Bellarmine Museum

Art Gallery

Fairfield, CT (Vocus) 1 October 2010

With the long-awaited opening of the Public Art Museum for 25 Bellarmine Begin in October, introduced Fairfield University, a permanent sanctuary for his collection of art of cultivation and future exhibitions. Opening times are Monday to Friday from 10.00 to 03.00 clock, during term time.

The museum, built at a cost of 0.2 million, is a dynamic new center of learning for all members, including students of all ages and stages, arts professionals and members of the public. The Bellarmine also maintains links to great Community College Museum, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Museum Cloisters Museum and the Acropolis in Athens. Loans and grants that they and others, the institutions of the museum’s permanent exhibition reinforced base and facilitated a remarkable breadth of view of a museum the size of Bellarmine. It is expected to become of this architectural gem, which includes three galleries and a corridor accessories as a cultural destination and an invaluable resource for art lovers, residents and visitors to the region.

celebrate the month of October begins a whirlwind of receptions and events on the campus of the museum? s opening. It will be a special private reception Thursday, 14 October, invited to the members of the artistic community, the press and special friends of the university were. Monday 25 October 10 clock, Museum of Art Bellarmine opens its doors to the public.


Jill

Deupi, JD, Ph.D., assistant professor of art history at Fairfield? s Department of Visual and Performing Arts and Director of the Museum of Art Bellarmine has expansive plans for the Museum Education. â? There is no doubt that the museum significantly improve Bellarmine art history and all it has to offer. With works of art in a central location that has an intelligent classroom on the site are multi-media, hands-on learning is level.â in a new result?

Deupi currently working on systems, guided tours, public relations and K-12 arts education, which include a wide range of activities covers. His colleague in this effort is New Canaan resident and professor at the Yale Center for British Art Kathleen Leitao, whose son Daniel is a junior at Fairfield. Among the projects the theme is based on one Saturday per month for the family to the art.

Jim Childress, FAIA, and Stephen Holmes, AIA of Centerbrook Architects and Planners of Centerbrook Connecticut has transformed a warehouse space in a commercial space stylish and functional. Childress said the thick concrete walls in the basement catacombs of house type at home gives a sense of mystery. â? As you enter through the back door basement door of the lobby, you find a place of refuge from the world, â? He said. â? The form we have designed the gallery was inspired by a plan almost complete cross, which we discovered in p> ???? the Main Gallery, The Frank and Clara Meditz gallery to honor the parents of the main financial contributors to the project of the University trustee John Meditz a named? 70, an early Christian basilica plan and present calls in the ten paintings of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque â? Works, which were donated to the University of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation through Bridgeport? s Discovery Museum.

in a small side street gallery highlights the University’s collection of plaster casts of the exemplary work of ancient Rome and Greece, including eight recently donated to the University Museum of Acropolis in Athens, is displayed. The corridor adjacent to the gallery presents Meditz plaster casts of important parts of the Parthenon (Athens as well). The gifts d’Athènes :? ??? Casts from the New Acropolis Museum, photographs by Socratis Mavrommatisâ? Exhibition will be on 2 Open November and runs until 17 December.

more historic plaster casts, houses the museum a number of objects of non-Western art (including ships pre-Columbian 19th century sculptures from Southeast Asian and African masks), and the chance to keep objects from the late antiquity, Celtic, Latin Middle Ages and the time on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Museum Cloisters.

Leitao, who is donating his time and know-how in the planning of museum education, took the opportunity at Bellarmine Museum with the schools work? they help make our collection as part of the curriculum, especially the casts of ancient Greek sculptures.â? She said: â There are a lot of interest in education is now a museum about the possibilities of art in the classroom to bring goals supported the program, rather than primarily a museum field trip p. â ????

Deupi Leitao and work together to find ways to establish connections between the museum and find out how Leitao said â? the Universityâ? s students and for local schools and community? ? The intrigue and is a physical space? Also interested in how the intimate nature of this museum and its collection will be students and community members to read more about several pieces of the collection visits in a way that they would not usually the type of experience in a large museum.â??

Bellarmine

Museum of Art has been and will be a real joint project. First, the vision came from the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences, the buy-in from administrators who understand their fit in the Jesuit universityâ? Mission and strategic plan and began to provide funding. In addition, Meditz, other donors for this project, Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the Charles and Mabel P. Jost Foundation. Fundraising for the project and personnel costs of the museum is not yet complete. The National Endowment for the Humanities has also provided generous support through 0000 to provide financial guarantee of twelve fifty-six challenge to increase the university million by 2013 to receive the NEH challenge. Individuals and representatives of companies and foundations in cooperation with the University of the museum support Interested candidates are invited Geri Derbyshire, head of the great gifts at

contact gderbyshire@fairfield.edu.

Caption: The Art Museum Bellarmine, Fairfield University

Photo: John Santopatre / Fairfield University

Caption: Paolo de Matteis (Italian, 1662-1728) â Andromeda and Perseus, â ???????? c. 1710 Bellarmine Museum of Art at Fairfield University, Samuel H. Kress Collection of the Discovery Museum (Bridgeport, Connecticut)

Vol 43, No. 61

Fairfield University offers its students and regional community a wide range of opportunities to enjoy the arts and to enrich their lives through study, performance, recognition, and thinking. The annual ticket for Arts & Minds event in Fairfield has a large number of cultural and intellectual events that Regina A. include Quick Center for the Arts season of the popular lecture series Open VISIONS Forum, shows professionals and students, art exhibitions, lectures and a variety of other learning opportunities. For information, contact other www.fairfield.edu / art.


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