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John Cotton Dana Founding Director ISSN 2472-9701 TheDANA Newark Museum, a not-for-profit © Copyright 2017 museum of art and science, receives Newark Museum operating support from the City of Newark, 49 Washington Street the State of , the New Jersey TABLE OF CONTENTS: Newark, NJ 07102-3176 State Council on the Arts/Department of State—a partner agency of the National DANA is published by the Newark Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey Museum Association as a benefit of Cultural Trust, the Prudential Foundation, Museum membership. the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, It can also be viewed at the Victoria Foundation, the Wallace newarkmuseum.org/membership Foundation, the and other corporations, foundations and individuals. Funds for Ulysses G. Dietz acquisitions and activities other than Chief Curator, operations are provided by members 1 Message from the Chief Curator Curator of Decorative Arts & and other contributors. Interim Co-Director 2 Arts of Global Africa Deborah Kasindorf Deputy Director, Gallery Hours Institutional Advancement & Wednesday through Sunday, 4 Repertoire - Molly Hatch's Magnum Opus Interim Co-Director noon–5 pm Closed Monday and Tuesday U. Michael Schumacher 5 A New Home for the Director of Marketing except for (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 1, July 4, Thanksgiving Day, Ancient Mediterranean Collection Design: Alex Dreyfuss and December 25.) Printing: Hanover Printing of NJ. Inc. Barrier-free entrance and on-site 6 Membership Comments can be sent to: parking available for a fee. [email protected] Museum Admission 8 Development To receive the latest information on Museum events and programs, Adults: $15; Children, Seniors, Veterans sign up for our monthly eBlast at and Students with valid ID: $8; 10 Education newarkmuseum.org/email-signup Members and Newark Residents: FREE

Newark Museum Association Not yet a member? 973.596.6699 13 Impact Clifford Blanchard, Co-Chair General Information: 973.596.6550 Christine C. Gilfillan, Co-Chair Group Reservations: 973.596.6690 Jacob S. Buurma, Vice President TTY: 711 Robert H. Doherty, Vice President 14 Society Stephanie Glickman, Vice President Kathy Grier, Vice President For information about exhibitions, Peter B. Sayre, Treasurer programs and events, as well as for 15 Behind the Scenes directions and parking information, Executive Committee Members visit us at newarkmuseum.org. Shahid Malik 16 Upcoming Exhibition Ronald M. Ollie

City of Newark 17 New Aquisitions Ras J. Baraka, Mayor

Municipal Council Mildred C. Crump, President Augusto Amador, East Ward John S. James, South Ward Carlos M. Gonzalez, At-Large Anibal Ramos Jr., North Ward Gayle Chaneyfield Jenkins, Central Ward Joseph McCallum, West Ward Eddie Osborne, At-Large Luis A. Quintana, At-Large Cover image: DANA magazine is made possible by a generous grant from Lady Walking a Tightrope, 2006. Yinka Shonibare, MBE. Mixed media, 67 x 122 x 43.25 in. Purchase 2007 Helen McMahon Brady Cutting Fund 2007.5a ii | DANA Fall/Winter 2017 MESSAGE FROM THE CHIEF CURATOR Welcome! A New Year, A New Way In. the bustling main entrance. New permanent first-floor galleries We will celebrate the New Year at the Newark Museum with have been designed, and the the much-anticipated reopening of the historic 1926 Louis main building’s second floor has Bamberger Entrance in early 2018. The dramatically reno- been transformed into a state- vated entrance is more than just a new way to enter the of-the-art exhibition space. The Museum; it represents a new way to see one of America’s Native American collections great cultural institutions. moved to the North Wing last year with the installation of Chicago architect Jarvis Hunt was chosen by Newark Native Artists of North America. In December of this year, department store magnate Louis Bamberger in 1923 to two new galleries will open adjacent to the rechristened design the city’s new museum building. Entirely funded by Dorothy Eweson Gallery: Arts of Global Africa, celebrating the Mr. Bamberger, the Newark Museum’s new home was to centennial of the Museum’s incomparable African collections; be a very different kind of place than America’s other great and Art of the Ancient Mediterranean: Egypt, Greece and urban . It was purposely set right on the street, in Rome, which showcases the art of everyday life in the ancient the heart of downtown, rather than isolated from the city western world. center in one of Newark’s great Olmsted-designed parks. It was easily accessible to all of Newark’s citizens on foot or The new Bamberger Entrance has two parts. One is the by public transportation and was open on weekends when restored historic entrance, with the great bronze plaques by Newark’s thousands of factory and office workers had free John Flanagan greeting visitors as they climb the granite time. The Museum was to be filled with interesting things, stairs through the Museum’s massive bronze doors. The and its exhibitions would be both accessible to and useful other focus is the new ADA-compliant ramp that makes a for the city’s diverse population. stately progress up and around the north side of the Museum’s façade, entering the building through a suite of The marble-floored entrance of the 1926 Bamberger spaces devoted to visitor services. To top it all off, the dual building was always both a lobby and an exhibition hall. entrances welcome visitors into the Dorothy Eweson Gallery, By the time of the Master Plan renovation with its dazzling mural Gateway by Odili Donald Odita. of the 1980s, this was no longer an ideal configuration, due to changing realities of climate control and exhibition All of us at the Museum hope you will join us in 2018 to security. Twenty years ago, the Washington Street entrance celebrate a new beginning at New Jersey’s greatest museum. was closed, and all visitors began to arrive through the Museum’s much smaller south wing entrance, originally Ulysses Grant Dietz designed as a lobby for the Billy Johnson Auditorium. Chief Curator and Curator of Decorative Arts

The Bamberger Entrance is only one of several important Generous funding for this special capital initiative provided by: physical changes launched recently. The African and Native American collections have been aligned with the rest of the The MCJ Amelior Foundation permanent collection galleries. Also, the Museum has long Sagner Family Foundation needed a major changing exhibition space, separated from

newarkmuseum.org | 1 FEATURED INSTALLATION ARTS OF GLOBAL AFRICA GALLERY REOPENS AS ONE OF TWO FLAGSHIP INSTALLATIONS.

