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Monet's Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process on View October 7 Nov 2–4, 2018 Fine Memorial Art Gallery Craft 18Th Annual Show and Sale MEMORIAL ART GALLERY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2018 MONET'S WATERLOO BRIDGE: VISION AND PROCESS ON VIEW OCTOBER 7 NOV 2–4, 2018 FINE MEMORIAL ART GALLERY CRAFT 18TH ANNUAL SHOW AND SALE Opening Party Friday, Nov. 2, 7-9PM $50 GENERAL | $75 PATRON | CALL FOR TICKETS 585-276-8910 Saturday, Nov. 3, 10AM-5PM Sunday, Nov. 4, 11AM-4PM $10 EACH DAY INCLUDES MUSEUM ADMISSION (Additional surcharge for Monet’s Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process) TOP TO BOTTOM: HIDEAKI MIYAMURA, DIANNE AND DICK MULLER, LORAINE COOLEY, THERESA KWONG, DARLYS EWOLDT VOICES This year the Gallery Council will host the 18th annual Fine Craft Show and Sale at the Memorial Art Gallery on November 2—4. Nearly 20 years ago, we were exploring the possibility of bringing skilled craft artists to Rochester and creating new fundraising opportunities. After visiting the Philadelphia and Smithsonian Craft Shows, meeting with regional artists to discuss show logistics, preparing potential artist lists, and finalizing lots of details, we launched our first show in November 2001—less than two months after 9/11. We were not sure what to expect, but the Rochester community came out to support the show and the artists. Artists from at least 16 states as far away as Washington and California have participated. Their one-of-a-kind and limited-edition work has included ceramics, fiber, glass, jewelry, leather, mixed media, wearables, furniture, and wood. The show has created opportunities to view and acquire special pieces and meet and talk with artists about their processes in developing their work. I am proud to work with incredible volunteers who continue to enthusiastically support the MAG, our artists, and the Fine Craft Show. We hope that you will join us this year as we celebrate the handmade and the tradition of craft. There is no experience quite like meeting the makers and finding something that you truly love. Charlotte Herrera Chair, Fine Craft Show and Sale COVER: Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, London, 1903. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh: Acquired through the generosity of the Sarah Mellon Scaife Family, 67.2 CALENDAR Wednesday, October 3 4:30–7:00 PM ESPECIALLY FOR EDUCATORS Fabric of Survival: Art and Storytelling Holocaust survivor Esther Nisenthal Krinitz tells her story in pictures and text, family photographs and conversations. A Rochester Holocaust survivor will be our special guest as we tour the Fabric of Survival exhibition. $15 (Art, ELA, SS, Classroom Teachers 6– 12) Contact Chelsea Anderson to register. 585.276.8971, [email protected] Saturday, October 6 Monet’s Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process member Opening Party 5:00–7:00 PM: Patron Party 8:00–11:00 PM: General Member Party Reserve your space now by contacting. 585-276-8939, [email protected] 5:00–7:00 PM Malgorzata Mosiek Pop-Up Shop (THE STORE @ MAG; Members only, please.) Sunday, October 7 Monet’s Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process opens to the public NOON- 3:00 PM Malgorzata Mosiek Pop-up shop (THE STORE @ MAG) Tuesday, October 16 6:30 PM Annual Director's Circle Fall Lecture: New Light on Monet with Dr. Gloria Groom Contact Bella Clemente to register, 585-276-8942, [email protected] Wednesday, October 17 4:30–7:00 PM ESPECIALLY FOR EDUCATORS Monet’s Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process Explore eight interpretations of Waterloo Bridge and learn what scientific analysis has revealed about Monet’s vision and techniques. $15 (Art, Classroom Teachers) Contact Chelsea Anderson to register. 585.276.8971, [email protected] Thursday, October 25 7:00 PM ILLUSTRATED TALK: A Good Impression Is Lost So Quickly Jennifer Thompson, Senior Curator of European Painting and Sculpture at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Curator in Charge at the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia. Free with museum admission Friday, October 26 8:00–11:00 PM Museum of the Dead 4: What the Hex?! 21+ | $20 (adv.), $25 (day of) | visit mag.rochester.edu/magsocial for tickets Thursday, November 1 7:00 PM LECTURE: Embodied Vision Jacob W. Lewis, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, and Krishnan Padmanabhan, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at the School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester will discuss the rich history of physiology, optics, and neuroscience in relation to human perception, which influenced and was influenced by Monet's Impressionism. Free with museum admission Wednesday, November 7 4:30–7:00 PM ESPECIALLY FOR EDUCATORS Monet’s Waterloo Bridge: The Science Behind Color and Light Educators from MAG and the Rochester Museum and Science Center (RMSC) explain how the scientists looked “beneath the surface” of Waterloo Bridge and what their findings reveal about color theory, light waves, and how we see. $15 (Art, Science) Contact Chelsea Anderson to register. 