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10/31/2019
Circling Round Student Exhibition to feature 34 works
The Miami University Art Museum is pleased to announce the student artist names whose works were selected in the juried Student Response Exhibition opening January 28, 2020.
10/24/2019
Museums Miami Center brings entities under one umbrella
Michael Hatch, assistant professor of art history, discusses a print piece with a student, while Robert Wicks, director of the Miami University Art Museum, talks to another student in the class at the art museum.Miami's seven museums and museum-like entities have joined forces under one umbrella organization, the Museums Miami Center. The Council of Academic Deans approved the request to establish the interdisciplinary university center.
10/09/2019
Winners Named in 2019 Miami University Young Sculptors Competition
$10,000 William and Dorothy Yeck Purchase Award Winners Announced
10/03/2019
BLINK to feature art installations with Miami University connections
At this year's BLINK art festival, the Miami University Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine, through its Storefronts series, will present grassroots projected animations as part of the Time for an UPdate? installation. Right, Danny Capaccio (Miami '11) uses a heat gun to measure the temperature of the LED lights in one of 10 toilets that will be part of an installation titled No public restrooms. Both art pieces will be located in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood. Creative forces with Miami University connections will be in the limelight at this year's light-based art festival, BLINK.
09/25/2019
Museums Miami Center
Miami University's newest center, Museums Miami, hopes to increase interdisciplinary dialogue and exchange among the university's museums and collections.
05/24/2019
Jason Shaiman on Uncle Sam
Travel Channel, May 22
03/19/2019
Groundbreaking art course lets students purchase artwork for the Miami University Art Museum
Bob Wicks, director of the Miami University Art Museum, helps a student during a recent class visit.It took a mere $450 million dollars to purchase Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of “Salvator Mundi” from a New York auction house in 2017.
02/14/2019
Art museum’s '40 at 40' celebration highlights unique pieces, donors and diversity
Art evokes emotion, both raw and thoughtful. In the same work that an artist finds peaceful expression, an audience can find grief and joy, activism and inspiration.
11/12/2018
Two Miami Faculty Win Top Research Award in the Field of Arts Entrepreneurship.
Willie Caldwell (L) and Todd Stuart (R) with the SAEE Award.Two Miami Faculty Win The Society for Arts Entrepreneurship Education Gary D. Beckman Research Award in Arts Entrepreneurship