In 1917, exactly a century ago, the Newark Museum acquired trade and signals his upward mobility. Acquired by the its first object from Africa—a small, elegant Zulu beadwork Museum in 1977, Man with a Bicycle later captured the apron from South Africa. From these modest beginnings, attention of writer James Baldwin, who enthused in 1987: the collection has grown to encompass nearly 6,000 works from across the African continent and its global diaspora. "This is something. This has got to be contemporary! This fall, to mark the collection’s centennial, the Museum He’s really going to town! It’s very jaunty, very unveils a long-awaited reinstallation of the Arts of Global authoritative. His errand might prove impossible, Africa accompanied by the publication of its first-ever whatever it is. He’s one place on his way to another collections catalogue. Together, they offer an expansive and place. He is challenging something—or something dynamic vision of African creative expression that embraces has challenged him. He’s grounded in immediate the continent and acknowledges its global ties, past and present. reality by the bicycle."

Our brand new gallery opens in the Museum’s fully For Baldwin, the work is significant because it offers an renovated flagship space on the first floor and presents African perspective on modern life in which a bicycle is not nearly fifty works, both historic and contemporary, from necessarily a symbol of the West, as much as a reflection of throughout Africa and its diaspora. In its new location African culture. It challenges those of us outside the conti- just off the main lobby, the Arts of Global Africa will have nent to rethink our ideas about Africa and African art. greater visibility and will connect more strongly to our other art collections in the North Wing galleries. Those It seems fitting, then, that Man with a Bicycle serves as interested in digging deeper into the collection will enjoy a point of entry to the representation of the arts of global the accompanying catalogue. It highlights one hundred Africa at the Newark Museum as the first work to greet objects from the collections, from the ancient Egyptian visitors entering the new gallery (and as the cover image on coffin lid of Henet-Met (a centerpiece of our new antiquities our catalogue). Like our jaunty man with his bike, the works gallery) to a 2014 video installation by Berlin-based artist presented in our gallery showcase the great diversity of the Theo Eshetu (a highlight in the new African gallery). More Museum’s collection and illustrate the cultural complexity than forty scholars from around the world have contributed of the continent. We think they offer a very different vision to this publication, writing individual entries as well as of “African art” than what is normally considered. The range essays focusing on the collection’s distinctive strengths— North African art, textiles, art of the Yoruba, modern and New installation features classic pieces such as an Epa headdress contemporary art. from Nigeria and a newly commissioned work by Simone Leigh.

During the course of planning and developing this project, one work from the collection was a special source of inspiration: a sculpture of a man with his bicycle. Made sometime in the mid-twentieth century by a Yoruba artist working in southwestern Nigeria, it may represent a mer- chant en route to market. The man bears scarification marks on his face and wears Western-style dress. The bicycle, introduced to the region in the 1920s, facilitates

2 | DANA Fall/Winter 2017 of works on view include Ethiopian religious icons, gold rega- lia from Ghana, North African jewelry, South African bead- work, and studio portrait photography. They are presented in thematic sections that focus on the visual expression of spiritual beliefs, the relationship between art and leadership, and the human body as artistic canvas and source of inspi- ration.

The last section of the gallery is devoted to contemporary arts of global Africa, a special strength of the Museum’s collection. The works on view broadly explore the theme of migration—of people, objects, materials, or ideas. They include Newark Museum visitor favorites, such as the shimmering metal wall sculpture by acclaimed artist El Anatsui, made from discarded liquor bottle tops. New acquisitions include photographs by New Jersey-born, Johannesburg-based artist Ayana Jackson in which she uses self-portraiture to reimagine the life of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a Yoruba woman presented as a gift to Queen Victoria in the nineteenth century. Elsewhere in this gallery are major works by Theo Eshetu, Lalla Essaydi, Serge Nitegeka, Herve Youmbi, and Simone Leigh.

Nearly a decade in the making, the project has been devel- oped with the input of an advisory group of internationally Arts of Global Africa, on view in the recognized academics, curators, and educators convened Brady Gallery, first floor, main building as part of the Museum’s intensive and thorough planning phase. The reinstallation and related catalogue have received Major support provided by: extraordinary support, including $1 million from the Andrew Dickinson Family Foundation; The Andrew W. Mellon W. Mellon Foundation, a $500,000 Challenge Grant from Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities; the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as an Sagner Family Foundation; and Victoria Foundation. additional $1.5 million in private donations. Additional support provided by: The Charles E. and Edna T. Brundage Charitable Christa Clarke, Ph.D. Foundation; Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg; Gelfand Family Senior Curator, Arts of Global Africa Foundation; R. Hutter Family Fund; Dorothy D. Lewis; Arlene and Len Lieberman; Judith and Lester Z. Lieberman; Cynthia and Andrew H. Richards; Joseph L. Buckley, Esq.; Gulton Foundation, Inc.; Margaret and Anthony Richards; Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.; and other friends and patrons of the Newark Museum.

