An exhibition of Old Master prints from the Wetmore Collection of Connecticut College opened this week, and Sacred Spaces, an exhibition of prints from the Brandywine Workshop and Archives will open on Sept. 20.
The Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÒÅÆ Art Museum (FUAM) is pleased to announce two new exhibitions which will run from September through December 21, 2024.
Ink and Time: European Prints from the Wetmore Collection opened on Sept. 12 in the Museum’s Bellarmine Hall Galleries.
Curated by Michelle DiMarzo, PhD, assistant professor of art history & visual culture, the exhibition presents a group of woodcuts, engravings, and etchings from the late 15th through late 18th centuries, including works by Albrecht Durer, Raphael, Rembrandt, and Canaletto. New London, Conn. native Fanny Wetmore collected these works in the first decades of the 20th century and bequeathed the collection to Connecticut College in 1930. “Ink and Time” is the second in FUAM’s history to have been co-curated with Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÒÅÆ students, and is supported by generous funding from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
Sacred Space: A Brandywine Workshop and Archive Print Exhibition will open on Sept. 20 in the Museum’s Walsh Gallery, located in the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.
Sacred Space, organized by guest curator Juanita Sunday, draws on the rich history of the Brandywine Workshop and Archives, founded in Philadelphia in 1972 by artist Allan Edmunds. As of 2023, FUAM is home to a Brandywine “satellite collection” — the ony such collection in Connecticut, and one of only 18 in the United States, including the Harvard Art Museums and the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. This exhibition features works from FUAM’s own collection as well as loans from Brandywine itself.
Encouraging a deep exploration of spiritual connection, Sacred Space invites viewers to reflect on the ancestral wisdom and memory passed down through generations, and serves as a portal into the interconnected realms of spirituality, time, space, memory, and culture. The artists pay homage to their forebears, drawing upon cultural traditions, rituals, and sacred practices to honor and preserve, as well as question, the invaluable heritage that shapes our identities.
In addition to the prominent works from the Brandywine Collection, the exhibition will also feature local artists whose works are responding to the themes in Sacred Space. Artists invited by curator Juanita Sunday include Aisha Nailah, Iyaba Mandigo, Greg Aime, Arvia Walker, and Rebecca Fowke.
For more information about programming related to these exhibitions, visit fairfield.edu/museum.
