Cell Phone Audio Tour Now Available for Papua New Guinea Exhibition

A free cell phone audio tour is now available to museum visitors for the exhibition, Journeys along the Sepik River: Tribal Art from Papua New Guinea. The exhibition includes such items as dance masks, canoe prows, necklaces, and skull racks. The accompanying cell phone audio tour allows visitors to access additional information about these items by dialing a local number from their cell phone. The audio tour was written and recorded by the exhibition's curator, Barbara Stone.

For more information about exhibitions and services available at the Art Museum, please call 307.766.6622 or visit our website.

Only 2 More Weeks to View Student Exhibition

The 37th Annual Juried University of Wyoming Student Exhibition will only be on view for two more weeks. The exhibition includes work from students across campus and in a variety of mediums, including sculpture, painting, video art, and photography. A cell phone audio tour is available for select pieces in the exhibition and were recorded by the student artists. If you haven't visited the Art Museum to see the great work being created at UW, be sure to stop in soon!

This exhibition will be the basis for the Education Department's Spring Break Art Camp, which will be held March 12-16. For more information, or to register your student, please call 307.766.3515.

For more information about exhibitions, education classes, or public programs, please visit our website or call 307.766.6622.

New Cell Phone Audio Tour for Scottish Sublime Exhibition

Searly S. Willis (Scotland), Untitled (Hunting Scene), 1874, oil on canvas, 30 x 50-1/4 inches, gift of William J. Thulin, University of Wyoming Art Museum Collection, 1971.4

A new cell phone audio tour for the exhibition, From the Scottish Sublime to the American West: Selections from the University of Wyoming is now available. The cell phone audio tour is a free service offered by the Art Museum and is accessible by dialing a local number from your cell phone. Handouts are available at the front desk.

This audio tour provides information about the different artistic movements that are represented in the exhibition, including British sublime landscape painting and American styles such as the Hudson River School artists. Information about specific artists and paintings is also available.

Because this exhibition was organized in conjunction with the 9th International Scott Conference, which begins today and is being held at UW, the audio tour is punctuated with information and quotes from Sir Walter Scott's writing. A special thanks to Peter Parolin, department head of the UW Department of English, for recording this tour!

For more information about this exhibition or the cell phone audio tour, please call 307.766.6622.

NY Times Article on Museums and Technology - what are your thoughts?

A few weeks ago there was an article in the New York Times that discussed museums and their use of technology - from their websites to Facebook and twitter accounts. You can read the article here. The UW Art Museum uses a website, this blog, a Facebook page, and offers a cell phone audio tour to share information about our programs and exhibitions. After reading the article, we wondered - what do our visitors think?

We want to hear from you. What other museums have you visited that have used technology? What was it? Did you like it? What would you like to see more of at the UW Art Museum?

You can either leave your comments here, on our Facebook page, or email them to rmiller@uwyo.edu. Let us know what you think, we're always looking for ways to improve and your feedback is important!

Binh Danh Cell Phone Audio Tour Available

The cell phone audio tour for the exhibition, Binh Danh: Life, Times, and Matters of the Swamp is now available. This is the second audio tour to be recorded by the artist. Earlier this fall Anne-Karin Furunes recorded a cell phone audio tour talking about her exhibition. While Binh Danh was in Laramie for his artist residency, he also took the time to record information about his exhibition.

There's no better way to learn about art than to hear directly from the artist! We hope you take the time to listen to this information, whether you're visiting the Art Museum, or just want to hear what Binh has to say about his work! The audio tour can be accessed for free from your cell phone by dialing 307.200.0040. Handouts are available at the Art Museum front desk and will soon be available online.

New Cell Phone Audio Tours Available

Two new cell phone audio tours are now available. The audio tour for the exhibition, People of the West - A Collector's Vision, Selections from the Erivan and Helga Haub Collection features information about each artist and work in the exhibition. From historic paintings to contemporary, and including bronze sculpture, be sure to check out each of these interesting prompts.

For the exhibition, Anne-Karin Furunes: Portraits of Unknowns, the artist recorded each of the prompts. She talks about her creative process, and also shares information on each of the different series or bodies of work in the exhibition. This is the first time that the Art Museum has asked an artist to record the audio tour; it's always a great opportunity to hear directly from the artist!

The cell phone audio tour is a free feature. It can be accessed while you are visiting the Art Museum, or if you cannot make it to the exhibitions, or are a student looking for additional information on the work, you can simply call in from your cell phone. Handouts, including instructions, are available in a .pdf format on the Art Museum website. Click here for the handout for the Western art exhibition, and click on this link for the handout for Anne-Karin Furunes.

