AMoA hosting exhibit by
Brooklyn-based artist
A Swoon exhibition will be on display
at the Amarillo Museum of Art, April 13
through Aug. n. A reception will be held
at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 19,with cock-
tails and hors d’oeuvres followed by an
artist talk at 7 p.m. by Caledonia Curry.
Admission is free for AMoAmembers or
$10 for non-members. Tickets will be
available at the door.
Caledonia Curry, whose work ap-
pears under the name Swoon, is a
Brooklyn-based artist and is widely
known as the first woman to gain large-
scale recognition in the male-dominat-
ed world of street art. Curry took to the
streets of New York while attending the
Pratt Institute of Art in 1999,pasting her
paper portraits to the sides of buildings
with the goal of making art and the pub-
lic space ofthe city more accessible.
The Amarillo Museum of Art is locat-
ed at 2200 S.VanBuren on the Washing-
ton Street campus of Amarillo College.
Museum hours are Wednesday through
Saturday, na.m. -5 p.m. and Sunday, 1-5
p.m. For additional information, visit
www.amoa.org, email amoa@actx.edu,
or call 806-371-5050 or 806-371-5392
(weekends).