Museum of Fine Arts
Explore the intricacies of sculpting with artist Morris Norvin. Working in plasticine, a form of clay, Mr. Norvin demonstrates how to mold a human head. Learn how the artist considers space, line, and texture in creating three-dimensional objects. Look at the sculpture in the galleries with a new understanding of the techniques required to create them. Morris Norvin began studying art at the age of eight at the Museum of Fine Arts and then went on to graduate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Today he teaches the very same sculpture classes he took from Ralph Rosenthal as a child at the MFA. Norvin is also the founder of Stonybrook Fine Arts, an educational sculpture studio in Jamaica Plain. He has worked with a range of materials including metal, wax, clay, wood, plasticine, paper, glass, and polymers. His preferred method is welded steel incorporating found, functional objects, which he terms “Junk Art,” and his work is mainly figurative and somewhat anatomical.
Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts
Wanda M. Corn, a leading scholar of American modernism, authored the 1999 award-winning book, The Great American Thing: Modern Art and American Identity, 1915–1935 (1999) and more recently Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern (2017). Her numerous awards include the Distinguished Scholar Award in 2014 from the College Art Association, the learned society for the visual arts. Corn has retired from teaching after nearly three decades at Stanford University and is active professionally as a writer and exhibition curator. Her talk will be drawn from her O’Keeffe book and the PEM exhibition she has curated that features the artist’s clothes.
Peabody Essex Museum
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