THANKS FOR A GREAT 2023!
Thank you for supporting the Addison and for being part of our community this past year. We have been delighted to see so many of you visiting the galleries and participating in a variety of our programs. With just days remaining to see Reggie Burrows Hodges, Turning a Big Ship and Sea Change, we encourage you to stop by soon!
Please note: the museum will be closed on December 24 and 25, and January 1. Otherwise, we will be open for regular hours, Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, and Sunday, 1:00 to 5:00 pm, free and open to the public as always.
We wish you a happy and healthy holiday season!
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VIRTUAL TALK: Wanderer and its Legacy: A Conversation with Margie Scoby
Tuesday, January 4, 1:00 pm
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Learn about the real-life history behind Yinka Shonibare CBE, RA’s Wanderer, a model ship that both memorializes the nineteenth-century pleasure yacht turned slave ship and interrogates the relationship between the transatlantic slave trade, colonialism, and power. Addison curators will be joined by Margie Scoby, a genealogist, historian, and founder and curator of Finding Our Roots African American Museum in Houma, Louisiana, who will discuss the history of this illegal slave ship and her research tracing the stories of those ancestors who survived the transatlantic crossing of the Wanderer, including her own.
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WORKSHOP: Interactions of Color
Sunday, January 7, 1:30–4:30 pm
Join Albers Foundation Education Director Fritz Horstman for a 3-hour hands-on workshop exploring Josef Albers’s color experiments. Attention will be given to Steve Locke’s Homage to the Auction Block, currently on view in the galleries, which makes reference to Albers’s famous Homage to the Square. Topics covered will include color relativity and illusions of transparency, as well as Locke’s use of color as metaphor. The event is free, but space is limited and registration is required. Recommended for high school age and older.
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WORKSHOP: Nature + Art
Saturday, January 20, 1:30–3:30 pm
Join artist Sue McNally, whose large-scale painting Maroon Bells, CO is currently on view, for a nature walk and art making inspired by the outdoors. Please dress for the weather! Free and open to all ages, but all children must be accompanied by an adult.
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SOLD OUT! FAMILY PROGRAM: Shoot for the Moon!
Sunday, January 21, 4:00–5:45 pm
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Spend an afternoon as a NASA engineer! Join Angela Parker, Educator for Academy Engagement, and Dr. José Zorrilla, Instructor in Physics at Phillips Academy, to learn more about how NASA scientists have created images of the moon and how lunar landers help astronauts land safely on its surface. Participants will build and test their own lunar landers using simple household materials. Weather permitting, participants will take a short walk to visit the Andover Observatory to view the moon during the last 45 minutes. Recommended for children in grades 3–7; must be accompanied by an adult. This event is free, but space is limited and registration is required.
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LAST CHANCE—CLOSING DECEMBER 31!
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Hayes Prize 2023: Reggie Burrows Hodges, Turning a Big Ship presents a new body of work that engages with and expands the tradition of maritime painting. In these compositions, Hodges contemplates the notion of turning a big ship—of marshalling collective will and labor to resist a powerful current.
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Sea Change brings together historic and contemporary selections from the Addison’s rich collection of seascapes, maritime art, and model ships to explore the ocean and its shores as spaces of labor, leisure, passage, and peril.
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We are grateful for your visits and for your generous contributions to the Addison. With your support, the Addison is able to continue an adventurous and wide-ranging program of exhibitions, offer free admission to all, reach diverse audiences through education outreach initiatives, and expand its extraordinary collection.
If you haven’t made a gift this year and would like to do so, there is still time. Please visit the Addison's website to learn about the many benefits available to Friends of the Addison and to make a donation. Thank you for your support!
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Looking for last-minute gifts? At the Addison's Museum Shop, find a selection of one-of-a-kind items inspired by current exhibitions and works in the collection, as well as beautiful objects created by artisans from around the region, including housewares, jewelry, and stationery.
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A membership to the Addison also makes a great gift! With a gift membership to Friends of the Addison for $50 or more, you ensure that the museum will remain a vibrant cultural institution, and the recipient will enjoy a 15% discount at the Museum Shop, invitations to members-only programs, and other benefits. Gift memberships may be purchased at the Museum Shop or by calling 978.749.4027.
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Happy Holidays from the Addison!
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We look forward to seeing you in 2024!
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Images:
Reggie Burrows Hodges, Turning a Big Ship installation view, Addison staff; Yinka Shonibare, Wanderer (and detail), 2006, ship model: wood, plexiglas, fabric, and brass, 42 1/4 x 22 x 5 inches, museum purchase, 2016.38, Steve Locke, Homage to the Auction Block #88-arclight, February 7, 2021, acrylic and acrylic gouache on panel, 24 x 24 inches, museum purchase, 2022.69; Sue McNally, Maroon Bells, CO, 2014, oil on canvas, 90 x 114 inches, museum purchase, 2022.81; NASA, Lunar Orbiter IV-190M, 1967, gelatin silver print, 24 x 20 inches, gift of Mary and Dan Solomon, 2023.150; Reggie Burrows Hodges, Salt Chuck Layer, 2022, acrylic on linen, 84 x 131 inches, © Reggie Burrows Hodges. Courtesy of the artist and Karma; William Bradford, Caught in the Ice Floes (Melville Bay/Greenland Coast), after 1870, oil on canvas, 21 3/4 x 35 3/4 inches, museum purchase, 1949.27; Sherrill Roland, 168.808, 2022, steel, enamel, Kool-Aid, acrylic medium, epoxy resin, 25 x 64 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches, museum purchase, 2023.75; Patrick Dean Hubbell, Your Resiliency Is My Strength to Find a Way, 2023, acrylic, enamel, charcoal, acrylic dispersion, oil pastel, paper, spray paint, sewing on canvas, wood stretcher bar frame, 76 x 48 inches, museum purchase, 2023.134; views of the Museum Shop, Addison staff; Charles Adams Platt, Winter Landscape, 1891, oil on canvas, 18 1/4 x 24 1/4 inches, gift of anonymous donor, 1928.57.
Exhibition and program credits:
Hayes Prize 2023: Reggie Burrows Hodges, Turning a Big Ship is sponsored by the Addison Artist Council and AAC Founders Alison Beaumont Hoeven ’83, Nicholas ’94 and Sasha Olney, and Sarah ‘83 and Nathanael ‘83 Worley; the Winton Family Fund; and the Edward E. Elson Artist-in-Residence Fund.
Sea Change is generously supported by the Sidney R. Knafel Fund.
Generous support for Free Association: New Acquisitions in Context has been provided by the Elizabeth and Anthony Enders Exhibitions Fund and the Mollie Bennett Lupe and Garland M. Lasater Exhibition Fund.
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