Many Came Back, (detail) 2005. El Anatsui. Aluminum (liquor bottle tops) and copper wire, 84 x 115 in. Purchase 2005 The Members' Fund 2005.34 Man with Bicycle, mid-20th c. Unrecorded Yoruba artist; Nigeria. Polychrome wood, 36 x 12 x 28 in. Purchase 1977 Wallace M. Scudder Bequest Fund and The Members' Fund 77.285a,b

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REPERTOIRE MOLLY HATCH’S MAGNUM OPUS

Two years ago, I approached Molly Hatch about doing a inspired by a textile from the Museum’s three great geographi- project for the Newark Museum. Molly, the daughter of a cal collecting areas: Africa, America, and Asia. painter and a dairy farmer, bridges contemporary design, ceramics, and painting in a way that resonates perfectly Africa is represented by Dyula Woven, inspired by a rare Dyula with the Newark Museum and its 108-year-old mission. wrapper from the Ivory Coast. Made in the early twentieth century, it was collected by the Museum’s founding director, Decorated ceramics have been a part of human culture John Cotton Dana, in 1928. For the American niche, Molly for thousands of years. But it was the last quarter of the chose an iconic blue-and-white coverlet of wool and cotton nineteenth century that saw the emergence of ceramic from the 1840s. Titled Bergen Jacquard, it honors the impor- decoration as an art form in the . Both under- tant New Jersey roots of the Museum’s enormous Decorative glaze painting and enamel decoration were skills plied by Arts collection. The third niche, Qianlong Silk, is based on an professional china painters and by amateurs, both male eighteenth-century Chinese velvet throne carpet, with stylized and female. peonies and a dancing crane.

The Newark Museum has been displaying ceramics as art Each of the three niches presents an image pixilated in under- since 1910, and it seemed fitting to cap my thirty-seven-year glaze slip decoration across approximately 186 factory-made career here with a grand ceramic gesture by a rising young white earthenware plates, totaling nearly five hundred plates American artist. Molly and in all. The design of the textiles is broken up and transfor- I talked over the course of med as the plates’ concave, shiny surfaces reflect light back several months, and she into the court. Entirely new, Repertoire evokes the pervasive presented me with the presence of art in everyday life through ceramics and textiles notion of using her ceramic across human history and civilization. installation to celebrate another universal cultural Ulysses Grant Dietz art form in Newark’s Chief Curator and Curator of Decorative Arts collections: textiles. Accordingly, having studied On view in the Charles W. Engelhard Court, the Museum’s vast and first floor, main building diverse textile holdings, Molly settled on the idea Visit our website to watch a video of the installation process: of a massive, three-part newarkmuseum.org installation entitled Repertoire. The three north Made possible by: niches in the Charles W. Barbara and William Weldon Engelhard Court will each Raymond and Mary Courtien hold a different artwork Newark Museum Volunteer Organization

4 | DANA Fall/Winter 2017 A NEW HOME FOR THE ANCIENT contracted with Dr. Fitzgerald to create a new interpretive REPERTOIRE MOLLY HATCH’S MAGNUM OPUS MEDITERRANEAN COLLECTION installation showcasing the art of everyday life in Egypt, Greece, and Rome. After twenty-eight years, the Ancient Mediterranean

collection needed a new home. The ongoing renovation of The purpose of the installation the 1926 Bamberger Entrance necessitated using the space is to document the diverse yet formerly allocated to the Egyptian, Roman, and Greek interconnected nation-states holdings for essential visitor services. We took this as an that rose and fell on the waves of the ancient Mediterranean opportunity to bring new relevance and visibility to one Sea. In the newly designed of my favorite collections. Tucked away in its little suite of gallery, everyday objects tell galleries in the northeast corner of the Bamberger building, the stories of three distinct the antiquities collection had become overlooked by much cultures—Egyptian, Greek, and Roman—defined by maritime of the Museum’s audience. Comprising nearly 4,500 objects Painted pottery amphora for oil or wine. Athens, Greece, connections among Africa, ca. 530 BC. Eugene Schaefer Collection, from the ancient world, Newark’s antiquities collection is Europe, the Near East, and Gift of Mrs. Eugene Schaefer, 1950 50.277 substantial and is most celebrated for its holdings of ancient Asia. While each culture had its own distinctive values and glass—one of the finest such collections in the country. artistic traditions, all developed in conversation with one Moreover, the Museum’s Education department relies on another over hundreds of years in an early version of a global economy. The groups of objects illuminate the role of the Ancient Mediterranean gallery as part of its work with glassmaking, sculpture, funerary art, metalwork, and ceramics curriculum-based school programs. in homes and temples across the greater Mediterranean.

We made the decision to relocate the collection—Art of the That these objects have survived over thousands of years Ancient Mediterranean: Egypt, Greece & Rome—to the current is remarkable. That they are still meaningful to our lives South Gallery, which will not only afford it greater today is nothing short of a miracle. visibility, but will make it the starting point for the One of the core themes of the installation is the impor- Museum’s permanent tance and meaning of materials, from luxury goods made for collection galleries. Telling members of the aristocracy, to more commonplace objects the story of art in everyday that were part of daily life across empires. With the idea of life in the ancient world, empire goes that of multiculturalism and evolving cultural the Ancient Mediterranean influences. As different civilizations expanded and contracted gallery will offer a preamble across the geography to the newly installed Art of of the Mediterranean Global Africa gallery across world, aspects of their distinctive cultures the Charles W. Engelhard Pomegranate-shaped glass vessel. Egypt, 12th century BC Court. From there the Eugene Schaefer Collection, moved along with Gift of Mrs. Eugene Schaefer, 1950 gallery will guide visitors to 50.1249 commerce and waves of migration across the rest of the permanent The above work is currently on view in the lands of the Carved marble fish platter and sauce bottle. Roman, first century. collections in the Museum’s the reinstalled African gallery, which also Purchase 1994 Sophronia Anderson Bequest Fund and The Members' Fund 94.48a-c North Wing. includes works from antiquity. Egyptians, the Greeks, and the Romans. Armed with an enthusiastic recommendation from fellow curator Dr. Christa Clarke, the Museum contacted Dr. Clare Ulysses Grant Dietz Fitzgerald, senior manager of education programs at the Chief Curator and Curator of Decorative Arts Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University in Atlanta. Dr. Fitzgerald is not only an expert in the field, but puts her Art of the Ancient Mediterranean: Egypt, Greece & Rome knowledge to daily practice as an educator with the On view in the South Gallery, first floor, main building. Carlos Museum’s renowned antiquities holdings. The Museum

