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Programs are held at the Zimmerli and are free with general admission, unless otherwise noted. Admission: Adults (18 and over) $6.00. Persons over 65 $5.00. Free admission to Museum Members, Rutgers University Students and Staff (with I.D.), and children under 18. 

PASSPORT TO ART
Children and parents, grandparents, or guardians work side-by-side on exciting arts, crafts, and performance projects conducted by trained educators and artists. These interactive workshops allow families quality time to be creative together. Nonrefundable fee: $10 members per child / $15 non-members per child. Parents or guardians are free. Advance registration is required for Passport to Art workshops. Registration forms can be obtained by calling 732.932.7237, ext. 615, or visiting http://www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu//education/?state=10

Saturday, December 3:  

Create a Greeting for the Holidays

12:30 to 3 p.m.
A Zimmerli tradition continues as parents and children are invited to join educator/artist Rachel Escolar in the museum's annual workshop dedicated to the creation of unique greeting cards for the holidays. You may want to end your afternoon by stopping in the Zimmerli's Museum Store to find the perfect gifts to accompany your handmade cards.  

Wednesday, December 28: New Year Calendar, 12:30 to 3 p.m.
Fee: $15 nonmembers per child/ $10 members per child. Parents or guardians are free.
Winter, spring, summer, and fall...enjoy each season throughout the year as you turn the pages of your own personalized calendar. Instructor Dot Paolo guides parents and children in the use of collage, stamps, and many other art techniques to create one-of-a-kind calendars. Participants may wish to bring photographs of friends and family to include in their calendars.  

Free with museum admission.
Studio Z is a self-guided arts education space with activities for younger visitors. The studio's computer terminal includes the Junior Curator program, which allows anyone to become a curator and organize the Zimmerli's artworks into exciting new virtual exhibitions. The space also features a selection of works created by Zimmerli's Summer Art Camp participants, as well as works by students from the New Brunswick public school system. Studio Z is made possible by a generous grant from the Walter and Adi Blum Foundation, Inc.

Free First Sundays:  

December 4, All Day
On the first Sunday of each month, the Zimmerli offers free admission for all visitors!

Family Spotlight Tours on Free First Sundays:  

December 4, 1 p.m.
Join a museum guide in the museum lobby for an introduction to a special topic in the collection that is appropriate for all ages.

Sunday Spotlight Tours:  

December 4, 11, 18, 2 p.m.
Free with museum admission
Join a museum guide in the museum lobby for an informal and informative introduction to the collection. Appropriate for teenagers interested in art.

 

Art After Hours is the popular eclectic evening series, from 5 to 9 p.m., at the Zimmerli Art Museum. Admission is $6 for adults, $5 for adults over 65, and free for museum members, as well as Rutgers students, faculty and staff (with ID), and children under 18.

Wednesday, December 7: Vocal Concert & Film
Highlighting the exhibition Two Venetian Masters: Canaletto and Domenico Tiepolo Etchings from the Arthur Ross Foundation, the evening offers a broader view of Venice. Internationally renowned mezzo-soprano Gudrun B hler returns to the Zimmerli to perform a selection of Bel Canto ("beautiful singing") selections. With full, even tones, this vocal style of originated in Italy and prevailed throughout Europe during the 18th century. The film Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals and examines the culture - and business - that developed around vedute: highly detailed paintings of cityscapes and vistas. The popularity sparked a rivalry among Caneletto and such gifted, but often overlooked, painters as Luca Carlevarijs, Michele Marieschi, Francesco Guardi, and Bernardo Bellotto.  

Through January 8, 2012
This exhibition presents etchings by Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697-1768) and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804), two of the great Italian artists who made Venice an artistic capital during the eighteenth century. Printmaking played an important but different role in each artist's career. Canaletto worked almost exclusively as a painter and took up etching as a way to challenge himself technically and creatively. Domenico Tiepolo pursued etching to a much greater extent, making reproductive and original prints that both promoted the achievements of his artistic family and distinguished his own unique talents within it.  

Through April 1, 2012
Fluxus celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2012. A radical, experimental, and multimedia art movement of the mid-twentieth century that continues to influence contemporary art, Fluxus focuses on the unpredictable, ordinary, and ephemeral moments of everyday life. Rutgers was an important center of Fluxus activity in the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition focuses on the university's legacy as a center of experimental art.

