Welcome to Art In Your Inbox - a new email from UMMA staff, where we'll share images from our collection we've been thinking about recently.

Whether it's providing perspective or prompting moments of peace and reflection, art has an incredible way of helping us understand our experiences. UMMA staff have been sharing images from our collection back and forth during the last few weeks of these unprecedented times, and we've found it both comforting and contemplative. Because UMMA (and most museums) are closed to the public while the world battles COVID-19, we wanted to start sharing those thoughts and images with all of you as well, in an effort to keep our community connected and art integrated into our lives.

We're thinking we'll share new images a couple of times a week, when the mood strikes us and a piece speaks to the moment. We'll try to include some additional reflection prompts to help you spend time with the art, and maybe a creative project inspired by the work as well.

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Metamorphosis Is Happening
Artwork Title: Winged Ones
Artist: Joanne Leonard
1987, Gelatin silver print on paper, gift of the artist, 2016/2.192
Joanne Leonard used actual bugs and insect wings in the darkroom enlarger when she printed this portrait of her daughter. Her photograph uses the frame of the window and the frame of the film negative as physical and metaphorical barriers beyond which the young girl cannot see.

Reflection Prompts:
  • What do the wings in Leonard's portrait of her daughter signify to you? Is it change, is it a restless energy, is it freedom?
  • What changes do you see taking place around us? How can those changes be positive ones?
Creativity Corner
Photo drawing: Take a picture with your smart phone and change it in some way — draw on it, add new elements, etc.

Will you add a party hat to selfie? Draw a fibonacci spiral on a cat? Add imaginary rolls of TP to a picture of your bathroom?
Share your creations:

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