Summer 2007 exhibits hosted by American University Museum

Saturday, 02 June 2007 23:01

Washington, D.C. – American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center will hold a number of unique exhibits at Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen Arts Center; 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.

The exhibits:

Diseño Shakespear (One of the Spring Exhibits. Closes June 24)
Identity programs, architecture, wayfinding systems, urban furniture, Web sites and more document five decades of work by Diseño Shakespear, Argentina’s family-owned design consultancy that has had a profound influence in that country and beyond.

Art from Syria: A Journey through Half a Century of Creativity (Opens to the Public June 5. Closes June 17)
Expression, allusion and abstraction characterize Syrian art since the 1950s, represented here by the work of Louay Kayali, Sara Shamma and others little known in the United States. This exhibition was organized in collaboration with the Embassy of the Syrian Arab Republic.

Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries (closes July 29)
Chromogenic prints on plexiglass meditate on the indissoluble link between our perceptions and the invisible landscape of data.

Additionally, the following exhibitions will be opening later in June:

Bush Leaguers: Cartoonists Take on the White House (June 30-July 29)
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) presents current political cartoons about George W. Bush and his most trusted advisors.

True Dutterer: The Work of William S. Dutterer (June 30-July 29)
A memorial tribute to an important and beloved Washington artist and teacher, who moved to NYC in 1979 and died this past January, focuses primarily on recent paintings provoked by a trip to Afghanistan.

MUSEUM INFORMATION, EXHIBITION HOURS, LOCATION:

The American University Museum is a three-story, public museum and sculpture garden located within the university’s Katzen Arts Center. The region’s largest university facility for exhibiting art, the museum’s permanent collection highlights the donors’ holdings and AU’s Watkins collection. Rotating exhibitions emphasize regional, national and international contemporary art. The Katzen Arts Center, named for Washington area benefactors Dr. and Mrs. Cyrus Katzen, brings all the visual and performing arts programs at AU into one space. Designed to foster interdisciplinary collaboration in the arts, the Katzen includes the museum, the Abramson Family Recital Hall, the Studio Theatre, a dance studio, an electronics studio, artists’ studios, rehearsal space and classrooms.

The museum, located at 4400 Massachusetts Ave, Washington, DC 20016, is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday. The museum is also open one hour prior to performing arts events in the Katzen and from 6 – 9 p.m. the last Wednesday of each month the university is in session for Open Arts Night. Museum admission is free. For more information call 202-885-ARTS (2787). Visit : www.american.edu/cas/katzen/museum/