Press release:
A Glimpse “Behind the Scenes” at the Asheville Art Museum
Exhibition opens January 16, 2016; on view through late Spring 2016ASHEVILLE—Visitors to the Asheville Art Museum will soon get a peek into the day-to-day activities of the Museum’s curatorial department in a new exhibition opening January 16 titled Vault Visible: Behind the Scenes at the Asheville Art Museum. The exhibition will appeal to all kinds of people — art collectors, museum studies students, and anyone curious about the inner workings of a Museum.
Vault Visible will give visitors the chance to observe Museum professionals at work in the galleries as they carry out an inventory of the Permanent Collection, photograph objects, assemble crates and perform conservation treatments, all in the public eye. Accompanying displays and programming will reveal the compelling stories behind the Museum’s Collection of 20th- and 21st-century American art, while also helping visitors learn how to care for works of art, identify various mediums, and, in short, think like a curator.
As a special component to the exhibition, the Museum will be re-creating several of its storage spaces in the public galleries, bringing large numbers of ceramics, glass works and paintings from the Permanent Collection out into public view. With the help of the transparent wall in the gallery, visitors will be able to peer into “the vault” to see how works of art are stored—an experience usually reserved for the Museum’s curatorial staff.
In conjunction with the exhibition, the Museum will be holding a series of programs. These programs will include workshops designed to teach practical skills in caring for works of art, as well as discussions centered on the challenges and delights of curating and collecting. Displays will change during the run of the exhibition to highlight the exciting discoveries made as the inventory unfolds.
For more information about the exhibition and related programming, please visit www.ashevilleart.org.
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