#Fairfield University Art Museum

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Ruby Sky Stiler—New Patterns, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2023 [Art: © Ruby Sky Stiler]

Contributors: Ian Berry, Jennifer Higgie, Mellissa Huber Design: Beverly Joel / pulp, ink.

Exhibition: Curated by Dayton Director Ian Berry in collaboration with the artist, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY, January 29 – May 15, 2022 [The exhibition was on view at the Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, CT, from September 11, 2020 to December 19, 2020]

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Stephen Wilkes, "Easter Mass, Vatican City, Rome, Italy, Day to Night" 

Stephen Wilkes (American, b.1957), "Easter Mass, Vatican City, Rome, Italy, Day to Night," 2016 Digital C-print, Edition: 2, 48 x 111.5.

Through a collaboration between Fairfield University Art Museum and the Office of the President, photographer Stephen Wilkes' large-scale work "Easter Mass, Vatican City, Rome, Italy, Day to Night" is on view at the Barone Campus Center.

Since opening his studio in New York City in 1983 Stephen Wilkes (American, b. 1957) has built an unprecedented body of work and a reputation as one of America’s most iconic photographers, and a National Geographic Explorer, widely recognized for his fine art, editorial and commercial work. 

Day to Night™, Wilkes’ most defining project, began in 2009. These epic cityscapes and landscapes, portrayed from a fixed camera angle for up to 36 hours, capture fleeting moments of humanity as light passes in front of his lens over the course of a full day. Blending these images into a single photograph takes months to complete.

 Wilkes writes in his artist statement:

Day to Night is a personal journey to capture fundamental elements of our world, through the hourglass of a single day. It’s a synthesis of art & science, exploring time, memory & history through the internal & external circadian rhythms of our daily lives.

I photograph from locations and views that are part of our collective memory. Working from a fixed camera angle, I capture what I see, the fleeting moments of humanity and light as time passes. After photographing as many as 1500 single images, I select the best moments of the day and night.Using time as my guide, all of these moments are then seamlessly blended into a single photograph, visualizing our conscious journey with time.

In a world where humanity has become obsessively connected to personal devices, the ability to look is becoming an endangered human experience. Photographing a single place for up to 36 hours becomes a meditation, it has informed me in a unique way, inspiring deep insights into the narrative story of life, and the fragile interaction of humanity within our natural world. 

Gaining permission to create the Day to Night™ photograph of the Vatican at Easter Mass was particularly challenging. Wilkes tried for over 2 years without success. Fortunately, one of the priests at the Vatican contacted Wilkes and ultimately connected him with the Instituto Maria S.S. Bambina whose terrace overlooks St. Peter's Square and Basilica. The location was perfect. Wilkes photographed a total of 1575 individual images and then edited to approx. 50 photographs for the final photograph. Pope Francis appears several times within the photograph.

Commenting on the installation, Professor of Art History and Visual Culture and Special Assistant to the President for Arts and Culture Philip I. Eliasoph, PhD, explains, "Arcing across the magnificently syncopated forms and movements of St. Peter’s space, we are pulled into myriad details peeking into the embracing ‘braccia’ [arms] of the Vatican’s mission ‘urbi et orbi’— to the city and the world. And in the same spirit of Gianlorenzo Bernini’s desire to ‘embrace the pilgrim’ attending ‘Easter Mass’ at San Pietro’s basilica, Wilkes elevates our optical experience with an inspirational revelation. We are delighted that the Fairfield University Art Museum can exhibit this significant artwork in our Barone Campus Center so that students and the entire community will appreciate and enjoy its presence here on campus.”

Day to Night™ has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning as well as dozens of other prominent media outlets and, with a grant from the National Geographic Society, was extended to include America’s National Parks in celebration of their centennial anniversary and Bird Migration for the 2018 Year of the Bird. Most recently a new grant was extended for Canadian Iconic Species and Habitats at Risk in collaboration with The Royal Canadian Geographic Society. Day to Night : In the Field with Stephen Wilkes, a solo exhibitionwas exhibited at The National Geographic Museum in 2018 and in May of 2023 a solo exhibition Day to Night: Photographs by Stephen Wilkes was exhibited at the Fenimore Art Museum in May, 2023.  Day to Night™  is  published by TASCHEN as a monograph in 2019 and 2023. 

