American Dioramas, American Murals and American Muralists

American Dioramas, American Murals and American Muralists

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(above: Mural at Exeter, CA. Photo: 2000 by John Hazeltine)

April, 2023 screenshot via Google video search.

Artists' Techniques Rendered Habitat Dioramas Mesmerizingly Real blog page from American Museum of Natural History includes two videos. Accessed August, 2015.

Birding at the Museum: Great Diorama Artists blog page from American Museum of Natural History includes a video, plus links to similar videos. Accessed August, 2015.

Coit Tower- California's Gold (12004) is a 26-minute episode from Huell Howser's California's Gold television series.from January, ,2010. It is presented online without charge by the Chapman University Huell Howser Archive. The Archive page containing the episode says: "Coit Tower was built on top of Telegraph Hill in 1933 at the bequest of Lillie Hitchcock Coit to beautify the City of San Francisco; Lillie bequeathed one-third of her estate to the City of San Francisco "to be expended in an appropriate manner for the purpose of adding to the beauty of the city which I have always loved." Huell spends the day exploring all aspects of this San Francisco landmark, including the beautiful murals that adorn the lobby with the descendants of one of the original artists." Accessed January, 2015.

Georgia Museum of Art has posted numerous videos on the Web. Examples include GMA scholars' 2012 commentary concerning the exhibit George Beattie's Agriculture Murals in videos from four to eight minutes in length. Accessed May, 2015.

Lompoc Mural- California's Gold (1010)) is a 25-minute episode from Huell Howser's California's Gold television series.from January, 1999. It is presented online without charge by the Chapman University Huell Howser Archive. The Archive page containing the episode says: "In a fitting tribute to an obscure piece of California history, the town of Lompoc decided the flower flag was a wonderful image for their annual Mural-in-a-Day event as part of the Old Town Faire. The mural was painted by 15 talented artists and is truly beautiful. Huell met some folks from Bodger Seed and even someone who helped plant the "flag" in 1952." Accessed January, 2015.

Monterey Museum of Art presents as of June 2011 "Installing Gottardo Piazzoni's Final Murals" a 08:12 "Behind the Scenes" YouTube video introduced by the museum's director, E. Michael Whittington, in connection with the exhibition From Dawn to Dusk: Gottardo Piazzoni's Final Murals, on display April 27, 2011 - December 2012. As of 2013 the Museum had uploaded 16 videos concerning artist interviews, conservation work and installations. Accessed May, 2015.

Mural Artists Help Beautify Washington, DC. video from Voice of America. Accessed May, 2015.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles produced a video titled JR / "The Wrinkles of Los Angeles", available online through ArtBabble. According to ArtBabble, "This new film by theonepointeight shows street artist JR during the making of "The Wrinkles of Los Angeles" in Los Angeles in early 2012. This work 'links the memory of the elderly and the architecture of the cities marked by the scars of history, their economic development, and their socio-cultural changes. By meeting and photographing these people to paste their portraits on the walls, JR imagines the wrinkles on their faces as the marks of time, traces of life mixing with the history of the city.'" This is episode 2. Accessed June, 2015.

Ron DiCianni: Painting the Resurrection (04:24) features the artist discussing The Resurrection Mural, 12' x 40', oil on canvas, commissioned by the Museum of Biblical Art in Dallas, TX. Video appeared on CBN.com. Accessed August, 2015.

The WGBH/Boston Forum Network is an audio and video streaming web site dedicated to curating and serving live and on-demand lectures, including a number of videos on Art and Architecture. Partners include a number of museums, colleges, universities and other cultural organizations. See listings of related videos in this catalogue indexed by partner name. Museum of Science, Boston partnered with the WGBH Forum Network for Extreme Makeover: Mural Edition, (1 hour, 17 minutes) in which Gianfranco Pocobono and Richard Wolbers discuss what happens when the conservation choices are not clear cut and the world is watching. In 'One of the most significant restoration projects anywhere in America', science and art merged to conserve the John La Farge murals at Trinity Church Boston. Art and science have continually flirted over the centuries. Both investigate. Both involve theories and transforming information into something else. This lecture is a part of a Museum of Science series 'When Science Meets Art', which examines the mysterious symbiosis of science with art through the ingenuity of those shattering the boundaries between the two fields. [January 11, 2006] Accessed May, 2015.

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