Perfect Purple Mountains

Posted on April 19, 2016 by Experiment Station

Thomas Cole, Ruins in the Campagna di Roma, Morning, 1842. Oil on panel, 14 1/2 x 24 in. Paul G. Allen Family Collection

In the Seeing Nature exhibition, the Phillips invites visitors to contribute new, imagined conservation discoveries at the interpretive station “Seeing Beyond the Frame.” For the month of February, visitors responded to Thomas Cole’s pastoral landscape Ruins in the Campagna di Roma, Morning (1842).

In addition to some of the creative conservation discoveries our visitors imagined, our visitors have been sharing other kinds of wonderfully visual and lyrical responses. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words! See more or share your own ideas with #SeeingNature.

Visitors share their lyrical responses to the “Seeing Beyond the Frame” in-gallery interactive.

Works from Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Phillips’s Walls

Posted on March 2, 2016 by Experiment Station

Installation view of BiH Voices: In Conversation with The Migration Series. All photos: Laura Hoffman

In October 2015, Phillips educators spent two weeks in Bosnia and Herzegovina facilitating workshops with emerging artists, students, and educators using Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series as a catalyst for conversation about the power of collaboration and storytelling through art (see pictures from their visit in earlier blog posts). Last week, we hosted a reception for the artworks resulting from these workshops, which will be on view through March 13.

Phillips Director Dorothy Kosinski introduces the exhibition

Installation view of BiH Voices: In Conversation with The Migration Series

Deputy Assistant Secretary Hoyt Yee, US Department of State

Installation view of BiH Voices: In Conversation with The Migration Series

Minister Counselor (DCM) Adnan Hadrović, Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Washington, DC

(Left to right) Minister Counselor (DCM) Adnan Hadrović, Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Washington, DC; Director Dorothy Kosinski, The Phillips Collection; Deputy Assistant Secretary Hoyt Yee, US Department of State

Art and Wellness: Creative Aging Exhibition 2015

Posted on December 2, 2015 by Brooke Rosenblatt

This year’s Art and Wellness: Creative Aging exhibition, which showcases the work created by participants in our ongoing collaboration with Iona, is on view October 30 through December 27, 2015. Like last year, our friends at Iona made a video highlighting the gallery talks, workshops, and creativity that led to the exhibition’s opening. Some participants shared their thoughts:

“Art is my guide; a path that allows me to reflect, question, and let go.”

“Art is teaching me…it is always teaching me.”

“Art offers me the freedom of knowing that I can do what I like and go where I want.”