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Spring 2024 Direct from the Director

Woohoo! I am very excited to share the fantastic news that we are an accredited Museum!

The Fairfield University Art Museum has been awarded Accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums, the highest national recognition afforded to American museums. Receiving accreditation signifies excellence to the entire museum community, to government agencies and institutional funders, to collectors, partners, and visitors. This prestigious distinction will bring national recognition to our Museum for its commitment to excellence, accountability, high professional standards, and continued institutional improvement.

About the Accreditation process: Accreditation is a rigorous but highly rewarding process that examines all aspects of a museum’s operations. To earn accreditation, a museum first must conduct a year of self-study and then undergo a site visit by a team of peer reviewers. Our small-but-mighty team at the Fairfield University Art Museum worked on the self-study from May 2022 through May 2023. As part of the process, we hosted two peer reviewers on campus for a two-day site visit in November 2023. The Alliance’s Accreditation Commission, an independent and autonomous body of museum professionals, considered the self-study and visiting committee report to determine whether we should receive accreditation. We were just notified of this happy result!

Our accreditation distinguishes the Fairfield University Art Museum on the national stage:

Of the nation’s estimated 33,000 museums, just over 1,080 are currently accredited.

Fairfield University Art Museum is one of only 21 accredited museums in Connecticut and one of only 12 accredited art museums in the state. 

Only 11% of museums in New England and only 16% of the academic art museums in the country are accredited.

Only 15% of the museums with staffs the size of Fairfield’s Art Museum have achieved this honor, and only one other Jesuit University has an accredited museum (the De Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University).

We are incredibly proud to be an accredited Museum and to have been recognized for all that we have accomplished since the Museum’s inception in 2010. Among the achievements we are most proud of are: having grown and diversified the permanent collection, which now numbers almost 2,700 objects; making our programs accessible to the broadest possible audiences through livestreaming, recording and archiving; keeping our exhibitions and events always completely free and open to all year after year; and making all of our exhibition materials available bilingually in Spanish. Our accreditation is a testament to the incredible generosity of our wonderful donors and supporters, who make our work possible and enable us to present programs of the highest quality for the benefit of our students, faculty, and the broader community.

We have recently acquired a number of new works, some by donation and several via the Black Art Fund, in our continued quest to diversify our collection by purchasing works by Contemporary Black artists. This stunning photograph, entitled Sun and Trees, by Adger Cowans was included in our 2022 solo exhibition of the artist's work. We are thrilled to now be able to add it to our permanent collection, and it is making a reappearance in our Landscape in Focus exhibition opening next week.

This work by Martina Johnson-Allen was acquired, along with two others, from Brandywine Workshop and Archives to augment our Satellite Collection of works created there. It will be included in an exhibition this coming fall focusing on Brandywine prints entitled Sacred Spaces, guest curated by Juanita Sunday.

We are absolutely delighted and extremely grateful that the Quetzal that is included in Streaming: Sculpture by Christy Rupp, the current exhibition in the Museum's Walsh Gallery, has been donated by the artist to the Museum's permanent collection. You have just one month left to see this fantastic exhibition - do not miss it!

I look forward to seeing you in the galleries this spring for Christy Rupp (followed by Peter Anton: Just Desserts), Suzanne Chamlin: Studies in Color, and our Focus on Landscape photography exhibition.

Artfully yours, Carey Carey Mack Weber Frank and Clara Meditz Executive Director

Captions: Adger Cowans, Sun and Trees, 1959, archival pigment print. Museum Purchase with funds from the Black Art Fund, 2024 Martina Johnson-Allen, Another Realm, 2006, offset lithograph. Partial gift of the Brandywine Workshop and Archives and Museum Purchase with funds from the Black Art Fund, 2024 Christy Rupp, Quetzal, 2020, credit cards, wood, steel, mixed media. Gift of the artist. Christy Rupp, Streaming: Sculpture by Christy Rupp, Gallery Installation shot, Walsh Gallery, February 2024

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Annie & I Take Altamont!

