Family Guide

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COLLECTING

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George Kravis is a collector. Collectors collect many different things. Collectors collect things for many reasons. What are some things you collect? Why? What is your dream acquisition, or thing you want to collect?

Describe or sketch some things you collect or would like to collect in the space provided.

When George Kravis was asked about his dream acquisition, he said he would like to have a 1930s or 40s concept car from an auto show, or possibly the Tatra T87.

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DESIGN

Many of the works found in Oklahoma and Beyond are considered industrial design objects. Industrial design is the creation of things. Its the production, development, and manufacturing of objects, processes, and even services.

It’s about colors, shapes, and textures.

Industrial designers find solutions to everyday problems to make life easier.

What objects in the exhibition do you think were designed?

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For many designers, one of their first projects is to design a chair. For an object that we use so much, chairs can be very different. Think about the chairs in this exhibition, in the museum, or other chairs you have used in your life.

How were they different? How would you design a chair? Would your chair be soft or hard? Delicate or sturdy? What materials would you use? Who will use your chair? Use the space above to sketch your ideas.

Top: Frank Gehry, Designer, Easy Edges, Inc., Manufacturer. Wiggle Side Chair from the Easy Edge series, 1972.

Corrugated cardboard, fiberboard, and round timber. Overall 33 1/2 x 26 x 16 1/4 inches.

Middle: Studio65, Bocca sofa, 1970. Lip-shaped sofa, expanded polyurethane with removable cover, produced by Gufram.

83 1/5 x 31 1/2 x 33 1/5 inches. Image courtesy of Wright.

Bottom: Phillipe Stark, Prototype J, Serie Lange, Lounge Chair, 1987. Leather and cast aluminum. 33 1/2 x 24 x 27 inches.

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GEOMETRY Take a look at the Carlton Room Divider designed

by Ettore Sottass. How many shapes can you find?

How many shapes can you fit into the outline on this page? Will your shapes look like the ones in the Carlton Room Divider or will you create a new design?

You can draw your own shapes, or cut out the shapes below and arrange them in the outline. How do the shapes fit together?

Ettore Sottsass (designer), Memphis Milan (manufacturer), “Carlton Room Divider�, 1981. Plastic laminate over wood.

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IMAGINATION

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Brian Bress is inspired by 1980’s children’s programs, like Sesame Street, Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, Pee Wee’s Playhouse, and Saturday morning cartoons. He uses paper, foam and even rocks to build characters with personalities, thoughts, and feelings. How is Whitewalker 1 feeling?

Now it’s your turn to design your own character! Will your character be your friend? What does the character do for fun? What is your character afraid of? What is your character’s favorite food/color/thing?

Draw your character below.

Now make your character come alive! Take your drawing home and use materials around your home to build your character.

To find out more about Brian Bress, check out the Brian Bress: Make Your Own Friends catalogue from the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, found in the artLAB. Image: Brian Bress, Whitewalker 1, 2012. High definition, single-channel video (color), high definition monitor and player, wall mount, framed. 60 x 35 x 4 inches; 9 min., 18 sec., loop. Courtesy of Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles

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COLLABORATION, COMMUNITY

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Joseph Glasco was part of the Abstract Expressionists circle in New York in the 1950s. Abstract Expressionism is art that uses lines, shapes, and colors to express an emotion. What emotion do you feel when viewing For Tyler?

Glasco began creating canvas collages in the late 1970s. A collage is a collection of different images that are arranged together to create a new image. Glasco painted on several canvases, cut them up, and rearranged them to create his collages. Can you find any pieces that may have been a part of the same canvas before being cut? How do you think those images looked before they were cut?

After Glasco rearranged his new artwork, he considered it to be a sculpture. As the artist explained, “. . . there is a need in me to do sculpture and it somehow comes out when I paint and use material on top of material . . . , which is what sculpture is about.� Do you see this work as a sculpture? Why? What exactly makes a sculpture a sculpture?

Collaboration is when people work together towards a goal. Many artists create collaborative works with other artists or the communities around them. As a community, we will create our very own Abstract Expressionism collage/sculpture together.

The artwork will live here at the museum for everyone in the community to share.

1. Grab a paint brush and start painting! You can paint whatever you like.

2. When the paintings dry, we will move them to the artLAB. 3. When in the artLAB, we will cut one canvas up and stick those pieces to the other canvas, creating our very own Stillwater Collaborative Collage!

4. Come back and help create the collage. Come back again to see what others have added.

Image: Joseph Glasco, For Tyler, 1986. Mixed media collage on canvas. 80 x 90 x 2 inches.

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COLLABORATION, COMMUNITY

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Joseph Glasco was part of the Abstract Expressionists circle in New York in the 1950s. Abstract Expressionism is art that uses lines, shapes, and colors to express an emotion. What emotion do you feel when viewing For Tyler?

