In researching and preparing for my interview/conversation on Instagram LIVE with Alabama born Savannah artist, Betsy Cain, I came across this quote by her : “my paintings reference what I know of my own body and what I witness as a dedicated observer of the landscape around me, particularly coastal...
By Christopher Collier, guest writer of the MAS Science On a Sphere® was first conceptualized and prototyped by Dr. Alexander MacDonald in 1995. Then the Director of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Forecast Systems Laboratory, MacDonald developed SOS as an extension of other visualization projects that he...
By Christopher Collier, guest writer of the MAS Welcome back to Get to Know Us, a Q/A series giving readers a personal look into the lives and careers of MAS staff members. Today’s guest is Beth Fisher, MAS Events Coordinator/Store Manager. Channeling her passion for art and design, Fisher...
It gives me personal delight to choose this piece to write to you about today. As a curator, I get to make choices, sometimes, based on my own personal taste, my own love as an artist. I am inclined to paint like this bowl is painted. This is my personal...
By Christopher Collier, guest writer of the MAS Welcome back to Get to Know Us, a Q/A series giving readers a personal look into the lives and careers of MAS staff members. Today’s guest is Sharron Cornacchione, MAS Curator of Living Collections. Cornacchione lived in Ontario, Canada until...
By Christopher Collier, guest writer of the MAS On Wednesday, March 11, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Two days later, on Friday, March 13, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency. That same Friday, the Museum of Arts and Sciences shuttered its doors indefinitely. Susan...
I am enthralled with this painting. It’s a great size- big enough to make a statement but not looming and visually cumbersome. It’s 29x39” and the two figures and their shapes fill the space so that it is fairly intimate- you are there looking on the scene from a close...
By Christopher Collier, guest writer of the MAS Welcome back to Get to Know Us, a Q/A series giving readers a personal look into the lives and careers of MAS staff members. Today’s guest is Susan Mays, MAS Director of Programs. Mays was born in Charleston, South Carolina, but...
By Christopher Collier, guest writer of the MAS Self-expression through art is everything at Woodfield Academy, a private school in Macon, Georgia for students with learning differences. For the better part of a decade, the students of Woodfield haven’t had to search far and wide for outlets conducive...
Our piece this week is a painting made by former Maconite, Jim Carson, now of Saluda, North Carolina. It is painted in oil on canvasboard- simply a sheet of primed canvas cloth that has been archivally attached to a rigid substrate, and is 20x24”. Canvasboard is a very well-liked foundation...
