July 26, 1971
An exhibit of outstanding art works by members of the alumni and faculty of The Brooklyn Museum Art School will open in the Museum’s Blum Galleries on Wednesday, August 4th, and remain on view through September 30. Encompassing the work of five full-time instructors and some of their most promising students of the past three years, The Brooklyn Museum Art School will offer paintings, drawings, sculpture and ceramics. Examples of work done by the High School Scholarship program will also be on display.
The first room in the galleries will present examples of the work done in the art school’s various classes, offering, in effect, a three-dimensional catalog of the school. The other galleries will feature the work of the full-time instr[uc]tors and their students. Participating instr[uc]tors are Toshio Odate (sculpture); Reuben Tam (advanced painting and drawing), Jolyon Hofsted (ceramics), and Kendall Shaw and Allen Barber (foundation course in painting and drawing).
The Brooklyn Museum Art School, which moved to the Museum 25 years ago, calls itself a “community of working artists” because of its free-wheeling unstructured setup. There are no formal entrance requirements and classes for full time and part time students include painting and drawing, acrylics and watercolor, sculpture, ceramics, plastics and welding. New to the Art School curriculum are weaving, photo silk screen and batik.
Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1971 - 1988. 1971, 039. View Original
