Tickets are available through The Store at MAM.  Stop by or call 973-259-5137. Reserve your ticket early!

Art Museum Day

Friday, May 18

Art Museum Day is being celebrated nationally and internationally on May 18. On this day, MAM will offer free admission to the galleries as well as a discount in The Store at MAM. In recognition of the important role museums play in their communities, MAM also encourages visitors to share their museum experiences during Art Museum Day on a special printed form available at the Museum and via social media with the hashtag #ArtMuseumDay in a collective public response.

Pre-Gallery Walk Private Tour

Friday, May 18, 5:30 p.m.
Advance registration required. Reserve your spot by Monday, May 14 at The Store at MAM or call 973-259-5137

To help kick off the Montclair Gallery Walk—A Little Night Art IX—and to celebrate Art Museum Day, MAM will offer a private guided tour of New Media: New Forms, a group exhibition of new media art by New Jersey–based artists. The exhibition is this year’s New Jersey Arts Annual: Fine Arts.

MAM curator of contemporary art Alexandra Schwartz, who co-organized the exhibition, will lead the tour. Additionally, one of the artists in the show, Liselot van der Heijden, associate professor of art and art history at The College of New Jersey, will be on hand to discuss her work, a three-channel video about the Occupy Wall Street protests.

The tour will be offered from 5:30 to 6 p.m., with the galleries remaining open until 6:45 p.m. Visitors can then join the Montclair Gallery Walk, which runs 6–9 p.m.

Image: Liselot van der Heijden, with her three channel video installation Les Uns et Les Autres, 2011. Courtesy of the artist and LMAK Projects, New York.

Pictures 2012 Concert

7th Annual New Jersey Student Composition Contest

Thursday, May 24
Preconcert Panel Discussion, 6:45 p.m.
Gala Awards Ceremony and Concert, 7:30 p.m.
$10 Members and students, $15 Nonmembers

Join us for a unique concert experience as New Jersey students explore the intersection
of music and visual art. For the seventh annual edition of one of New Jersey’s premiere composition contests, this year, NJ students are asked to compose music inspired by artist, Philip Guston, Untitled #142, a painting exhibited in the Montclair Art Museum’s Patterns, System, Structures: Abstraction in American Art exhibition. Guest musicians will perform pieces written by students. Come early to hear student honorees discuss their art-inspired music in a preconcert talk.

Please arrive early. The galleries will have extended hours from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Tickets to the concert include admission to the Museum on the day of the program.

Are you an aspiring musical talent in high school or at the university level?
Pictures 2012 Concert prospectus, deadlines, and more info regarding submissions can be accessed at: www.njartscollective.org or contact njartscollective@comcast.net.

This program is produced by the New Jersey Arts Collective.
Image: Philip Guston (1913-1980), Untitled #142, 1979, oil on canvas. Bequest of Musa Guston, 1992.72

Artist's Trunk Sale: Gayle Mahoney 

Saturday & Sunday, May 26 & 27
9 a.m.- 5 p.m.
The Store at MAM

The Store at MAM highlights the work of local artists and artisans in a series of Artist's Trunk Sales. This month, the Store welcomes Gayle Mahoney and will feature her new line of art jewelry.

Closer Look Tours

First Friday of the Month, 2 p.m.

Coincides with the MAM’s Free First Fridays

Join us for informal 20-minute gallery talks that provide an in-depth examination of one work of art on view in the galleries. Tours led by MAM educators and docents.

June 1 – New Media: New Forms

Collecting Art
An Affordable Art Fair

Saturday, June 2
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
FREE (also FREE Museum Admission)

Collecting Art: An Affordable Art Fair will be held Saturday, June 2. Select from art made by a diverse group of artists offering pieces at prices under $500. Help support local and emerging artists while expanding your own collection! Visitors will also have the opportunity to hear local musicians, sponsored by Whole Foods Market Montclair.

Participating Artists: Luis Alvez, Alina Bliach, Jo Bradney, Aric Calfee, Gabrielle D’Angelo, Liz Demaree, Robyn Ellenbogen, Susan Fidlon, Michael Hart, Linda A. Ippolito, Ji Yong Kim, Wendy Letven, Maria Lupo, Cathy Pilkin, Adam Pitt, Christopher Reach, Brandon Rechten, Janice Reis, Christine Sauerteig-Pilaar, Christine Soccio, Lisa Stoeffel, Doreen Tighe, Victoria Tullo, and Julian Weitzenfeld.

Artist's Trunk Sale: Meghan Patrice Riley

Saturday, June 2
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
The Store at MAM

The Store at MAM highlights the work of local artists and artisans in a series of Artist's Trunk Sales.

Mixing metals with textile techniques, Meghan Patrice Riley creates unique pieces with a feminine elegance and industrial touch that are light and dainty. Using thin, lightweight nylon-coated steel wire as "fiber" she forms small line segments to create geometric shapes and then eventually forms that are flexible and adaptable.