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Darren Baker: Junkyard Color Theory

August 31–October 19, 2013

Former SOMACC artistic director and current Ohio University-Chillicothe professor, Darren Baker, infuses the Richards Gallery with his color-saturated photographs of objects closely observed in local junkyards. On view through October 19, these deceptively abstract images are, in fact, hyper-realistic close-ups of intensely hued scrap metal parts. Darren’s idiosyncratic eye for color is never more keenly […]

The Carl Ackerman Collection of Historic Photographs

Permanent Collection is now online! Select to find link.

The Carl Ackerman Collection, with more than 10,000 historic local photographs, is an endless resource for thematic exhibitions in the Burton Room and other galleries. Cataloguing of the collection is ongoing, but more than 6300 images have already been digitized for direct public access. For researchers of local history, museum staff may be able to […]

The Anna Louise Stanton Doll Collection

The Anna Louise Stanton Doll Collection offers 18th, 19th and very early 20th century beauties in bisque, china, papier mache and tin. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Morbi consectetur elementum sapien ut posuere. Proin et diam sit amet augue rhoncus malesuada. Vestibulum a luctus risus. Morbi condimentum congue lacus et suscipit. Phasellus […]

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