The Racine Art Museum Publishes Book on Polymer Art

Sept. 30, 2011 - PRLog -- This fall, the Racine Art Museum (RAM) features a groundbreaking exhibition celebrating the museum's recent commitment of establishing a permanent collection of polymer jewelry, beads and sculptural objects. Organized by RAM, Terra Nova: Polymer Art at the Crossroads http://www.ramart.org/terra-nova  will open at RAM on October 21, 2011. On display through February 5, 2012, the show emphasizes the development of polymer as an expressive medium for artwork in recent decades. The museum is publishing a book of the same title to support the content of the exhibition as well as function as a singular resource for the historical and philosophical dimensions of the polymer medium.

Accompanying the exhibition Terra Nova, the 140-page hardcover book http://www.ramart.org/exhibitions/316-terranovabook by Rachel Carren, Bruce W. Pepich and Lena Vigna, combines illuminating text and ideas about polymer, both past and present, with images and details on key artists. Beautifully illustrated with more than 130 photographs, this publication offers different frameworks for understanding the innovations of polymer in artistic expression.  

The hardcover book also features a group of artists who simultaneously have embraced the medium and found recognition in the larger contemporary craft arena-Bonnie Bishoff and J. M. Syron, Jeffrey Lloyd Dever, Kathleen Dustin, Steven Ford and David Forlano, Tory Hughes, Cynthia Toops, Pier Voulkos, and Elise Winters.

Pre-orders are currently being accepted online http://www.ramart.org/exhibitions/316-terranovabook or by calling Racine Art Museum Store at 262.638.8200. Wholesale quantity pricing available to qualified merchants.

This exhibition at the Racine Art Museum is made possible by: Presenting Sponsors - Karen Johnson Boyd and William B. Boyd, Dever Designs, RAM Society Members, Jay Price Ruffo, S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., and Windgate Charitable Foundation; Gold Sponsors - Helen Bader Foundation, Inc., Penina Meisel, National Endowment for the Arts, Racine Community Foundation, Inc., Racine United Arts Fund, Elise Winters and Woody Rudin, and Wisconsin Arts Board; Silver Sponsors - Rachel Carren and Mark Young, Cotsen Foundation for Academic Research, Hollie Mion, Osborne and Scekic Family Foundation, and W.T. Walker Group, Inc.; Bronze Sponsors - Clifton Gunderson LLP, CNH America LLC, In Sink Erator, Knight-Barry Title, Inc., and Real Racine.

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The Racine Art Museum is one of North America's most significant contemporary craft museums. Its focus is on work from internationally recognized artists in ceramics, fibers, glass, metals and wood, as well as painting, sculpture and works on paper.