[New-york-news] Invitation to the American Folk Art Museum

[Mike Robinson]

American Folk Art Museum 

Visitors who are blind or partially sighted are invited to join us for an
interactive verbal description and touch tour in the museum's galleries. The
tour incorporates verbal imaging techniques and the museum's Touch
Collection, which includes objects that are expressly meant for handling. A
trained museum educator will facilitate a 90-minute gallery tour exploring
the current exhibition.

The tour will be held on October 11th, from 10:00PM - 11:30AM.

The museum is located at:

2 Lincoln Square
(Columbus Avenue between 65th and 66th Streets)
New York, NY 10023

Space is limited; registration is required. 

Please contact Rachel Rosen at 212-595-9533, ext. 381 or
education at folkartmuseum.org <mailto:education at folkartmuseum.org> .

Exhibit Description:

Charting the Divine Plan: The Art of Orra White Hitchcock (1796-1863)
explores the confluence of art, love, science, and religion in the
extraordinary art of Orra White Hitchcock, one of America's first female
scientific illustrators. Her marriage in 1821 to Amherst College professor
Edward Hitchcock cemented a years-long friendship and collaboration based on
a bedrock of faith and science, mutual respect, close observation, and
mental capacity for the largest of ideas. Orra White exhibited a prodigious
scientific mind and abundant artistic talent at an early age. The exhibition
traces her development from schoolgirl projects to highly accomplished
renderings of the natural scenery of the Connecticut River Valley used in
her husband's many geology publications. Less well known are colorful
paintings on cotton-some more than twelve feet long-that were used to
illustrate her husband's many college lectures on geology, botany, zoology,
and anatomy. In these, Orra White Hitchcock communicated complex scientific
principles in abstract visual terms that now appear gorgeously fresh and
modern. Archival letters, manuscripts, diaries, and albums place Edward and
Orra White Hitchcock in the very heart of international scientific inquiry.
In the early years of the nineteenth century, when the natural world was a
place of wonder, Edward Hitchcock, theologian and scientist, saw the
interconnectedness of God's created world, and Orra White Hitchcock made it
manifest through her art for all to comprehend and marvel.

 

 

 

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