Fairfield University Art Museum
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To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home
(Jan. 24-March 29, 2025) Environmental threats and climate change are urgent matters of concern at Jesuit universities, where conversations on this topic often take place in reference to two documents by Pope Francis: Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home (2015) and the 2023 update Laudate Deum. Artists play an indispensable role in our collective response to climate change. To See This Place, curated by Al Miner and David Brinker, will present work by Athena LaTocha, Mary Mattingly, and Tyler Rai, three contemporary artists whose outlook resonates with the themes of Laudato Si’ and Laudate Deum. Embodying a breadth of personal, geographic, and cultural backgrounds, the three artists c...
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Opening Lecture: To See This Place - Awakening to Our Common Home
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On Thursday, January 23, 2025, co-curators Al Miner and David Brinker introduced the exhibition "To See This Place - Awakening to Our Common Home," on view in the museum's Walsh Gallery through March 29, 2025. Environmental threats and climate change are urgent matters of concern at Jesuit universities, where conversations on this topic often take place in reference to two documents by Pope Fra...
Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut
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This exhibition (January 17-April 12, 2025) explores Tonalism in the United States from the 1880s to the early 20th century, through artists from the Northeast such as George Inness, John Henry Twachtman, and John Francis Murphy. Tonalism is a transitional movement that grew out of and reacted to the Hudson River School of painting and laid the groundwork for modernism. Evocative landscapes, ev...
Lecture: Adrienne Bell, "'To Paint without Paint': Tonalism and Transcendence"
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2025 marks the double centenary of the birth of American artist George Inness (1825-1894), one of the premier landscape painters of the 19th century. Art historian Adrienne Bell, author of the 2015 "George Inness and the Visionary Landscape," discussed Inness’ relationship to the Tonalism movement on Tuesday, January 21 at 5 p.m. in the Diffley Board Room in Bellarmine Hall. A painting by Innes...
Opening Night Lecture - Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut
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Curator Mary Ann Hollihan introduced the exhibition "Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut" on Thursday, January 16, and then was joined in conversation by Executive Director Carey Weber. This exhibition explores Tonalism in the United States from the 1880s to the early 20th century, through artists from the Northeast such as George Inness, John Henry Twachtman, and John Francis Murphy. Tonalism...
Art in Focus: Maria Katharina Prestel, "Triumph of Virtue over Envy"
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The last Art in Focus of 2024 looks at Maria Katharina Prestel after Jacopo Ligozzi, "The Triumph of Truth over Envy," 1780, etching and aquatint in brown and ochre ink, touched with gold leaf. Courtesy of the Wetmore Collection, Connecticut College
Lecture: Clara Rojas-Sebesta, "Conserving Contemporary Works on Paper"
Просмотров 842 месяца назад
On Thursday, November 21, 2024, Clara Rojas-Sebesta, Ellsworth Kelly Conservator of Works on Paper, Whitney Museum of American Art, delivered a lecture discussing the challenges for museum conservators in preserving and presenting contemporary art on paper. Her talk was presented in conjunction with Sacred Space: A Brandywine Workshop and Archives Print Exhibition (Walsh Gallery, September 27 -...
Demonstration: Carving, Inking, and Printing an Intaglio Plate
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Master Printer Chris Shore (Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk CT) demonstrates how to carve, ink, and print an intaglio plate! This recording and the live gallery demos were generously sponsored by the Kress Foundation and presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Ink and Time: European Prints from the Wetmore Collection” on view in the Bellarmine Hall Galleries (September 12-Dec...
Lecture: Nadine Orenstein, "Making and Selling Prints in the Age of Rembrandt"
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Nadine Orenstein, PhD., Drue Heinz Curator in Charge of the Department of Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art delivered a talk entitled "Rare and Everywhere: Making & Selling Prints in the Age of Rembrandt" on November 19, 2024. One of the most creative and inventive etchers of his day, Rembrandt was one among many figures active in the production of prints in Holland during the sev...
Art in Focus: Rembrandt, "Three Trees," 1643
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Next up in our Art in Focus series is Rembrandt’s "Three Trees," his largest landscape print and one in which he combined multiple techniques to produce this dramatic vision of a sudden storm rolling across the flat countryside. This print is on view as part of the exhibition Ink and Time: European Prints from the Wetmore Collection, on view through December 21, 2024. Rembrandt van Rijn, "Three...
