Muscarelle Museum of Art

VIRTUAL MUSCARELLE is proud to present Building on the Legacy: African American Art from the Permanent Collection comprised of paintings, drawings, and sculptures by renowned artists.Created to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first African American students in residence at William & Mary, Building on the Legacy: African American Art from the Permanent Collection was part of a yearlong program of special events during the 2017-2018 academic year, which spoke to themes of parity and desegregation. The original exhibition, held at the Muscarelle Museum of Art (September 2, 2017 - January 14, 2018), featured works that encompassed a variety of media, styles,…

March 11, 2019 at 6:00 PM | Muscarelle Museum of Art, Sheridan GalleryJoin us for our inaugural Book Club! Over the course of this series we will be reading books that are related to works of art and artists represented in the Museum’s permanent collection. In honor of 100 Years of Women at William & Mary, this semester we have selected Lee Krasner: A Biography by Gail Levin. Lee Krasner trained with Hans Hofmann at his New York studio, where she was exposed to the modernist innovations of pre-war Paris, including Picasso's Cubism and Matisse’s use of color and outline. Though…

Problems with the Prescription: The Reality of Regional Modern Architecture in America in the 1920s and 1930s | March 12, 2019 at 6:00 PM, Tucker Hall, Tucker Theater | David Brashear, Interim Director, Muscarelle Museum of ArtWith the International Style exhibition of 1932, the Museum of Modern Art plunged into the discourse regarding modern architecture.  In this lecture, we will reflect on the efforts of MoMA to “educate” American designers about international architectural trends, while simultaneously missing the rich flavors of modernism that were thriving regionally in the United States.   Free to Members, W&M Students, Faculty, and Staff.  Non-Members: $5  Reserve…

June 4 - 6, Tuesday - Thursday | 10 AM - 5 PM

March 22, 2019 at 5:00 PM | Muscarelle Museum of Art, Sheridan Gallery | Steve Prince, Director of Engagement and Distinguished Artist in Residence, Muscarelle Museum of ArtJoin the Muscarelle’s Distinguished Artist in Residence Steve Prince in this intense hands-on workshop, where participants will be exposed to the limitless process of creating watercolor monoprints! Participants will create expressive watercolor templates on Yupo paper, cut and arrange the dried color materials on a acrylic substrate, and utilize water saturated archival paper to reconstitute the watercolors to create unique, multi-colored prints that are abstract or representational. All materials will be provided, all…

March 22, 2019 at 11:30 AM - 1: 30 PM | Muscarelle Museum of Art, Sheridan Gallery | Steve Prince, Director of Engagement and Distinguished Artist in Residence, Muscarelle Museum of ArtPlease join Steve Prince at the Muscarelle Museum of Art for Meet the Artist Brown Bag Lunch. Come by the Museum with your lunch any time between 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM to learn about the methods and thought processes involved in creating works of art from the artist himself. Each Brown Bag Lunch features something new, so be sure to stop by.  This week features music from William & Mary's…

March 29, 2019 at 5:30 PM | Tucker Hall, Tucker TheaterPlease join us for the award-winning film My Architect: A Son’s Journey!  This remarkable documentary examines Louis Kahn's bold, modern buildings in loving detail.  Kahn was one of the most important architects of the twentieth century. His dramatic death in 1974 - alone and unidentified in the men's room of New York's Penn train station - revealed a triple life: in addition to this wife and daughter, Kahn left behind two illegitimate children, by different women with whom he had long-term relationships. As the architect's only son, director Nathaniel Kahn…

Culture Interrupted: The Pursuit of Looted Art & Antiquities | April 8, 2019 at 6:00 PM | William & Mary Law School, Room 120 | L. Eden Burgess, Partner, Cultural Heritage Partners | Olga Symeonoglou, Associate, Cultural Heritage PartnersThe Third Reich left a long legacy of looted art to be restituted, as did other wars and conflicts. In her talk, L. Eden Burgess will discuss how claimants have used the courts to try to right those wrongs. This series of programs is presented in cooperation with the following: William & Mary Art and Cultural Heritage Law Society; Cultural Heritage Partners, a law firm dedicated exclusively to serving cultural heritage clients;…

April 12, 2019 at 5:30 PM | Tucker Hall, Tucker TheaterJoin us for a special Art Film Friday in conjunction with our Muscarelle Explorations: Art Repatriation lecture series! Woman in Gold is the remarkable true story of one woman’s voyage to reclaim her heritage and seek justice for what happened to her family. Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt’s famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (also known as The Woman in Gold).   This series of programs is presented in cooperation with the following: William & Mary…