The first time I saw the small town of Altamont, Illinois was this past June at the John Deere G reunion. I was taken with the lovely mansion I saw there. We also loved the fun antique shop the hubby and I stopped at. I saw that they were having a music and wine fair at the Charles Wright House Museum. I thought perfect! A trip for Annie! About once a month or so, my friend Annie Jansen and I…

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ab. 1550 Circle of Niccolò dell'Abbate - Portrait of a Lady

(Fairfield University Art Museum)

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https://notizieoggi2023.blogspot.com/2024/03/frederick-ferdinand-schafer-german.html Frederick Ferdinand Schafer (German, 1839–1927) - In the White Mountains Frederick Ferdinand Schafer, un pittore di origine tedesca emigrato negli Stati Uniti nel 1876, è noto per i suoi dipinti realistici di paesaggi, in particolare quelli dell’America occidentale. Nato a Braunschweig, Germania, Schafer aprì uno studio sulla Montgomery Street a San Francisco e visse a Oakland. Nel corso della sua carriera, realizzò oltre 500 dipinti123. Le sue opere sono parte delle collezioni permanenti del Birmingham Museum of Art, del Fairfield University Art Museum e del Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture14 . Uno dei suoi dipinti notevoli è “In the White Mountains”. Quest’opera cattura la bellezza e la maestosità delle Montagne Bianche, con la loro imponente presenza e la natura selvaggia. Le montagne emergono con forza dal paesaggio, e Schafer ha sapientemente reso l’atmosfera e la luce che avvolgono questa regione iconica. !In the White Mountains Sommario: Frederick Ferdinand Schafer ci regala una visione affascinante delle Montagne Bianche attraverso il suo realismo artistico.

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The new episode of Crossroads of Rockland History is streaming now! It is available on all major podcast platforms, or listen at the link below.

(Please note that a 30-minute version of this interview aired on Monday, November 21, 2022 at 9:30AM on WRCR Radio 1700AM.)

2022 marks the 140th birthday of Edward Hopper. On this episode, we learned about about the events celebrating this extraordinary artist, who was born in Nyack, NY.

Kathie Bennewitz, executive director of the Edward Hopper House, joined host Clare Sheridan to discuss the new exhibition at Hopper House, "Edward Hopper‘s Boyhood on the Hudson River and Emerging Artistic Vision," on view now through March 26, 2023; a new documentary about Hopper, "Hopper, An American Love Story" that was screened on November 16, 2022, at Rivertown Film; and the Whitney Museum’s new exhibition "Edward Hopper’s New York."

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About our guest: Kathleen Motes Bennewitz, executive director of the Edward Hopper House, has extensive experience with Connecticut museums and nonprofits and has won several awards, including the Connecticut League of History Organizations Award of Merit in 2019 and 2020 and the Leadership in History Award, the most prestigious national award given by the American Association of State and Local History (AASLH), in 2017. She holds degrees in art history from Princeton University and the University of Delaware. After curatorial positions at the Amon Carter Museum and Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, and in education at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, she served as director of exhibitions and programs at the Greenwich Historical Society (the historic site of the Cos Cob art colony) and Fairfield Museum and History Center. She has curated exhibits on American art and artists over her career and in Connecticut at the Lockwood-Matthews Mansion Museum, Norwalk Historical Society, Westport Historical Society, Westport Library, and Westport Public Art Collections. She and her husband, Scott, have twin adult daughters.

