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Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute

Major Norman Rockwell Exhibit Set For Utica

June 7, 2022 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

The Catch by Norman RockwellOver the course of his six-decade career, Norman Rockwell illustrated the everyday moments in America, featuring diverse races, nationalities, economic backgrounds, and creeds.

Through two world wars, the Great Depression, the wars in Korea and Vietnam, and the Civil Rights struggles, Rockwell promoted an optimistic world in the face of hardship and struggle. [Read more…] about Major Norman Rockwell Exhibit Set For Utica

Filed Under: History, New Exhibits, Western NY Tagged With: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute

Munson-Williams-Proctor Names Diversity Leader

September 19, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute logoAnasa D. Sinegal of Little Falls, NY, has been named Diversity and Engagement Leader for Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute and Integrated Community Alternatives Network (ICAN). [Read more…] about Munson-Williams-Proctor Names Diversity Leader

Filed Under: Arts Tagged With: diversity, Herkimer COunty, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Oneida County

Corning Museum Hot Glass Roadshow In Utica

July 29, 2019 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

glass blowing demonstrationThe Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute is set to host Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG), who will give live glassmaking demonstrations daily at noon, 1, 2, and 6 pm, from August 2-11, on the front lawn of the Museum of Art.

In association with the Museum of Art exhibition, “Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection,” the CMoG’s skilled technicians demonstrate complex hot glassmaking techniques. [Read more…] about Corning Museum Hot Glass Roadshow In Utica

Filed Under: Events, History, New Exhibits Tagged With: Mohawk Valley, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica

Tommy Brown’s Chenango, Madison County Photos Exhibition in Utica

January 24, 2019 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

The Forest Doesnt Hate Itself by Tommy BrownA new exhibit “Tommy Brown: Upstate,” featuring pictures of people, farms, and landscapes of Central New York, is set to run from February 9th through April 7th, in the Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. Brown will discuss his work during a gallery talk at 2 pm Sunday, March 10, 2019. [Read more…] about Tommy Brown’s Chenango, Madison County Photos Exhibition in Utica

Filed Under: History, Mohawk Valley, New Exhibits, Western NY Tagged With: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute

MWPAI Receives Grant for Building Repair, Exhibition

December 25, 2017 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

mwpaiMunson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute (MWPAI) in Utica has been awarded a grant in the amount of $397,511 from Empire State Development (ESD), the Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development Council (REDC) and the New York State Department of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation to repair and preserve the granite façade of its Philip Johnson-designed Museum of Art building.  [Read more…] about MWPAI Receives Grant for Building Repair, Exhibition

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Grants, Historic Preservation, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica

MWPAI Launches Online Collection Effort

November 12, 2017 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Landscape with Boy Fishing, by Jesse H. Bolles, pre 1862 More than 5,000 works of art spanning three centuries are now accessible to the public through the new Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art’s online collection page.

The project took three years to complete. In addition to the artwork, many of the entries include scholarly interpretation, bibliography, and exhibition histories. [Read more…] about MWPAI Launches Online Collection Effort

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute

Anna D’Ambrosio Named New President of MWPAI

May 11, 2017 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Anna D’Ambrosio The Board of Trustees at Munson-Williams Proctor Arts Institute have announced that Museum of Art Director and Chief Curator Anna Tobin D’Ambrosio has been appointed President and CEO, effective in early August. D’Ambrosio succeeds Anthony Spiridigloizzi, who announced his retirement earlier this year. [Read more…] about Anna D’Ambrosio Named New President of MWPAI

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Museums, Utica

New York 1925-35 And Modernized America

April 20, 2017 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Manhattan Cocktail Service The exhibition Roaring into the Future: New York 1925-35, on view June 18 through October 9 at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, is an exhibition celebrating the Empire State as the driving force behind the creation of 20th-century modernism.

From Buffalo to Brooklyn, artists, designers, and manufacturers generated avant-garde art, fashion, technology, and music that resulted in the century’s most important artistic revolution. [Read more…] about New York 1925-35 And Modernized America

Filed Under: History, New Exhibits Tagged With: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica

French Impressionists Exhibit Opens In Utica

June 2, 2015 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

29471 IBrilliant, colorful paintings by the artists who revolutionized the art world will be showcased in Monet to Matisse: The Age of French Impressionism, on view through November 29 Utica’s Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute’s Museum of Art.

Monet to Matisse features more than 60 Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings and pastel drawings from the renowned collection of the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis, Tennessee. [Read more…] about French Impressionists Exhibit Opens In Utica

Filed Under: History, New Exhibits Tagged With: Art History, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica

Thomas Cole Exhibition, Lecture At Albany Institute

October 30, 2014 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

The Voyage of Life- Youth, Thomas Cole (1801-1848), 1839, Albany Institute of History and Art purchaseThe Albany Institute of History & Art has announced that it will install a special exhibition of Thomas Cole materials to coincide with Dr. Paul Schweizer’s lecture and book signing at the Albany Institute on Sunday, November 2, 2014, at 2 pm.

Dr. Schweizer is Director Emeritus of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute’s Museum of Art and will speak about his new book Thomas Cole’s Voyage of Life as part of the Institute’s Making it American lecture series. The Albany Institute owns Cole’s original oil studies for the Voyage of Life series as well as the first concept drawing for his painting, “Youth.” This event is open to the public and free with museum admission. [Read more…] about Thomas Cole Exhibition, Lecture At Albany Institute

Filed Under: Events, History, New Exhibits Tagged With: Albany, Albany Institute For History and Art, Art History, Hudson River School, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute

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