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An e-Mail From Tammis
On November 19, 2103 I received a very nice e-mail from Tammis Coffin, the Education Coordinator at the Museum of American Bird Art at Mass Audubon/Connecting People & Nature through Art:
Artie,
I’m forwarding a feature about the Museum of American Bird Art that highlights your exhibition.
Visitors have responded enthusiastically to your work and it’s drawn in a lot of new faces. They express delight with your captions, your colors, the beauty, as well as the whimsy. We are fortunate to have your images here and to have learned from you over the course of your visit of several days. I want to thank you for your ideas for gallery activities. There have been some amazing child drawings of your egret, spoonbill, puffin, and many more, although few children have tackled the gannets.
I signed up for your blog and have been enjoying it immensely!
Because you mentioned the quality of Arni Cheatham’s work (Arni was one of the students in your seminar), we learned more about him and discovered that he won this year’s Boston’s Jazz Hero award. He’ll be projecting his bird images here in late April, while his jazz band improvises.
My best to you and to the wonderful Denise for the New Year!
Tammis
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The Canton Monthly Feature Article
Below is the text of the feature article that appeared in the December 2013 issue of Canton Monthly.
Spread Your Wings
Museum of American Bird Art Makes a Nest in Canton
BIRDS AS ART
“Today, we continue to connect people to nature through art, using art to inspire and educate,” director Amy Montague said. The museum presents three to four exhibitions each year, with a wide range of artworks represented. An array of educational programs for all ages draws on the original art in the exhibitions and collections, as well as the varied habitats of the wildlife sanctuary. The museum’s current exhibition, “BIRDS AS ART,” is on display through Jan. 13, 2014.
The exhibition displays the bird photography of Arthur Morris, one of the world’s most renowned bird photographers. Museum visitors can stroll among the colorful, detailed and often whimsical images in the gallery. Arthur Morris has unparalleled technical and artistic expertise and design savvy; and he experiments widely. His photographs of birds call for patience, determination, luck and an understanding of bird behavior. Morris has won numerous national and international awards and is a Canon Explorer of Light Emeritus. Canon generously sponsored the exhibit. He leads instructional bird photography trips, writes an educational blog, and has also published several books including “The Art of Bird Photography” and an e-Book: “The Art of Bird Photography II.”
Visitors will see an Atlantic puffin peering straight towards the camera with tufts of grass in its orange beak, baby sandhill cranes hitching a ride on their mother’s back and “Blizzard in Blue,” a photograph that reveals hundreds of snow geese taking flight. “Gannets in Love” is the signature image for the show, and highlights the graceful curving profiles of a pair of seabirds passing a bright green piece of seaweed beak-to-beak.
“When I looked around for the best photographer to inaugurate the museum’s new name, only one person was mentioned time and time again: Arthur Morris,” Montague said. The current exhibit can be viewed every afternoon of the week, except Mondays, until Jan. 13. For more information, visit massaudubon.org/maba or call 781-821-8853.
Exhibition, American Museum of Bird Art at Mass Audubon, Canton, MA
BIRDS AS ART/The Bird Photography of Arthur Morris
The 35-print exhibition will run through Sunday, January 12, 2014. If you have not visited yet, you still have two weeks to get there! The images hang at the American Museum of Bird Art at Mass Audubon (193 Washington Street, Canton, MA 02021. 1-781-821-8853.) The exhibition was sponsored in part by Canon USA/Explorers of Light and is open Tuesday through Sunday, 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Click here for additional details. Learn more about the exhibit by clicking here.
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Congratulations! You deserve it. You are my inspirer. Your images are awesome.
Many thanks Nick! artie
It is a fantastic exhibit. Worth a trip to go and see. The staff at the Museum of American Bird Art at Mass Audubon did a terrific job putting it all together!
Thanks Lady D.
Doug: Years ago I was on an IPT with Artie. In a refuge parking lot I told a curious bystander that the leader of our group was “One of the best …” Artie overheard me and said “What’s this ‘One of..[BLEEP]?’
Too funny!
You got that right John! And you are not the only one I have busted on that :). Actually, there are lots of great bird photographers around. I have just been at it longer and harder than most….
to Denise: ha ha!
Congratulations! You’ve worked hard and you deserve it!
I’d correct the part from Canton where they say ‘…one of the worlds most’
to ‘…the worlds most’.
But then again, I am a little partial 🙂
Anyway, congrats. You deserve every thing.
Doug
Big time thanks Doug and Helen 🙂 artie