About the Hopper House exhibition: Curated by Carole Perry and Kathleen Motes Bennewitz, with Lynne Z. Bassett, this new exhibition, on view through March 26, 2023, showcases childhood drawings by the artist on loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art and works from private collections, including the Arthayer R. Sanborn Hopper Collection Trust, alongside Hopper’s school notebooks and artmaking materials and artworks by family members from the Museum’s Sanborn-Hopper Family Archive. Together, these objects provide a glimpse into Hopper’s early years, the influence of his boyhood proximity to the busy waterfront and commercial district of his hometown, and insights into his life at home and his family’s support of his developing talent and ambitions. www.edwardhopperhouse.org/hopper-boyhood.html

About the documentary screening: Phil Grabsky’s new documentary, Hopper: An American Love Story, was released in October 2022 to coincide with the Whitney Museum of American Art’s exhibition Edward Hopper’s New York and the Edward Hopper House Museum’s Edward Hopper’s Hudson River Boyhood and Emerging Artistic Vision. The acclaimed film explores the enigmatic personality behind the brush, taking a deep look into Hopper’s art, his life, and his relationships, and prominently features Nyack in its opening chapter. exhibitiononscreen.com/films/hopper/

Whitney Museum Exhibition: whitney.org/exhibitions/edward-hopper-new-york

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Another work project! Want to color?? Want to not spend crazy money on it?? Want to not use a site interface that prints a huge advertisement for their site all over the bottom?? Here’s a whole bunch just for you, because I care sm about this after hunting these down for hours

🎨 BIG SOURCES 🎨 :

#Color Our Collections (all institutions)

Crayola Coloring Pages (Disney, Adult, Seasons+)

http://www.supercoloring.com/

➡Browse by section, or use CRTL + F to search by keyword!⬅

🐱‍🐉Dinosaurs/Ancient Animals:

New Mexico Museum of Natural History

Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County

Sam Noble Museum

🌊Oceans:

Aquarium of New Zealand

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Harvard Museums of Science & Culture (lots of stuff tbh)

Médiathèque Jacques-Chirac, Troyes Champagne Métropole (people, nature, shell)

Children’s Creativity Museum (Halloween, Día de Los Muertos, Nature)

🦁Zoo:

Museum of Natural History (Mammals)

Museum of Natural History (Horse)

Museum of Natural History (k-2: all)

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Van Gogh Museum

Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County

Sam Noble Museum

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💃🏽🕺🏽People:

Museum of Natural History (Horse)

Spy Museum (spy stuff)

Aerospace Museum (?) (Printables)

Colonial Williamsburg

NJ State House (...statues??)

Harvard Art Museums (ANCIENT EGYPT!!!!)

Harvard Museums of Science & Culture (lots of stuff tbh)

West Virginia & Regional History Center (Wizard of Oz)

AIA Nashville Parthenon (Ancient Greece)

Fairfield University Art Museum (History)

Escuela Superior de Artes de Yucatán (Latin American Culture)

Illinois Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Various Book Characters, Alice in Wonderland)

Médiathèque Jacques-Chirac, Troyes Champagne Métropole (people, nature, shell)

Russian Museum of Ethnography (Patterns)

Shelburne Museum (Pattern, animals, people)

Jagiellonian Library Coloring Book (Polish publications)

Rutgers University (NJ)

Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (Ancient Greece)

Jewish Museum of Maryland (fancy dresses)

Queens College (Music)

University of Alabama Museums (Patterns, Nature, Ancient tools)

Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture, and Design (Patterns)

Walters Art Museum (Ancient Greece, Alphons Mucha)

Van Gogh Museum

Hmong Museum (Hmong-American culture)

Children’s Creativity Museum (Halloween, Día de Los Muertos, Nature)

North Carolina Museum of History (Historical, Native Americans)

National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum (Horses) x

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The Met (Ancient History, History, jewelry)

Studio Museum (African-American)

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Kente Cloth Coloring Book (African/African American, patterns) (abbreviated)

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Museum of Natural History (Moon) (Activity)

Aerospace Museum (?) (Printables)

Albert R. Mann Library (leaves etc.)  

Harvard Museums of Science & Culture (lots of stuff tbh)

Médiathèque Jacques-Chirac, Troyes Champagne Métropole (people, nature, shell)

Wales Higher Education Library Forum

Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

University of Alabama Museums (Patterns, Nature, Ancient tools)

University of Florida Department of Entomology and Nematology (BUGS!!)

