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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. Carry a one of kind American classic out on your arm with a Masterpurse by Joanne Pitelli. 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 Tar Beach and Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky by Faith Ringgold (artist will sign books on February 17, 2009) Brian Lies’ Bats at the Beach, 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 at 123 Union Avenue or have them sent directly to you or to the recipient by calling 508-620-0050x14 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 Jean McGuire at 508-877-7630 x 14 for gift certificates.
Art Museums Plus
Art Museums PLUS About Art Museums PLUS An engaging guide to over 150 art museums and more throughout New England While most people are familiar with the Museum of Fine Arts and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, few are aware of the scores of other wonderful museums throughout New England. From the Colby College Museum of Art to the Museum of Russian Icons and the National Museum of American Illustration, the cradle of American art is home to a dazzling abundance of cultural opportunities. Traute M. Marshall has written this smart and engagingly personal guidebook for curious travelers, bringing to light the wealth of small and large art museums in the six New England states, ranging from world-class encyclopedic collections to more modest and specialized venues. While providing the information found in a traditional guidebook—addresses, websites, opening times, directions, and so forth—Marshall also offers readers informed and intimate introductions to the museums and their histories, holdings, traditions, and architecture. This guide also explains exhibition practices, the presentation of the permanent collection versus the attraction of temporary shows, the different educational activities offered, and the special relationship between a town or city and its art museum. Each entry concludes with a special “PLUS” section designed to further enrich any visit. This might point you to other types of museums nearby, an architecturally distinctive building in the neighborhood, the home of a famous local artist, or other sites such as artist colonies or distinguished galleries, historic inns or restaurants, or even movies with some connection to the locale. Useful as both a resource for planning your next road trip and an essential glove- compartment companion, Art Museums PLUS is a must-have for New England natives and tourists alike. “New England treasures are found in great museums, but also in historic houses, churches and unexpected places. In Art Museums PLUS, Traute Marshall highlights personal favorites at well-known institutions, but surprises even the expert with wonderful nearby finds that are often overlooked.”—Carl R. Nold, President and CEO, Historic New England, and Chairman, American Association of Museums “To describe New England’s many art museums knowledgeably and enticingly is a tall order—which this guide fills nicely. Art lovers will be amazed by the treasures this guide reveals, be they squirreled away in small, little-known collections or located in the obvious places.”—Christina Tree, co-autor of Explorer’s Guide to Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire and Western Massachusetts. (from University Press of New England, www.upne.com) |
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