Demonstration: Making Relief Prints
Просмотров 1413 месяца назад
Master Printer Chris Shore (Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk CT) demonstrates how to carve, ink, and print a relief block! This recording and the live gallery demos were generously sponsored by the Kress Foundation and presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Ink and Time: European Prints from the Wetmore Collection” on view in the Bellarmine Hall Galleries (September 12-Decemb...
Lecture: "Inside the Head of a Collector"
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An internationally known collector and scholar of Chinese export porcelain, Shirley M. Mueller, MD, is also board-certified in Neurology and Psychiatry. This unique conjunction of interests led her to explore the “neuroeconomics” of collecting in the 2019 book Inside the Head of a Collector: Neuropsychological Forces at Play. This lecture is presented in conjunction with "Ink and Time: European...
Lecture: Halima Taha, "Unveiling Creativity: The History of the Brandywine Workshop"
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Independent arts curator, writer, and Brandywine advisory board member Halima Taha spoke about the history of the organization on October 10, 2024, in conjunction with the exhibition "Sacred Space: A Brandywine Workshop and Archives Print Exhibition" (on view in the Walsh Gallery through December 21, 2024.
Art in Focus: Raimondi after Raphael, "Massacre of the Innocents"
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In this edition of Art in Focus, we discuss this engraving, produced ca. 1511-1514 by Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael. The print, which is part of the Black Collection within the larger Wetmore Collection at Connecticut College, is on view as part of the exhibition "Ink and Time: European Prints from the Wetmore Collection" in our Bellarmine Hall Galleries through December 21, 2024. For more...
Lecture: Arturo Lindsay, "Children of Middle Passage"
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Lecture: Arturo Lindsay, "Children of Middle Passage"
Sacred Space: A Brandywine Archives and Workshop Print Exhibition
Просмотров 914 месяца назад
Sacred Space: A Brandywine Archives and Workshop Print Exhibition
Opening Lecture: Ink and Time - European Prints from the Wetmore Collection
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Opening Lecture: Ink and Time - European Prints from the Wetmore Collection
Opening Conversation: Sacred Space - A Brandywine Workshop and Archives Exhibition
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Opening Conversation: Sacred Space - A Brandywine Workshop and Archives Exhibition
Art in Focus: Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve, 1504
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Art in Focus: Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve, 1504
Lecture: Decoding the Antikythera Mechanism
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Lecture: Decoding the Antikythera Mechanism
Ink and Time: European Prints from the Wetmore Collection
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Ink and Time: European Prints from the Wetmore Collection
Peter Anton - Just Desserts
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Peter Anton - Just Desserts
Art in Focus: Toyohara Kunichika, "Nakamura Fukusuke II as Chūrō Onoe," 1865, color woodblock print
Просмотров 838 месяцев назад
Art in Focus: Toyohara Kunichika, "Nakamura Fukusuke II as Chūrō Onoe," 1865, color woodblock print
Opening Lecture: "Connecticut Confections"
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Opening Lecture: "Connecticut Confections"
Landscape in Focus: Recent Acquisitions of Photography
Просмотров 279 месяцев назад
Landscape in Focus: Recent Acquisitions of Photography
Art in Focus: Christy Rupp, "Goldfinch, after Carel Fabritius, 1654," 2017
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Art in Focus: Christy Rupp, "Goldfinch, after Carel Fabritius, 1654," 2017
Suzanne Chamlin: Studies in Color
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Suzanne Chamlin: Studies in Color
Opening Night Lecture: Artist Suzanne Chamlin
Просмотров 16710 месяцев назад
Opening Night Lecture: Artist Suzanne Chamlin
Lecture: Marcie Cooperman, "Color Theory for Artists, Designers, and Visual Thinkers"
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Lecture: Marcie Cooperman, "Color Theory for Artists, Designers, and Visual Thinkers"
Lecture: Brian Walker, PhD "Long Ago and Far Away: Three "Summers" on a Remote Antarctic Island"
Просмотров 10310 месяцев назад
Lecture: Brian Walker, PhD "Long Ago and Far Away: Three "Summers" on a Remote Antarctic Island"