116 Past Events at David Owsley Museum of Art, Ball State University

View and compare the new Christ the Redeemer (1550) by Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli (1499-1563) with the Catalonian Christ (1250) sculpture with a docent. This is an Art Card Event

Sketching in the Museum Drop in and sketch at the David Owsley Museum of Art! Try drawing different works of art in our galleries. All students, faculty and community members are invited. Ball State University Fine Arts League members provide support on Fridays at 3 pm as available. A limited number of large drawing boards, plus stools and pencils are provided. Visitors are welcome to sketch at other times, too. In partnership with the Ball State University Fine Arts League and Art Department. Check-in at the Front Desk to locate the group.

Ball State's David Owsley Museum of Art to host "An Evening in Venice"

Summary: Join the David Owsley Museum of Art for an Evening in Venice with actors dressed in Venetian Carnival costume and a comic masked performance by Jonathan Becker. Friday, December 9, 5-7 pm.

MUNCIE, Ind. Take a break from the holidays and come to the David Owsley Museum of Art for bawdy 18th century Venetian humor and Venetian champagne. We're turning the sculpture court into an Italian piazza with a baroque string quartet and actors dressed in gorgeous Venetian carnival costumes. Ball State theatre professor Jonathan Becker will do a masked performance as the comic character Pantelone, who is the old miser of the Venetian Commedia dell'arte. Becker says "Pantelone's loves in life are money, women, money, women, money, women.. pretty much in that order." Pantelone pretends to be old and feeble but when a mouse crosses his path he reveals his youth in an acrobatic display. Becker has become well known making Venetian masks. One of his Pantelone masks is attached to this release.

An Evening in Venice will be Friday December 9, from 5 - 7 pm at the David Owsley Museum of Art Ball State University. Admission to the event is free and open to all. Light refreshments will be served and a cash bar available. For more information contact Carl Schafer at carlschafer@bsu.edu

The museum is free to the public and open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Parking is available at the McKinley Avenue parking structure at the corner of McKinley Avenue and Ashland Avenue.

For more information about the David Owsley Museum of Art, call 765-285-5270 or visit www.bsu.edu/artmuseum.

The film follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Muniz is represented in the Ball State University Museum of Art collection with Seville Orange, Silver Goblet, Apples, Pear, and Two Bottles, After Chardin. (99 minutes, 2011) Brown Study Room. This is an Art Card Event

Drop in and sketch at the Museum of Art! Try drawing different works of art in our galleries. All students, faculty and community members are invited. Ball State University Fine Arts League members provide support on Fridays at 3 pm as available. A limited number of large drawing boards, plus stools and pencils are provided. Visitors are welcome to sketch at other times, too. In partnership with the BSU Fine Arts League and Art Department. Check-in at the Front Desk to locate the group.

Drop in and sketch at the David Owsley Museum of Art!Try drawing different works of art in our galleries. All students, faculty and community members are invited. Ball State University Fine Arts League members provide support on Fridays at 3 pm as available. A limited number of largedrawing boards, plus stools and pencils are provided. Visitors are welcome tosketch at other times, too. In partnership with the Ball State University FineArts League and Art Department. Check-in at the Front Desk to locate the group.

Prospective volunteers are invited to hear from current docents about the funof being a tour leader at the David Owsley Museum of Art. Information will beprovided to sign-up for weekly training. See the volunteer application form in the Get Involved section at bsu.edu/artmuseum.
Refreshments will be served.
Brown Study Room

Drop in and sketch at the David Owsley Museum of Art!Try drawing different works of art in our galleries. All students, faculty and community members are invited. Ball State University Fine Arts League members provide support on Fridays at 3 pm as available. A limited number of largedrawing boards, plus stools and pencils are provided. Visitors are welcome tosketch at other times, too. In partnership with the Ball State University FineArts League and Art Department. Check-in at the Front Desk to locate the group.

Drop in and sketch at the David Owsley Museum of Art!Try drawing different works of art in our galleries. All students, faculty and community members are invited. Ball State University Fine Arts League members provide support on Fridays at 3 pm as available. A limited number of largedrawing boards, plus stools and pencils are provided. Visitors are welcome tosketch at other times, too. In partnership with the Ball State University FineArts League and Art Department. Check-in at the Front Desk to locate the group.

Drop in and sketch at the David Owsley Museum of Art!Try drawing different works of art in our galleries. All students, faculty and community members are invited. Ball State University Fine Arts League members provide support on Fridays at 3 pm as available. A limited number of largedrawing boards, plus stools and pencils are provided. Visitors are welcome tosketch at other times, too. In partnership with the Ball State University FineArts League and Art Department. Check-in at the Front Desk to locate the group.

In conjunction with the acquisition of the painting, a panel of Ball State University experts analyze Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith's What is an American? within the context of this enduring question.
Refreshments follow the program.
Brown Study Room

Drop in and sketch at the David Owsley Museum of Art!Try drawing different works of art in our galleries. All students, faculty and community members are invited. Ball State University Fine Arts League members provide support on Fridays at 3 pm as available. A limited number of largedrawing boards, plus stools and pencils are provided. Visitors are welcome tosketch at other times, too. In partnership with the Ball State University FineArts League and Art Department. Check-in at the Front Desk to locate the group.

Drop in and sketch at the David Owsley Museum of Art! Try drawing different works of art in our galleries. All students, faculty and community members are invited. Ball State University Fine Arts League members provide support on Fridays at 3 pm as available. A limited number of large drawing boards, plus stools and pencils are provided. Visitors are welcome to sketch at other times, too. In partnership with the Ball State University Fine Arts League and Art Department. Check-in at the Front Desk to locate the group.

Artist Pat Steir, represented in "Recent Acquisitions: Modern and Contemporary Prints" will talk about the ideas and work represented via video conference with BSU assistant professor of art history Dr. Natalie Phillips.

At this reception, visitors can pick up a free copy of "Life Marked" community-produced magazine, buy a vulva cupcake to support women's charities, and meet with representatives from organizations in Muncie that seek to help women. 

Please join your community and Feminists for Action for this event.

The Vagina Monologues will be performed as part of Women's Week events.  Celebrate women's achievements and create awareness of women's issues by attending.

Reel Time
Downside UP: How art can change the spirit of a place
With 80 percent of its downtown buildings closed, North Adams, Massachusetts, united blue-collar locals with art world luminaries to transform economic failure into America's largest center for contemporary art, MASS MoCA. A film by North Adams native Nancy Kelly, Downside UP, is about the tentative, dangerous notion of hope in a city widely viewed as hopeless. (2002, 56 minutes)
In partnership with the Muncie Arts and Culture Council.
Brown Study Room
*This is a David Owsley Museum of Art Frequent Visitor Card Event

September 7 - December 7

Supplies Provided. Please stop by the front desk for pencil, sketch boards, paper and instructions.

 

The last hour of the last weekday is reserved for quiet time at the David Owsley Museum of Art.

Note: Occasional evening events will limit access.

Meditation is a wonderful way to start your weekend. You can find free downloadable relaxation MP3s for your computer iPod or other devices.

In partnership with Ball State University Working Well.

Museum hours:

Monday–Friday 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Saturday–Sunday, 1:30-4:30 p.m.

artmuseum@bsu.edu

(765) 285-5242

www.bsu.edu/artmuseum

 

In honor of Grandparents' Day, all grandparents and grandchildren visiting together will receive a free poster. Family guides also available.

Check in at the front desk.

Museum hours:

Monday–Friday 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Saturday–Sunday, 1:30-4:30 p.m.

artmuseum@bsu.edu

(765) 285-5242

www.bsu.edu/artmuseum