Van Gogh Museum

New Mexico Museum of Natural History

Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County

Sam Noble Museum

Children’s Creativity Museum (Halloween, Día de Los Muertos, Nature)

Scholastic (Butterfly, word activity)

📚“Storybook��:

Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse (Rabbits dressed as people)

West Virginia & Regional History Center (Wizard of Oz)

Illinois Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Various Book Characters, Alice in Wonderland)

Médiathèque Jacques-Chirac, Troyes Champagne Métropole (people, nature, shell)

Jagiellonian Library Coloring Book (Polish publication)

Wales Higher Education Library Forum

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Newberry Library (Alice in Wonderland +)

Charles M Schulz Museum (Peanuts Characters!!)

Pete the Cat

Peppa Pig (Seasonal +)

Legos (Coloring Sheets, Puzzles)

Dragon Masters

Fly Guy (Prince Fly Guy)

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Eric Carle (Coloring sheets, puzzles, games)

PBS (Daniel Tiger, Sesame Street, +. Sorts by Show.)

🧵Patterns:

Russian Museum of Ethnography (Patterns)

Shelburne Museum (Pattern, animals, people)

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

University of Alabama Museums (Patterns, Nature, Ancient tools)

Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture, and Design (Patterns)

Penn Museum

North Carolina Museum of History (Historical, Native Americans)

Smithsonian/National Museum of African American History & Culture (Adinkra, Kwanzaa)

The Met (Ancient History, History, jewelry)

Kente Cloth Coloring Book (African/African American, patterns) (abbreviated)

Klutz (inspirational)

Klutz (Summer, Unicorn)

Crayola (Adult)

🃏Other:

Highlights Magazine

(Activities, puzzle, seasonal) 

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Yes this took me several hours yes this will have no benefit in the long run, pLEASE use this list for your programs or schools or classes or libraries or afterschool programs or your homeschooling or summer camp or daycare or whatever you do; these are all free and are often run by their own orgs so you don’t have to use janky websites to get nice ones. Enjoy!!

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Internationally, the events will continue on through to Tokyo and Osaka Japan, Moscow, Russia; Athens, Greece; Ticino, Switzerland; Halle, Germany, Barcelona and Madrid, Spain; Venice, Italy; London, England; Buenos Aires and Chascomús, Argentina; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Lima, Peru; Panama City, Panama; San Salvador, El Salvador; Guatemala City, Guatemala; and San Jose, Costa Rica.

In the U.S. the Peace & Love celebrations will continue in New York City; Interlochen, Michigan at the Interlochen Center for the Arts; Cleveland, Ohio at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum; Fairfield, Iowa at Maharishi University and finally Los Angeles. For the first time, South Africa will also be involved in the “Peace and Love” celebrations when people in Yeoville, Johannesburg will gather at noon to participate at the Friday Hartley Shelter.  

WTF Ringo?

Moscow? SERIOUSLY?

What the actual hell are you thinking?

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FA222 ,principles of graphic design:

Instructor : mr.munwar mukhtar

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Project 1 : lecture

dr katherine from the institute of fine arts new york university she is and get ready for this long series of titles she is professor of art history and visual culture in the department of visual performing arts she is director of the classical studies program she is director of the school of communication arts and media in the college of arts and sciences and she is also curator of the plaster cast collection at the fairfield university arresearch focuses on the parthenon sculptural program especially the metapees scans of her metapee drawings

classical influence influences in the work of ruby sky styler one means of gaining insight into ruby's visual language

