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Museum Shop
The Shop at the Danforth on the first floor offers works by more than 50 renowned fine crafts artists including, Judith Motzkin, displaying her “fire-painted” clay vessels with remarkable forms and surfaces, beginning at $60.00. Consider the glass vessels by famed Neal Drobnis combining casting and handblowing techniques used by Roman craftsmen more than 3,000 years ago, reinterpreted through his contemporary sensibility. Wear a soothing one of kind metal creation by Chihiro Makio or choose a fine art photograph by Jeanine Vitale. And don’t miss fine prints including intaglio and lithograph monoprints by Carolyn Muskat—a steal starting at $50.00 with nature-based abstract themes and rich surfaces. Real maple syrup sealed in handmade pottery jugs by Laurel MacDuffie, fired with 19th century techniques are a sweet choice for your favorite historian—or pancake lover.
Children's Books
Find wonderful children's books by artist's featured in the Museum's Children's Gallery including The House in the Night by Beth Krommes (artist will sign books on March 7, 2010 at 1:30 pm) Peter Reynolds’ The Dot, Sholom’s Treasure by Erica Silverman and Mordicai Gerstein, Lucky Jake by Wade Zahares, and Across the Alley by Richard Michelson and E.B. Lewis for its beautiful cross-cultural story and images. Children’s books are perfect gifts for the young set as well as for your favorite teachers.
Gift Membership
Are your friends and family paring down the number of material objects in their lives? Give an experience with a Gift Membership to the Danforth Museum of Art. The lucky recipients receive an attractive card with your message, unlimited free Museum admission, and the good feeling that comes with supporting arts and culture. With your gift they’ll also receive educational opportunities, member invitations to exhibition openings and receptions, gallery talks, discounts on classes, events, concerts, and purchases, and free admission to other select area museums. Individual gift memberships begin at $45.00 and you can pick the membership welcome package in person whenever the Museum is open or have them sent directly to you or to the recipient by calling 508-620-0050 x1 4 or hodonnell@danforthmuseum.org.
Museum School Gift Certificates
Demonstrate your appreciation for the creativity of your loved ones with a gift certificate for art classes and workshops at the Museum School of the Danforth Museum of Art. Taught by some of the greatest fine artists in our region, you’ll find a perfect match for pre-schoolers to adult beginners to art professionals, and everything in between. From jewelry-making to life drawing, photography, ceramics and printmaking, or even birthday parties at the museum, museum staff can help with your choice. Contact the Museum School Office at 508-620-0937 for gift certificates.
Upcoming Book Signings
Lecture & Book Signing Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence Sunday, February 21st, 2010, 3pm Drawing on her book, Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence, Patricia Hills will speak on the art and life of Jacob Lawrence. For his art Lawrence drew on his own experiences and those of his Harlem community, including writers, poets and community activists, to paint a portrait of African American urban life during the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. These experiences include African American history lessons, work for the government's Federal Art Projects, Jim Crow segregation in the South, and Civil Rights protests during the 1960s. In all of his work he stayed true to his humanist values by showing the good times and the often oppressive conditions, the struggles and the hopes. Patricia Hills is Professor of Art History at Boston University. She has written books and exhibition catalogs on both 19th- and 20th-Century American Art, including Alice Neel, Stuart Davis, John Singer Sargent, May Stevens, and Modern Art in the USA: Issues and Controversies of the 20th Century. *Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence is available for purchase in the Shop at the Danforth |
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