"Fluxus has been described as an attitude, a way of experiencing the world, and as a laboratory of ideas," notes Donna Gustafson, Andrew W. Mellon Liaison for Academic Programs and Curator. "Interaction was so integral to Fluxus attitudes towards life and art that the display of objects alone can't completely convey the spirit of the movement."  During the exhibition, visitors to Fluxus at Rutgers have the opportunity to interact with several Fluxus games.   

Through June 24, 2012
Frank Asch is a noted author and illustrator of more than 65 children's books, including novels and juvenile nonfiction. Featuring two captivating series of original page design drawings from the artist-author's donation of these bedtime books to the Zimmerli Art Museum in 2011, the installation is open to the public on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, but special tours can be arranged. To reserve a class or group tour Tuesday through Sunday, please contact the Education Department, 732.932.7237, ext. 615, at least two weeks in advance.

Bedtime stories are beloved by children everywhere. In addition to offering delightful pictures of childhood, this exhibition provides an informative glimpse of the labor-intensive creative process of designing children's books

Popcorn (1979), an early Frank Asch "Bear Book," shows Sam Bear hosting an impromptu Halloween party while his parents are out. Sam and his young friends make a large pot of popcorn, which, to their alarm, keeps popping and soon fills the entire house! Fortunately, Sam and his friends devise a plan to clean up the popcorn mess.

Starbaby (1980) is a delightful story about a boy who lives in the sky. After Starbaby falls to Earth, he lives among the fish in the ocean until he is caught by a fisherman, who brings the little boy home to his wife. The couple has always wanted a child to love, and Starbaby thereafter enjoys daytime activities with his doting parents. Each night, a contented Starbaby bids goodnight to all on earth, in the sea, and in the sky.

Popcorn & Starbaby, we have decided to extend viewing hours during the week of December 26:The exhibition is open for extended holiday hours, Tuesday, December 27, through Thursday, December 29, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Regular hours are Fridays, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., as well as Saturdays and Sundays, noon to 5 p.m., through June 24, 2012.  

By reservation
Guided tours are offered for groups of all ages in English, Spanish, French, and Russian. With thousands of original artworks, educator-led discovery tours, a museum store, and convenient café, the Zimmerli is the ideal destination. The fee is $4 per adult in addition to museum admission, $1 per student with free admission. Guided tours should be scheduled at least two weeks in advance by calling 732.932.7237, ext. 615.

DAY TRIP
Join the Associate Curator of European Art from the Zimmerli Art Museum, Christine Giviskos, on a bus trip on Thursday, November 17, to the Neue Galerie and Morgan Library & Museum in New York City for two exhibitions of rarely seen European masterworks. The bus departs at 8:30 a.m. from the Sears parking lot on Route 1 in New Brunswick and returns by 5 p.m. The cost of the trip, which includes transportation, lunch, and guided tours, is $115 for Zimmerli members and $125 for nonmembers. Please call 732.932.7237, ext. 611, or email membership@zimmerli.rutgers.edu to register.

The day begins with a private guided tour of the Neue Galerie before it opens for public hours. In honor of the Neue's 10th Anniversary, The Ronald S. Lauder Collection: Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century/Germany, Austria, and France provides a rare glimpse into one of the finest private art collections in the world, that of museum co-founder Ronald Lauder. Lunch follows at Café Fledermaus, located in the lower level of the Neue Galerie. The Morgan Library and Museum features a docent-led tour of David, Delacroix, and Revolutionary France: Drawings from the Louvre. This is the first-ever U.S. showing of some of the finest French drawings from the period between 1789 and 1848, when France experienced tremendous political and cultural upheaval. Rarely does the Louvre allow so many iconic works to travel; the Morgan is the only venue for this exhibition of eighty drawings.

MUSEUM STORE SPECIALS

25% off ($150 or more) November 15 - December 20, 2011: Pick up your coupon in the store.

LOCATION AND HOURS
The Zimmerli Art Museum is located at 71 Hamilton Street (at George Street) on the College Avenue campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick. The Zimmerli is a short walk from the NJ Transit train station in New Brunswick, midway between New York City and Philadelphia.

Hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m., and the first Wednesday of each month (except August), 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. The museum is closed Mondays, major holidays, and the month of August.

Admission is $6 for adults; $5 for adults over 65; and free for museum members, Rutgers students, faculty and staff (with ID), and children under 18. Admission is free on the first Sunday of every month. For more information, call 732.932.7237, ext. 610 or visit the museum's website: www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu

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