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]]> News from the Schools https://museum.mcmaster.ca/in-school/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-school Tue, 04 Jun 2019 17:37:00 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=10629 The post News from the Schools appeared first on McMaster Museum of Art.

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]]> Museum News: Spring/Summer 2019 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/museum-news-s2019/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=museum-news-s2019 Fri, 15 Mar 2019 14:00:22 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=10457 Museum of Art Closing for Environmental System Updates The McMaster Museum of Art (MMA) will be temporarily closed from March 19 – August 23, 2019 for major updates to its environmental systems. The shutdown is necessary to ensure the highest standard of care and preservation for the more than 6,000 objects in the University’s significant […]

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Museum of Art Closing for Environmental System Updates

The McMaster Museum of Art (MMA) will be temporarily closed from March 19 – August 23, 2019 for major updates to its environmental systems. The shutdown is necessary to ensure the highest standard of care and preservation for the more than 6,000 objects in the University’s significant art collection. The MMA is a Category “A” cultural institution as designated by the Government of Canada. more info

We apologize for any inconvenience and look forward to reopening in time for the Fall Semester with exciting new exhibitions. In the meantime, Museum staff will be taking programming ‘to the streets’ with a series of free education programs, including In-School Art Programs (Fully Booked), Mini-University activities, public art projects, campus art tours, and much more. Further details below.

We will be sharing updates and additional programming on this page and on social media channels throughout the closure.

MMA Public Programmes during Spring/Summer include…

GUIDED TOURS & LUNCHTIME ART ACTIVITIES

Presented by the N. Gillian Cooper Education Program
Free. No registration required.
In the event of rain, outdoor activities will be cancelled. Please follow our social media channels for updates.

  • Walking Tours of Selected Campus Architecture
    Thursday, May 9 at 12 noon | length: 1 hour
    Meet in front of the McMaster Museum of Art for a guided tour of buildings in the central campus area from Hamilton Hall to Divinity College.
    Thursday, May 23 at 12 noon | length: 1 hour  Cancelled due to inclement weather
    Meet in front of JHE by the clock for a guided tour that will cover buildings in the south area of campus from the Reactor to the Health Sciences Centre.
    Wednesday, June 19 at 12 noon | length: 1 hour
    Meet in front of the McMaster Museum of Art for a guided tour of buildings in the central campus area. Hamilton Arts Week Event
  • Walking Tour of Selected Campus Sculpture
    Tuesday, June 18 at 12 noon | length: 1 hour
    Guided tour begins in front of the Museum of Art. Hamilton Arts Week Event
  • Outdoor Sketching
    Thursday, June 20 at 12 noon | length: 1 hour
    Art supplies provided in front of the Museum of Art. Hamilton Arts Week Event

PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
This summer, McMaster Museum of Art will be commissioning three separate public artworks for the exterior of the building.

Must See Exhibitions Off Campus…

McMaster’s Monet in AGO Blockbuster
McMaster’s Claude Monet painting of Waterloo Bridge has been borrowed by the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto for their spring exhibition Impressionism in the Age of Industry: Monet, Pissarro and more from February 16 to May 5, 2019. We are delighted that the work was selected and that we were able to accommodate the request. The painting has just returned from the nationally touring exhibition A Cultivating Journey: The Herman H. Levy Legacy, and following the Museum’s spring/summer closure, it will be hung once again and on permanent display at McMaster Museum of Art (MMA). More info

Counterpoint: SUMMA 2019
Annual McMaster University BFA Exhibition
Guest Curator: Hitoko Okada
LOCATION: The Cotton Factory
270 Sherman Ave N, Hamilton, ON L8L 6N4
April 6 – 19, 2019
Due to the Museum shutdown, the 2019 McMaster University BFA Graduation exhibition (aka SUMMA) will be hosted off campus at The Cotton Factory. Please join us at the Cotton Factory on Saturday, April 6, 11 am – 3 pm for the Opening Celebration and MMA sponsored student awards. Until then, follow the graduating class on Instagram @mcmastersumma2019 for a sneak preview of the artists’ work.