newarkmuseum.org | 5 MEMBERSHIP GIVE THE GIFT OF A MUSEUM MEMBERSHIP IT'S THE PERFECT SIZE, COLOR, AND STYLE

Make art a priority in someone’s life this season. Now is the perfect time to join the Newark Museum. Members enjoy unlimited FREE admission to our galleries, including the newly reinstalled Arts of Global Africa, Art of the Ancient Mediterranean, and the newly com- missioned Gateway by Odili Donald Odita. Members also receive a discount in the Museum Shop, FREE admission to Museum-related Family Gallery Workshops, adult lectures, courses and workshops that are designed to educate, inspire, and nurture creativity. A Newark Museum membership promises a year filled with delightful experiences and savings! Join before December 31st at the patron level or above and receive two extra parking passes as our gift to you! FREE MEMBERSHIP FOR MEMBERS MORNINGS NEWARK RESIDENTS SAVE THE DATE The Museum has been a public treasure in the city SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 2018, 10 AM–NOON of Newark for more than a hundred years. Today, we Join us for an exclusive tour of our newly renovated galleries: continue our mission to educate and inspire Newark Arts of Global Africa and Art of Ancient Mediterranean: Egypt, residents by providing free admission and access to our Greece & Rome. Following the tour, Members will enjoy a light collections and educational programs. Whether you have breakfast and conversation. Space is limited. been here recently to view our impressive collections, or Please visit newarkmuseum.org to RSVP have not visited since you were a child, we invite you to make the Newark Museum your Museum today. ALSO, BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR OUR SPRING 2018 To become a member, MEMBERS MORNINGS! contact us at: membership@ Several times throughout the year, Members are invited for newarkmuseum.org gallery talks and activities with our curators, docents, and or call Leland Byrd, Museum staff. This spring, we will be exploring our upcoming Membership Associate, shows, The Rockies and the Alps: Bierstadt, Calame, and the at 973.596.6686. Romance of the Mountains and Dramatic Threads: Textiles of Asia. Plus exciting tours and activities featuring works from our permanent collection! Details to come. SAVE THE DATE

NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING OF MEMBERS

Tuesday, February 20, 2018 | 6-8 pm

Featured speaker: Tricia Laughlin Bloom, Curator of American Art Topic: The Rockies and the Alps: Bierstadt, Calame, and the Romance of the Mountains

See page 16 for exhibition details.

6 | DANA Fall/Winter 2017 NEWARK MUSEUM MEMBERS TRAVEL

Our 2018 travel year looks great! Whether you are interested in an international adventure, a domestic jaunt or a day’s escapade, the Newark Museum has an exciting, educational, and just plain fun trip for you. Join other Museum members on an unforgettable trip not offered elsewhere. Discover something different and make new memories.

HERE’S A SAMPLING OF SOME UNIQUE TRAVEL OPPORTUNITIES:

International Destinations Changing Tides of History: Cruising the Baltic Sea | June 11-19, 2018 This trip takes you to Sweden, Estonia, St. Petersburg, Finland, and Denmark, and includes hearing from historic speakers Lech Walesa, former President of Poland, and Sergei Khrushchev, son of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.

Domestic Excursions American Civil War North + South Legacy Cruise | June 24-July 2, 2018 Cruise the American Queen from New Orleans to Memphis, personally escorted by the great-great-grandsons of US President Ulysses S. Grant and CSA President Jefferson Davis: Ulysses Grant Dietz and Bertram Hayes-Davis.

For a complete listing of the trips offered, visit the Members Travel section of the Museum’s website: www.newarkmuseum.org/members-travel

You can also get more information or register for a trip by contacting: Merle Lomrantz, Director of Member Travel Services [email protected] 973.596.6643

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NEW GRANTS NEWARK BLACK FILM ENHANCE ACCESSIBILITY FESTIVAL ATTRACTS NEW TO ARTS OF ASIA COLLECTION CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP

Two new grants are helping the Museum make the Asian art The Newark Museum was proud to partner with collection more accessible to scholars and public audiences. Hennessy V.S.O.P. Privilège for the 43rd Newark Black Thanks to the support of the Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Film Festival. As the festival’s Official Spirit sponsor, Foundation, the Museum will be able to improve the storage of the Hennessy joined presenting sponsor Bank of America Korean art collection, protecting important works from damage and and Official Airline sponsor United in engaging deterioration. Funding will also thousands of film aficionados through compelling enable the Museum to place screenings of African and African-American cinema. images and information about Hennessy hosted a VIP reception prior to the screening six hundred objects from the of Steps on July 12, 2017, which featured participation collection into the E-Museum by the film’s writer and director Eddie Harris, database, which can be accessed government officials, artists, scholars, and supporters online by the public. Through of the Museum. The Newark Museum relies upon the a grant from the Metropolitan support of the corporate community to help further its Center for Far Eastern Art exhibition and education mission to serve hundreds of Studies, the Museum’s Research thousands of visitors each year. To learn more about Library and Archives will acquire corporate partnership opportunities, contact the approximately seventy books development office at 973.596.6571. in the field of Japanese art and culture, enhancing the mission

Imperial Helmet and Armor, 1905, Joseon Dynasty of the Newark Museum by Wool, fur, jade, amber, gilt bronze, silver, enamel, lacquer Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Edward Henry Harriman, 1934 making information on the 34.229A-F fine arts and decorative arts available to researchers, curators, scholars, and students from Official Airline throughout the region. Museum members and the general public will also have access to these rich resources for their own educational purposes. The Museum is grateful for the generous support of these institutions.

