Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Art Matters by Adam Welch

    Art Matters by Adam Welch

    The mission of the Arts Council is Building Community through the Arts. As a nonprofit arts organization supporting artists and promoting art within our gallery and through public art, we play a vital role in providing access to the arts,...
  • Peter Paul Rubens's The Abduction of Ganymede

    Peter Paul Rubens's The Abduction of Ganymede

    In 1636 the great Flemish artist Sir Peter Paul Rubens was commissioned to provide about sixty mythological paintings for the Torre de la Parada, King Philip IV’s hunting lodge outside Madrid. Approximately fifty oil sketches for the project still survive...
  • Exhibition | Native America: In Translation

    Exhibition | Native America: In Translation

    H istorical representations of Native North Americans by non-Native artists, often reflecting ethnographic stereotypes and tainted by histories of scientific racism, have long saturated the visual field while failing to offer accurate and nuanced portraits of Indigeneity in American history...
  • Artist-in-Residence Program: Bringing International Perspectives to Campus and the Collections
    Light skinned woman leaning up against a wall

    Artist-in-Residence Program: Bringing International Perspectives to Campus and the Collections

    Each year the Museum’s Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artist-in-Residence program welcomes an artist to campus for class visits and public presentations. Created in 2010 through an endowment established by Sarah Lee Elson—a collector, writer, and art adviser...