explore, it is worth noting that in terms of archaeology excavations usually don't reveal a complete object let alone a whole building instead one excavates and finds fragments uh one reveals stratigraphy or levels and one records absolutely everything we have recovered approximately three percent of the material culture or fines from ancient greece that's a very modest amount isn't it this tells you how much we do not have at the same time fragments form pieces to amuch larger image or picture and something that i often find in ruby's work when i first saw this sculpture my immediate thought was a connection to a well-known image of sleeping ariadne seen here in a roman marble version in the vatican collections the same languid sleeping ariadne was among a selection of plaster casts that formed a series the gazing blue ball series by jeff coons the idea of using plaster casts of or with ancient sculpture is a practice that we can now date back to the 4th century bce in ancient greece today one can find numerous plaster casts cast collections throughout the world we are very fortunate at fairfield to have a beautiful collection of historic plaster casts either on loan or gifted to us by such generous organizations as the metropolitan museum of art yale university art gallery as well as other sources in 2014 i had the pleasure of meeting ruby sky

styler when she visited our campus to see the plaster cast collection she was preparing for a remarkable exhibition at the aldridge museum of contemporary art curated by amy smith stewart a view of her installation for ghost versions 2015 which you see in front of you places our historic plaster casts on low platforms while ruby's massive relief panels in plaster are displayed on the walls for those of us fortunate enough to see this beautiful exhibition one of many aspects that stood out to me was this sense of a silent

but direct communication between the historic cast representing ancient sculpture and ruby's new work from the figural to the relief we begin to notice the layers of shapes and patterns in ruby's work behind the cast of a boy closer still more details emerge of patterns

textures and letters suggesting fragments of words or language it is as if a language is being spoken but can we understand it ruby's exploration of the surface can be seen here in this outdoor sculpture bust of a woman when i first saw this sculpture only through a photograph it seemed familiar to me perhaps recalling especially this lovely female figure of a maiden or corey dedicated on the athenian acropolis by eutheticos i should note that we have a plaster cast of this maiden which might explain why it is so

familiar to me normally i see it every day that i teach in the museum classroom facial features hair texture while different nevertheless seem to share a direct and bold gaze at the viewer ruby's image on the left a head in profile required a little more sleuthing but surely its starting point is connected with the apollo piambino on the right while the ancient bronze may have been a starting point for ruby's transformation

of the image that ruby's transformation of the image is entirely contemporary and fascinating as we look through layers almost like a stratigraphy to see the rather ephemeral image recalling the ancient bronze apollo and if you look really closely you can see behind the profile image there are words let's return to the exhibition in the walsh galler starting with the sculpture male head in her september 10th conversation with ian berry ruby commented that she wanted

to see just how far she could take how far she could go in reducing the image to its essential elements while still being able to support itself as a sculpture the male head has multiple views from straight on and even reflected in the floor here in back view in profile where which shows us the supporting element and again reflected on the floor and even as a shadow on the low platform one is rewarded by taking the time to walk around the sculpture after all it is a three-dimensional it is three-dimensional and beckons the viewer to consider all the angles the essence of the form for a male head seems to me to be more than that and i have a difficult time not seeing the connection to this ancient greek bronze helmet the helmet contours both define a male head and distill facial features to their minimum for recognition in a similar vein the vase with sienna handles seems to capture the essence of a well-known ancient greek vessel type called an amphora which was originally designed in antiquity as a storage jar with a lid very practical phase allows us to focus purely on the structure and the contours it is both solid in its presence and wonderfully transparent

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An Arts & Minds Podcast with Lori Jones and Carey Mack Weber

Join the Fairfield University arts conversation with Director of Programming and Operations at the Quick Center for the Arts Lori Jones, and the Frank and Clara Meditz Executive Director of the Fairfield University Art Museum Carey Mack Weber.

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Direct from the Director Late Fall 2023

It has been an exceptionally busy season at the Museum! It has been a privilege for us to present the landmark exhibition In Real Times. Arthur Szyk: Artist & Soldier for Human Rights this fall. Since the exhibition opened on September 28, we have:

Offered free admission to over 3,700 visitors

Hosted more than 70 free online and in-person Szyk-related events, including exhibition tours led by the Director, the Exhibition Coordinator, our Educators, and a fantastic corps of community volunteers, which have been attended by over 2,000 people;

Received 20,000+ YouTube views of the Szyk video tour and recorded programs.