Screening of The Liberators | April 15, 2019 at 7:30 PM | Williamsburg Regional Library, Williamsburg Regional Library TheatreJoin us for a special screening of The Liberators after the lecture by Thomas R. Kline and Jennifer Morris. A true detective story, The Liberators follows a dogged German art detective through the New York art world and military archives to the unlikeliest of destinations: a small town on the Texas prairie. The film raises intriguing questions as to the motivations of the art thief and the whereabouts of the items that, to this day, remain waiting to be discovered.   This series of programs is presented in cooperation with the…

April 24, 2019 | 5:30 PM | Tucker Hall, Tucker TheaterRe-scheduled for Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 5:30 PM, please join us for a screening of The Rape of Europa in conjunction with our Muscarelle Explorations: Art Repatriation series! The Rape of Europa tells the epic story of the systematic theft, deliberate destruction and miraculous survival of Europe’s art treasures during the Third Reich and World War II. In a journey through seven countries, the film takes viewers into the violent whirlwind of fanaticism, greed, and warfare that threatened to wipe out the artistic heritage of Europe. Now, more than sixty years later, the legacy of this tragic history continues…

Museums and Nazi-era Looted Art: An Ongoing Journey to Resolution | April 30, 2019 | 6:00 PM | Williamsburg Regional Library, Williamsburg Regional Library Theatre | Karen Daly, Registrar for Exhibitions & Coordinator of Provenance Research, Virginia Museum of Fine ArtsIssues of looted art and restitution, particularly of art misappropriated during the Nazi era, continue to be prevalent topics in art news coverage and remain important concerns for museums worldwide. Karen Daly will provide an overview of the issues, discussing the response of the American museum community, considering how recovery and restitution efforts have evolved to the present day, including an overview of VMFA’s experiences in resolving art restitution claims.   This series of…

The Muscarelle Museum of Art is proud to present the ninth Annual Wine & Run for the Roses Auction on Derby Day on Saturday, May 4, 2019, from 2 - 7 PM.  Laugh, libate and lift your paddle for a great cause!  Proceeds benefit the Muscarelle Museum of Art Foundation a 501(c)3 organization.  Purchase your ticket here!  

May 13 – 17 , 2019 | Monday, Wednesday and Friday 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM and Tuesday and Thursday 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM | Stryker Center | Steve Prince, Director of Engagement & Distinguished Artist in Residence, Muscarelle Museum of Art As part of the exhibition Sankofa: Looking Back, Moving Forward (on view at the Stryker Center May 1 – June 12, 2019) Steve Prince will be in residence at the Stryker Center, ready to engage with visitors while he completes his latest drawing from the series, from May 13 – 17.   Free and open to the public.   

May 17, 2019 | 5:00 PM | Muscarelle Museum of Art, Sheridan Gallery | Steve Prince, Director of Engagement and Distinguished Artist in Residence, Muscarelle Museum of Art | SOLD OUT!Join the Muscarelle’s Distinguished Artist in Residence Steve Prince in this intense hands-on workshop, where participants will be exposed to the limitless process of creating watercolor monoprints! Participants will create expressive watercolor templates on Yupo paper, cut and arrange the dried color materials on a acrylic substrate, and utilize water saturated archival paper to reconstitute the watercolors to create unique, multi-colored prints that are abstract or representational. All materials will…

Presenting Art: The Importance of the Vessel | May 23, 2019 | 6:00 PM | Integrated Science Center, Room 1221 | David Brashear, Interim Director, Muscarelle Museum of ArtArt Museums loom large on the cultural landscape, and when new ones are built, they are important opportunities to present the current state of architectural and design thinking.  In this lecture, we will explore recently constructed museums in America, including smaller museums on college campuses and larger institutions that serve as flagship centers of civic engagement in urban settings.  We will also check in on the current status of our own quest for a…

Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice | June 27, 2019 | 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM | National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.This year marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of Jacopo Robusti (known as "Tintoretto"), one of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance. The National Gallery of Art, in cooperation with the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and Gallerie dell'Accademia, has assembled some of the Venetian master's greatest paintings for the first retrospective of the artist's works in North America. Featuring nearly 50 paintings, many of which have never left Venice where Tintoretto lived and worked for 75…

Muscarelle Museum of Art (Sheridan & Spigel Galleries) | November 6, 2019 – January 26, 2020This exhibition marks the 400 year-anniversary of the arrival of the first documented African slaves in Colonial Virginia that, while part of the greater narrative of slavery in the Americas, helped to set into motion the ongoing repercussions of this historical event.  As a contemporary response to the 1619 commemoration in Virginia, 1619 / 2019  will feature art works from African American and Native American emergent and established artists in a variety of media expressing a complexity of experience, addressing the past and present. Press…

The Museum will be closed Saturday through Monday, August 31st through September, in observance of Labor Day.