585.276.8971, [email protected] Friday, November 9 (tentative) 4:00 PM LECTURE: Art and Environment Monet's Waterloo Bridge represented an atmosphere already transformed by the effects of industry. Heather Davis, Professor of Culture & Media at The New School, and artist Mary Mattingly will discuss how contemporary artists are responding to climate change. Free at the Humanities Center, Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester Sunday, November 18 1:00 PM FILM: I, Claude Monet Free with museum admission ONGOING THURSDAYS 5:00–9:00 PM 1/2 Price Admission Docent-led Tours - 6:00 PM (no tour 10/18) MAG DeTOURSM - 6:00 PM/$12 (includes museum admission) Purchase tickets online: mag.rochester.edu/events/detours/ SM October 18: Haunted MAG DeTOUR SM November 9: Movember MAGic DeTOUR with Jes Sutton SM *This DeTOUR is $15 and includes styling info session with Jes SM Sutton of Barbetorium after the DeTOUR SM November 15: Fun Facts DeTOUR Special Events - 7:00 PM October 18: Alternative Music Film (free) October 18: College Night Students from Rochester area colleges receive free admission to the museum, and can explore the connections between science and art in Monet’s Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process, participate in an interactive art activity, and socialize among 5,000 years of world art. (Free admission with college ID, light refreshments and cash bar) November 22: Alternative Music Film (free) Food & drink available for purchase from Brown Hound Downtown THE STORE @ MAG open for shopping FRIDAYS 1:00 PM Docent-led tour of the museum and collection Free with museum admission $5 Friday! 5:00–9:00 PM November 9: • $5 Admission (Monet exhibition subject to $5 surcharge for non-members) • Live performance by Leah and the Upheaval (6:30–8:30 PM) • Art Social - Inspired By Monet (6:15–7:45 PM) ($15 | includes museum admission) SATURDAYS 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Kids Create Dates - $10/Child Fun hands-on art projects for kids ages 4–14 in the Vanden Brul Pavilion SUNDAYS 1:00 PM Docent-led tour of the museum and collection Free with museum admission 1:00 PM & 3:00 PM Going For Baroque Organ Concerts Free with museum admission Sunday, October 14 HISPANIC-LATINO HERITAGE CELEBRATION DAY Sunday, November 11 JEWISH HERITAGE CELEBRATION DAY NOVEMBER MEMBERS' SPECIAL! 20% off one item. No other discounts apply; offer valid 11/1/2018-11/14/2018 MONET AT MAG Monet’s Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process WRITTEN BY NANCY NORWOOD | CURATOR OF EUROPEAN ART onet’s Waterloo Bridge: Vision and painting of Waterloo Bridge by the American MProcess is a focus exhibition that brings artist Frederick Crane on loan from the together eight versions of Claude Monet’s Worcester Art Museum. Favorite, rarely famous London series paintings. He began seen works from MAG’s own collections— more than 40 versions of Waterloo Bridge including Edgar Degas’ pastel Dancer seen during three London sojourns between 1899 from Behind, Jean-Louis Forain’s drawing and 1901. Monet viewed his paintings of Protector in the Wings, and prints by Degas, the landmark bridge both individually and Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissarro, and Felix as an ensemble that, collectively, expressed Braquemond—give a brief overview of the his sense of the essential subject—the work of the Impressionist circle. atmosphere and colors of the fog-bound landscape of London’s Thames River. He In addition to these works of art, new struggled to complete these paintings after technologies and video developed especially his return to France, where he reworked for this exhibition allow visitors to explore many of the canvases in his Giverny studio the London paintings in depth. In May 2016, and released them for sale over the course of scientists at the Patricia H. and Richard E. several years. Garman Art Conservation Department at Buffalo State College conducted extensive Through myriad components, including new imaging and materials analysis on art, technology, and video, Monet’s Waterloo MAG’s own Waterloo Bridge. The results Bridge explores Monet’s artistic vision as of this process, which show changes Monet well as the process by which he struggled to made to the composition as well as the exact achieve that vision. In addition to the eight pigments that he used, are accessible via versions of Waterloo Bridge—which include state-of-the-art touchscreen interactives, MAG’s own stellar example as well as loans allowing visitors to look beneath the surface from the Art Institute of Chicago, National of the painting. Gallery of Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Worcester Art Museum, Carnegie Museum Monet’s Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process is of Art, Denver Art Museum, and the Davis both a feast for the eyes and a playground for Museum at Wellesley College—a select group the curious. of additional works in adjacent galleries provide context for these paintings.
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