The Season of Giving is upon us, and we need your support to continue this good work!

The Museum operates on a modest annual budget, and exhibitions like the Szyk show are very expensive to produce. We depend on the contributions of generous donors like you to keep our museum offerings free and accessible both in person and online, in both English and Spanish.

If you participated in one of our numerous events this fall, enjoyed our virtual programs, or simply believe in the power of the arts in our community, will you please make a gift today to help enhance our exhibitions, ensure our unwavering commitment to excellence, and continue to inspire young minds?

Please take a minute and DONATE now.

Museum Accreditation News: Last week we had the privilege of hosting John Wetenhall, Director of the George Washington University Museum of Art, and The Textile Museum and Megan McAdow, Director of the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum at Saginaw Valley State University. They spent two days with us on campus as our Site Reviewers for the American Alliance of Museums Accreditation process. They met with University students, faculty, staff, alumni, members of our Collections Committee, and of the University Board of Trustees, as well as foundation funders, community collaborators, and other Fairfield County arts and culture professionals. Their primary role was to confirm that all of the information that we had shared in our Self-Study was correct. They will write a report based on their findings which will be submitted to the AAM Accreditation Committee at their February 2024 meeting where they will vote on whether to grant us accreditation. We will certainly let you know!

Upcoming Winter 2024 Exhibitions: We are very excited about the two exhibitions we are opening in late January/early February, both of which focus on environmental and climate-related themes. In the Walsh Gallery, we are presenting Streaming: Sculpture by Christy Rupp. Understood as one of the early pioneers in the field of ecological art activism, the artist, activist and thought-leader Christy Rupp has an international reputation. Streaming will feature a survey of Rupp’s wall installations and free-standing sculpture created with detritus gathered from the waste stream, which chronicle the ongoing tension between natural systems and the environment in transition, and call our attention to our interconnectedness with non-humans and habitat. Informed by science and the historical representation of natural history, the artwork in this exhibition examines the way we frame our opinions of nature, using irony and wit to represent the human impact on our natural habitat.

In the Bellarmine Hall Galleries, we will present Helen Glazer: Walking in Antarctica. This interdisciplinary exhibition includes photography and sculpture made from 3D scans of ice and rock formations, inspired and informed by Glazer’s experiences as a grantee of the National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. It also includes an audio tour which takes the visitor on a series of “walks” through the Antarctic landscape, narrated by the artist.

Please come see the Szyk exhibition before it closes if you have not yet had a chance to see it – it truly is a remarkable and timely collection of works. It is only open through December 16th! Keep in mind that thanks to a recent generous grant from the Art Bridges Foundation, we are now open for extended hours on Thursdays until 8pm.

Wishing you and yours a very happy Holiday season.

Artfully yours, Carey

Captions: Christy Rupp, Petroplankton, 2019-2021. Collected single use plastics. Courtesy of the artist. Helen Glazer, Cloudburst, Erebus Ice Tongue Cave, Antarctica, 2015/2017; photograph. Courtesy of the artist.

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Just Do it! Faculty Led Course in St. Petersburg is Life Changing!

As a first year student at Fairfield University, I never thought I would be able to have the chance to study abroad so early on in my college career. I always heard from other students that I would not be able to go until well into my third year, a fate that seemed so far from my reach. It was only until I was visiting one of the many required FYE (First Year Experience) sessions that I bumped, quite literally, into the Study Abroad table at the clubs and organizations fair. This quick encounter, however, was all it took for Ms. Pivarnik to introduce herself and the many brochures of Fairfield’s beloved study abroad programs. This is when I first heard about the amazing opportunity to travel across the world to Russia for a faculty-led program about the History of St. Petersburg. As I listened intently, I soon found out that in just two weeks I would also receive three credits to complete my second history course requirement. I mean it all sounded too good to be true. Immediately after, I sent a picture of the brochure to my mom as I knew I wanted to be a part of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. And so, I applied. The giddy excitement I first felt when I learned about this program never left, especially after I found out I had been accepted!

