OCTOBER- DECEMBER 2018 Plan Your Visit LOCATION & PARKING Mattatuck Museum 144 West Main Street Waterbury, CT 06702 (203) 753-0381 Mattmuseum.Org Visitor Information
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OCTOBER- DECEMBER 2018 Plan Your Visit LOCATION & PARKING Mattatuck Museum 144 West Main Street Waterbury, CT 06702 (203) 753-0381 mattmuseum.org visitor information MUSEUM TOURS $12 Adults SCHOOL & YOUTH GROUP TOURS led by Museum Educators offer a Mattatuck Museum VISIT US $3 Children variety of gallery programs, which can be modified for specific scouting @mattatuckmuseum MUSEUM HOURS requirements or groups with special needs. All programs can be tailored Tuesday - Saturday: 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. to your schedule and age group. Programs support the CT Common @mattatuck_museum Sunday: 12 noon-5:00 p.m. Core State Standards. Visit mattmuseum.org/education for tour options. mattmuseum Last entry to Museum galleries is at 4:30 p.m. OPEN LATE the First Thursday of each month: 5:00-7:00 p.m. $12 Adults GUIDED ADULT GROUP TOURS for changing exhibitions, Mattatuck Museum Holiday Schedule $9 Seniors (65+) permanent collection, and history exhibit available. Reservations $9 College Students must be made at least three weeks in advance. 10 person minimum. Columbus Day (October 8): 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Veteran's Day (November 12): 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. ORDER LUNCH AND SPEND THE DAY Thanksgiving (November 22): Closed PARKING & Spend the day @ The MATT and enjoy lunch in our café. Lunch must be Christmas Day (December 25): Closed HANDICAPPED ACCESS pre-ordered at time of booking and can be added to tours of 10 or more. New Year's Day (January 1): Closed FREE parking is available $18 per person Boxed Lunch (provided by Riverhouse Catering) in all lots on Park Place. MUSEUM ADMISSION Choice of three gourmet sandwiches, fruit, chips, dessert, and water The MATT is fully handicap FREE for Members and Children 16 & under accessible (enter using $120 for small platter Sandwich Platters (provided by Nardelli's Grinder Shoppe) the side entrance on Park $10 General $180 for large platter Choice of seven sandwiches, comes with side salad and cookie tray Place). $7 Seniors (65+) & Students with valid College ID Small (serves 10-15) & Large (serves 18-25) $6 AARP Members (price extended to one additional guest) For GPS parking directions: MUSEUMS ON US (1st full weekend of the month) OFF-SITE TOURS 21 Park Place Free admission for Bank of America & Merrill Lynch cardholders. Waterbury, CT 06702 MATT ON THE GO FOR ADULT LIFE-LONG LEARNERS brings the COMMUNITY FREE DAY (NEW DAY - 2nd Saturday of each month) Museum to your site virtually by examining the newest exhibits or Explore the Museum all day at no charge and co-create a family- Schedule MATT on the Go going down memory lane in our history gallery, in the comfort of friendly art project in our CAMPsite. by contacting: your own facility. History tours include a visit by our trained educator LIBRARY MEMBERSHIPS (Admits up to 2 adults and children 16 & under.) Heather Whitehouse with historic artifacts to share and touch for a tactile experience. Talk with your local library to see if they are Library Members Director of Education Sponsored by the Connecticut Community Foundation. @ The MATT. Check-out their pass and receive free admission. (203) 753-0381 x117 or NOTE: All free admission programs are for galleries only, program fees and [email protected]. With OUTREACH FOR YOUNG ADULTS AND CHILDREN we aim special events are not included. to make a difference in people’s lives in our community. Why not invite us to your facility? We have specially trained educators that Schedule a tour come to your site for a conversation about the Museum and an or customized program accompanying hands-on art project. by contacting: (cover image) Daniel Greene, Sophie—Waiting for the Train, 2016 Molly Norton Let us come to you for ACCESSING AUTISM, a unique artistic Oil on wood, 34 x 32 in. (framed), Courtesy of Miller Gallery, Cincinatti, OH Educator Manager experience! Children with Autism and special needs can enjoy a (203) 753-0381 x114 or tailored discussion with trained Museum Educators and experience [email protected]. hands-on activities related to collections and exhibitions. 