 

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]]> Winter Exhibitions Opening January 17 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/openingjan2019/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=openingjan2019 Fri, 04 Jan 2019 14:31:28 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=10300 Join us as we celebrate the three new exhibitions at the McMaster Museum of Art.

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]]> Ursula Johnson: Mi’kwite’tmn (Do You Remember) https://museum.mcmaster.ca/ursula-johnson-mikwitetmn-do-you-remember/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ursula-johnson-mikwitetmn-do-you-remember Tue, 28 Aug 2018 18:54:37 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=10047 McMaster Museum of Art presents Ursula Johnson: Mi’kwite’tmn (Do You Remember).

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]]> McMaster’s Levy Collection at Kelowna Art Gallery https://museum.mcmaster.ca/kelownaart/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kelownaart Thu, 14 Jun 2018 18:40:10 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=9813 McMaster Museum of Art’s touring exhibition A Cultivating Journey: The Herman Levy Legacy opens this weekend at the Kelowna Art Gallery where it will be on view from June 16 to October 28, 2018.

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]]> Rebecca Belmore: March 5, 1819 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/rebecca-belmore/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rebecca-belmore Wed, 02 May 2018 14:35:38 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=9638 March 5, 1819 is a recently acquired video work that considers the frantic final moments before Demasduit, a young Beothuk woman (later renamed Mary March) is captured by colonists at Red Indian Lake in Newfoundland.

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]]> Register now for Slow Art Day 2018 at McMaster https://museum.mcmaster.ca/slowartday2018/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slowartday2018 Thu, 15 Mar 2018 16:22:33 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=9416 Slow Art Day is back for its sixth year at the McMaster Museum of Art.

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]]> Artist & Curator’s Talk: Susan Schelle and Ana Barajas, March 7 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/schelletalk/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=schelletalk Tue, 27 Feb 2018 18:00:51 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=9338 Presented as a complement to the exhibition Susan Schelle: Selected Works on view in the Museum’s entrance level Sherman Gallery until March 24, 2018

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Artist & Curator’s Talk

by Susan Schelle, Artist, and Ana Barajas, Curator
McMaster Museum of Art
Wednesday, March 7, 12:30 – 1:20 pm

Presented as a complement to the exhibition Susan Schelle: Selected Works on view in the Museum’s entrance level Sherman Gallery until March 24, 2018

Admission is Free and all are welcome.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Susan Schelle was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and currently lives and works in Toronto. She was an Associate Professor Emeritus in Visual Studies, J.H. Daniels Faculty, University of Toronto. She has completed a number of public art commissions, notably salmon run at The Rogers Centre Toronto, passage at York University Toronto, and laws of nature at Court House Square Park, Toronto. She has shown both nationally and internationally including The Cenci Gallery, Rome, Italy and The Freedman Gallery Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania. Her work resides in the collections of Air Canada, The Art Gallery of Ontario, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, McMaster Museum of Art, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, The Vancouver Art Gallery, and The National Gallery of Canada. In addition to her own work, Schelle has collaborated with Mark Gomes on several public commissions, most recently jetstream at Terminal One, Pearson International Airport, Toronto.

ABOUT THE CURATOR

Born in Mexico City, Mexico, Ana Barajas holds a BFA from OCAD University in Sculpture/Installation. She received a MVA, Curatorial and a MA, Modern Art History from the University of Toronto. As the Director of YYZ Artists’ Outlet, a non-profit artist-run centre, Barajas has managed more than one-hundred exhibitions to date. Independent curatorial projects include It takes everyone to know no one in 2011 at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Art Museum, University of Toronto, The 19th Holeat Cuchifritos Gallery+Project Space, NY in 2014 and the group exhibition Disappearing Act at the Thames Art Gallery, Chatham-Kent in 2017.

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]]> Recent Acquisitions https://museum.mcmaster.ca/acquisitions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=acquisitions Tue, 12 Dec 2017 20:08:07 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=9192 The McMaster Museum of Art’s Acquisitions Committee meets on a regular basis with the Curatorial team to advise and oversee acquisitions, through purchase or donation, of works of art for the Permanent Collection.

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