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10 Destinations in Western Massachusetts
Your Map to the Museums
Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College
Amherst, MA | 413.542.2165 | amherst.edu/museums/naturalhistory
Open Tues–Fri 11 a.m.–4 p.m. | Sat and Sun 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Admission: Free
Summer 2015
Exhibitions and Events
Emily Dickinson Museum
Amherst, MA | 413.542.8161 | emilydickinsonmuseum.org
Open Wed–Sun 11 a.m.–4 p.m. | Admission: $
Historic
Deerfield
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
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Amherst, MA | 413.658.1100 | carlemuseum.org
Open Tues–Sat 10 a.m.–4 p.m. | Sun 12–5 p.m.
Open Mondays in July and August | Admission: $
Beneski Museum of Natural
History, Amherst College
Emily Dickinson Museum
Hampshire College Art Gallery
University Museum of Contemporary
Art at UMass Amherst
Amherst, MA | 413.559.5544 | www.hampshire.edu/gallery
Open Mon–Fri 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. | Sun 2–5 p.m. | Admission: Free
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Smith College
Museum of Art
Mount Holyoke College
Art Museum
Hampshire College Art Gallery
Deerfield, MA | 413.775.7214 | historic-deerfield.org
Open daily 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. | Admission: $
Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
Amherst, MA | 413.542.2335 | amherst.edu/mead
Open Tues–Thurs 9 a.m.–5 p.m. | Fri 9 a.m.– 8 p.m.
Sat and Sun 9 a.m.–5 p.m. | Admission: Free
Beneski Museum
of Natural History,
Amherst College
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
Historic Deerfield
Mead Art Museum
at Amherst College
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
South Hadley, MA | 413.538.2245 | mtholyoke.edu/artmuseum
Open Tues–Fri 11 a.m.–5 p.m. | Sat and Sun 1–5 p.m.
Closed June 15–July 13, 2015 | Admission: Free
Yiddish Book Center
Amherst, MA | 413.256.4900 | yiddishbookcenter.org
Open Sun–Fri 10 a.m.–4 p.m. | Closed legal and Jewish holidays
Admission: Suggested donation
Yiddish Book Center
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Smith College Museum of Art
Northampton, MA | 413.585.2760 | smith.edu/artmuseum
Open Tues–Sat 10 a.m.–4 p.m. | Sun 12–4 p.m.
Second Fridays 10 a.m.–8 p.m. (Free 4–8 p.m.) | Admission: $
Smith College
Museum of Art
University Museum of Contemporary Art at
UMass Amherst
Amherst, MA | 413.545.3670 | umass.edu/umca
Open Tues–Fri 11 a.m.–4:30 p.m. | Sat and Sun, 2–5 p.m.
Closed May through early September 2015 | Admission: Free
University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass Amherst
10 Destinations in Western Massachusetts
A Renaissance Man: The Art of Fred Marcellino
June 30–October 25, 2015
Institute for Curatorial Practice
Summer program closing event: July 10, 2015
10 Destinations in Western Massachusetts
Photo by Penny Leveritt
Silken Threads and Shimmering Cloth
Daily, July 4–August 13, 2015
Learn about the history of silk in Deerfield and handle live silkworms
in this interactive exhibit.
It’s About Time
Weekends, May 2–June 28, 2015
Learn about how people kept track of time in the past. Discover the
many ways of marking time, read entries from daily journals and make
your own working sundial to take home.
Historic Deerfield
Liz Chalfin, From the Ashes
(detail), 2015
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here
June 16–September 30, 2015 | Opening event: June 18, 2015
Artists’ books, prints and broadsides in response to the 2007 bombing
of Al-Mutanabbi Street, the bookselling district in Baghdad.
Creative Knowing (Learning?) June 5–7, 2015
An exhibition on the Magic Board, Hampshire’s rear projection platform,
in conjunction with the college’s 45th-anniversary celebrations.
Chuck Close, Self-Portrait, 2004,
daguerreotype, 8-1/2 x 6-1/2,
private collection, courtesy of
the Pace Gallery
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Closed for renovations from May through early September,
with exciting exhibitions opening in the fall.
