Stony Brook, NY-
The Staller Center’s Zuccaire Gallery announces an afternoon at the Zuccaire Gallery and the Long Island Museum. Spend the afternoon at two of Stony Brook’s most beloved institutions! Visit The Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery at Stony Brook University to view the Revisiting 5+1 exhibition, Black Artists & Abstraction at Stony Brook in the '60s and '70s, before heading down the road to the Long Island Museum’s Art Museum to see Romare Bearden: Artist as Activist and Visionary and Creative Haven: Black Artists of Sag Harbor. This event will take place Friday, March 24 from 12pm-5pm.
"The LIM is always looking for ways to more deeply connect with the students at Stony Brook University," said Lisa Unander, Director of Education at the Long Island Museum.
"When our colleagues at the Zuccaire Gallery shared their upcoming exhibitions with us, we saw an amazing opportunity for a natural collaboration. This event could be a first-time visit to the museum for many students and we feel they will be excited by what they experience here, and will hopefully build a foundation for future visits." Lisa Unander, Director of Education at the Long Island Museum.
“We are thrilled to have this collaboration between Stony Brook University and the Long Island Museum. This is an incredible opportunity for us to bring Stony Brook University students, faculty, and staff to the community, and to bring the surrounding community to Stony Brook University. Students are always interested in exploring off-campus but are often limited by a lack of transportation. My hope is that this event will show them just how great Long Island is!” said Georgia LaMair Tomczak, Manager of Public Programs at the Zuccaire Gallery.
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Event Highlights:
Transportation provided: A free shuttle will run between the Zuccaire Gallery and the Long Island Museum from 12:30pm-5:00pm. Visitors are also welcome to drive themselves between each location. The first shuttle will leave at 12:30pm from the Zuccaire Gallery. The last shuttle will leave the Long Island Museum at 5pm. LIM drop off/pick up will be located conveniently outside of the LIM's Art Museum - there will be signs indicating where visitors can board the bus. Zuccaire Gallery drop off/pick up will be located at the main entrance near the Wang Center.
Free food: Bagels and coffee will be offered at the Zuccaire Gallery from 12-1pm. Refreshments will be offered at the Long Island Museum at 4pm.
Free admission
Music: From 2-4pm, visitors to the LIM Art Museum will enjoy live music from The Jazz Loft, a staple of the Stony Brook Village community.
Exhibition Hours: 12pm-5pm
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Exhibition Information:
Revisiting 5+1: Revisiting 5+1 is a reflection on the historic 1969 Stony Brook University exhibition entitled 5+1. Revisiting 5+1 features work by the original six artists, all of whom were Black men, with an addition of six Black women artists, all trailblazers at a time when their work in abstraction was challenged by both the mainstream art world and Black art institutions. Photographs and archival materials exhibited alongside the work provide additional contextual history from this era of student protests and racial justice on campus.
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Romare Bearden: Artist as Activist and Visionary: This exhibition of nearly 50 paintings, screenprints, and collages explores the work of one of the 20th century’s most important visual artists. Born on September 2, 1911, in Charlotte, North Carolina, Romare Howard Bearden studied at Lincoln University, Boston University, Columbia University, and NYU, from which he graduated in 1935. After college, Bearden immediately joined the Harlem Artists Guild. Becoming a case-worker with the NYC Department of Social Services in 1938, Bearden’s career as an artist took rise in the 1940s, with exhibitions in Harlem and Washington, DC. He continued his arts education at the Sorbonne in Paris, in 1950. Committed to support of emerging black painters and to the cause of Civil Rights, Bearden founded the “Spiral Group” in 1962, with other Black artists Charles Alston, Norman Lewis, and others. Bearden’s work is in many significant museum collections around the United States, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Studio Museum in Harlem. Awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1987, he died in New York City the next year, on March 12, 1988. The exhibition was organized by the Romare Bearden Foundation, New York. Exhibition tour management was handled by Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA. Open until May 29, 2023.
Creative Haven: Black Artists of Sag Harbor: A community with rich African and Native American histories, Sag Harbor became home to an outstanding, emergent, and well-connected community of Black artists by the early 1960s. Drawn to the area by its historic foundations as a home to whalers in the 18th and 19th centuries and Black summer residents in the 20th century, artists brought a modern sensibility and camaraderie to their work and experiences rooted in this community. This exhibition features the work of a total of 12 artists, including Frank Wimberley (b. 1926), an outstanding abstract painter who vacationed in Sag Harbor beginning in 1960 and built a home there in 1965; abstract expressionist and collagist Al Loving (1935-2005); the talented couple Reynold Ruffins (1930-2021), a famed illustrator who was also a painter of energetic acrylic compositions, and his wife, Joan Ruffins (1932-2013), an Impressionist artist who trained at Cooper Union in the 1950s; and Nanette Carter (b. 1954), an abstract collagist who was profoundly impacted by her formative experiences with artists such as Wimberley and Loving. A rich exploration of creative work and connections between artists, the exhibition will feature 12 artists in all, including work by Claude Lawrence (b. 1944), Harlan Jackson (1918-1993), and Michael Butler (b. 1955), who is also serving as a guest co-curator of this exhibition. Open until August 27, 2023.
ABOUT THE PAUL W. ZUCCAIRE GALLERY:
The Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery presents dynamic professional and student exhibitions in a 5,000 square foot space in the Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University. Exhibitions bring works by celebrated artists to the campus, including Yoko Ono, Faith Ringgold, Elizabeth Murray, Philip Pearlstein, Sara Greenberger Rafferty and the Guerrilla Girls. In addition, each year the gallery presents exhibitions featuring the work of Stony Brook University undergraduate and graduate students as well as triennial exhibitions featuring the distinguished faculty of the Art Department. For more information visit ZuccaireGallery.stonybrook.edu
ABOUT THE LONG ISLAND MUSEUM:
Located at 1200 Route 25A in Stony Brook, the Long Island Museum is a Smithsonian Affiliate dedicated to enhancing the lives of adults and children with an understanding of Long Island's rich history and diverse cultures. Museum hours are Thursday through Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. For more information visit: longislandmuseum.org.