For Sibs Weekend, the Kennedy Museum of Art will be hosting plenty of events and exhibitions for students and their sibs.
From glasswork to interactive activities, the Kennedy Museum of Art will provide a variety of options for students and siblings who are interested in exploring the artsy side of Athens.
“We have many exhibitions and events organized,” said Petra Kralickova, the curator for the Kennedy Museum of Art. “The access to the museum is free and we have brand new exhibitions open throughout the whole museum so we hope that families and students with their sibs will come.”
The museum will have an arrayof exhibitions that come from their own collections, including some borrowed from the Huntington Museum of Art. The two largest exhibitions are the Glass Exhibition and a Navajo Weaving Exhibition. Kralickova said many glass artists were influenced by Native American weavings along with blankets and weavings from Africa.
In the Grand Hall there will be an exhibition called “Color: Geometric Variations” prints by Sheldon Berlyn who was also in our collection. On the second floor there is an exhibition titled “Zuni Fetish Carvings,” which are small carvings made by the Native American Zuni tribe.
The “Color: Geometric Variations” exhibition inspired an interactive activity for Sibs Weekend called “Frame Your Sibs” that will happen Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m.
“For the activity, you come in with your sibs and we will have different materials for them to play and interact with their own Sheldon Berlyn work of art,” said Jeremiah Myers, a senior art history major who works at the museum as an educational programs assistant. “After the picture is done, they can go upstairs to our studio where they can create the frames. They can create it however they want; they can create it like Sheldon Berlyn's or whatever they like. Last year we had almost 100 participants.”
Samantha Rommel, a senior anthropology major who works at the museum as an educational program assistant, is helping coordinate the event.
“When I came for Sibs Weekend my sisters and I stood on the stairs and that was the year we did a stair photo,” she said. “Then I got to go up and decorate my frame and I still have that frame, and the next year’s frame, I have both of them still. And now I am helping to coordinate it.”
Along with the Frame Your Sibs event, the museum will be having another event called the Family Art Encounters Day on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m., where families can come into the museum and look through all of the exhibitions.
“We hope that familiar faces come back and that new faces come so we can introduce them to the museum,” said Myer. “The museum is a tool, we’re a learning museum, and so we’re a tool for the College of Fine Arts and for the University. So we hope to introduce them that way.”
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