2018 NEWARK MUSEUM LEGACY GALA | SATURDAY, MAY 12, 2018

Please plan to join us for an elegant evening celebrating our spectacular global collections. The Legacy Gala provides crucial funding for the outstanding exhibitions and education programs the Museum presents each year. THE DATE

Honoring: Ellen Lambert Louis Bamberger Medal for Meritorious Service SAVE

United Airlines Distinguished Community Partner Award

For more information, please call the development office at 973.596.6579.

8 | DANA Fall/Winter 2017 WHY I GIVE People like YOU, our Newark Museum supporters, make great things possible. What better way to celebrate our generous and dedicated members than to have them recall in their own words why this museum matters to them?

“All the time that I have spent at the Newark Museum in the galle- ries with friends, fellow docents, and curators has had a profound im- What inspires you pact on the contemporary work I collect, in both dramatic and subtle to give back to the ways. As a painter and a printmaker, I have a deep connection to the Newark Museum’s rich collections and top-notch exhibitions. The in- Newark Museum? fluence on my own work and collecting has meant a great deal to me.”

- Judy Targan (South Orange, NJ) Tell us your story. Founder’s Society member, artist, collector Share your favorite memory, a "There are so many ways to give to the Newark Museum that every one memorable experience in the of us can have that distinct pleasure. My immediate family has always galleries, or your reasons for been in the field of education so we never really had extra money to supporting the Newark Museum. donate to the museum; but we gave in other ways—mostly time and work, inspiration and, of course, bragging. I was thrilled to organize a Contact us at volunteer organization at the Museum and be its founding president. I can’t [email protected] or believe that was so many years ago, so many thousands and thousands of call 973.596.6491. We look forward to volunteer hours ago." hearing from you!

- Verdenal Hoag Johnson (Dover, NH) Annual Fund donor, trustee emerita, member @NewarkMuseum #WhyIGive “It brings me such joy to support the Newark Museum’s Explorers Program. To know that I am helping New Jersey teenagers gain valuable work skills and access to world-class art means a great deal to me. They are our future leaders and I am so proud of their accomplishments.”

- Rochelle Karp (Summit, NJ) Docent, education supporter

"Our juniors, seniors and their teachers loved being at the Museum for their day of reflection. The space was perfect and everyone was so warm and welcoming. It was a great day for us.”

- Sister June Favata, (Newark, NJ) Supporter and student group leader

newarkmuseum.org | 9 EDUCATION

VITALITY ARTS

What makes you feel most alive? Exploring unfamiliar art and ideas? Learning creative skills? Meeting new people? Discovering abilities you didn’t know you had?

As mind-body research reveals ever more about the ways we grow and develop throughout life, we’re coming to understand that all those experiences combine to help create the feeling of vitality—the capacity to develop and thrive, to be lively and engaged, no matter our age or background.

That’s the idea that underlies the Vitality Arts programs taking place at the Newark Museum. Over the course of the year, eight-week courses for adults ages fifty-five and up are “It was an adventure. You discover things challenging older adults to explore, create, and share artwork in ways that are novel, complex, and socially engaging. The Newark you did not know about yourself, things you Museum is one of only fifteen arts organizations around the country selected to participate in offering arts courses through the Seeding can do. When I looked at the instructor’s Vitality Arts initiative of Aroha Philanthropies. Together with this work, I said, 'This man is a genius!' And now, partner, the Museum is helping to demonstrate how arts learning inspired by and connected to the vibrant and diverse works in the I’m doing some of that.” Museum’s galleries can bring joy, connection, improved health, and well-being to older adults.

The program launched and message in the sculptural work of Willie Cole and Uram Choe. in spring 2017, with two The spring series culminated in an exuberant exhibition reception, classes studying the art packed with family and friends. These images and quotations offer of collage under master a glimpse of their work and the insight they developed during the collage artist Mansa course. Mussa. Beginning with the simplest of torn- This fall, four more courses got underway, linking the galleries and paper processes inspired artworks with an expanded range of media and expression: Collage by the work of Romare with Mansa Mussa, Poetry in the Galleries with Robert Carnevale, Bearden, the students Textile Arts with Paulette Thomas, and 3D Printed Jewelry with worked their way up to Keary Rosen. digital photographic collage, autobiographical box collages, and “I found it visionary. I found myself, when embellished sculptural 3D forms. With Mussa, students visited I took it home, still thinking about what I the galleries to expand their thinking about the possibilities of ornamenting a substrate, using and juxtaposing materials in could do to enhance it, make it better, do it unexpected ways. Students explored the textural variety in the more heartfully.” Arts of Africa gallery—from porcupine quills to pressed snuff tins to hammered metals—and focused on the link between material Supported by

10 | DANA Fall/Winter 2017 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT The unique diversity of the Museum’s collections provides a FOR EDUCATORS AT THE forum to experiment with ideas and make connections between NEWARK MUSEUM different curricular disciplines, different cultures, and different time periods. Our professional development programs model best practices in inquiry-based learning by creating hands- on workshops that highlight ways to inspire and fuel curiosity. Our Teacher Programs model best practices and instructional techniques that foster collaboration and twenty-first century skills.

The Newark Museum is a great place for teachers from different schools to connect and share; they learn about the Museum, but they also learn from one another. In addition to the Professional Development sessions, Late Thursdays offer great opportunities to socialize and learn, and Exhibition Openings, Second Sundays, and other special events are designed to inspire, recharge and energize our educational colleagues . For the 2017-2018 school year, the Newark Museum will host four free Educator Evenings that highlight upcoming exhibits and The Newark Museum partners with educators to develop use the collection and themes to explore ways that teachers can programs that use works of art, scientific specimens, and connect their curricula to authentic objects. historical artifacts to reinforce exploration, observation, inquiry, critical thinking, imagination and creativity. From free Educators’ Evenings, to specially designed professional development sessions for individual districts and schools, each event includes gallery tours, hands-on activities, resource materials with curriculum connections, and light refreshments.