Chuck Close Photographs
September 11–December 6, 2015
Opening reception: September 10, 2015, 5–7 p.m.
A Conversation with the University Collections:
Anne Beresford—Ten Thousand Wonderful Things
September 11–December 6, 2015
Opening reception: September 17, 2015, 5–7 p.m.
Inspiration everywhere!
(Photo by Lynne Graves)
Indoor pool, Grossinger’s Catskill
Resort and Hotel, Liberty, NY
(Photo by Marisa Scheinfeld)
Albert Bierstadt, Hetch Hetchy
Canyon (detail), 1875, oil on canvas,
gift of Mrs. E. H. Sawyer and Mrs. A.
L. Williston, MH 1876.2.I(b).PI
Arita Jiro-, Brand New Beasts
(Shinpan kemono ga),
1884, woodblock print,
gift of William Green.
University Museum of Contemporary Art
at UMass Amherst
Smith College Museum of Art houses a world-class permanent
collection. This summer, while renovations and updates are underway
in the first-floor and lower-level galleries, visitors can enjoy two
full floors of redesigned galleries featuring American, Ancient and
European paintings and sculpture (art before 1800) and American
and European paintings and sculpture (art after 1800). Works on
paper are also on view.
Smith College Museum of Art
Gray Matter: David Macaulay’s Black and White
May 19–November 29, 2015
Hampshire College Art Gallery
Illustration © 1986 by Eric Carle
Echoes from the Borscht Belt: Contemporary
Photographs by Marisa Scheinfeld
Through October 2015
Marisa Scheinfeld’s striking photographs document the decline of
the iconic resorts of New York’s Catskills region, an area known as
the Borscht Belt because of its popularity with Jews.
Eric Carle: Bees, Butterflies, and Other Bugs
Through August 30, 2015
The Yiddish Book Center offers permanent and visiting exhibits, films,
lectures, educational programs, an English-language bookstore and
Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music.
Yiddish Book Center
Mel Bochner: Illustrating Philosophy
Featuring two projects by the conceptual artist Mel Bochner that
explore how visual images can illustrate philosophical ideas.
betwixt: Judy Pfaff 1985/92
Lively and colorful multimedia works by Judy Pfaff that physically and
conceptually bridge the surface of the wall and the space of the gallery.
Come see art from across 6,000 years and five continents.
The museum will be closed for installations from June 15 through
July 13. New exhibitions on view beginning September 1.
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Intersecting Colors: Josef Albers and His Contemporaries
August 28, 2015–January 3, 2016
Gods, Kings, and Lovers: Paintings from Courtly India
Through July 5, 2015
Nature, Pleasure, Myth: Animals in the Art of Japan
Through June 28, 2015
-wa Japan: The Photography of
Fifty Years of Sho
Kageyama Ko-yo
Through June 28, 2015
Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
Tall Tales and Short Tales: The Art of Uri Shulevitz
Through June 14, 2015
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
Garden Days June 5–8, 2015
Volunteers rejuvenate Emily Dickinson’s gardens.
Creatures of Bliss and Mystery: A 19th-Century Children’s Circus
July 19, 2015
Free Fun Friday August 21, 2015
Free admission, sponsored by the Highland Street Foundation.
Before You Became Improbable September 18–19 and 25–26, 2015 Immersive theatrical journey
inspired by Dickinson’s poetry and letters.
Emily Dickinson Museum
“The gem of the Cabinet”
—E. Hitchcock
This summer, take a break from the heat and enjoy the climatecontrolled and newly dedicated Wolansky gallery, home of our
world-famous dinosaur track collection.
With more than 1,700 specimens, the Beneski is one of New England’s
largest natural history museums. Pictured is a slab of reddish flagging
stone from Middlefield, CT, showing 48 Brontozoum sillimanium
tracks in relief. It can be found in the museum, along with dinosaurs, a
mammoth and many other rare fossils.
Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College
SUMMER 2015 Exhibitions and Events