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ADVEN TURES IN ART & HISTO RY April-June 2017 A NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR Friends, Spring at The MATT means exhibition If you’re feeling inspired by the Peanuts gang, openings! This May we are thrilled to host I invite you to get your art on by checking out Heartbreak in Peanuts on loan from the Charles the new Studio Art Workshops (pg. 13) M. Shultz Museum and Research Center. I our Director of Education, Heather performed the role of Charlie Brown in my Whitehouse has planned. For everyone from high school’s spring musical so this comic budding artist to experienced pro, these legend has a special place in my heart. In workshops provide an opportunity to create fact, this weekly cartoon spans multiple artwork while having fun and honing skills. generations of fans and offers our visitors an opportunity to reconnect with the beloved Waterbury is what inspires me! You Peanuts characters from their childhood, and may have noticed I end my letters with will offer young children an introduction to #IBelieveInWaterbury. We have launched a these great American icons. call to artists (pg. 7) to invite them to share what inspires them about the Brass City. This exhibition also resonates with The September 2017 exhibit and collateral Waterbury's history. Did you know that The programming will feature works submitted Eastern Color Printing Company, which was by artists from across the State working owned by the Republican-American, produced in all media—including visual arts, sound what is considered by many to be the first art, spoken word, theatre, dance, music American comic book!! Famous Funnies, No. 1, composition, installation, performance art and 1934, featuring the adventures of Mutt and intervention. We want artists to visit the City Jeff, Donald Dare, Buck Rogers and others, and then share with our audiences works that began the comic book industry that continues capture what is uplifting and inspiring about to engage us today. Waterbury. I invite you to spend some time @ The MATT this Spring and be inspired! Whether you stop by on Mother’s Day with your family to check out our Community Day celebration (pg. 15), experience with friends one of our many wellness programs in the galleries (pg. 10), or spend Father’s Day exploring Yankees or Red Sox: America’s Greatest Rivalry and participating in our special programs (pg. 17), there is truly something for everyone! I hope to see you often. With deep appreciation, – Bob Burns, Director #IBelieveInWaterbury COVER IMAGE: JANET FISH, TEAPOT WITH APPLE, 2007 GIFT OF CLAUDIA DEMONTE AND ED MCGOWIN IMAGE COURTESY OF BLEACHER + EVERARD PHOTOGRAPHY @THE MATT 3 @THE MATT EXHIBITIONS IMAGES © 2017 PEANUTS WORLDWIDE LLC (ABOVE) PEANUTS DAILY HEARTBREAK IN PEANUTS STRIP FEBRUARY 13, 1968 AND PEANUTS DAILY STRIP MAY 3, 1984 MAY 20 - AUGUST 13, 2017 (BELOW) CHARLIE BROWN HEART Love is everywhere in Peanuts—Charlie Brown loves the Little Red-Haired Girl, Lucy adores Schroeder, Sally pursues Linus—but sadly these sentiments are rarely returned. Experience the joys and sorrows of unrequited love Peanuts-style in the traveling exhibition, Heartbreak in Peanuts. Join the Peanuts characters as they continually return to their hopeless quests for love, undaunted by defeat. The exhibition presents 50 high quality digital reproductions of original Peanuts comic strips which focus on narratives of lost love. Heartbreak in Peanuts is organized and toured by the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center, Santa Rosa, California. RECEPTION Mattatuck Museum exhibition supported in part by: Sunday, May 21, 1:00-3:00 p.m. RELATED PROGRAM STORY TIME (p. 15) Wednesday, June 28, 10:00 a.m. HIGHLIGHTS TOUR Sunday, March 26, 12:00–1:00 p.m. Join us for a docent-led overview tour of several of the special exhibitions on display in the Museum this Spring. Stay for the opening reception beginning at 1:00 p.m. BLACK & WHITE Photographs from the Collection of Kevin McNamara & Craig Nowak ON VIEW THROUGH JULY 16, 2017 This exhibition draws from the contemporary collection of Kevin McNamara and Craig Nowak. It features photographs by masters of 20th and 21st century American photography including John Dugdale, Sally Mann, and Jock Sturges, among others. Like many contemporary photographers, the artists in this exhibition make imaginative use of the camera’s power to document reality. Their pictures pose questions about identity, self- representation, history and truth. RECEPTION Sunday, March 26, 1:00-3:00 p.m. RELATED PROGRAMS AFTERNOON WITH THE COLLECTORS (p. 11) Sunday, April 30, 2:00–4:00 p.m. ART OF COLLECTING (p. 11) Tuesday, May 23, 5:30 p.m. TOM BARIL (B. 1952), TWO ROSES (DETAIL), 2002 GELATIN SILVER PRINT FROM WET-PLATE GLASS NEGATIVE MATTATUCK MUSEUM; GIFT OF KEVIN MCNAMARA AND CRAIG NOWAK IN HONOR OF NANCY RUSTICO FIRST