We always welcome your feedback and comments. You can tell us what you think in the comments section of this blog, on our Facebook page, or there is a feature on the audio tour that lets you leave a voicemail message.

Final Days to See Neltje Exhibition

Neltje's large-scale mixed media work, PAT - Paroxysmal Atrial Tachycardia, features found objects, paper, and paint.

Only a few days remain to see the exhibition, Neltje, a solo exhibition by Wyoming abstract painter Neltje. The exhibition highlights her creative process, her approach to gesture and mark-making, and her most recent explorations with collage. Also featured is a large-scale Abstract Expressionist diptych and a series of collages.

A free cell phone audio tour accompanies Neltje and has been newly formatted. The audio tour offers an opportunity to delve deeper into the expressive work of this Wyoming artist. The final day to see the exhibition is Saturday, August 28. Be sure to stop by this week to see the work and use the audio tour. Your feedback on the features of the audio tour are a crucial element in how the Art Museum implements programming and education.

For more information on this or any exhibitions, call the Art Museum at 307.766.6622 or visit the website.

Neltje Cell Phone Audio Tour Now Available

The cell phone audio tour for the exhibition Neltje is now available! The audio tour, which the Art Museum implemented a year and a half ago, is a free service that enables museum visitors to access additional information about exhibitions through their cell phones. A local phone number - 307.200.0040 - leads visitors to a welcome message with options such as instructions, museum information, or exhibition information. Each exhibition that has an accompanying audio tour then has specific prompt numbers that visitors can enter to hear more information.

The audio tour for Neltje is set up a bit differently than many of the previous audio tours. In the past, the tour has provided information like biographies of artists, or information on a specific art technique or movement. The Neltje audio tour is set up to lead visitors from one artwork to the next to point out similarities and key components of her work. Throughout the tour, several questions are posed that allow the visitor to examine the works closely, and to investigate their own reaction to the work.

As with all of the cell phone audio tours, there is a feedback feature that works a lot like leaving a voicemail message. It can be accessed by dialing the general phone number - 307.200.0040 - and then pressing 0, followed by the pound key (#). With this new format, the Art Museum encourages its visitors to try the audio tour and leave your feedback, whether it's positive or negative! Comments can also be posted here on the blog by clicking on the comments link, or on the Art Museum's facebook page.

James Surls Audio Tour at Coe Library and the Art Museum

The cell phone audio tour for the exhibition of James Surls' sculpture is now live at the Art Museum. Call in to hear information about his work like this one, Me and the Black Flower with the Needle and Thread.

Image courtesy of the artist.

The cell phone audio tour that accompanies the exhibition James Surls: Flowers is now posted at the Art Museum. Visitors to the museum can access additional information about James Surls' career and materials use by calling 307.200.0040 from their cell phone. This is a free service at the art museum, and different audio tour prompts are assigned to different exhibitions and specific artwork throughout the museum. Handouts are available at the front desk.

With the recent installation of Surls' Rolling Flower in the 5th floor atrium of Coe Library, it seemed the perfect opportunity to provide UW students, the public, and library patrons with information about this sculpture, which is the latest permanent installation of large-scale sculpture on the UW campus. Jennifer Mayer, Fine Arts Librarian at Coe, volunteered to write a prompt about Rolling Flower and to record the audio tour for the James Surls exhibition. Look for signs in Coe Library to access the cell phone audio tour for Rolling Flower.

Surls' work is also included in the exhibition Sculpture: A Wyoming Invitational. Prompt number 13 of the cell phone audio tour is dedicated to his work in this exhibition, In Circle.

For full instructions on how to use the cell phone audio tour, dial 307.200.0040 and press 1, followed by the pound key (#). Handouts are available on the Art Museum's webpage, at individual sculptures in Sculpture: A Wyoming Invitational, and at the Art Museum front desk. This is also an opportunity for visitors to leave their feedback, including comments and suggestions. Press 0, followed by the pound key to leave us a message!

Last Week to See Burkhardt, Crow Exhibitions

This bone hair pipe breastplate is one of the many Crow objects of adornment on view at the Art Museum.

This is the last week to see two great exhibitions at the UW Art Museum - Adornment: Native American Regalia, Selections from the Peter W. Doss Crow Indian Artifact Collection and moss doesn't grow on rolling stones...a vision of nature by Brian Burkhardt. Both exhibitions will be on view through Saturday, November 14.

