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Indepth Arts News:
"Hibel Museum of Art Opens Anew"
0000-00-00 until 2000-02-06
Hibel Museum of Art
Lake Worth, FL,
USA United States of America
The world's only non-profit, public museum
dedicated to the art of a living American woman--
formerly located seven miles away in Palm Beach,
Florida, for 23 years--the Hibel Museum will exhibit the
paintings, original graphics, drawings, giclees,
multimedia, and sculpture of the renowned Renaissance-
and Impressionist-style artist, Edna Hibel.The new Hibel Museum of Art will open its doors to
the public on Monday, December 20, in Lake Worth,
Florida. Its grand opening is set for Thursday,
January 6, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Hibel, who will be 83 in January, has been
painting professionally nearly 60 years since her
Sturtevant Traveling Fellowship and graduation from the
Boston Museum School of Fine Arts in 1940. Her work has
been exhibited in prestigious museums and galleries in
more than 20 countries on four continents, including
unprecedented displays in the China National Art Gallery
in Beijing, the Russian Academy of Fine Art in St.
Petersburg, and the Dubrovnik Museum in the former
Yugoslavia.
Featured at this historic museum opening will be
the opening of the last stop on a museum tour
of Compassion Around The World: The Art of Edna
Hibel. Beginning in March, this exhibit was displayed
in the National Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., the
Museum of Printing History in Houston, Texas, and the
Cornell Museum of Art and History in Delray Beach,
Florida. The exhibit was also shown recently in the
Jeannette Hare Art Gallery at Northwood University in
West Palm Beach, Florida, where Hibel received her fifth
honorary doctorate degree.
Hibel's documentary--the only one by a foreign
woman in the former Soviet Union--won several critical
accolades, including an award from the American
Association of Museums. The one-hour television
documentary, Hibel's Russian Palette, shows the
artist's view of the unraveling of the former Soviet
Union, and will be broadcast in 2000 on P.B.S. stations.
Admission to the new Hibel Museum of Art is free
from Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and is
located at 701 Lake Avenue in Lake Worth. Additional
information about the Hibel Museum of Art may be
obtained by contacting (561) 533-6872, and by visiting
www.hibel.org.
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