Storytelling Through Sculpture at The Aldrich on Friday, November 28

Storytelling Through Sculpture at The Aldrich on Friday, November 28 from 2 to 4pm. 

Friday, November 28 · 2 pm to 4 pm
Free with admission; free for members

Explore the participatory art of exhibiting artist Mary Beth Edelson with a Museum educator, touring the gallery and contributing a personal note to Six Story Gathering Boxes. Then, use a range of repurposed materials to compose a visual story, expressing a wish, fantasy, or real-life experiences through images, textures, and writing.

Experiment with new materials and creative processes in these Afternoon Studiosweekday workshops. Families with children of all ages are invited to work alongside a Museum educator in these fun, collaborative, skill-building experiences.

Artist and activist Mary Beth Edelson is a pioneer of the Feminist art movement, instrumental in the organization of the first conference for Women in the Visual Arts in 1972, and an active contributor to WAC, the Women’s Action Coalition, from 1991–95. This exhibition presents six of Edelson’s ground-breaking story gathering boxes—a project initiated in 1972 that demonstrated early vestiges of “social practice” and is still ongoing—including a new one specially commissioned by The Aldrich. There are two types of boxes: in one, wooden tablets created with diverse media encompass texts and imagery on specific themes; in the other, sets of paper tablets pose questions that prompt a response.

Visitors are invited to participate by writing their stories, adding to time capsules reflecting more than four decades of changing social history. The story box Great Mother (1973), which focuses on goddess figures and was included forty years ago in The Aldrich presentation Contemporary Reflections (1973–74), will return to the Museum for the exhibition.

For more information, please contact Michelle Friedman: mfriedman@aldrichart.org or call 203.438.4519 during regular Museum hours.

Major support for Museum operations has been provided by members of The Aldrich Board of Trustees, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, and the Leir Foundation.

 

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Submitted by Westport, CT

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