Adornment was curated by guest curator Barbara Stone and features a variety of men's, women's and children's clothing and accessories, including pouches, belts, moccasins, jewelry and headdresses. The intricate beading and craftsmanship of Plains Indian artisans can be seen.

moss doesn't grow on rolling stones... features the work of Miami artist Brian Burkhardt, who began his career as an organic farmer before turning to art. His work explores ecology, hybridization, Darwinian trickery and mutation. A 10 foot by 10 foot geodesic dome is the centerpiece of this exhibition, and served as Burkhardt's studio. The exhibition also features the work Take Heed, which the artist created specifically for this exhibition.

Both of these exhibitions feature a free cell phone audio tour with additional information about the works on view.

For more information, call the Art Museum at 307.766.6622 or visit our webpage. Admission is free.

Cell Phone Audio Tour for "Artists from France" Now Available

The cell phone audio tour for the exhibition, Artists from France: Paintings and Prints from the Art Museum Collection is now available. This is a free service offered by the UW Art Museum and provides additional information about each artist in this exhibition. Artists from France features work in various different media, from many genres and major artistic movements, including Surrealism, Pointillism and from the Barbizon school.

The cell phone audio tour provides biographic information on these artists and helps explain their artistic influences and the impact they had on the art scene throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As many of the works in this exhibition are works on paper, there is also a prompt that explains some of the printmaking techniques used in these works. See below for prompt numbers and instructions. Handouts are available at the Museum's front desk and on our website.

Dial 307-200-0040 from your cell phone. Press the corresponding number, followed by the pound key (#).

1 - Audio Tour Instructions
2 - General Museum Information
50 - Introduction to Artists from France
51 - Printmaking Processes: Definitions and Explanations
52 - Felix Bracquemond, Geese in Storm
53 - Jules Dupré, Summer Landscape
54 - Charles‐François Daubigny, Le Lever Du Soleil
55 - Auguste Lepere, Coucher De Soleil Derriere Les Arbres
56 - Albert Besnard, La Morte
57 - James Jacques Tissot, Au Bord De La Mer and Printemps
58 - Raoul Dufy, La Plage Et Le Port
59 - Ferdinand Jean Luigini, A Bridge in Flanders
60 - Charles Meryon, St. Etienne‐Du‐Mont
61 - Felix Hilaire Buhot, Une Matinee D’Hiyer Au Quai De L’Hotel Dieu
62 - Edgar Degas, Dancer
63 - Pierre Bonnard, Sainte Monique
64 - Paul Gauguin, Couseuse
65 -Paul Signac, Barques De Pêche á Marseille
66 - Georges Rouault, Fille Nue
67 - Jacques Villon, Portrait of Rimbaud
68 - André Masson, Surrealist Woman
69 - Henri Matisse, Ronsard Love Poems
70 - Yves Tanguy, Surrealist Figures
71 - Jean Cocteau, Evocation Au Dieu Ra


Funding for this program is provided by the Wyoming Arts Council through the Wyoming State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes a great nation deserves great art.


Artists from France will remain on view through December 23, 2010.

UPDATED - Cell Phone Audio Tour for Brian Burkhardt Exhibition Now Available

The cell phone audio tour for the exhibition moss doesn't grow on rolling stones....a vision of nature by Brian Burkhardt is now available! This FREE program offers additional information about the exhibition and explores the themes and ideas present in Burkhardt's work.

The information can be accessed through a simple phone call just by dialing a local (307 area code) number. If you're in the museum, handouts are available at the front desk. If you're interested in the information but can't make it to the museum, you can still call in. There's even a feedback feature that allows you to record a voicemail telling us what you think of the audio tour, the exhibition, or general comments about your museum visit. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome!

Instructions for how to use the audio tour are below:

Dial 307-200-0040 from your cell phone.

Press the corresponding number, followed by the pound key (#).

1- Audio Tour Instructions

2- General Museum Information

82- Introduction to moss doesn’t grow on rolling stones. . .

83- Dome

84- Flora series

85- Jellyfish series

86- Rocking Chair

87- Shopping Cart

88- Take - Heed

Press 0, followed by the pound key, to leave us your comments and suggestions.

UPDATED!

A .pdf version is available for you to print out and bring with you to the museum, or call in from home!

Funding for this program is provided by the Wyoming Arts Council through the Wyoming State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes a great nation deserves great art.