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The Museum of Northwest Art (also referred to as MoNA) is an art museum located in La Conner, Washington, and is focused on the Northwest School art movement, which had its peak in the mid-20th century. [1] [2] The Museum was founded by Art Hupy in 1981. [3] It moved to its present building in 1995. [4]
La Conner, c. 1889. La Conner was first settled in May 1867 by Alonzo Low and was then known by its post office name, Swinomish. Its location on the Swinomish channel was an ideal safe harbor for ships. In 1869, J.S. Conner bought the settlement's trading post and in 1870 had the name changed to honor his wife, Louisa Ann Conner.
Skagit Valley Artists, 1974 - 1992 (Valley Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA, 1992) [4] You Can't Get There from Here, Art and Life on the Lower Skagit (KOBO Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2007) [ 17 ] Fishtown and the Skagit River ( Museum of Northwest Art , La Conner, WA, 2010) [ 6 ]
He moved to New York in the early 1970s to take a position with the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. [1] He worked with event planner Karin Bacon. Cummings spent his early artistic career as a part-time collage (with Romare Bearden as a mentor) and paint artist.
She graduated from the Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts in 1971 [4] just prior to the July 1 opening of the exhibition Abstract Design in American Quilts at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. The exhibit was "regarded by most quilt scholars as instrumental in igniting the quilt renaissance of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Thirteen Susan McCord quilts are in the permanent collection of the Henry Ford Museum. [9] Harrison Rose Floral Quilt, circa 1860 [11] Floral Urn Quilt, circa 1860 [11] Turkey Tracks Quilt, circa 1880 [11] Ocean Waves Quilt, circa 1880 [11] Crazy Quilt, circa 1880-1900 [11] Vine Quilt, circa 1880-1890 [11] Diamond Field Quilt, circa 1890 [11]
This list of museums on Long Island is a list of museums in Nassau County, New York and Suffolk County, New York. (Museums in the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn, which are also physically located on Long Island, are found in List of museums in New York City). Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included. Also ...
The International Quilt Museum [3] was founded in 1997 when native Nebraskans Ardis and Robert James donated their collection of nearly 950 quilts to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Their contribution became the centerpiece of what is now the largest publicly held quilt collection in the world.