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Into the Fold: Contemporary
Japanese Ceramics from the
Horvitz Collection
Kabas and Couture:
Contemporary Ghanaian Fashion
Through August 23
Through July 2016
Into the Fold highlights the diversity, creativity
and technical virtuosity of 20th- and 21stcentury ceramic artists working in Japan.
Tensions between form and functionality,
traditional and modern, national and
international are evident in the exhibition
and within individual works. More than 35
artists are represented, including many of
Japan’s greatest living ceramicists.
March | April
PROGRAMS + EXHIBITIONS
Many of you joined us on the festive occasion of the member pARTy
to mark the opening of Monet and American Impressionism—
nearly 700 of you! Happily, this extraordinary exhibition remains
on view at the Harn through May 24 before traveling to the Hunter
Museum of American Art in Chattanooga and the Telfair Museum in
Savannah. Don’t miss the opportunity to enjoy four splendid Monet
landscapes and discover paintings, works on paper and sculpture
by more than 20 American Impressionists. An ideal time to learn
more about Impressionism in France and the USA is the symposium
on March 19-20, described in this InForm. The lavishly illustrated
publication that accompanies the show includes essays by 11
scholars, including 7 UF faculty members, whose observations and
insights about Impressionism are eye opening. Heartfelt thanks
to Dulce Román, curator of the show, all the contributing scholars
and the generous donors who enabled us to bring this major
Impressionist exhibition to our community. It offers a feast for the
eyes, nourishment for the psyche and stimulus to the mind. Enjoy!
ongoing
Highlights from
the Modern Collection
This exhibition presents highlights from
the museum’s holdings of American,
European and Latin American art
spanning the mid-19th century through
the first half of the 20th century.
A Sense of Place:
African Interiors
Objects from homes, palaces, shrines and
other sacred spaces including sculptures,
paintings, ceramic vessels, textiles and
architectural elements, such as doors,
window frames and roof ornaments
are on display in this exhibition.
March | April 2015
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This exhibition highlights the affinities between designer
fashions and traditional forms of dress in Ghanaian culture,
with runway garments displayed alongside historical
textiles such as a batakari tunic and a kente cloth. Also
view a recreated Ghanaian seamstress shop illustrating
the importance of Ghana’s everyday fashions,
particularly the kaba.
Ajepomaa Design Gallery, Evening Gown, Premiered at the 2011 Vlisco
“Delicate Shades” Runway Show, on loan from a private collection
Copia: New Photographs
in the Harn Collection
Through June 28
In the last two years, more than 300 photographs have
entered the Harn’s collection through purchases or gifts
from local or national artists and collectors. COPIA
celebrates this abundance by exhibiting 90 of these works
for the first time.
Art, Technology and
the Natural World
Through July 26
View work by artists from around the world
who work in multi-media from painting and
photography to installation and film. Installations
include work by Andy Warhol and Repurposing
the Wunderkammer: Building A New Space for
Science and Art, a collaboration between the
Harn, UF School of Art + Art History and the
Florida Museum of Natural History.
Patterns Past and Present:
Arts of Panama
Through October 2015
This exhibition displays examples
of both ancient and modern
Panamanian art, including
ceramics, stone and metalwork,
molas and garments from the
Kuna people of San Blas Islands.
Objects are drawn from collections of the Panama
Canal Museum, University of Florida George A. Smathers
Libraries,Orlando Museum of Art and the Harn Museum
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September 25
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Monet and American Impressionism
Join the Harn
Museum of Art for
a Birthday Benefit.
William Glackens,
The Horse Chestnut
Tree, Washington
Square, c.
1915–1919,
Hunter Museum
of American Art,
Chattanooga,
Tennessee, Museum
purchase, Photo
by James Madden,
204 Studios,
Chattanooga
Helen M. Turner, Lillies, Lanterns, and Sunshine, 1923, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Gift of W. B. S. Grandy.
Save the Date
View more than 500 works of
Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Korean,
and South and Southeast Asian art
in the Cofrin Asian Art Wing.
