and others can experience original works of art firsthand. Some 25,000 persons attend one of the museums series of visiting exhibits or peruse the permanent collection each year.
The museum contains more than 3,000 objects from all major periods of art history and most parts of the world. The museum's permanent collection, housing the most significant historical collections in the area, includes painting, sculpture, architecture, prints, photographs, drawings, glass, ceramic, metalwork, manuscript collections, textiles, and costumes. Areas covered by the collection include Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Near and Far East, European, African and Oceanic, pre-Columbian cultures and the Americas.
Full-Spectrum Workshops and Demonstrations
- Quilt appraisals, tour, and lecture with Gerald Roy
- How to Use Fabric Paints/Washes and Pencils in Your Quilts with Sue Holdaway-Heys
- Beginning Yarn Spinning with Regina Mason
- Appliqué with Ease with Michael Capolupo
- Appliqué, piecing, embroidery, lap quilting and more demos with the Common Thread Quilters
- Redwork Embroidery (demo) with Louise A. Tiemann
- Rughooking (demo) with the National Guild of Pearl K. McGowan Rug Hookrafters
- Shearing sheep, goats, and rabbits decked in their natural fibers (demo)
Full-Spectrum Live Demonstrations:
- Posterizing and Line Drawing for Fabric Portraits with Marilyn Belford
- Cloth Poems: The Evolution of a Quiltmaker with Marilyn Henrion
Free Admission
Tuesday - Saturday 12 pm - 4 pm,
Thursday 12 pm - 7 pm,
Also by appointment.
Closed: Holidays
