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Wednesday, March 15, 2023

News from the Princeton University Art Museum

 

 


 

Art@Bainbridge Exhibition

Cycle of Creativity: Alison Saar and the Toni Morrison Papers

On view through July 9

Cycle of Creativity: Alison Saar and the Toni Morrison Papers explores themes that resonate in the works of both the artist Alison Saar and the novelist Toni Morrison. Saar’s prints, sculptures, and paintings are brought into conversation with selected papers from Morrison’s archive, which spans her career as an author, professor, editor, and playwright, and resides in the Princeton University Library.  

This exhibition is part of a University-wide, year-long celebration of Morrison and her archive. Next up: save the dates for Sites of Memory, a symposium on Morrison’s legacy that will take place on campus from March 23 to 25. It opens with a keynote lecture by the writer Edwidge Danticat and closes with a conversation between the poet Evie Shockley and Alison Saar.

 

 

 

Take Our Survey

Why Do Museums Engage You?

With construction of our new building continuing and the launch of a new facility drawing nearer, the Princeton University Art Museum is embarked on a dramatic period of change. We’d like to know more about your thoughts and experiences to serve you better. 

In order to do this, we are participating in a national survey of museumgoers, sponsored by the American Alliance of Museums, the national body of museums in the United States. This survey will provide us with data from our own visitors and from nationwide participants, helping us to better serve our communities. 

The survey should take less than ten minutes to complete, but in that brief time you will help us make better decisions for the future. And as a thank you, you’ll have the opportunity to win one of ten $100 Visa gift cards! 

 

 

 

 

Campus Art

Outdoor Walking Tours

Saturdays and Sundays, 2 p.m. 
Beginning March 25

Explore Princeton’s stunning collection of public art on tours led by Museum guides. Discover artworks by modern and contemporary sculptors, from Henry Moore to Maya Lin. Tours meet Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. from March 25 through November 20. Find more details about campus art tours here.

 

 

 

Artist Conversation

Joiri Minaya

Art on Hulfish
Wednesday, March 29, 5:30 p.m.

Join the artist Joiri Minaya and Christina León, assistant professor of English at Princeton University, for a discussion of Minaya’s work, which is featured in the exhibition You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography at Art on Hulfish. Born in New York and raised in the Dominican Republic, Minaya destabilizes historic and contemporary representations of an imagined tropical identity through her multidisciplinary practice. Reception to follow. More details about Minaya’s artist talk here

 

 

 

Panel Discussion

Perspectives on Object Lessons

Thursday, March 30, 5:30 p.m.
Stream it live

Join Curator Karl Kusserow and catalogue essayists Kirsten Pai Buick and Ellery Foutch for a discussion of their newly published catalogue, Object Lessons in American Art

Expanding on the traveling exhibition curated by Kusserow, this publication is inspired by the concept of the object lesson: the study of a material thing to communicate a larger idea. Object Lessons reimagines the Museum’s collection of historical American art in light of contemporary perspectives on race, gender, and the environment.

 

 

 

 

Museum Store

This Smart Book Light masquerades as a laser-cut wooden book—but when opened, it transforms into a sculptural lamp emitting a warm, ambient light through its pages. The beautiful design opens to a full 360 degrees with cleverly concealed magnets.

Each purchase supports the Museum’s core mission to educate, challenge, and inspire. Shop in person at 56 Nassau Street in downtown Princeton or online at princetonmuseumstore.org. Members receive a discount on every purchase; join today


 

Images

Alison Saar, Torch Song, 2019. Museum purchase, Kathleen Compton Sherrerd Fund for Acquisitions in American Art. © Alison Saar. Courtesy of L. A. Louver, Venice, CA. Photo: Jeffrey Evans  

Joiri Minaya, Ayoowiri / Girl with poinciana flowers, 2020. © Joiri Minaya. Courtesy the artist and Aperture 

Front cover of Object Lessons in American Art, designed by Ryan Polich. Artwork: Renee Cox, The Signing (detail), 2018, printed 2022. Princeton University Art Museum. Museum purchase, Kathleen Compton Sherrerd Fund for Acquisitions in American Art. © Renee Cox 

Art@Bainbridge is made possible through the generous support of the Virginia and Bagley Wright, Class of 1946, Program Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art; the Kathleen C. Sherrerd Program Fund for American Art; Joshua R. Slocum, Class of 1998, and Sara Slocum; Rachelle Belfer Malkin, Class of 1986, and Anthony E. Malkin; Barbara and Gerald Essig; Gene Locks, Class of 1959, and Sueyun Locks; and Ivy Beth Lewis. Additional support for this exhibition is provided by the Humanities Council; the Lewis Center for the Arts; the Department of Music; the Department of African American Studies; and the Department of English. 

Art on Hulfish is made possible by the leadership support of Annette Merle-Smith and Princeton University. Generous support is also provided by William S. Fisher, Class of 1979, and Sakurako Fisher; J. Bryan King, Class of 1993; the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts; John Diekman, Class of 1965, and Susan Diekman; Barbara and Gerald Essig; Rachelle Belfer Malkin, Class of 1986, and Anthony E. Malkin; the Curtis W. McGraw Foundation; Tom Tuttle, Class of 1988, and Mila Tuttle; Nancy A. Nasher, Class of 1976, and David J. Haemisegger, Class of 1976; Gene Locks, Class of 1959, and Sueyun Locks; and Palmer Square Management. Additional support for this exhibition is provided by the Program in Latin American Studies and the Effron Center for the Study of America.

You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography is curated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas, chief curator and deputy director, Curatorial and Collections at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art and organized by Aperture. 



Thursday-evening programming is made possible in part by Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970, with additional support from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.    


 

 

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