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Phillips Academy Andover

Monday, December 6, 2010

Then and Now

Now - Phillips Academy

The building posted on the homepage on Saturday was located at Phillips Academy.

The building posted on the homepage on Saturday was located at Phillips Academy. The photo was taken between 1900 and 1906, according to the Library of Congress website, and shows a much more barren campus than what exists today.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Addison Exhibits Textile Artist Sheila Hicks' Works

American textual line artist shows her work at the Addison.

Come see the works of an expatriate Midwestern American artist's work strung out in lines of color and texture that might remind you of an orderly Jackson Pollock. In the galleries of the Addison Gallery of American Art at the Phillips Academy on Main Street in Andover from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays from November 5, 2010 to February 27, 2011, co-curated by independent scholar Joan Simon and curator Susan Faxon will have on display work by American textile artist, Sheila Hicks. The gallery will exhibit 100 of Hicks' most influential and representative art. In their literature about the exhibit the museum's curators said, "Hicks' conceptual, procedural, and material concerns through five distinct, …

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