All education programs at the Newark Museum focus on immersive, experiential, and self-directed hands- on learning. Our professional development programs for school teachers and administrators are designed to be fun, while providing opportunities to learn about the Museum and to experiment with new strategies for engaging students.

The success of the Newark Museum’s educational and culturally relevant programs is based on: • Sharing the resources of the Newark Museum as a way to build relationships with PreK-12 teachers, school • Arts of Global Africa administrators, and family workers Thursday, November 30, 4–7 pm (Grades Middle-High School) • Understanding the needs of classroom teachers to better • Art of the Ancient Mediterranean serve their students and the community Thursday, January 25, 4–7 pm (All grades) • Increasing teachers’ comfort level with using authentic • Early Childhood Best Practices objects and art as primary sources Thursday, February 22, 4–7 pm (Pre-K-2nd grade) • Encouraging teachers to be better facilitators using inquiry- • Rockies and Alps based, STEAM-based and project-based learning Thursday, March 29, 4–7 pm (All grades)

Events for educators demonstrate the ways that encounters with Supported in part by: the Museum’s authentic objects serve to deepen engagement with discipline-based content. The teachers practice deep looking exercises, open-ended questioning and hands-on activities—all strategies that they can use to foster inquiry and project-based learning in their classrooms.

newarkmuseum.org | 11 EDUCATION COLLECTIONS COME ALIVE We invite you to experience the Museum’s collections and galleries in a new light.

From weekly yoga classes to monthly Late Thursdays to captivating courses and workshops, evening programs encourage new perspectives on the Newark Museum and provide opportunities to mix and mingle as you discover and create.

Since 2015, we have partnered with Newark Yoga Movement to offer free weekly classes in the galleries. After hours, the Museum’s exhibitions offer a mixture of inspiration and tranquility and provide unique opportunities for focus and mindfulness. Participants have practiced downward dog, tree, and warrior poses surrounded by exhibitions such as Gabrielle Dawes’ The Shape of Light, Wondrous Worlds: Art & Islam and the caves of Dynamic Earth: Revealing Nature's Secrets. Starting January third we will offer yoga classes every Wednesday from 6:00 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.

On the third Thursday of every month, the Museum’s Late Thursdays programs, supported by Prudential Foundation, invite adult visitors to join us for a dynamic mix of art, music, entertainment, food, and drink. These creative social events focus on a particular exhibition or theme and include a mix of activities that deepen engagement with the Museum’s collections in unexpected ways. Pop-up gallery performances of art-inspired spoken word and poetry stimulate reflection and conversation, while musical interludes and original dances create new contexts for understanding art from different places and time periods. Artist-led projects foster individual creativity and promote all Late Thursday Performance kinds of social interaction as participant “makers” motivate and support each other’s efforts in the Museum’s MakerSPACE.

In October, a special Late Thursday program offered visitors the opportunity to explore the role that the arts and the Newark Museum played in strengthening community at the time of the 1967 Rebellion, and reminded all to consider the ongoing importance of these institutions today. Archival works of art in the Museum’s collection as well as newly created media pieces allowed for a powerful conversation between visitors of different generations and different experiences. In November, “The Art of the Bling” celebrated Jewelry: From Pearls to Platinum to Plastic, complete with live burlesque performances of songs about gems and jewels, edible jewelry creation, and a workshop on creating found-art body ornaments. December’s Late Thursday, “Light it Up” is just in time for the winter solstice. It features a global mash-up of holiday-themed activities, performances, and art from the Museum’s collection—including the elegant Victorian decorations of the Ballantine House as well as traditions from Asia, Africa, and the Americas to celebrate all things sparkly, shiny, and bright. On January 18, Late Thursday will celebrate the newly reinstalled Arts of Global Africa with dancers, drummers, hair crown artists, and even a lesson in tightrope walking inspired by Yinka Shonibare’s Lady Walking a Tightrope.

Currently in progress, the “Beer Making Workshop” at the Museum on Wednesday evenings has been an “effervescent success.” Inspired by the Ballantine family business, budding brewers are learning the process and the history of a once-thriving Newark industry and will go home with two six-packs of their own creation. New courses will be announced in the spring.

Watch for more evening courses and workshops! If you are not already on our mailing list, sign up today at newarkmuseum.org/email-signup.

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12 | DANA Fall/Winter 2017 IMPACT NEWARK MUSEUM EXPLORERS WIN NATION’S HIGHEST ARTS & CULTURE AWARD

The Newark Museum Explorers Program is a proud recipient of the 2017 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program (NAHYP) award, the nation’s highest honor for after-school and out-of-school arts and humanities programs that foster creativity and achievement among American students. 2017 AWARD Newark Museum Explorers Representing a partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Newark Museum Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the NAHYP award recognizes the country’s finest youth development initiatives for engaging students in the arts and the humanities to increase academic accomplishment, graduation rates, and college enrollment. The twelve award winners were chosen from a pool of three hundred fifty nominations and fifty finalists.

"These twelve creative youth development programs represent the best of the best," said Pam Breaux, president and chief executive officer of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA). "They are living proof of the power of the arts and the humanities to build the skills young people need to succeed in school and in life."

Samantha Joseph, 17, was selected as the youth speaker for the NAHYP award, and in her speech she reflected upon her experiences as a Newark Explorer. “The Newark Museum is a place that welcomes every person. The diversity that I’ve experienced walking through the galleries and working in different areas of the Museum has opened me up so much,” she said.

