nj arts maven: @ Morris Museum: New Year, New Experiences: Artist Workshops, Family Dino Tours, Art Classes, and Curator-Led Tours

Artist Workshop with Valerie Huhn

Saturday, January 18, 2025 | 9:30 – 11:30 AM

Join featured artist Valerie Huhn from New Sculpture/New Jersey for a unique workshop. Discover her artistic process and create your own piece inspired by her captivating work! We welcome participants ages 16 and older, from beginner artists to those with intermediate experience for this engaging two-hour workshop.

Join as a Morris Museum member and enjoy a 10% discount on registration.

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Gallery tours with New Sculpture/New Jersey Curator Bryant Small

Saturday, January 4, 2025

Two Tours: 11:30 AM and 1:00 PM

Free with Museum admission

Join guest curator Bryant Small and select sculptors on a tour of the exhibition, New Sculpture/New Jersey.

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Studio Art Classes

Drawing & Painting Techniques

Classes begin Monday, January 6.

Get creative this New Year with a course designed for beginners and intermediate artists. Explore your chosen medium while developing your artistic style in this immersive class. You’ll learn application techniques tailored to your medium, focusing on creating representational paintings that capture your chosen subject matter.

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Film: Perugino

Eternal Renaissance

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 | 2:00 & 7:00 PM

This film takes you on a journey through Italy to discover Perugino’s great masterpieces, from the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel to the two rooms entirely dedicated to him in the National Gallery of Umbria. A tribute to an artist who decisively inspired great painters, by creating works of immortal beauty.

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Digging Dinosaurs Family Tour

Thursdays in January | 4:00 PM

Free with Museum admission

Come explore the Morris Museum’s Digging Dinosaur Exhibition. Touch a real dinosaur egg and walk alongside dinosaur tracks as you imagine what the earth looked like 65 million years ago when these massive reptiles roamed the earth.

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Nimbus Dance

Friday, February 21, 2025 | 7:00 PM

Nimbus Dance returns to the Bickford Theater with a program of dances perfect for lovers of dance and music. Morris Knolls High School students will join Nimbus’ dancers in Samuel Pott’s endearingly slapstick “Roseification” set to the spunky music of Valerie Coleman.

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Spark!Lab

Wednesday-Sunday | Noon to 4 PM

Excite your mind with Spark!Lab, whether it be a long weekend or a family day.

Spark!Lab at the Morris Museum is made possible by leadership support from BASF. Generous support is also made possible by Gay H. Osborn on behalf of the Blanche and George Jones Fund, Inc.

Daily Guinness Workshop Demos

Wednesday-Sunday | 2 PM

Free with Museum Admission

See, hear, touch, and explore! The Guinness Workshop is open to museum visitors with daily demonstrations of mechanical musical instruments in an interactive setting.

A New Digital Guide to Enrich Your Morris Museum Experience

Explore Morris Museum with our digital guide on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app. You can plan your visit, access helpful on-site information, and dive deeper into your favorite works at home–or anytime, anywhere. We are joining more than 500 cultural institutions around the globe as a Bloomberg Connects partner.

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Image credits (from top to bottom): Valerie Huhn, Mirror Armor, 2023. On right, Valerie Huhn, Cell Theory, 2022. On loan courtesy of the artist. Photography by Argenis Apolinario. New Sculpture/New Jersey installation photo by Marcus Romero. Studio Art image courtesy of Pexel. Dinosaur tour photo by Jean Minthe. Spark!Lab photo by Cristina Rovayo. Guinness photo by Marcus Romero. Bloomberg Connects artwork courtesy of Bloomberg Philanthropies. Michael Malpass installation view. Photo by Haley Miller.