Exploring Art…Making Memories

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EXPLORING ART…MAKING MEMORIES

Monday, February 22

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Members $8, Non-Members $10, Care Partners Free

With the understanding that artistic experiences stimulate new pathways of learning, expression, and memories, the Museum is offering a unique program for individuals living with dementia and their care partners. Specially trained professionals will lead an interactive tour of select works and encourage group discussion. Light refreshments will be served. Registration is required. Space is limited.

Ongoing Exhibitions:

You Go Girl! Celebrating Women Artists

December 5 – April 3, 2016

Docent Tour: Wednesday, January 13

This Permanent Collection exhibition highlights 50 women artists from the 19^th century through today. Working in representational and abstract styles, and in varied artistic modes, including painting, sculpture, prints, mixed media, and photography, these artists express a wide range of personal and aesthetic concerns. Featured artists include Berenice Abbott, Elaine de Kooning, Dorothy Dehner, Audrey Flack, Jane Hammond, Mary Nimmo Moran, Georgia O’Keeffe, Betty Parsons, Miriam Schapiro, Esphyr Slobodkina, Emma Stebbins, Jane Wilson, and others.

December 5 – March 27, 2016

Docent Tour: Wednesday, February 10

This Permanent Collection exhibition features works that reveal the many facets of human endeavor. Men of thought, laborers, entertainers, and men of action represent the breadth of human experience and the significant role of disparate activities in man’s history. In paintings, sculpture, and photographs, artists have depicted intellectuals, sailors, farmers, miners, and soldiers, capturing aspects of their emotional life as well as their physical labor. William Merritt Chase, Thomas Eakins, George Grosz, John Rogers, Emma Stebbins, and John Sloan are among the featured artists.

 

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Event categories: Family and Workshops/Classes.Event tags: Art, Family/Kids, Food, Museum, Suffolk, and Workshop.