LOOK/NEW TO THE COLLECTION ON VIEW THROUGH MAY 14, 2017 The collection is the heart of a museum. It’s here that the idea for the next big exhibition might be sparked and where a museum shapes its identity. Since the arrival of Director Bob Burns in 2012, he and Curator Dr. Cynthia Roznoy, have not only increased the exhibition program to more than twenty changing exhibits each year, they have reinstalled the Museum’s collections galleries and significantly grown the Museum’s permanent collection through gifts and acquisitions. Working with the Collections Committee, the team set a course of action in collections management. First Look includes gifts, promised gifts and Museum purchases over the past five years and highlights works by Richard Bosman, Frank DuMond, Janet Fish, Jasper Johns, Dina Melicov and Tom Yost, among others. RECEPTION RELATED PROGRAM Sunday, March 26, 1:00-3:00 p.m. ART OF COLLECTING (p. 11) Tuesday, May 9, 5:30 p.m. FROM LEFT: CURATOR DR. CYNTHIA ROZNOY, COLLECTIONS MANAGER SUZIE FATEH, AND DIRECTOR BOB BURNS EVALUATE A RECENT ACQUISITION TO THE MUSEUM'S COLLECTION LUMINOUS GARDEN Beth Galston ON VIEW THROUGH JULY 16, 2017 Sculptor and conceptual artist Beth Galston creates site-specific installations that are informed by many sources, including science, architecture, engineering, and nature. The immersive environment of Luminous Garden (Aerial) is an ephemeral light piece made of tiny yellow LEDs set in cast resin acorn caps. Supported in part through a gift from David & Mara Sfara to underwrite exhibits in The Lab. RECEPTION Sunday, March 26, 1:00-3:00 p.m. RELATED PROGRAM AFTERNOON WITH THE ARTIST (p. 11) Sunday, April 30, 2:00–4:00 p.m. BETH GALSTON, LUMINOUS GARDEN (AERIAL) (DETAIL), 2009/2017 IMAGE CREDIT: (TOP) JOE DIMAGGIO'S 56 GAME HITTING STREAK, THE RIFKIN COLLECTION (BOTTOM)100 YEARS OF FENWAY PARK, COLLECTION OF NEIL SCHERER YANKEES OR RED SOX America’s Greatest Rivalry MARCH 26 - DECEMBER 3, 2017 Like most sports rivalries, picking a side in the Red Sox-Yankee rivalry is almost entirely geographic – and Connecticut is at the epicenter, more or less being split in two. Guest curated by sports lover Neil Scherer, this exhibition had its inception in the 2004 American League Champion Series. This was the infamous year that the Yankees won the first three games, leading everyone to believe the Yankees would sweep, only to leave America stunned as the Red Sox rebounded to win the remaining four games and their first World Series title in 86 years. Scherer was at the deciding seventh game. In this exhibition Sherer tells this and other exciting stories about each team. Supported in part by MacDermid Performance Solutions. RECEPTION Sunday, March 26, 1:00-3:00 p.m. COMMUNITY FREE DAY: FAMILY ACTIVITY (p. 15) RELATED PROGRAMS Sunday, April 9, 1:00 p.m. FATHER'S DAY (p. 17) Sunday, June 18, 1:00–3:00 p.m. CALL TO ARTISTS #IBELIEVEINWATERBURY Announcing a call to artists for an exhibition to be presented September 10 – December 3, 2017. Curated by Bob Burns, Director, Mattatuck Museum; Judith 7 @THE MATT McElhone, Director, Five Points Gallery; and Will K. Wilkins, Director, Real Art Ways, Hartford. All styles and media are encouraged. EXHIBITIONS Focusing on the City of Waterbury, artists are challenged to identify the unique aspects of the city and her people that resonate for them. We are asking artists to share their inspiration with us in works that demonstrate the beauty, joy, prosperity, and growing momentum of Waterbury. FEDERICO URIBE, QUEDAMOS EN PAZ #3 (DETAIL), 2015 Artist submissions due by Tuesday, August 1. For more information visit mattmuseum.org. QUEDAMOS EN PAZ #3 Federico Uribe PROJECT Q&A FOR ARTISTS MARCH 26 – JULY 16, 2017 Tuesday, April 18, 5:30 p.m. Sunday, June 11, 12:30 p.m. Artists are invited to join us for a casual Colombian-born, Miami-based artist Q&A with light refreshments and music. Federico Uribe trained as a painter, but in Looking for a little insight? Talk with 1996 he abandoned paint brushes to make museum staff and members of the art with the objects of everyday life. In the community who have a deep passion for At Peace series he creates sculptures from Waterbury and find out what the city ammunition, his work informed both by his means to them. homeland Colombia, where violence is part of daily life, and the epidemic of gun crime in the United States where he has lived for 15 years. This large scale work depicts a peaceful garden where sun shines, flowers bloom, and animals play. RECEPTION Sunday, March 26, 1:00-3:00 p.m. RELATED PROGRAM COMMUNITY FREE DAY: FAMILY ACTIVITY (p. 15) Sunday, June 11, 1:00 p.m. ON THE JOB FOR VICTORY World War I Posters CONTINUES THROUGH APRIL 23, 2017 Waterbury responded to the April 6, 1917 call to take up arms against Germany by sending 5,000 men and women to various branches of the services.
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