Seniors

October 1
American Scrapbook Traditions*
Dr. Ellen Garvey gives an illustrated talk about 19th-century scrapbooks. Scrapbooks have been important in American life since the 1880’s. Old scrapbooks tell us much about how people connected with the oceans of printed matter that were starting to flood their lives. Parents mourned children in their scrapbooks; children made colorful scrapbooks from advertising cards as souvenirs of shopping; African Americans made scrapbooks for their communities to take note of history that was not appearing in books. This illustrated talk decodes the nineteenth century scrapbook to explore its varieties and conventions, and shows how scrapbooks became an intimate world or a second self.

October 15
Join the Museum for a trip to two galleries in mid-town Manhattan. We’ll visit DC Moore Gallery for a conversation with Gallery Director Heidi Lange about new work by artist Whitfield Lovell, whose exhibition, Whitfield Lovell: All Things in Time, will be on view at the Museum from September 26, 2008 – May 10, 2009. Then, we’ll visit Tibor de Nagy to view works by representational artist Louisa Matthíasdóttir.

Registration required by October 8:
914.963.4550, x350. Cost: $17; Members $12.
Depart from Museum 1:15 pm. Return 4:40 pm.

October 29
Dutch Influence In the Kitchen*
Food historian Peter G. Rose explores the foodways brought to America by the Dutch more than three centuries ago, and the way these foodways were adapted to new circumstances. Slides of 17th century Dutch art works depicting various foodstuffs are part of this lecture.

* This Speakers In the Humanities program, free and open to the general public, is made possible by the New York Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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	October 1 American Scrapbook Traditions* Dr. Ellen Garvey gives an illustrated talk about 19th-century scrapbooks. Scrapbooks have been important in American life since the 1880’s. Old scrapbooks tell us much about how people connected with the oceans of printed matter that were starting to flood their lives. Parents mourned children in their scrapbooks; children made colorful scrapbooks from advertising cards as souvenirs of shopping; African Americans made scrapbooks for their communities to take note of history that was not appearing in books. This illustrated talk decodes the nineteenth century scrapbook to explore its varieties and conventions, and shows how scrapbooks became an intimate world or a second self. October 15 Join the Museum for a trip to two galleries in mid-town Manhattan. We’ll visit DC Moore Gallery for a conversation with Gallery Director Heidi Lange about new work by artist Whitfield Lovell, whose exhibition, Whitfield Lovell: All Things in Time, will be on view at the Museum from September 26, 2008 – May 10, 2009. Then, we’ll visit Tibor de Nagy to view works by representational artist Louisa Matthíasdóttir. Registration required by October 8: 914.963.4550, x350. Cost: $17; Members $12. Depart from Museum 1:15 pm. Return 4:40 pm. October 29 Dutch Influence In the Kitchen* Food historian Peter G. Rose explores the foodways brought to America by the Dutch more than three centuries ago, and the way these foodways were adapted to new circumstances. Slides of 17th century Dutch art works depicting various foodstuffs are part of this lecture. * This Speakers In the Humanities program, free and open to the general public, is made possible by the New York Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.