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Bruce Museum’s iCreate 2017 Exhibit, with Four Darien Teens Among the Curators, Opens June 17

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The Bruce Museum showcases art by talented high school students in the new exhibition iCreate 2017, organized by eight high school students, including four from Darien. The iCreate 2017 exhibition is organized by eight high school seniors from the Bruce Museum’s Youth@Bruce committee, including four from Darien: Megan Hobbs, Courtney Lowe, Kristen Picard, and Bridget Wolters from Darien High School. The exhibit runs from this Saturday, June 17 through July 30. Marking its eighth consecutive year, the annual exhibition presents over 40 fine art works carefully selected this year from more than 700 submissions from teens throughout New York and Connecticut. ___________

— an announcement from the Bruce Museum

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The goal of iCreate is not only to spotlight the diverse artwork, but also to provide young artists a venue to build confidence and gain recognition in the community.

Weekend Events
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Have a Bank of America Card? Get Free Admission to Any of These Museums This Weekend

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If you’ve got an active Bank of America or Merrill Lynch credit or debit card, you can get free admission this weekend, June 3 to 4, to the Bruce Museum in Greenwich and several other museums in the state through Bank of America’s “Museums on Us” program. Here’s part of the Bruce Museum’s announcement and Bank of America’s announcement:

Museums matter — museums are a source of education, emotion and creative inspiration. Now in its 20th year, this distinctive program offers Bank of America and Merrill Lynch credit and debit card holders the opportunity to visit more than 175 of the most popular cultural institutions in the United States free of charge on the first full weekend of every month. Present your active Bank of America or Merrill Lynch credit or debit card along with a photo ID to gain one free general admission to the Bruce Museum this Saturday and Sunday. Your card gets you one free general admission to any participating institution —  cardholders only; guests are not eligible for free admission.

Art Exhibits
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‘Canvas and Cast’ Exhibit Opens Saturday at Bruce Museum

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The Bruce Museum’s newest exhibit, Canvas and Cast: Highlights from the Bruce Museum’s Art Collection, opens Saturday, Feb. 11 in Greenwich, is a chance to see the museum’s growing collection, which is never on permanent display. The exhibit features 35  paintings and seven sculptures from the collection, including long-time favorites along with recent acquisitions representing art from the 16th through the 20th centuries. ____________

— an announcement, with minor changes, from the Bruce Museum

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The exhibition examines art historical themes including sculpted and painted portraits, narrative scenes and statues, landscapes, still lifes, and genre scenes. For over a century, the collection at the Bruce Museum has grown steadily and been developed carefully through donations and purchases.

Art Exhibits
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Bruce Museum Has a Major Exhibit on Impressionist Alfred Sisley, Now Through May 21

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The Bruce Museum in Greenwich and the Hôtel de Caumont Centre d’Art in Aix-en-Provence, France, are mounting a major monographic exhibition of the art of the French Impressionist Alfred Sisley (1839 – 1899). The exhibition runs through May 21. The first retrospective in the United States in over twenty years of this purest of all the major Impressionists, the show is comprised of about 50 of Sisley’s paintings from private collections and major museums in Europe and North America. The Bruce Museum will premiere the exhibition and be the only venue in the United States. ___________

— an announcement from the Bruce Museum

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A friend of Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Sisley initially worked in the naturalistic landscape tradition of the Barbizon School but increasingly adopted a proto-Impressionistic style, creating a body of work that has an impressive internal consistency and cumulative authority.