On Sunday, June 5, several Bruce Contemporaries and their families visited the Bruce Museum for a private tour of the Museum’s new permanent science galleries, Natural Cycles Shape our Land with Megan Brown, Manager of Youth and Family Programs. Following the tour, Megan engaged the children in fun arts and crafts activities.
On April 25, over 50 Bruce Contemporaries were invited to visit a private collection of African and New Guinea art. Comprising over 150 pieces of art which include sculptures, statues, masks, jewelry and weapons, the collection was started by the owner’s parents 55 years ago during their first trip to Africa and they then began adding pieces from New Guinea 50 years ago. The pieces were collected largely during their travels from the late 1960's to early 1990's.
The Contemporaries were treated to a tour of the collection which is displayed by the piece’s origin country or region and type. Pieces pictured include a Dogon horse rider and Senufo rhythm pounder, a Senufo fire spitter dance mask, a Nimba fertility statue, a pupper holder with six wooden puppets from Mali, a royal chair / mask from Cameroon, along with many other African and New Guinea masks and statues.
On February 22, 2022, the Bruce Contemporaries visited the Flinn Gallery at Greenwich Library for a fabulous visit to their current exhibition. Just Shoes: Where Art, Craft & Fantasy Meet shows off more than 70 shoes by 20 artists selected from a larger collection of fantasy shoes commissioned by Jane Gershon Weitzman, Founding VP of Stuart Weitzman Retail. The curators of the show, Debra Fram and Barbara Richards, welcomed the group with a bit of background on how the exhibition came to be.
A special thanks to Katja Zigerlig and Berkley One for their support of the Bruce Contemporaries.
