Curators’ Pick

Antiques and Fine Art has selected the Phill Powell door at the Michener Art Museum as one of the top 20 acquisitions for 2011!

The door has become the entrance to the museum’s Martin Wing.

Phillip Lloyd Powell was one of New Hope’s finest craftsmen. “He was one of New Hope’s sparks of creativity,” said Michener Director and CEO Bruce Katsiff, who had been a friend of Powell and remembered him riding his bicycle through New Hope.

Powell created the door for the Craftsman 67 exhibition at the Philadelphia Civic Center and later installed it at hi s New Hope residence on Route

Romancing the Michener

George Sotter (1879-1953), Silent Night, ca. 1932, oil on canvas, H. 36 x W. 40 inches, Collection of Louis E. and Carol A. Della Penna.

What could be more romantic this Valentine’s week than taking your sweetie to see Painterly Voice at the Michener Art Museum? Combine it with a drive through beautiful Bucks County, dine at one of Doylestown’s fine restaurants and continue the evening by the crackling fire at an area B&B.

 

Or maybe it’s a first date. Museums are affordable places with walls lined with conversation starters. And wouldn’t it be nice to tell your grandchildren how you fell in love while looking at George Sotter’s “Silent Night”?

 

The Michener is just the right size to spend time with a loved one, and if you get hungry, James at the Michener, the museum cafe, can satisfy. Still want to give more to your loved one? Choose from many books, jewelry and accessories in the museum shop. Want to give even more? Consider a gift membership to the museum.

Michener Art Museum on WHYY

If you were listening to WHYY today between 6  and 10 a.m., you heard the Michener Art Museum named several times throughout Morning Edition and BBC News Hour.

About 10 staffers and volunteers awoke at 3 a.m. to carpool, meeting at WHYY’s facility on North Sixth St. at 5:30 a.m. Lots of callers were from Doylestown, and said they were excited to hear the Michener Art Museum named on air.

After the pledge, we were given a tour of the studios and saw the spaces where Terry Gross, Mike McGrath and Marty Moss-Coane broadcast from. We got to meet with Susan

MUSEum Blog’s Year 2011 in review

You, our readers, have made MUSEum Blog a success! You know this is the place to get up-to-the-minute news about the Michener Art Museum. Keep coming back for more!

Here’s an excerpt from the 2011 WordPress report:

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,700 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

‘Intelligent Design’ in Permanent Installation

An economic downturn disrupted the American marketplace, and unemployment reached double digits. Urban dwellers retreated to the country, embracing a simple and moral work ethic, and sought a path to a better life by working on farms and making things by hand.

This may sound like the times we are living in today, but similar circumstances in the 1890s led artists to embrace the concept of integrating art into everyday life,  using native craft traditions and indigenous materials to produce decorative objects that were simple in form and

Michener Looks Ahead to 2012

The James A. Michener Art Museum is looking ahead to an exciting year, with a touring exhibition in April, Offering of the Angels: Treasures from the Uffizi Gallery.  From Florence, Italy’s famed museum, this exhibit of Renaissance paintings and tapestries will be making its only Northeast stop in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.  A few weeks later, the Michener Art Museum will open the Edgar N. Putman Event Pavilion, a glass-enclosed wing that will be home to museum events and programs, such as Jazz Night, as well as for special event rentals. As part of the expansion, the museum will open a dedicated education wing and re-

A New Education Wing is Coming!

In April, the James A. Michener Art Museum will open its all new children’s gallery and three classrooms in the Ann and Herman Silverman Pavilion.

“Having a permanent education space will mean we can expand programming for children ages 3 to 15 and be able to work more with adult groups and senior citizens in studio art classes,” says Director of Youth and Family Programs Ruth Anderson. “We also hope to expand our Learning to Look and Listen preschool art education program and host outreach programming on a more regular basis.”

Permanent classroom space will make it possible to expand current course offerings;