Openings and Closings: April 21 to April 27 Elizabeth Lanza
A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, Volume 6 by George Edwards (1694–1773), 1758–1764.
University of Michigan Library Special Collections Research Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan; courtesy of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio.
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
We’ve all been in a powder room or two lavishly wallpapered with multicolored birds. But haven’t you ever wondered where this style had its origins? Luckily for us, opening this week at the Toledo Museum of art is an exhibition entitled
Rare and Wondrous highlights works produced from the 17
th to the 19
th centuries. As a special addition, the exhibition will feature the museum’s recent acquisition
Toledo Museum of Art to open Birds in Art and Culture exhibit
The Monroe News
The Toledo Museum of Art will present Rare and Wondrous: Birds in Art and Culture 1620-1820 from April 24 to July 25.
The exhibition, curated by TMA’s Head of Interpretive Projects and Managing Editor Paula Reich, will showcase the Museum’s recent acquisition of the important six-volume series Ornithologie, written by Mathurin-Jacques Brisson, illustrated by François-Nicolas Martinet and published in 1760. Rare and Wondrous will also feature paintings, prints and decorative arts from TMA’s collection, as well as select loans of significant prints and illustrated books from the Yale Center for British Art, the University of Michigan Museums Library and Special Collections, and the Bowling Green State University Libraries Center for Archival Collections.
Museum extends spring series to include two new virtual lectures Published by twalro@presspub. on Sun, 04/04/2021 - 6:53pm
By:
Tammy Walro
Due to the success of its previous presentations, the National Museum of the Great Lakes is announcing the addition of two more lectures to their 2021 Spring Virtual Lecture Series.
The first added lecture, titled “An Illustrated History of the Soo Locks,” will take place Wednesday, April 14, at 7 p.m. and will feature Michelle Briggs, who, since 2009, has served as the Soo Locks’ Chief Park Ranger.
“Our virtual lectures have surpassed our expectations. We’re breaking attendance records well beyond any we ever saw pre-pandemic,” said Carrie Sowden, the museum’s Archaeology Director and virtual lecture moderator. “Additionally, because our membership extends across the nation and beyond, the virtual presentations have allowed us to continue spr