Direct from the Director Winter 2023
Happy new year, and welcome to the spring semester! We are thrilled to welcome you to two new exhibitions this month!
We are delighted to have opened Women's Rights Are Human Rights, last week, in the museum's Walsh Gallery. Channel 12 news came to the lively opening, and did a lovely story about the exhibition which aired that night.
The Fairfield University Art Museum hosted an opening night reception for their new exhibit called Women's Rights Are Human Rights: Internat
This week we hope you will join us in Bellarmine Hall this coming Thursday for the opening night festivities for the exhibition Norma Minkowitz: Body to Soul. The guest curator, Sarah Parrish, PhD will present the opening night lecture, which will be followed by a reception in the Great Hall.
The video tour of this newly installed exhibition, which was just posted late last week, has already garnered over 3000 views - enjoy - and don't forget you can find video tours of all of our post-2019 exhibitions on our YouTube channel.
I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the museum's annual appeal this winter - your generosity allows us to continue to present high quality exhibitions, programs and events, all for free and open to all, and to present all of our exhibition materials bi-lingually in Spanish. If you have not yet given, and would like to, you can donate using this link.
Those of you who have kindly contributed to our Black Art Fund have been instrumental in helping us to continue the important work of diversifying our collection. Our most recent acquisitions using these funds were three lithographs by Tennessee artist Althea Murphy-Price, from the series Ombre, including Deep Wave (illustrated above).
Our most recent donation of artwork to the Black Art Fund, is the beautiful Romare Bearden color lithograph Three Women (Easter Sunday) (shown above). We are very grateful to Evelyn Boulware and Russell Goings for this generous gift, and splendid addition to our collection.
We hope to help you to brighten the dark days of winter with our exhibitions and programs. Don't forget that almost all of them are live-streamed and recorded, so you can enjoy them from the warmth and comfort of your home if you don't feel like venturing out. We have two more exhibitions opening in late April, In Their Element(s): Women Artists Across Media, and Peter Anton: Just Desserts (you can check our upcoming exhibitions page anytime to see what is coming). There is lots to look forward to in the months ahead - don't forget to check our Eventbrite page to see all of the upcoming events and programs. I hope to see you in the galleries one day soon!
Artfully yours, Carey
Carey Mack Weber Frank and Clara Meditz Executive Director
Image Captions: Norma Minkowitz, Victim, 1995. Fiber, paint, resin. Courtesy of the artist and browngrotta arts. Althea Murphy-Price, Ombre. Color lithograph. Museum purchase with funds from the Black Art Fund, 2022. Romare Bearden, Three Women (Easter Sunday), 1979. Color lithograph. Gift of Evelyn Boulware and Russell Goings, 2023.
