Around the MAG
looking back
MAGazine has gone digital! The Gallery's annual member magazine is now Around the MAG, with headlines and features that change each month. Don't look for us in your mailbox, but do visit this site often. (If you're a MAG member, you'll still receive ARTiculate, our bimonthly calendar, by US mail.)
William Ordway Partridge's iconic sculpture Memory (shown being moved on October 27) now greets visitors to the second floor, as she did in the early days of the Gallery. The 1913 work was commissioned by MAG founder Emily Sibley Watson as a memorial to her son, James G. Averell.
If you look very closely in the archive photo below left, you'll see a shadowy outline of Memory in almost the same position, just inside the original main entrance.
Learn more about this work, and about the early history of the Gallery.
Creative Workshop Open House, 1958.
60 Years Ago at MAG
In 1958, these young girls enjoyed a free art activity at a Creative Workshop Open House. Sixty years later, the Workshop is still going strong—with classes in all media for kids, teens and adults—and open houses are still a popular event for potential and returning students. Don't miss the next one, on Saturday, December 12, from noon to 5. More about the Workshop
Extra credit question: Can you identify the girls in the picture? If so please contact lharper@mag.rochester.edu.
What's in a name? In the early days, paintings really did hang on Clotheslines.
Not Your Mother's Clothesline
In 1957, 101 exhibitors and 2,000 bargain hunters braved the wind and rain of Hurricane Audrey at the Memorial Art Gallery’s first Clothesline Festival. From these inauspicious beginnings, Clothesline has grown into a major community happening.
Today, Rochester's largest and longest-running fine art and crafts festival is the place to experience all-day live entertainment from gospel to hula, sample food from some of Rochester’s favorite vendors, enjoy free family art activities, visit the museum, and of course, browse and buy original artwork by artists from across New York state. Learn more
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