Austin Museum Day

Join the Elisabet Ney Museum for an art activation at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum on Austin Museum Day!

Experience the historic life of our local 19th century pioneer, artist, naturalist, and women’s rights advocate, Elisabet Ney through the voices of Austin contemporary female artist, Tammie Rubin. Visitors will explore a variety of sculpting activities that include plaster casting, soap carving and clay portraiture. All the projects are part of museums’s brand-new program, Breaking the Mold: Mobile Hands-On Art Crates. For this traveling program, three distinct art crates filled with activities and arts curriculum were developed by local artist Tammie Rubin, Virginia L Montgomery and Beili Liu within the artists’ personal studio environments in the same manner that Elisabet Ney would have worked within her own Formosa studio, now the Elisabet Ney Museum. Each crate has been transformed into unique works of art and speak back to the Neoclassic artwork that Ney herself shipped back and forth between Texas and Italy.

This project has been funded by a grant from the Dorothy C. Radgowski Learning Through Women’s Achievement in the Arts Grant Program, provided through the Where Women Made History and the Historic Artists' Homes and Studios programs of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Summerlee Foundation.

Austin Museum Day is a community initiative funded by the Austin Museum Partnership. This annual event includes special programs and activities at dozens of local museums and cultural institutions across the area.

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