The Explorers Program is a three-year, year-round experience serving thirty to thirty-five students in grades 10 through 12 annually. Explorers participate in a variety of learning activities Gurden B. Wattles, former trustee, speaks with senior explorer, including student-led projects involving different aspects Samantha Joseph (center), Explorers Program Coordinator Jessica of running a museum, field trips, and personalized college Nuñez (right) following the award presentation. Ms. Joseph was guidance. selected to be the Youth Program Speaker at the awards ceremony.

Over the past several years, one hundred percent of Explorers have graduated high school and gone on to attend four-year colleges or universities, including Wellesley College, Penn State University, Cornell University, and Parsons School of Design. Two Explorers from the Class of 2017 received full scholarships: Arif Uddin will be majoring in Engineering Science at NJIT and Inique Bristol will major in Computer Science at Rutgers Major support for the Newark Museum’s Explorers Program has University. been provided by: PSEG Foundation; The Walton Family Foundation; The New York Community Trust, Wattles Family Charitable Fund; The Provident In addition to the national recognition that comes with this Bank Foundation; the AT&T Foundation; United Airlines; and the prestigious award, the Explorers Program will receive $10,000 Laura J. Niles Foundation. to support its programming and engage more young people from the community. Additional generous support has been provided by: The Victoria Foundation; the Prudential Foundation; the Charles E. and Edna T. Brundage Charitable Scientific and Wild Learn more about the Museum and the Explorers at Life Conservation Foundation; The Eleanor Upton Charitable www.newarkmuseum.org/explorers Foundation; the Aviation Development Council; and Rochelle and Ronald Karp. newarkmuseum.org | 13 JOHN COTTON DANA SOCIETY

The John Cotton Dana Society honors those who make gifts by will to the Newark Museum.

Have you made a gift to the Newark Museum in your will? Would you like to name the Museum as a beneficiary of a retirement plan, life insurance policy, or donor advised fund?

Society honorees receive exclusive benefits, including invitations to special events and donor recognition. Most importantly, you will know your gift makes possible programs that will teach and inspire future generations of visitors.

For more information, visit www.newark.org/planned-giving or contact Newark Museum’s Director of Individual Giving, Michele Saliola, at [email protected], 973.596.6491.

IN MEMORIAM We are honored to have benefited from the generosity, leadership, and advocacy of these dedicated Museum supporters.

JEROME W. GOTTESMAN 1930-2017 Newark Museum trustee 2001-2017 Member of the Building Committee

VERDENAL HOAG JOHNSON 1924-2017 Newark Museum trustee 1996-2002 Granddaughter of Chester R. Hoag, one of the Museum's founders

THEODORE GUSTAV KOVEN 1934-2017 Newark Museum trustee 1992-2015 Member of the Executive and Building Committees

PATRICIA J. WESSEL 1933–2017 2007 Emma Fantone Award Recipient Museum docent 1988-2017.

We wish to thank members of the Newark Museum community for their generous and throughtful tribute gifts in honor of Jerry, Verdi, Ted, and Pat.

Sponsored by the John Cotton Dana Society 14 | DANA Fall/Winter 2017 BEHIND THE SCENES NEW MURAL BY ODILI DONALD ODITA GREETS VISITORS AT MAIN ENTRANCE

“COLOR IN ITSELF HAS THE POSSIBILITY Gateway takes its inspiration from the history of the Newark Museum and its global collections, especially the Tibetan OF MIRRORING THE COMPLEXITY OF Buddhist Altar. Describing his project, the artist relates: THE WORLD AS MUCH AS IT HAS THE It is my intention to recall the spiritual and celebratory POTENTIAL FOR BEING DISTINCT.” color of the Tibetan Buddhist Altar when making - ODILI DONALD ODITA my wall painting in the lobby space. Furthermore, I want to reconcile the complexity of the Museum’s collection in my considered use of pattern-fields that To accompany the opening of our new gallery devoted recall Africa, which will be applied to a Post-Modernist to the arts of global Africa, the Newark Museum has lobby surface that utilizes classic Renaissance styling commissioned a major site-specific mural by abstract through its expansive archways. In this respect, the painter Odili Donald Odita. Born in Nigeria and raised Museum becomes the culminating source material and in the American Midwest, Odita’s abstract paintings inspiration point for my wall painting. As I understand use color, pattern, and design to explore memory it, the purpose and reason for this museum is similar to and history. His mural, entitled Gateway, frames the the purpose I will put into my painting installation: to Museum’s new grand lobby and visitor center. create an open path, or an access way, to the wealth of information and artifacts that exist within its walls.

Gateway invites visitors to see this public place as an entry to the Museum’s global collections and a hub for multiple vantage points to come together. A fitting welcome to the Newark Museum, this new entry space is truly a gateway for community engagement, as well as shared and individual experiences, gained through the Museum’s dynamic collections, exhibitions, and events.

Christa Clarke Ph.D., Senior Curator, Arts of Global Africa

Gateway, on view in The Dorothy Eweson Gallery, first floor, main building Christa Clarke surveys the installation with artist Odili Donald Odita prior to its completion. newarkmuseum.org | 15 UPCOMING EXHIBITION

