Iconic Sentinel Takes a Break: Erie Art Museum Relocates Eternal Vigilance for Historic Staircase Restoration
For the first time in decades, Eternal Vigilance—the bronze sculpture that has stood watch over the Erie Art Museum's Customs House—will temporarily step aside. The sculpture by renowned Erie artist John Silk Deckard will be carefully removed from its post this week to make way for the final phase of the restoration of the building's iconic marble staircase and the installation of accessibility improvements.
Step into the FEED! — Video Portraits at Masquerade at the Museum!
Erie Art Museum is pleased to announce Video Portraits by media artists from FEED.art at the 2023 Masquerade at the Museum. FEED activates the Museum’s Historic Customs House with an installation featuring YOU and your masked friends on the walls of the Hagen Gallery.
Erie Art Museum Unveils New Banners Adorning Historic Customs House
ERIE, Pa. - The Erie Art Museum reveals new vinyl display banners on the historic Customs House. These new banners will feature current works on exhibition as well as pieces from the Museum’s collection. Featured artwork includes Clara Force’s portrait of Lovisa Card-Catlin, the founder of the Art Club of Erie, now known as the Erie Art Museum; a monoprint titled Sharp Man In A Wrong Place by Garry R. Bibbs, Summer Days, acrylic on burlap, from Chautauqua artist-in-residence Kym Cooper, and paintings by Erie artists in the Museum’s collection, Red House by Joseph Plavcan, and Green and Blue Knot with Red, Richard Anuszkiewicz.
Erie Art Museum Features Kimberly Chapman Work in New Exhibition Eighty-Six Reasons For Asylum Admission
ERIE, Pa. - Eighty-Six Reasons For Asylum Admission opens at the Erie Art Museum on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022. The exhibition includes sculptures and paintings by Kimberly Chapman inspired by the West Virginia Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum’s “Reasons for Admission” that inventoried preconditions for mental illness. Chapman is a full-time porcelain sculptor in Cleveland, Ohio and has been featured in several group and solo exhibitions across the state. Her work has also recently been featured in the 98th and 99th Nicole & Harry Martin Spring Show at the Erie Art Museum.