Rebecca M. Nagy, Ph.D., Director
University of Florida, Harn Museum of Art
PO Box 112700
Gainesville, Florida 32611-2700
Highlights from the
Asian Collection
EXHIBITIONS
Through May 24
free admission
harn.ufl.edu
3259 Hull Road
Gainesville, FL 32611
Monet and American Impressionism highlights the work of
more than twenty American artists who launched a new way
of painting in response to the influence of Monet and French
Impressionism. In addition to four paintings by Monet, the
exhibition presents more than 75 paintings and prints dated
between 1882 and 1920 from the Harn Museum’s collection and
major museums across the country.
FAMILY + SCHOOL
PROGRAMS
CONTEMPORARY GHANAIAN FASH ION
Access Art
Gallery Talk
Community Art Installation: 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Guided Tours: 10:15 – 11:15 a.m., 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Experience art through senses other than sight as
you enjoy this touchable installation and engage in
conversation with local artists. Visitors who are blind
or have low vision are also invited to register for
guided tours incorporating verbal descriptions and
tactile images of select oil paintings on view.
For more information and to register for a tour,
visit harn.ufl.edu/outreach.
Sunday, March 1, 3 p.m.
“We Have Always Been Fashionable”
Chris Richards, UF Alumnus, Mellon Postdoctoral
Fellow at the Centre for the Creative Arts of Africa
in Johannesburg, South Africa and Guest Curator of
Kabas and Couture will discuss the complexity and
dynamism of Accra’s historical and contemporary
fashion culture.
Museum Nights: Ghana + Beyond
Thursday, March 12, 6 – 9 p.m.
Visitors will experience music, dance and couture.
Kabas and Couture Guest Curator Christopher
Richards will discuss “A View from the Front
Row: Accra’s Dynamic Fashion Culture.” View
performances and a fashion show supported by
the UF Center for African Studies.
Harn Eminent Scholar Lecture
Saturday, March 21
Conversation without Words:
Tango, Contact and Communication
Saturday, April 4, 1 p.m.
Join Argentine Tango partners, neuroscientist Nicky
Clayton and artist Clive Wilkins as they encourage us
to think outside the box of traditional communication
during this TED-style talk. Lively discussion, tango
dancing, and a reception to follow.
Thursday, April 2, 6 p.m.
“What Fashion Shows: African History
and Culture through Clothing”
Victoria L. Rovine, Associate Professor of
Art History at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill will explore how
Ghanaian artists combine local cultures
with global networks of images and
inspiration. Followed by a reception.
Juliana “Chez Julie” Norteye
Akwadzan, Late 1960s
Gift of Edith Francois
Claude Monet,
Bridge at
Argenteuil on
a Gray Day, c.
1876, Courtesy
National Gallery of
Art, Washington,
D.C., Ailsa Mellon
Bruce Collection
& American
Gallery Talks
Children’s Art Camps
Mighty Aphrodites: Classical
Convergences in Art and Poetry
Spring Break Art Camp: Paper Play
Sunday, March 29, 3 p.m.
Camp fees: $250 ($200 for Harn members)
Optional pre-camp hours, 8 – 10 a.m. ($50 per week)
Optional post-camp hours, 3 – 5 p.m. ($50 per week)
Marsha Bryant, UF Professor of English & Distinguished Teaching
Scholar and Mary Ann Eaverly, UF Associate Professor of Classics
will pair works in the Harn collection with modern poems in the
exhibition organized for their current team-taught course.
Crawling through Mud:
Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
Sunday, April 26, 3 p.m.
Allysa B. Peyton, Assistant Curator of Asian Art will discuss the
development of ceramic arts of Japan from the 1950s to the
present, as reflected in Into the Fold: Contemporary Japanese
Ceramics from the Horvitz Collection.
Museum Nights: Art Without Borders
Thursday, April 9, 6 – 9 p.m.
Join us for an evening celebrating arts and cultures across
many borders. This event includes art, music and dance, and
showcases the international dimensions of UF. Enjoy free food.
Supported by the UF International Center.
Museum Nights is an ongoing program made possible by the generous support of the
University of Florida Office of the Provost and Student Government.
MASH: Math → Art ← Science at the Harn
Thursday, April 16, 6 – 9 p.m.
Discover dynamic interactions between art, mathematics and
science. Collaborative projects, performances and exhibits by
mathematics, science and art undergraduate students and
faculty will be presented. Participate in art-making activities and
enjoy free food.
