Thursday, May 18 is National Art Museum Day & International Museum Day, and we are celebrating with guided gallery walks and art activities.

11:00 - "Canada Lake Portraits: Animal Prints, Drawings, and Paintings by American Artist Paul Bransom from the Arkell Museum Collection" Gallery Walk

1:00 - "Animals in Bronze: The Michael and Mary Erlanger Collection of Animalier Bronzes from the Georgia Museum of Art" Gallery Walk

3:30 - Art After School: Meet the People in a Portrait (FREE!) - Open to students K-12, this program encourages students to examine all perspectives of portraiture, then create a portrait of their own!

Admission
Members: Free
Adults: $9.00
Students and Senior Citizens: $6.50
Children ages 11 and under are free when accompanied by an adult.

Join artist Christine Heller for a discussion of the inspiration and process behind her series of portraits in the exhibit "Truth is the only Safe Ground to Stand Upon," depicting suffragists who fought to bring the vote to New York's women one hundred years ago. Heller will examine her own work in more detail, as well as the individual women who she has portrayed in her work.

Admission to the program is free, and doors will open at 6:30. For more information, please contact Jenna Peterson Riley, Curator of Education & Public Engagement at jriley@arkellmuseum.org or (518) 673-2314 x 113.

Join artist Christine Heller for a guided gallery walk through her exhibit "Truth is the Only Safe Ground to Stand Upon" for a discussion of the suffragists she has depicted in portraits and how their work is relevant to women today. Heller will also discuss her own journey as an artist, and how her career has led to this exhibition.

All students, male and female, are welcome to this lively discussion. Through the course of the program, Girl Scouts will fulfill numbers 1, 2, 7, and 9 of the requirement for the "Centennial of Women's Suffrage in New York" patch program.

This is a free program for students elementary through high school, although donations are always welcome. For more information, please contact Jenna Peterson Riley, Curator of Education & Public Engagement at jriley@arkellmuseum.org or (518) 673-2314 x 113.