Are You Inspired to Go Beyond the Cut-Out?
Photo: Sarah Kennedy, 2014
There has been a lot of excitement around the opening of the exhibition Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs. The Museum has been teeming with energetic visitors who see it and walk away feeling buoyed and inspired. Join us to take part in the process or, if you can’t make it to MoMA, share images of your own cut-outs using the hashtag #MoMAStudio to add them to the MoMA Studio Tagboard page that is on view in the space. The result of this process is MoMA Studio: Beyond the Cut-Out, a free interactive and social space that takes the cut-out as a starting point from which to consider Matisse’s lasting influence on contemporary art and culture. Materials for Arturo Herrera’s interactive installation “Exploring the Cut-Out through Bookmaking.” Photo: Alison Burstein, 2014
We are eager to see how the Studio will evolve as more visitors interact with the installations, experiment with materials, and add their creations. Installation view of MoMA Studio: Beyond the Cut-Out. Each of these projects—an inspiration wall and fabric collage activity designed by Reichek; a collective, stamp-based mural by Amorales; and a bookmaking activity modeled after an artist’s book by Herrera—offers opportunities for visitors of all ages to make art and discover new insights in an open and accessible environment. Posted by
Sarah Kennedy, Associate Educator, Public and Studio Programs,
Alison Burstein, Associate Educator, Studio and Artist Programs, Department of Education
Installation view of MoMA Studio: Beyond the Cut-Out. Since last Thursday when the Studio opened to the public, we have been inspired by the range of creative responses that these installations and art-making activities have generated: several visitors have devoted whole afternoons constructing elaborate, multipage books using a range of materials and paper ephemera; others have created visual stories using surprising combinations of stamps on the mural; and still more have composed intricately collaged swatches from felt and fabric.
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Please enter the text in the image. We anticipated that this would be a common response to the exhibition, so over the past few months, in dialogue with the exhibition curators—Karl Buchberg, Jodi Hauptman, and Samantha Friedman—we have been designing educational programming that can complement a visitor’s experience in the galleries and provide an outlet for the creative energy that Matisse’s cut-outs generate.
