Read the story behind our Lego Schokko, described by one of our docents Sheryl Ellcessor. “In the spring of 2015 a group of docents took a Road Scholar trip to Philadelphia. While there, Wendy Johnson, Marilyn Donahue, and Read More…
Museum Store 2020 Holiday Gift Guide
Though our galleries remain closed into mid-December, the Museum Store is open and as well-stocked as ever. To help support our museum and bring comfort, joy, and creativity to the end of a tumultuous year, here is Read More…
Posted in Stay Connected
Catch These Hands (For Aminah) by Scott Woods
At the virtual CMA Members’ Opening of Raggin’ On: The Art of Aminah Brenda Lynn’s House and Journals on November 18, 2020, Columbus poet Scott Woods captured Aminah’s spirit in a vibrant poem. Here is the poem and some of Read More…
Posted in Stay Connected, Uncategorized
Talking to Kids About Racism: Stereotype, Representation and Identity
Kids are excellent observers, noticers and rememberers (Anyone who has said something regrettable in front of a child knows what I am talking about). In the last post in the series, we shared some of the ways we try to Read More…
Posted in Day to Day
Hudson Bay Fur Company – Explained by CMA Docent Linda Bauer
Reginald Marsh American, 1898 – 1954 Hudson Bay Fur Company, 1932 Egg tempera on muslin mounted to particle board. Museum purchase Howald Fund, 1956. Reginald Marsh was a prolific sketcher and chronicler of life of the middle- and lower-income working Read More…
Posted in Pocketguide to CMA, Stay Connected
Mona Lisa and the Sheepdog Series by Joy Ritchie
Artist Dorothea Tanning once said, “Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity…” I boarded that raft after losing my younger sister, my Mom, and then my sweet, tiny Yorkshire Terrier, Mona Read More…
Posted in Creativity, Stay Connected
