Happy Halloween!
What's your favorite Halloween motif? This year we're thinking bats 🌙🦇✨
🖼️🦇:
Kawanabe Kyosai, "Bats Flying About A Large Piece Of Tufa," about 1885, woodblock print. John Chandler Bancroft Collection, 1901.59.2993
A new volume explores Guillaume Lethière, the Neo-Classicist artist from the Caribbean, with essays and 61 works featured in his first major exhibition
https://t.co/7M04OaYCmH
HEY #MAEdu TEACHERS:
As you fill up your fall calendars, don’t miss @WorcesterArt’s Teacher Open House on September 18 from 5 to 7:30 PM.
RSVP: https://t.co/vmE6hZI6SC
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@HistoryUnd Thanks for highlighting this! If anyone's interested in seeing more of this gauntlet, we have a video showing off its left-handed mate:
https://t.co/RqRTQ27Mgp
@WorcesterArt will be open this Monday, Patriots Day, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. giving you an added chance to see its spectacular “Frontiers of Impressionism” exhibition. Read Beth Neville’s review of the show that runs through June 25 on Artscope Online: https://t.co/9jcnUuNGzu
Great gallery display at the Worcester Art Museum in celebration of Youth Art Month! Got to view my son’s bird’s view piece and students’ pieces from @STARSofNorthSt! @WorcesterArt
@Cptn_Hawkeye@Worcester_PL Thank you for your question. We encourage curiosity and research around collecting practices and provenance. You can learn more on our website: https://t.co/DeLxlEIvx4
Join us Wednesday, November 17th at 12:30pm for our next Zip Zoom Tour. Docent Deb Wallace will share some of the Portrait Miniatures in WAM's collection. Register for this free interactive program with the link below.
https://t.co/mQJNNB61wI
"Elizabeth Tuckerman Salisbury"
Join us online tomorrow, Wednesday, November 3, 2021 from 12:30 PM-1:00 PM for the Zip Zoom Tour: Carrie Moyer's "Rapa Nui Smashup." Docent Shelley Rodman will lead a lively discussion about Carrie Moyer’s work. Register for the FREE Zoom link at https://t.co/y5er0Th2I2
Barbarians! Pirates! Traders! Explorers! Visit the world of the Viking Age through their weapons, armor and more.
Watch our program live in person this Saturday at 11:30am or 2:00pm in the WAM Conference Room, or on our Facebook Live page at 11:30am.
Join us at 12:30 pm on Wednesday, October 20, 2021, for our new Zip Zoom Tour: The Story Behind "King Sapor of Persia Humiliating Emperor Valerian (Portrait of Emperor Charles V)."
Register for the Free Zoom link online at https://t.co/y5er0Th2I2
In celebration of STEM Week, join us tomorrow, Sunday, October 17th, for our "Science Behind the Art" docent led tour! Hear about the science behind some of WAM's works of art. Meet in the Lancaster Lobby at 11am.
#STEMWeek#steameducation#stemkids#DocentTours#museumfun
We're waiting to hear YOUR Love Story! As we prepare for the special exhibition, "Love Stories from the National Portrait Gallery, London," we are collecting Love Stories from our community. Film yours with us during our First Free Sunday, October, 3rd from 11am to 3pm.
We are pleased to announce that WAM has been approved for a $50,000 Supplemental Economic Recovery Grant through the @masscultural and @NEAarts. Thanks to them and @MassGovernor and @MassLtGov for supporting our state & country’s cultural infrastructure!
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Join us tomorrow at 10am for a virtual program with New York Times Best-Selling children's book author and illustrator Matt Tavares. He will talk about his life as a working artist.
Register for this FREE Zoom program by copying the link below. https://t.co/SipCyYsSpP