The Curated Object

Exhibitions Cedar Rapids. Wizards of Pop: Sabuda & Reinhart. The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. The Curated Object

Matthew Reinhart, The Jungle Book, 2006.  Published by Little Simon, A Division of Simon & Schuster, New York. Courtesy Matthew Reinhart.

Matthew Reinhart, Cinderella, 2005.  Published by Little Simon, A Division of Simon & Schuster, New York. Courtesy Matthew Reinhart

Wizards of Pop: Sabuda & Reinhart

January 22-May 1, 2011

Celebrated children's books creators Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart are the best-known pop-up book artists working today. The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art (CRMA) is pleased to present an exhibition of their work – Wizards of Pop: Sabuda & Reinhart.

Sabuda, originally from Pinkney, Michigan, and Reinhart, originally from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, work in a shared studio in New York, and the two have created a series of hand-crafted pop-up books that are both intriguing and breathtaking at the turn of every page. Their inventive creations have universal appeal, calling readers of all ages to explore the fantasy of their books.

Wizards of Pop: Sabuda & Reinhart includes more than 60 images from 13 picture and pop-up books. The book art reveals a variety of media and techniques — with picture book illustrations in batik, marbleized paper mosaic, and delicate cut-paper, and pop-up books rendered in pencil, marker, watercolor, acrylic, and linoleum block print. The exhibition features imaginative two-dimensional artworks from such books as Saint Valentine, The Blizzard's Robe, and The Paper Dragon, as well as innovatively engineered three-dimensional pages from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Encyclopedia Prehistorica series, Young Naturalist's Pop-Up Handbook: Beetles and Butterflies, Cinderella, and STAR WARS: A Pop-up Guide to the Galaxies, among others.

This exhibition is organized by the National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature, Abilene, Texas, and is supported in part by Diamond V Mills, GreatAmerica Leasing Corporation, Lil' Drug Store Products, and the Momentum Fund, all funds of The Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation. Educational programming is supported in part by the University of Iowa Community Credit Union.

Join us on opening day and celebrate with our Pop-Up Extravaganza! Family Fun Day.  Make your own pop-ups, play dress-up, and even meet Matthew Reinhart as he visits his hometown of Cedar Rapids. Art projects (taking place from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.) will include themed activity stations inspired by books in the exhibition such as Star Wars, Alice in Wonderland, and Wizard of Oz, as well as kids’ dress-up stations, and more! The Ballet Academy dancers will give a special fairy tale ballet performance too.

Matthew Reinhart will also do a special presentation beginning at 2:30 p.m., followed by a book signing. Bring your books from home, purchase them in the Museum Store, or purchase them from Barnes & Noble at their Family Fun Day table.

The Pop-Up Extravaganza! Family Fun Day is sponsored by University of Iowa Community Credit Union.

For more information, please visit: The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art 

 

 

Exhibitions Cedar Rapids. Malvina Hoffman: Rodin’s Last Student. The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. The Curated Object

Auguste Rodin, Claude Lorrain, 1889, Musee Rodin cast 5/8 in 1992. Bronze, 84 ½ x 42 ½ x 46 in. Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection.

Malvina Hoffman: Rodin’s Last Student
March 8 through April 20, 2008

In 1910, the young sculptress Malvina Hoffman (1885-1966) arrived at the door of French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) with a letter of introduction.  While it took five more attempts before she was allowed to meet the master, he immediately agreed to take her on as a pupil.  What followed was a rewarding mentor/pupil relationship between one of the greatest sculptors of all time and his last student.  Hoffman went on to a successful career as a sculptor, perhaps most famous for her more than 100 sculptures for the Field Museum's Hall of Man in Chicago.

In 1985 and 1986, the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art received a large number of plaster and bronze works by Malvina Hoffman.  These works have periodically been on view, frequently as a part of larger thematic shows.  A substantial exhibition of her work, however, hasn't happened for some time and a fortuitous loan from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation of Rodin’s sculpture of the French painter Claude Lorrain offered us the opportunity to present Malvina Hoffman: Rodin's Last Student.  For six weeks only, visitors will be treated with a visual conversation between Rodin's masterpiece and more than 30 works by Hoffman from the Museum's collection. 

Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, 410 Third Ave. SE (319) 366-7503. www.crma.org

For more information please visit: The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art

-Joanne Molina