Due to the projected weather conditions associated with Hurricane Dorian, we are postponing this event until further notice. Check back soon for updates! Join exhibition curator Elizabeth Mead, William & Mary Professor of Art, W. Taylor Reveley Interdisciplinary Faculty Fellow, Department of Art & Art History, for a walking tour of The Adjacent Possible in the Museum's Sheridan and Spigel galleries.  This exhibition provides first-hand experiential interaction with contemporary abstract works and explores creative potential.

Muscarelle @ Merchants Square | September 11, 2019 | 1 - 3 PM Stop by Muscarelle @ Merchants Square (440A W Duke of Gloucester St above Williams-Sonoma) to engage with artist Steve Prince. During these sessions, you will have the opportunity to learn first-hand about the process of artistic creation and make your own take-away memento!

Muscarelle Museum of Art | September 12, 2019 | 5 - 7 PM Enjoy Members' Hours for The Adjacent Possible today! These exclusive hours are open to Museum Members' and the W&M Community. Our knowledgeable Museum Docents will be on hand to give tours and answer questions.

Muscarelle Museum of Art | September 14, 2019 | 1 - 3 PM Take a tour of our current exhibition The Adjacent Possible with one of our knowledgeable docents! Docents will be available to give tours or answer questions about the exhibition from 1 until 3 PM.

Muscarelle Museum of Art | September 15, 2019 | 1 - 3 PM Take a tour of our current exhibition The Adjacent Possible with one of our knowledgeable docents! Docents will be available to give tours or answer questions about the exhibition from 1 until 3 PM.

Andrews Hall, Room 101 | September 17, 2019 | 5:30 - 7:30 PM Join us for a screening of two of Jem Cohen’s films.  Anne Truitt: Working (2009) provides a portrait of the artist Anne Truitt (1921 – 2004) through interviews with the artist and the filmmaker. Cohen says, “I was honored to know Anne Truitt, and doubly so when she allowed me to make a short record of her presence and thoughts. I felt as if she opened her hand and showed, in a profound but down to earth way, the compass by which she navigated.” We will also…

Muscarelle @ Merchants Square | September 18, 2019 | 1 - 3 PM Stop by Muscarelle @ Merchants Square (440A W Duke of Gloucester St above Williams-Sonoma) to engage with artist Steve Prince. During these sessions, you will have the opportunity to learn first-hand about the process of artistic creation and make your own take-away memento!

Muscarelle Museum of Art | September 19, 2019 | 5 - 7 PM Enjoy Members' Hours for The Adjacent Possible today! These exclusive hours are open to Museum Members' and the W&M Community. Our knowledgeable Museum Docents will be on hand to give tours and answer questions.

Andrews Hall, Room 101 | September 20, 2019 | 4 – 5:30 PM Join us for a very special artist talk with Susan York, one of the participating artists in The Adjacent Possible. York will discuss the relationships and transitions between flat and dimensional forms in her work and how those forms are able to merge with a space to challenge our perception. The talk in Andrews Hall will be moderated by Charles Palermo, Professor of Art History. A reception will follow the talk at the Muscarelle Museum of Art from 5:30 to 7:30 PM.

Muscarelle @ Merchants Square | September 21, 2019 | 10 AM - 12 PM In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to create a multicolored, imaginative, expressive landscape image. The instructor will guide the youth through a creative exploration of wax-resist drawing while teaching about color, composition and design techniques. This workshop is open to youth with an active imagination and a desire to have fun while making art! Fee includes all materials and refreshments. Level: Elementary School Member sign up begins August 31. Non-Member sign up begins September 7 | Workshop fee: Muscarelle Members, W&M Staff, Faculty, and Students…

Muscarelle Museum of Art | September 21, 2019 | 1 - 3 PM Take a tour of our current exhibition The Adjacent Possible with one of our knowledgeable docents! Docents will be available to give tours or answer questions about the exhibition from 1 until 3 PM.

Muscarelle Museum of Art | September 22, 2019 | 1 - 3 PM Take a tour of our current exhibition The Adjacent Possible with one of our knowledgeable docents! Docents will be available to give tours or answer questions about the exhibition from 1 until 3 PM.

Muscarelle @ Merchants Square | September 23-24, 2019 | 5 - 7:30 PM In this two-day hands-on workshop, participants will learn techniques in creating a representational drawing of the human head. The instructor will offer lectures demonstrations and individual instruction to enhance the learner experience. We will work from a model and will cover proportion, feature structure, tonal development of light and shadow, use of materials and studio practice. This workshop is open to artists of all skill levels interested in improving their ability in traditional charcoal drawing. Fee includes materials, model fee and refreshments. Please note that the workshop…