HamOnt Archives - McMaster Museum of Art https://museum.mcmaster.ca/tag/hamont/ Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:32:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/cropped-mma_favicon_24bit_alt-32x32.png HamOnt Archives - McMaster Museum of Art https://museum.mcmaster.ca/tag/hamont/ 32 32 McMaster Museum of Art Welcomes Mary Reid as Director and Chief Curator https://museum.mcmaster.ca/mcmaster-museum-of-art-welcomes-mary-reid-as-director-and-chief-curator/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mcmaster-museum-of-art-welcomes-mary-reid-as-director-and-chief-curator Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:26:42 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=28417 The post McMaster Museum of Art Welcomes Mary Reid as Director and Chief Curator appeared first on McMaster Museum of Art.

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]]> Announcement from #HAMONT Artists Relief Fund https://museum.mcmaster.ca/announcement-from-hamont-artists-relief-fund/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=announcement-from-hamont-artists-relief-fund Fri, 17 Apr 2020 14:21:22 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=11507 The McMaster Museum of Art is a proud supporter of the Hamilton Artists Relief Fund. Organized by The Hamilton Arts Council, it is raising and distributing emergency relief funds for artists struggling during this difficult time, as well as providing a curated online platform for local artists to present and perform.

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]]> Museum presents Hamilton Arts Week Events https://museum.mcmaster.ca/haw2019/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=haw2019 Mon, 10 Jun 2019 15:50:46 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=10578 McMaster Museum of Art activities for Hamilton Arts Week: June 18, 19, 20

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]]> Video: Michael Allgoewer’s Talk https://museum.mcmaster.ca/allgoewer-talk/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=allgoewer-talk Wed, 27 Feb 2019 15:04:04 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=10444 Thank you to all who joined us on February 7, 2019 for Hamilton artist Michael Allgoewer’s talk. A full house!

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For those who missed it, or would like to review it, we recorded the formal portion of his presentation. Watch it now:

Michael Allgoewer’s exhibition 1514  includes nine recent sculptural and mixed media works. It is on view at the McMaster Museum of Art until March 16, 2019.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Michael Allgoewer is a Hamilton-based artist. He was born in Montreal in 1954 and studied briefly at the Ontario College of Art in the mid 1980s. He has shown extensively in solo and group exhibitions, in both public and private galleries. His work ranges from installation, emphasizing a connection with history and myth, often incorporating re-contextualized found material; to paintings which are abstract and rigorous in concept and execution.

Michael Allgoewer is represented by b contemporary gallery in Hamilton, Ontario.

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]]> Talk by Artist Angela Grossmann and Curator Lynn Ruscheinsky https://museum.mcmaster.ca/grossmann-talk/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=grossmann-talk Tue, 15 Jan 2019 20:33:37 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=10336 Join artist Angela Grossmann and curator Dr. Lynn Ruscheinsky in conversation as they walk through Troublemakers, Grossmann's solo exhibition of 68 mixed media portraits.

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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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]]> Michael Allgoewer: 1514 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/allgoewer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=allgoewer Tue, 11 Dec 2018 18:53:42 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=10219 McMaster Museum of Art is proud to present the exhibition Michael Allgoewer: 1514, a meditation on Dürer’s Melencolia.

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]]> Guided Tours of Campus Sculpture during Hamilton Arts Week https://museum.mcmaster.ca/sculpturetour/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sculpturetour Tue, 29 May 2018 16:58:41 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=9769 Explore the outdoor sculpture of McMaster’s campus in this 1 hour guided tour with the Museum’s Education Officer, Teresa Gregorio. Bring your camera for taking pics, sharing your perspective, and an interactive way of understanding art and our relationship to it.

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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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]]> Proud supporters of Supercrawl and Simon Frank https://museum.mcmaster.ca/proud-supporters-supercrawl-simon-frank/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=proud-supporters-supercrawl-simon-frank Wed, 30 Aug 2017 14:37:23 +0000 https://museum.mcmaster.ca/?p=8815 The McMaster Museum of Art is delighted and proud to announce that we are supporting the work of Hamilton artist Simon Frank and his installation “Pine St” at the James Street Supercrawl this year.

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