The education coordinator for the Prichard Art Gallery, Lauren McCleary said she was proud that the gallery’s current exhibit, “Miniatures: It’s Not All Small After All,” was a show put together by people in their group.
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Thomas Doyle is one of many artists currently being showed in the Prichard Art Galleries Miniatures: It’s Not All Small After All.” You can see the piece titled “Brace” in the gallery now through Sept. 28.
Assistant director of the gallery, Nara Woodland, said Director Roger Rowley invited her and McCleary to co-direct the current art exhibit.
Woodland said they had a lot of creative freedom with this exhibit, deciding on who they wanted to participate in the show, where they wanted to place the work and who they wanted to present it.
Woodland said there were other ideas they focused on before they thought of the idea to do a miniature show. When they saw Thomas Doyle’s artwork in a magazine, the idea was solidified. They decided to have an exhibit based on artists who were working in the miniature realm.
“His (Doyle’s) work was so unique and so different from anything else that we’ve ever shown here, so it just captured our attention,” Woodland said.
McCleary said the next exhibit, the “Bauhaus Twenty-21,” is a selection of artwork another photographer put together, and they will be renting from. There are a lot more rules with this type of exhibit. They have to paint the gallery a certain color and will be given a map of where to put the artwork.
Woodland said the current type of exhibit presents its own challenges because they are sorting many images and going through gallery mailers. They receive post cards from different galleries, telling them what artist’s work is on display. The big task is coordinating different artists’ work together. Then, they contact the artists to tell them what they like and find out what is available. They pick the works they want to display from this information while staying within their budget, Woodland said.
According to their upcoming schedule of exhibits, “Bauhaus twenty-21” begins Oct. 10. McCleary said Bauhaus was an art movement in Germany, and ended around 1933.
She said the exhibit is a selection of photographs from the Bauhaus time period, focusing on old architecture and current architecture inspired by the period.
The exhibit comes with text panels and will provide information about the movement. The artist who put the show together is coming to Moscow to do workshops at the gallery and give a lecture at the University of Idaho.
The Bauhaus movement focuses on uniting craft and concept, and becoming a master craftsman by design skills, including architecture, visual art, topography and topographic design.
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