THE ROCKIES AND THE ALPS: BIERSTADT, CALAME, AND THE ROMANCE OF THE MOUNTAINS

Inspired by the sublime beauty of the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevadas in the western United States and the Alps in Europe, historical landscape artists made extraordinary efforts to explore and document these exciting natural spaces in great detail. Images of soaring peaks, glaciers, and torrents became increasingly popular in American and European art of the mid-nineteenth Worthington Whittredge, The Wetterhorn, 1858. Oil on canvas, 39 ½ x 54 in. Newark Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Katzenbach, 1965 65.143 century, when photographers, scientists, and armchair travelers were awakening to the country. With thematic galleries highlighting literature, the wonders of alpine culture. Artists’ interests in alpine natural science, technology, and tourism, the exhibition landscapes coincided with the rise of tourism and scientific illuminates important connections between the international exploration, as improved transportation and mass culture— explorations of nineteenth-century artists and the invention of travel literature, prints, and photographs—made mountains photography, as well as the proliferation of landscape imagery and glaciers increasingly accessible. This richly researched as part of mass culture. The exhibition is accompanied by a exhibition brings together dazzling depictions of the Rockies 176-page catalogue (available in the Museum Shop in spring and the Alps and examines the fascinating connections 2018) that is also beautifully illustrated with one hundred color linking a diverse and accomplished group of artists who plates, original essays by co-curators Katherine Manthorne visited and recorded these geographically distant ranges. and Tricia Laughlin Bloom, and additional contributions by Patricia Mainardi and James Saslow. Two key figures highlighted in the show are Swiss painter Alexandre Calame (1810–1864), one of the leading alpine Major support for this exhibition provided by: artists of his generation, and (1830–1902), PSN Family Charitable Trust whose impressive canvases provided many Americans with Beverly K. Nadler their first glimpse of the Rockies and the Western frontier. The National Endowment for the Arts The exhibition also includes a distinguished collection of George Robb, Ph.D. mountain painting by predecessors and contemporaries of Barbara Brous Bierstadt and Calame, including J.M.W. Turner, John Ruskin, Eleonore Kessler Cohen and Max Insel Cohen Hudson River School painters Thomas Cole, Worthington Raymond and Mary Courtien Whittredge, and John F. Kensett, and photographers Ellen and Don Greenfield Carleton Watkins and Eadweard Muybridge. Ruth L. Hutter Judy Lieberman Offering a uniquely international perspective on the rise of alpine painting, The Rockies and the Alps brings together Additional support provided by The Marie and Joe Melone approximately seventy rarely exhibited works assembled Exhibition Fund for American Art. from the Newark Museum’s permanent collection and from distinguished private collections and museums around 16 | DANA Fall/Winter 2017 NEW ACQUISITIONS

this type have survived. Portuguese jewelry has often endured TWO NEW MASTERPIECES because it was given to convents, and thus wasn’t broken up, ENTER MUSEUM COLLECTION which was the fate of much early European jewelry. Necklaces like this one were symbols both of personal status and of the Two splendid works purchased by the Museum this spring colonial power of the country. They are the model for every have not only added objects that exist in no other luxurious gemstone necklace that has followed over the last American museum, but also offer unique insights into two hundred years. global art and trade in centuries past. An opulent necklace, made in Portugal in the eighteenth century, demonstrates The spectacular and rare carved and lacquered headboard the great skill of Lisbon’s jewelers as well as Portugal’s displays virtuoso Burmese woodworking and lacquer tech- global reach in terms of precious materials. From the niques. The hybrid imagery showcases elements copied from other side of the world, made in Myanmar in the sixteenth European Renaissance prints and the ornamental vocabulary century is a glittering headboard for a bed that showcases of Burmese decorative arts. Commissioned almost exclu- the best of Burmese carving and lacquerware as well as sively for the Portuguese elite, surviving works in present day the cosmopolitan taste of the Portuguese elite during the Myanmar (Burma) are yet to be discovered. The front displays golden age of the Portuguese empire. Both pieces will be a triangular golden mass that is densely packed with figures of special interest to New Jersey’s vibrant Portuguese and and motifs that invoke marital bliss through symbols of Brazilian communities, many of whom are located in the triumph and abundance. At the center is a figure of Victory, Ironbound section of Newark. holding a wreath and palm frond, standing beneath a tasse- led floral canopy. Flanking her heels, two roundels showcase profiles of a bride and groom. The flanges on the lower half of the headboard are later baroque, rococo, or even Victorian additions and feature birds perched upon flowers.

Unknown Portuguese artist, probably Lisbon, 1750 Silver, topaz, 3¾ x 6 ¼ x 3/8 in. Purchase 2017 Collections Exchange Fund 2017.6

The necklace was produced by an unidentified jeweler, Burmo-Portuguese Headboard with Marriage and Renaissance Motifs (detail) Myanmar (Burma) for the Portuguese Market, Kingdom of Pegu ca. 1550–1600 most likely in Lisbon, and was inspired by the designs for Lacquered and gilded wood, 37 ½ x 67 ¾ x 1 ½ in. Purchase 2017 court jewelry that were coming out of Paris in the 1750s. This rare survivor is set with tawny topaz gemstones from On the back, golden floral and avian motifs enliven the rich, mines in Brazil, which was colonized by Portugal in the dark lacquer. A pair of parrots perch with their wings spread sixteenth century. Such jewels are distinctly Portuguese wide. Two kirtimukha heads appear in the lower band amid because of the use of topaz and because each stone was more floral sprays. cut to fit precisely in the oval and pear-shaped settings. The graduated teardrops of the smaller mounts feature While Goa and Macau are the best-known former colonies of free-swinging larger gemstones in their centers. The large the Portuguese empire in Asia, the Portuguese were also key central girandole motif, anchored by a stylized bowknot, to the success of establishing the Burmese-ruled Toungoo would have originally been matched by a pair of earrings Dynasty that reunited Burma in 1531 and remained in power and possibly a large brooch. The closed-back silver mounts until 1571. As Europeans began to commission works to suit have been given internal backings of colored silver foil, their tastes from artists and artisans in Asia, prints were which enhance both the sparkle and the color of the sometimes sent to Asian workshops to serve as potential stones. design sources.

In the eighteenth century, necklaces were worn around the The only two closely related examples of such Burmo- front half of the neck only, with long ribbons tied in elabo- Portuguese lacquer known in the world today are both in rate bows at the back. Relatively few European jewels of Portugal. This is the only such headboard in North America.

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