2 MATTMUSEUM.ORG MATTATUCK MUSEUM OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2018 3 A Note From the Director Help Us End Our Year Strong! Greetings, Dear Friends, As the autumn leaves begin to fall, we are pleased to present I am thrilled to be wrapping up my first year at the Museum, which retrospective exhibits of two artists from our region: Daniel Greene (p. 7) has been full of exciting exhibitions and enticing programs. We have organized by The Butler Institute of American Art in Ohio and Saved welcomed nearly 7,500 school children for tours and afterschool from Silence (p. 7), which sheds new light on the work of Durham, CT programs, produced 100+ public programs, and presented over 30 artist William Kent. Body / Parts (p. 7), our second collaboration with exhibitions. I hope you were able to join us for one or more of these collector Raymond J. Learsy, explores the human form as envisioned by amazing opportunities. top contemporary artists in the Learsy collection. I was fortunate to experience the opening of Jane Peterson: At Home Among the many souvenirs of Francis “Fay” Vincent, Jr.’s tenure as and Abroad—the first retrospective of her work in over 40 years and Commissioner of Major League Baseball (1989-1992) is his collection the Mattatuck’s first traveling show (currently at its last stop, the Hyde of signed photographs and baseballs. A gift to the Mattatuck Collection in Glens Falls, New York)—which Cynthia, our curator, Museum, Vincent’s collection will be on public display for the first time worked on for many months before I arrived. In May, we opened in The Many Faces of Baseball (p. 10). Frágil Maneje con Cuidado, the MATT’s first exhibit to offer Spanish and English labels, wall text, and programming. Spanish was my first You spoke and we listened! Our monthly Community Free Day is language and this show was near to my heart. moving to Saturdays! There are activities for families of all ages at Community Free Days, Story Time for Toddlers, and NEW Stroller This summer has been a flurry of activity. In addition to opening Tours for caregivers and their infants (pp. 18 & 19). Do your kids need ICEBERGS!, Lesley Dill, and Mattatuck Mini-Golf, I have admired children Bob Burns, Director something to do on Columbus Day, Veterans Day, or Black Friday? Drop creating art in the galleries during Summer Youth Art and participating Cyndi Tolosa, photo courtesy of them off at the Museum for full-day art immersion programs while in science-themed programs in conjunction with ICEBERGS!. Director of Development bleacher + everard photography you work or shop (p. 20). Without supporters like you, none of this would be possible! As our We’ve planned an array of adult programs for you including monthly fiscal year draws to a close on September 30 I would like to invite you exhibition talks (p. 13), exciting adult studio workshops (p. 16), and to help us make the upcoming year as memorable as this last one. our Halloween MATT by Night (p. 14). Music @ The MATT (p. 15), Please show your support by making a tax-deductible gift to our Mission presented in November and December features performances by the Annual Fund today. The Annual Fund is The Mattatuck Museum Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Connecticut Accordion Association the primary source of Thank you for your support and commitment to our mission. I hope to is a center of art and Orchestra, and by local favorites Marissa Famiglietti and Shae Apland. operating support for history, a gathering place see you soon @ the MATT! the Museum, covering that nurtures creativity Mark your calendar for the opening of our next series of exhibitions Warm regards, building maintenance and learning through on Sunday, December 2. Convergence: Meditations on American Cyndi and security and transformative experiences Landscape (p. 8), guest curated by Jennifer Terzian, explores to encourage a deeper guaranteeing that we contemporary landscape painting through juxtaposition with our understanding of ourselves can continue to offer and our heritage. nineteenth century paintings. Also opening are exhibits featuring expanded programming landscapes by Natalie van Vleck (p. 8) and Fred Staloff (p. 9). 30,000 VISITORS and thought-provoking Vision exhibitions. If you have The Mattatuck Museum Don’t forget to send in your submissions for the 2019 MIXMASTER any questions, please will be known as a vibrant Juried Artists’ Show. We would love to see your work in our galleries. destination inspiring visitors LOCAL STUDENTS THAT reach out Cyndi at I am honored to be this year's Keynote speaker at the Watertown TOURED THE MUSEUM from New England and 7,500 (203) 753-0381 x120 or beyond. Foundation's 93rd Annual Meeting on Wednesday, October 10th at [email protected]. the Watertown Golf Club. I hope you can join me to hear about all the great things they are doing for our community. Find out more about the event at watertownfoundation.com. Join Us! 550 MEMBERSHIPS INCLUDING INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY, SENIOR Come celebrate our 140th year with us here @ The MATT! I look & INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERSHIPS forward to seeing you soon! Bob Burns, Director #IBelieveInWaterbury CORPORATE 67 PARTNERS 4 MATTMUSEUM.ORG MATTATUCK MUSEUM OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2018 5 On view through DANIEL GREENE November 18, 2018 A Retrospective Organized by The Butler Institute of American Art, this retrospective showcases the realist art of Daniel Greene. Greene’s art demonstrates both skill and imagination, and carries on the great American tradition of narrative painting. This exhibition features more than thirty works that trace the evolution of his style over the course of his six-decade career.