Monday, March 18 – Sunday, March 24
March 19 Tuesday 10:30 a.m. – Noon
Toddler Tuesday Cut & Collage
Little ones, 18 months-4 years, siblings, and accompanying adults sample art-making stations. This free, drop-in program includes a snack and story time. Call 715-845-7010 to register.
March 20 Wed. OR March 21 Thurs.
9:30-10:30 a.m. OR 11 a.m.-Noon
Art Time for Tots Books & Bucks
Toddlers, 18 months-4 years, and accompanying adults gather to delight in re-imagined everyday objects, such as dollar bills. Share movement, stories, and hands-on art making. Call 715-845-7010 to register.
March 20 Wednesday 12:15 – 1 p.m.
Art 101 Cut Up/Cut Out Gallery Walk
Explore the layers of meaning behind artworks cut from paper and other intriguing materials, from a car tire to a saw blade, with museum educator Catie Anderson.
March 21 Thursday 1 – 2 p.m.
Art4You Books & Bucks
Bring your child to this afternoon offering just for 4 year olds with busy mornings and gather to delight in the variety of everyday objects re-imagined in Cut Up/Cut Out. Share movement, stories, and hands-on art making. Call 715-845-7010 to register.
March 21 Thursday 4:30 – 6 p.m.
Art Kids Cut Paper Illustration
Children, 5-12 years, layer cut paper to create colorful, dimensional artworks. Call 715-845-7010 to register.
March 22 Friday 10:30 – 11:15 a.m.
Art Babies Peek-a-Boo
Bring little ones, birth-18 months, for a museum excursion featuring images, sounds and stories inspired by looking through the re-imagined objects in Cut Up/Cut Out. Baby gear – including prams, strollers, front packs, and blankets – is welcome. Call 715-845-7010 to register.
On view through June 2
“Cut Up/Cut Out”
A contemporary take on the ancient, yet ever-evolving art of cutting paper comprises a range of techniques and materials – from vintage maps and magazines to a leaf, car tire and saw blade. To transform paper, rubber metal, and more into thought-provoking artworks, artists explore varied piercing and cutting techniques that provide endless possibilities for change. By cutting into and through surfaces, artists alter items converting them from opaque to transparent, flat to sculptural, rigid to delicate and ordinary to exquisite. The process and precision required are laborious, technically demanding and always astonishing. The art of paper cutting dates back thousands of years, with early artwork emerging from sixth-century China, extending worldwide by the 14th century, and later sparking a wave of folk art traditions. Celebrating both innovation and tradition, this exhibition features the work of more than 50 artists, representing diverse styles, techniques and sizes – from 3-inch artworks to sprawling, complex installations.
“In Touch with Art”
Tactile Sculpture
The Woodson Art Museum’s inaugural tactile art exhibition debuts with five avian sculptures, available on a “touch table” in the Decorative Arts Gallery. This touchable artwork installation – the first in an ongoing series – provides ready access to original artwork for visitors with low vision or blindness, also encouraging sighted visitors to experience a new way to “see” via the mind’s eye – visualizing artwork though touch.
A commitment to providing accessible and compelling art experiences for all inspired the tactile art exhibition with guidance from tactile sculpture Ann Cunningham. Beginning March 2, explore touchable sculpture and the power of hands-on appreciation.
On view through August 2019
“Regal Bearing: Bird Portraiture”
“Regal Bearing” applies the tenets of portraiture to more than 60 artworks from the museum’s collection. As with human portraits, the artists represented captured the essence of their subjects using a variety of formats, including a focus on single birds without backgrounds as well as the inclusion of habitat or attributes that help to characterize a species or place it in context.
“Sharing the Shoreline”
Discover the beauty of shorebirds- sanderlings, stilts, turnstones, whimbrels, yellowlegs and others – through sculptures and works on paper from the collection.
The Woodson is at 700 N. 12th St., Wausau.
Photo courtesy the Woodson.