I don’t think the realization of what I was doing and where I was going had hit me until my last final on May 8th. It took me packing up my room to realize I should also be packing for my trip that was in just THREE DAYS! Somehow I managed, and I showed up to the airport to see three other students waiting too. Prior to this encounter, I did not know one person attending this trip as I pinned my hopes on the fact that there would be students who were just as excited to explore the city of St Petersburg. So perhaps a tip I would share is to go up to the other students and just start talking. I know it may seem intimidating but by striking up a conversation with the group of students is what helped most for future day trips and nights out!

Although exhausted, when we finally got off that last flight, I was eager to begin these next ten days in a new, unknown city. Immediately after dropping our bags at the hotel, the group took on the streets as I began to absorb every fleeting sensation that came my way: the sound of Russian people talking, the sight of the beautiful and grand architecture, the touch of the cobblestone bridges. It was a lot to take in but as I continued to soak in all of the small treasures of this beautiful city, I was also amazed by the familiarity. It was as if it was all new but the same. Something I certainly did not expect to feel as I traveled across the globe to a country I have never visited before. I know one of my biggest concerns of the program was how the course would be structured. At the hotel, however, we were all surprised by how comfortable everything already felt to us. Every morning we met at 08:30 for breakfast, with a few exceptions on time, and we would try several traditional Russian dishes-- Blini, pancakes stuffed with cheese or meat; Syrniki, a fried pancake topped with farmer’s cheese or honey; boiled or fried eggs; porridge. While we had the time to eat our delicious breakfasts, Professor Syssoeva would teach us “Survival Russian”, an aspect of the course that soon became my favorite. I was surprised in how by the third day I was already retaining so much of the Russian language. Professor Syssoeva made learning the foreign language enjoyable and easy as she provided every student with a packet of basic words and phrases to practice. Afterwards, the group would get ready for the excursion of the day. The shape of an “O” was constantly spread across my face as I was left gaping at all the beautiful and historical sites we visited.

Professor McFadden and Professor Syssoeva not only picked the best sites for the group to visit, but as well as, amazing tour guides that told us about fortresses, palaces, art and political museums. The information we learned was then reinforced as we would return back to the hotel for our daily seminar. With few assigned readings per day and your honest opinion, these seminars were a great time to share between the group as I got to hear many other students’ perspectives. Following the seminar, the students were given the rest of the day to explore the surrounding city, to go shop in the malls, to go eat with each other and any other activity one saw fit. I LOVED everything about our schedule as the beautiful weather and long hours in the day let the group, and myself, become more familiar with our environment. As I mentioned briefly before, everyday we would have a set excursion for the group. One of my favorite excursions that I need to include was the trip to the Hermitage State Museum. Now, before we took the trek for the nearly three hour tour, I was briefly familiar about the size of the museum. I mean with a thousand rooms, three million pieces of art, and an ambitious eleven years to view each and every piece, I knew it wasn’t going to be a small museum. YET, until you begin to pass each room, then do you begin to realize the magnitude of the place. I mean floor to ceiling, every inch was covered with art spanning from a multitude of time periods. The preservation of this massive art collection over centuries is what is most unbelievable as St.Petersburg aims to protect its art, its culture.

From the time I woke up in the morning to nightfall, my time spent in St. Petersburg was one that left me with so many unforgettable memories. Before this trip, I had known no one and while I wasn’t necessarily nervous about it, I feel incredibly reassured to the group surrounding me. Perhaps one of the best feelings is when you know those around you are just as excited and willing to explore the city around you. Learning about the history and culture of such a prominent Russian city with two passionate professors was a huge aid as I constantly found myself falling in love with St. Petersburg. I cannot recommend enough to any student thinking about wanting to have a taste of study abroad to do this trip! I can firmly say that this trip was one of my top highlights of my first year at Fairfield University— as I brought more than just matryoshka dolls home.

Ema Taglic Psychology, Pre-Dental HI0276 St Petersburg, Russia Class of 2022