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Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes with Antony Gormley

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Walking through the galleries this morning, I happened upon a very charming crowd of children mesmerized by Antony Gormley‘s spiky sculpture Aperture XIII (2010) and even more mesmerized by the artist himself, who engaged them in an impromptu discussion about what they saw (a tree with a sun for a head! a satellite exploding around a brain!)

  Cecilia Wichmann, Publicity and Marketing Manager

(left) Antony Gormley, Aperture XIII, 2010. Steel, 74 3/8 x 21 1/4 x 11 3/8 in. Private collection © Antony Gormley. Image courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery, New York. Photo: Stephen White, London. (right) Antony Gormley speaks with a group of children about his sculpture in the Phillips exhibition. Photo: Cecilia Wichmann

(left) Antony Gormley, Aperture XIII, 2010. Steel, 74 3/8 x 21 1/4 x 11 3/8 in. Private collection © Antony Gormley. Image courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery, New York. Photo: Stephen White, London. (right) Antony Gormley speaks with a group of children about his sculpture in the Phillips exhibition. Photo: Cecilia Wichmann

Antony Gormley and a group of children discuss his sculpture

Photo: Cecilia Wichmann

Antony Gormley talks with the kids about the brain of his sculpture Aperture XIII.

Photo: Cecilia Wichmann

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Micah with his art (Photo by Jake Muirhead)

“I feel happy that my art is at The Phillips Collection because it is a famous artwork.”
–Micah, age 9

Micah was one of about 100 kids at the Phillips recently for the opening of their art-and-writing projects inspired by Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series (1940-41). He is a student at Tyler Elementary, a D.C. Public School, where we’ve been partnering to implement the Teach with Jacob Lawrence: Nationwide Curriculum. (Link leads to the complete curriculum. Please allow a few minutes to load.)