Impressionism
Gallery Talks
Saturday, March 14, 3 p.m.
“A Taste for What ‘Moves’ Us: Audiences of American
Impressionism.” Sophia Krzys Acord, UF Lecturer in Sociology
will lead a discussion of the changing audiences of American
Impressionism and how our tastes in art shape American identity.
Sunday, April 19, 3 p.m.
“Women in Impressionism.” Melissa Hyde, UF Professor of Art
History and Eric Segal, Harn Director of Education will discuss
images of women, as well as paintings by women, focusing on
the role of gender in American Impressionist painting.
Family Day: Paint like an Impressionist
Saturday, April 18, 1 - 4 p.m.
Enjoy a family-friendly tour of Monet and American
Impressionism. Wander and wonder outdoors as you paint light
and capture fleeting moments in time with all the colors of the
rainbow. Families with children of all ages are welcome. Earth Day
activities will be at both UF Cultural Plaza museums.
March 23 – March 27, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Instructor: Patrick Grigsby, Artist and UF Instructor
This camp allows children ages 8 – 13 to “mega-size” their
art-making with drawings, prints and installations. Campers
will undertake projects to strengthen confidence in drawing
and inspire creativity.
Kids Couture: A One-day Fashion Camp
Saturday, May 2, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Camp fee: $50
Kids ages 8 – 13 will spend a day immersed in art and
fashion. Drawing inspiration from Kabas and Couture,
campers will learn concepts of design, create their own
fashion sketches and swatch boards, and build miniature
versions. All art supplies are included. Children are required
to bring their own brown bag lunches and snacks.
For more information about these camps, call 352.392.9826
x2112 or visit harn.ufl.edu/artcamps.
P.K. Yonge Student Art Exhibition
April 21 – 26
View work by 6th – 12th grade art students.
Tot Programs
Journey through the museum (or library) and then
participate in hands-on activities investigating color, shape,
pattern and other “tot” interests. For children ages 2 – 4 and
their families. Visit harn.ufl.edu/familyprograms to register.
Tot Time
Symposium
“America and France: New Perspectives on Transatlantic Visual
Culture.” Open to the public, this symposium will address crosscultural dialogue among American and French visual artists
between 1870 and 1920.
Thursday, March 19, 6 p.m.
Keynote Address: “French Light, American Light: Impressionism
and Its Cultural Refractions.” Dr. Nancy Mowll Mathews, Visiting
Associate Professor, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
and Eugénie Prendergast Senior Curator and Lecturer Emerita
Williams College
Friday, March 20, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
This symposium is supported in part by the Harn Eminent Scholar Chair in Art History
Program, UF School of Art + Art History, UF Office of Research, UF France-Florida
Research Institute, UF International Center, and France Florida Foundation for the Arts.
Monet & Impressionism Educator Resource
A downloadable Educator Resource with images, information
and lesson guides for K-12 teachers is available on our website at
harn.ufl.edu/k-12.
MEMBERSHIP
Did you check
your mail?
At the end of January, we
unveiled the Harn’s new
FREE MEMBERSHIP program
through a dynamic mail piece.
We want to make sure that
you, as our loyal members,
come with us! That means
now is the time, for previously
paying members, to switch
over to the new system. For
more information and to sign
up, visit harn.ufl.edu/join.
Make a gift. Learn how you can support exhibitions
and programs at the Harn by contacting Phyllis DeLaney
at [email protected] or 352.392.9826 x2101.
Friday, March 6, 11 a.m. Mixed Up Colors
Tuesday, March 31, 3:30 p.m. Creating with Cloth
Friday, April 3, 11 a.m. Creating with Cloth
Tuesday, April 28, 3:30 p.m. Dress Up
Art Time at the Library
Location: 401 E University Ave.
Friday, March 13, 11 a.m. March with Monet
Friday, April 10, 11 a.m. Fun with Textiles
Story Time at the Museum
Wednesday, March 18, 11 a.m. What we Wear
Wednesday, April 29, 11 a.m. Colors for Days
Tours
Every Saturday and Sunday, 2 p.m.
Drop in for an engaging docent-led tour that
explores current exhibitions.