Public Programs
This lamp indicates a Thursday Night event. Visit the exhibition Cézanne and American Modernism either before or after attending the program!
MSU/MAM Art Talks
Elizabeth Peyton
Thursday, December 3, 7 p.m.
$10 Members, $15 nonmembers
Free for MSU staff and students
From her earliest portraits of musicians to more recent paintings featuring friends and figures from the worlds of art, fashion, cinema, and politics, Elizabeth Peyton’s body of work presents a chronicle of America at the end of the last century. A painter of modern life, Peyton’s small, jewel-like portraits are also intensely empathetic, intimate, and personal. Her works reflect the cultural climate of the late 20th and early 21st century. Peyton emerged as a vanguard voice in the return to narrative figuration in contemporary painting in the 1990s and is among a small group of artists to develop a peculiar hybrid of realism and conceptualism.
This series is a collaboration between the Master of Fine Arts degree program of Montclair State University and the Montclair Art Museum.
The Montclair Art Museum Is Reading!
Book Discussion
Thursday, December 10, 7 p.m.
FREE MAM members, $12 nonmembers
Please RSVP to mkelshaw@montclairartmuseum.org
In conjunction with MAM’s exhibition Cézanne and American Modernism, the Montclair Art Museum’s community-wide book club has selected The Masterpiece by Emile Zola as the topic of conversation for the next MAM Is Reading book club meeting. A novel of art, ambition, obsession, betrayal, and the French Impressionists as you’ve never seen them before!
Please join MAM Trustee, Montclair resident, and widely read author Deborah Davis, who will lead an evening of lively discussion. Participants will gather at MAM’s Yard School entrance. The Book Club Meeting will be held in the gallery.
Cézanne and American Modernism
Cello and Piano Concert
Thursday, December 17, 7 p.m.
$10 members, $15 nonmembers
Member children free, nonmember children $5
Cellist Jameson Platte and pianist Matthew Quayle will explore how techniques and sensibilities analogous to Cézanne’s manifested themselves in the music of French and American composers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Based in the New York City–New Jersey area, the duo’s recent appearances include Merkin Concert Hall (New York) and the Glen Falls Symphony Musicbridge Festival.
Learn to Draw in 20 Minutes
Thursdays, Sept. 17 & 24, Oct. 29, Nov. 19, 7 – 8:30 pm
Free with Museum Admission
Bring a friend or date—check out the must-see Cézanne and American Modernism exhibition, have a quick and fun drawing lesson, and then hit the town for dinner and drinks. Materials provided—just bring your sense of adventure. Drawing lessons are drop in and ongoing—stay as long or little as you like.
MSU/AIA Lecture
Professor Bob Brier
Egyptologist
Thursday, January 21, 7 p.m.
FREE
Dr. Bob Brier has worked in Egypt for more than 30 years and is one of the world’s foremost authorities on mummies and pyramids. He has authored numerous books on the subject. He is Senior Research Fellow at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville, New York. He teaches Egyptology courses such as Middle Egyptian (Hieroglyphs) and a seminar called The Mummy. His most recent work has been on the Great Pyramid of Giza, which was featured on a National Geographic television special and is the subject of his most recent book, Secret of the Great Pyramid. This is sure to be an enlightening evening with Dr Brier. A Q&A will follow the lecture.
This program is a collaboration between the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), the Center for Heritage and Archaeological Studies at Montclair State University, and the Montclair Art Museum.
Third Annual African American Film Festival
Sunday, February 21, 2 p.m. Film Festival
Sunday, February 28, 2 p.m.
FREE
For updates on film selections visit montclairartmuseum.org
The Montclair Art Museum’s African American Cultural Committee (AACC) proudly collaborates with the Montclair African American Heritage Committee for the third Annual Film Festival. The festival will include film screenings and discussions on topics relevant to the evolution of Black American cinema from the early 20th century to the present.
The African American Film Festival is sponsored by the Montclair African American Heritage Parade and Festival Committee, MAM, Montclair Public Library, Township of Montclair, Department of Recreation and Cultural Affairs, and the Essex County League of Volunteer Workers.
Closer Look
2 pm Saturday and Sunday
Free with Museum Admission
These informal 20 minute gallery talks offer visitors an in-depth examination of a featured artwork or paring or artworks in the Cézanne and American Modernism exhibition.
Note: No Closer Look on Saturday, November 14.
December 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, 2 p.m.
Cézanne and American Modernism (Saturday and Sunday)
Friday, February 5, 2 p.m.
Kara Walker
Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), 2005, Alabama Loyalists Greeting the Federal Gun-Boats
Friday, March 5, 2 p.m.
Sandy Skoglund
A Breeze at Work, 1987
Celebration Tours
$30 Booking Fee & $12 per person
Having friends or family in town for a long holiday weekend, celebrating a family milestone or planning a reunion of old friends? Consider booking a 1 hour guided tour of the Museum permanent collection or our special exhibition Cézanne and American Modernism. Minimum of 6 required for group tours. Group tours must be booked 4 weeks in advance; no members discount offered on group tours. To schedule call (973) 746-5555, ext. 267.
