Friends of the Kennedy Museum of Art

03/03/2023

Scott Minar, Poet, Musician, Emeritus Professor in English, reads his poetry at Kennedy Museum of Art March 2, 2023. Friends of the Kennedy hosted the event and a wine and cheese reception afterwards for about 20 attendees.

02/27/2023

Join Us at and Upcoming Kennedy Museum event! Scott Minar's Turnstile & Body, Thursday March 2, 2023 5:30 - 7. His Reading, Storytelling, with brief lecture and writing exercise, experience will be followed by a wine and cheese reception hosted by the Friends of the Kennedy.

02/17/2022

01/24/2022

Interested in learning more about the LACUNA exhibit? Join us Saturday, February 12th from 2-3PM for a Gallery Walk & Talk with artists Mateo Galvano and C. David Russell as they discuss their work. Space is limited and reservations are required. This is a free event. Masks are required and vaccination is encouraged.

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12/03/2021

Sarah Grabner is an alum who only recently has moved on from her time in Athens. She was a member of the Kennedy team for many years and helped in some of the major projects that helped get the mus…

10/07/2021

The Van Gogh Affect
September 24, 2021- March 27, 2022
Kennedy Museum of Art
Athens, Ohio
www.ohio.edu/museum

"The Van Gogh Affect" is an exhibition of work by award-winning photographers Lynn Johnson and Patricia Lanza, addressing the artist Vincent Van Gogh’s profound and ever-present influence on contemporary perceptions of the world. Simultaneously contemplating and reaffirming Van Gogh’s resounding posthumous influence over art and culture of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, Johnson and Lanza offer evocative insight into the artist’s uniquely sensitive lived experience of place and light.

The exhibition includes images Johnson created 25 years ago for a National Geographic story, Lullaby in Color, which the photojournalist has called “a meditation on why we, as humans, need creativity in our core — why the art spirit is a life force that can fuel both wonder and addiction.”

[Image: Anne Desmarest, photographed 25 years apart in the Saint-Paul Asylum, Saint- Rémy-de-Provence, France. ©Lynn Johnson]

10/07/2021

Join Mateo Galvano and C. David Russell as they discuss their work in the exhibition “LACUNA”.

Space is limited and reservations are required. Masks are required indoors at all times.

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Please note the museum will be closed to the general public for the evening and there will be no entry after 5:35 pm.

For questions or more information, contact Sally Delgado, curator of education ([email protected]).

09/20/2021

05/10/2021

The Friends now have a square site where you can purchase items like mugs, puzzles, and postcards with images from the Kennedy museum and the Native American Weavings collection. Here is the link:

06/01/2020

Here's a fun jigsaw puzzle using an aerial shot of Ridges from the photo archives of the Kennedy Museum. Enjoy!

This jigsaw puzzle is presented within Jigsaw Explorer's premium jigsaw puzzle web app. Anyone can use this web app to play their own photos as jigsaw puzzles, or choose from the thousands of beautiful jigsaw puzzles available at the Jigsaw Explorer website.

05/30/2020

photo by Terry and Lyntha Eiler

A showcase of the collections of Athens community members Co-curated by Jessica Cyders, Executive Director of the Southeast Ohio History Center, and Stacey Lavender, Special Collections Librarian, Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections. Photos by Terry and Lyntha Eiler