Collecting Our Thoughts: The Community Responds to Art in the Permanent Collection

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    This exhibition surveyed the impressive growth of the Museum's permanent collection over the past two years in an exciting new format allowing visitors to actively engage in a discussion about the art on view. Viewers were asked to express their ideas, opinions, and observations about the contemporary art on display. At the discretion of SJMA's curator of education, many of the response cards became the interpretive labels for works in the exhibition. New comments were added as they come in, creating a continually changing dialogue with the curators, and with others in the community. Artists in SJMA's permanent collection who were represented include: Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston, Jay DeFeo, Willem de Kooning, Alexander Calder, David Ligare, Erle Loran, Roger Shimomura, Inez Storer, James Albertson, Carmen Lomas Garza, Raymond Saunders, Mildred Howard, and others.

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