Do You Have Access To A Good Museum?

     People who live in large cities have access to many quality museums, but what about those of us who live in small towns? Our local museum, The Museum of Art DeLand, gets fantastic exhibits. I don't know how they do it, but we regularly get to see top quality shows. The latest one downtown (the museum has galleries in two separate locations), presently has a show called "Painted Bodies" by photographer Roberto Edwards from Chile. The exhibit is on loan from  The Holden Luntz Gallery.
     The project had very well know artists from all over the world go to Chile to paint onto the bodies of models.  Here are some of the images:

Artist-Linda Mason, England

Artist- Jaime Zapata, Ecuador

Artist Pedro Ruiz, Colombia

Artist- Verónica Rubio, Spain

Artist- Sebastiàn Leyton, Chile

Artist- Verónica Rubio, Spain

Note: the red strings on two of the models aren't actually strings. They are painted onto the models with red paint and the shadows of the "Strings" are also done in paint.
     If you are anywhere close by, do try to see this exhibit in person. It's amazing.  Here's a YouTube video about the project.
     In between museum visits, I'm adding stitching to my series.

Also, here's a link to Off The Wall Friday where you can find other art quilt blogs. Please make comments on the posts so that the artists know you stopped by. Thanks for visiting.

Time Out

     I took time out this week to run errands and take a field trip. I visited a recently opened art museum in Daytona Beach, Florida. You wouldn't expect such a location to have a huge fine art collection. But there it is. It is located at The Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art.  And not only is it a marvelous and varied collection, but it is a wonderful building as well. If you have a membership to a museum already, check to see if this one is part of its reciprocal membership list. You may be able to use your membership to get in free.
     When you first enter, you see a huge mural that depicts a typical day of wildlife in Florida. Here are three photos of parts of mural.

The way the museum is organized is that they have a main gallery that has the paintings of the masters and then the other galleries are arranged by themes. Here is a view from the main gallery.

Wonderfully vaulted space

I will definitely revisit this museum many times especially since they have only a small sampling of their collection on display and will be rotating it. I'm linking this to Off The Wall Friday where you can find other art quilt blogs. Please make comments on their posts to let the artists know you stopped by. Thanks for visiting.