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01/21/2020
3 new exhibitions coming to Miami’s art museum and sculpture park
The gorgeous, intricate and historic ribbonwork of the Miami people is getting a special show in Oxford very soon. ("Journal-News", January 20, 2020)
01/06/2020
Images of the McGuffeys
Daguerreotype of William Holmes McGuffey, taken in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1848, is possibly the earliest photograph of a Miami University professor (McGuffey taught at Miami from 1825-1836). Jeff Sabo, university photographic services director, produced professional quality reproductions of rare daguerreotypes of the McGuffeys.
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.
09/08/2016
Discover a treasure trove at Miami's museums
Want to see some cool meteorites? How about an eight-sided, revolving table where William Holmes McGuffey is thought to have designed lessons for his McGuffey’s Eclectic Reader?