Erie Art Museum Opens Wildthings by Kathe Umlauf
Erie, PA, March 14, 2008 --(PR.com)-- The Erie Art Museum has opened Wildthings by Kathe Umlauf at the Erie Art Museum’s Frame Shop Gallery, 423 State Street on Friday, Mar. 7, 2008 through May 31, 2008.
About the Exhibition
Sculptor Kathe Umlauf portrays animals of all sorts. Working from her observations at zoos, area farms, thoroughbred racetracks, and anywhere else she can be near animals, Umlauf uses her classical training in sculpture to capture their gestures, forms, and personalities in painted terra cotta and cast gypsum. The works range in scale from small to larger than life, and include horses, orangutans, mountain lions, goats, pigs, and dogs.
For months, Umlauf studied the orangutans at the Erie Zoo and on exhibit at the Erie Art Museum are bigger than life-size sculptures of these animals.
Umlauf attended the Tyler School of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Millersville University, and Edinboro University, where she earned her MFA. She currently manages the Erie Art Museum’s ClaySpace program at 1505 State Street.
Although she has considerable experience in painting, she is drawn to clay for its immediacy, the instant response to the medium at the artist’s fingers.
Wildthings by Kathe Umlauf is sponsored by the Talking Phone Book.
About the Erie Art Museum
The Erie Art Museum anchors downtown Erie’s cultural and economic revitalization, occupying a group of restored mid-19th century commercial buildings, including an outstanding 1839 Greek Revival Bank. It maintains an ambitious program of 15 to 18 changing exhibitions annually, embracing a wide range of subjects, both historical and contemporary and including folk art, contemporary craft, multi-disciplinary installations, community-based work, as well at traditional media.
The Erie Art Museum also holds a collection of over 5,500 objects, which includes significant works in American ceramics, Tibetan painting, Indian bronzes, contemporary baskets, and a variety of other categories.
The Museum offers a wide range of education programs and artists’ services including interdisciplinary and interactive school tours and a wide variety of classes for the community. Performing arts are showcased in the 24-year-old Contemporary Music Series, which represents national and international performers of serious music with an emphasis on composer/performers, and a popular annual two-day Blues & Jazz festival.
The Erie Art Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. Admission is free for members, free on Wednesdays, $4 for adults, $3 for senior citizens and students and $2 for children under 12.
For additional information on the Erie Art Museum, visit online at http://www.erieartmuseum.org/ or call (814) 459-5477.
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About the Exhibition
Sculptor Kathe Umlauf portrays animals of all sorts. Working from her observations at zoos, area farms, thoroughbred racetracks, and anywhere else she can be near animals, Umlauf uses her classical training in sculpture to capture their gestures, forms, and personalities in painted terra cotta and cast gypsum. The works range in scale from small to larger than life, and include horses, orangutans, mountain lions, goats, pigs, and dogs.
For months, Umlauf studied the orangutans at the Erie Zoo and on exhibit at the Erie Art Museum are bigger than life-size sculptures of these animals.
Umlauf attended the Tyler School of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Millersville University, and Edinboro University, where she earned her MFA. She currently manages the Erie Art Museum’s ClaySpace program at 1505 State Street.
Although she has considerable experience in painting, she is drawn to clay for its immediacy, the instant response to the medium at the artist’s fingers.
Wildthings by Kathe Umlauf is sponsored by the Talking Phone Book.
About the Erie Art Museum
The Erie Art Museum anchors downtown Erie’s cultural and economic revitalization, occupying a group of restored mid-19th century commercial buildings, including an outstanding 1839 Greek Revival Bank. It maintains an ambitious program of 15 to 18 changing exhibitions annually, embracing a wide range of subjects, both historical and contemporary and including folk art, contemporary craft, multi-disciplinary installations, community-based work, as well at traditional media.
The Erie Art Museum also holds a collection of over 5,500 objects, which includes significant works in American ceramics, Tibetan painting, Indian bronzes, contemporary baskets, and a variety of other categories.
The Museum offers a wide range of education programs and artists’ services including interdisciplinary and interactive school tours and a wide variety of classes for the community. Performing arts are showcased in the 24-year-old Contemporary Music Series, which represents national and international performers of serious music with an emphasis on composer/performers, and a popular annual two-day Blues & Jazz festival.
The Erie Art Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. Admission is free for members, free on Wednesdays, $4 for adults, $3 for senior citizens and students and $2 for children under 12.
For additional information on the Erie Art Museum, visit online at http://www.erieartmuseum.org/ or call (814) 459-5477.
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Tammy Roche
814-459-5477
www.erieartmusuem.org
Tammy Roche
814-459-5477
www.erieartmusuem.org
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