Museums10: Fall Exhibits & Displays

Museums10 has release a new seasonal brochure to highlight the fall and winter displays and exhibitions at ten cultural, historical, and educational institutions throughout the Pioneer Valley (collectively known as Museums10). The brochure is a handy resource for both locals and visitors: it provides relevant contact and admissions information for each institution, making trip-planning significantly easier, and helps to publicize, and connect audiences with, a variety of displays and exhibitions that span a wide range of interests, ages, and expertise. This is outreach at its best: the brochure benefits audiences as well as other organizations with similar goals and similar content!

The member museums and galleries in Museums10 are: The Beneski Museum of Natural History; The Emily Dickinson Museum; The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art; The Hampshire College Art Gallery; Historic Deerfield; The Mead Art Museum at Amherst College; The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum; The Yiddish Book Center; The Smith College Museum of Art; and the University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass Amherst.

The following is a partial list of each institution’s current and upcoming exhibitions and (if applicable) additional learning opportunities and events…

Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art — Amherst, MA

• Through November 10, 2013: Robert R. Zakanitch: A Garden of Ordinary Miracles
• Through February 23, 2014: Seriously Silly: A Decade of Art and Whimsy by Mo Willems
• Through Sunday, March 23, 2014: The Art of Eric Carle: Friends
• Visit the Art Studio (included in price of admission) during museum hours to explore art materials and techniques that reflect the art on view in the galleries!

Historic Deerfield — Deerfield, MA

• Weekends through Saturday, November 30: From Nature to Color: Fun with Natural Dyes
• New exhibition opening Saturday, September 28: Furniture Masterworks: Tradition and Innovation in Western Massachusetts.

Yiddish Book Center — Amherst, MA

• Sunday, September 29: Danny Kaye – multi-media presentation
• Sunday, October 21: Community Open House – talks, tours, and a concert

Smith College Museum of Art — Northampton, MA

• Friday, October 4, 2013 through Sunday, January 5, 2014: River of Gold: Precolumbian Treasures from Sitio Conte
• Friday, October 11 through Sunday, December 15, 2014: Art Stories: Personal Experiences with SCMA’s Collection
• FREE Second Friday: art activity, museum admission, and gallery talk each month for all ages from 4pm–8pm

University Museum of Contemporary Art — Amherst, MA

• Through Sunday, December 8: Du Bois In Our Time. Contemporary art inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois.
• Tuesday, October 15: The Suppression of Sound. An Evening with Poet Thomas Sayers Ellis and Saxophonist James Brandon Lewis.
• Saturday, October 19: Bus Trip: Guided Tour of the W.E.B. Du Bois Homesite

A complete list of the fall and winter offerings of each institution may be found on the Museums10 brochure (click for a link to download).