Glasco began creating canvas collages in the late 1970s. A collage is a collection of different images that are arranged together to create a new image. Glasco painted on several canvases, cut them up, and rearranged them to create his collages. Can you find any pieces that may have been a part of the same canvas before being cut? How do you think those images looked before they were cut?

After Glasco rearranged his new artwork, he considered it to be a sculpture. As the artist explained, “. . . there is a need in me to do sculpture and it somehow comes out when I paint and use material on top of material . . . , which is what sculpture is about.� Do you see this work as a sculpture? Why? What exactly makes a sculpture a sculpture?

Collaboration is when people work together towards a goal. Many artists create collaborative works with other artists or the communities around them. As a community, we will create our very own Abstract Expressionism collage/sculpture together.

The artwork will live here at the museum for everyone in the community to share.

1. On Family Day, we asked our Stillwater family to help paint the canvases in the artLAB. Now that they are dry, we can begin the next step: the collage!

3. Cut the unstretched canvas into shapes and stick them to the stretched canvas. A stretched canvas is one that uses a wooden frame to keep it sturdy, an unstretched canvas is a loose piece of fabric. Use the hot glue guns to stick them together. Please use caution, and if you need help, just ask!

4. Come back soon to see what others have added.

Image: Joseph Glasco, For Tyler, 1986. Mixed media collage on canvas. 80 x 90 x 2 inches.

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MUSIC, MOVES

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#MovedByMusic Does music move you?

This “freeze-frame� image captures the inspirational power of music.

Snap a photo of your freeze-frame dance move next to the iPod poster and share on your favorite social media network using #MovedByMusic.

Tell us what songs are moving you and how.

Image: Eric Miller, Designer, Susan Alinsangan, Art Director, TBA/Chiat/Day advertising agency, Los Angeles. IPod Poster, 2007. Produced for Apple, Inc. Offset lithograph. 71 3/4 x 48 inches.

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SHAPE, FORM “From the age of seven, Barbara Hepworth saw the landscape made up of forms and textures. She saw the hills as shapes -sculptures- for her to make,” - from Meet Barabara Hepworth by Laura Carlin.

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Take a look at Hepworth’s works in the gallery. What do her forms look like to you?

Create your own sculpture using paper!

1. Choose some shapes and draw them on the paper.

2. Cut your shapes out. Cut a slit in the forms if necessary in order to interlock with other shapes and stand up.

3. Interlock the shapes by inserting them into and through the cut slits.

4. Stand your sculpture upright and adjust the shapes until it does not wobble.

5. Attach all other paper pieces and admire your sculpture from all sides!

Image: Barabara Hepworth, 4 Square (4 Circles), 1966. Bronze, ed 2/7. 23 5/8 x 12 x 14 inches.

Sources: Carlin, Laura, and Barbara Hepworth. Meet Barbara Hepworth. London: Tate, 2015. Print.

Oldham, Todd. Kid Made Modern. Los Angeles: Ammo, 2012. Print.

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BALANCE

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In art, balance is the arrangement of parts so that they have equal force.

What artworks in the gallery do you feel achieve balance?

Play with the “Melissa & Doug Suspend Family Game� and find out more about how balance works.

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NATURE

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Take a look at Suzanne Caporael’s work in Oklahoma and Beyond. Her work is rooted in nature. Rather than creating a realistic representation of what she sees, she combines scientific research and a process known as abstraction to create her artwork.

Abstraction is the word we use when artwork is nonrepresentational, or it simply looks like shapes or blobs. The artist below drew inspiration from leaves to create an abstracted image.

Use the Spectrix card game to create your own abstracted landscape.

Suzanne Caporael, Moose Point, 2001. Photochemical monoprint, gouache. Photographed by Shane Culpepper, Tulsa, OK

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MUSIC

Today’s playlist was inspired by works from Oklahoma and Beyond: Selections from the George R. Kravis II Collection.

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Song Title

Artist

Connecting artwork

Stardust

Gerry Mulligan

Roy Lichtenstein’s The Melody Haunts My Reverie

Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues

Bob Dylan

Ettore Sottass Carlton Room Divider

Vertigo

U2

Erik Miller, iPod poster ads

Jerk It Out

Caesars

Erik Miller, iPod poster ads

Someday Baby

Bob Dylan

Erik Miller, iPod poster ads

Dance Tonight

Paul McCartney

Erik Miller, iPod poster ads

1234

Feist

Erik Miller, iPod poster ads

Shut Up and Let Me Go

The Ting Tings

Erik Miller, iPod poster ads

No You Girls

Franz Ferdinand

Erik Miller, iPod poster ads

Bourgeois Shangri-La

Miss Li

Erik Miller, iPod poster ads

Sesame Street Theme

The Kids

Brian Bress, Whitewalker I

Image: Eric Miller, Designer, Susan Alinsangan, Art Director, TBA/Chiat/Day advertising agency, Los Angeles. IPod Poster, 2007. Produced for Apple, Inc. Offset lithograph. 71 3/4 x 48 inches.