Corcoran College of Art and Design
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Shadows of History
On View
Shadows of History: Photographs of the Civil War
February 4–May 6, 2012
Holly Bass
Moneymaker
An Endurance Performance by Holly Bass
Saturday, February 11, 2012
10 a.m.–5 p.m.

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About the Exhibition


About the American Federation of Arts


Celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2009, the AFA is a nonprofit institution that organizes art exhibitions for presentation in museums around the world, publishes exhibition catalogues, and develops educational materials and programs for children and adults. The AFA’s mission is to enrich the public’s experience of art and understanding of culture by organizing and touring a diverse offering of exhibitions embracing all aspects of art history. Over the years, millions of visitors in more than 100 museums around the world have experienced more than 1,000 AFA exhibitions. For more information about its exhibitions, publications, artist talks (ArtTalks), membership, cultural travel program (ArtScapes), and online resources, including family guides and podcasts, see www.afaweb.org.

About the National Museum Wales


National Museum Wales was established by Royal Charter in 1907. Today, the organization runs seven national museums in Wales and is now known as Amgueddfa Cymru–National Museum Wales. The core objective of Amgueddfa Cymru is the “advancement of the education of the public.” This involves developing, caring for, studying, and sustaining access to Wales’s national collections ranging from art, archaeology, industry, and social history, through to the natural sciences. As well as its seven museums and a network of partner venues, the Rhagor Web site was launched in 2007. Rhagor allows much more of the national collections to be enjoyed online. This brand new virtual museum reveals, for the first time, many previously unseen treasures from the collections housed at Wales’s seven national museums.

Amgueddfa Cymru’s art collections, held at National Museum Cardiff, encompass both the fine and applied arts, from antiquity to the present. The museum has old master paintings of exceptional quality, a rich collection of British art, outstanding ceramics and silver, and a print room collection with more than 32,000 works on paper. Highlights include extensive landscape and portraiture collections, as well as comprehensive works by Welsh artists from Richard Wilson to Gwen John. It also has a unique collection of the Regency porcelains made at Swansea and Nantgarw. The museum is renowned, however, for its internationally acclaimed Impressionist collection, which was bequeathed to the museum in the mid-20th century by the remarkable Davies sisters. The year 2007 marked the centenary year of National Museum Wales during which exciting new plans were unveiled to refurbish the historic galleries and expand into new galleries for the modern and contemporary collections to form a new National Museum of Art. This will present opportunities to highlight the production of art in Wales while providing, for the first time, a sense of its relationship to the wider history of European art. For more information please visit www.museumwales.ac.uk

Image: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, La Parisienne, 1874. Oil on canvas. National Museum of Wales; Miss Gwendoline E. Davies Bequest, 1951 (nmwa 2495). Courtesy American Federation of Arts.