February 7 – May 20, 2023 This exhibition explores the significance of text and context to the processes of making, interpreting, and displaying art. Bringing together art objects that prominently feature words, images, symbols, and gestural or abstract marks, Art/Text/Context: From Artistic Practice to Meaning Making considers the power of these artworks to prompt critical reflection and, …
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Collections Rotations | Spring 2023
Changes are afoot at the Fleming. We are currently re-envisioning the Collections Gallery (formerly the European/American Gallery). In areas freshly painted gray or blue, you’ll find a new selection of artworks installed among some objects from the prior display. This ongoing reinstallation project expands possibilities for connecting with the collection in new and exciting ways. …
The Montier Portraits
September 13 – December 9, 2022 The Fleming Museum is pleased to announce the loan of an extremely rare pair of portraits of African-American sitters whose heritage can be traced back to the Philadelphia’s first mayor, Humphrey Morrey (b. c. 1650, England; d. 1716, Philadelphia), appointed to his office by William Penn in 1691. Painted …
Call and Response: Personal Reflections on the Fleming Collection
September 13 – December 9, 2022 In a unique debut collaboration between the Howard Center Arts Collective and the Fleming Museum, Arts Collective artists have created work inspired by a piece from the museum collections. Each of the 16 exhibiting members used the museum’s online collections database to identify artwork of personal interest, from which …
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Rockwell Kent: Prints from the Ralf C. Nemec Collection
September 13 – December 9, 2022 Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) was an author, illustrator, painter, and printmaker whose iconic graphic style decorated posters, magazine covers, advertisements, fine art publishing ventures, deluxe illustrated books, and personal bookplates. This exhibition features 49 prints drawn from the collection of Ralf C. Nemec, the largest assemblage of Rockwell Kent prints …
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Dark Goddess: An Exploration of the Sacred Feminine
February 8, 2022 through May 20, 2023 Dark Goddess: An Exploration of the Sacred Feminine, an exhibition of Shanta Lee Gander’s photo series of the same name, has been six years in the making. The series started off as an initial idea and inquiry: Who or what is the Goddess when she is allowed to …
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UNPACKED: Refugee Baggage
February 8 – May 6, 2022 UNPACKED: Refugee Baggage seeks to humanize the word “refugee.” Created during the summer of 2017, this multi-media installation is the work of Syrian-born, New Haven CT artist and architect Mohamad Hafez and Iraqi-born writer and speaker Ahmed Badr. For UNPACKED: Refugee Baggage Hafez sculpturally re-creates rooms, homes, buildings and landscapes that have …
Introducing the Learning Studio
September 14 – December 10, 2021 This fall, the Fleming Museum is “showing our work” by exhibiting itself in a state of transformation and change, with listening to visitors at the center of that work. It is messy and vulnerable to work in public. Learning how to improvise and adapt—haven’t we all done so much of that …
Storytelling Salon
September 14, 2021 – May 6, 2022 Storytelling is a catalyst for change. Our 2020 exhibition Reckonings: Fleming staff reflect on our collection and the current moment focused on how we can use art to tell stories about our feelings and experiences in reaction to worldwide trauma. “Reckoning” is a long-term and iterative process, particularly when it …
Abstracts: Opening Space for Imagination
September 14 – December 10, 2021 Change has had a domino effect in the Museum this year. Deconstructing the outdated African Gallery led to a deinstallation of the Marble Court balcony, which has long featured nearly all-white New England artists and especially landscapes. Just as our Absences project uses blank spaces to envision new possibilities, the empty …