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FilmColetteWednesday, November 14, 2018, 2 pm and 7:30 pmAfter marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as “Willy” (Dominic West), Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (Keira Knightley) is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him.
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Rose Marasco: indexSend us your photos for My Utica ExhibitionWednesday, September 19 - Saturday, December 1, 2018In the exhibition, Rose Marasco: index, Rose Marasco’s distinctive views of Utica reflect her singular experience, capturing the city from her particular perspective at a particular time – approximately 40 years ago. Rose’s work has inspired us to invite our community members and visitors to send us their images of Utica so that Museum visitors can observe the many ways we see our city. A slideshow of the photos we receive will be available on a video monitor in the gallery through January 6, 2019.
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American Indian ArtSchool Field Trips – American Indian Art from Fenimore art Museum: The Thaw CollectionSaturday, October 13 - Sunday, December 30, 2018Contact Meg Gianetti, School Programs Coordinator, 315-797-0000, ext. 2146 or by email at mgianetti@mwpai.edu.
Tour times still available Tuesdays through Fridays, starting at 10 a.m.
Teachers, take advantage of this opportunity! Your students can discover the early history of New York State and the culture of American Indians from Northeast woodland regions. Tour themes examine similarities and differences in place, ritual, and personal adornment among North American Indian nations.
Exhibitions
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ExhibitionYour Land, My Land: Immigrant Artists in the United StatesThursday, March 1 - Monday, December 31, 2018Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art is primarily a collection of art of the United States. With the exception of people indigenous to this continent, we are a nation of immigrants. Many “American” artists, such as Thomas Cole, were actually born in other countries.
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ExhibitionRose Marasco: indexSaturday, September 8, 2018 - Sunday, January 6, 2019Rose Marasco: index is a retrospective of a photographer’s inventive reflections on her world. Marasco’s provocative images mine concepts of framing, point of view, and orientation to create photographs with a complex relationship to the everyday. Curiosity informs her exciting, sometimes unconventional, approaches to the medium—processes include film, pinhole photography, montage, and artist’s books, in both black and white and color.
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ExhibitionAmerican Indian Art from Fenimore Art Museum: The Thaw CollectionSaturday, October 13 - Sunday, December 30, 2018The Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art at Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, NY, is a showcase of landmark creations by gifted North American artists, working across millennia and across the continent, from the Arctic to the Southwest and the Eastern Woodlands to the Pacific Northwest.
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PrattMWP Gallery EventEmmy Mikelson And Charlotte Becket ExhibitionFriday, November 16 - Thursday, December 13, 2018The PrattMWP Gallery is pleased to host Brooklyn-artists Emmy Mikelson and Charlotte Becket in their collaborative exhibition.
Free and Open to the Public
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ExhibitionVictorian Yuletide: A New York State ChristmasFriday, November 23 - Sunday, December 30, 2018Celebrate the holiday season with a visit to the Museum of Art’s annual Victorian Yuletide, opening Friday, November 23, in Fountain Elms. This year’s exhibition is a showcase for A New York State Christmas. New York legalized the celebration of Christmas in 1848 and the state led the way in the adoption and promotion of holiday traditions that are still observed today.
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PrattMWP Gallery EventJonathan Kirk ExhibitionFriday, February 1 - Thursday, February 28, 2019The PrattMWP Gallery is pleased to host British-born sculptor Jonathan Kirk in a solo exhibition.
Free and Open to the Public
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ExhibitionTommy Brown: UpstateFriday, February 8 - Saturday, April 6, 2019Tommy Brown: Upstate is a retrospective look at the regional photographer’s decades-long study of his home in rural Central New York.
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PrattMWP Gallery EventCaroline Voagen Nelson + Soojin Kim Artist in Residence ExhibitionFriday, March 8 - Thursday, April 4, 2019The PrattMWP Gallery is pleased to host Caroline Voagen Nelson + Soojin Kim Artists in Residence Exhibition.
Free and Open to the Public
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ExhibitionLouis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus CollectionSunday, June 16 - Sunday, September 8, 2019Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection is a spectacular presentation that features more than 60 objects, spanning more than 30 years of Tiffany’s prolific and celebrated career. The exhibition is an exploration of craftsmanship, ingenuity, and pure aesthetic beauty that also examines the themes of 19th-century women artisans and innovations in industrial technology. Exceptionally versatile, prolific, and popular, Tiffany worked in nearly all of the media available to artists and designers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries—glass, ceramic, metal, jewelry, mosaics, enamel, and paint—using natural forms for his innovative designs.
MWPAI On The Road
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MWPAI on the RoadRaphaelle Peale (American 1774-1825)Thursday, October 18, 2018 - Monday, September 9, 2019To the exhibition Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment at
Princeton University Art Museum, October 13, 2018- January 6, 2019
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem Massachusetts, February 2- May 5, 2019
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, May 25- September 9, 2019 -
MWPAI on the RoadIsabel Bishop (American 1902-1988)Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - Sunday, May 26, 2019To the exhibition Isabel Bishop’s Working Women: Defying Convention at the Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield Museums, Springfield, MA.