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Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art
Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, WI
About the Haggerty Museum of Art
Mission
The Haggerty Museum serves as a laboratory for learning focused on the visual arts by collecting, exhibiting and interpreting works of art in the context of the mission of Marquette University and the city of Milwaukee. The museum's exhibitions and educational programs are designed to contribute to the transformational learning of students and community members and to foster life-long learning and enjoyment of the arts.
History
The seeds for the Haggerty Museum of Art were planted in 1889, when Rev. Stanislaus L. Lalumiere, S.J., donated Pere Marquette and the Indians by Wilhelm Lamprecht to then-Marquette College. Seventy years later, English professor Dr. John Pick formed the Marquette University Fine Arts Committee to promote the arts and survey the works of art on campus. In the late 1970s, the Fine Arts Committee, chaired by Dr. Curtis L. Carter, and the newly formed Marquette University Women’s Council collaborated to build a permanent home for Marquette’s art collection. The Haggerty Museum of Art opened on November 11, 1984.
The Haggerty features approximately eight to nine exhibitions each year. Representing the diversity of work in the Permanent Collection, the museum has offered exhibitions celebrating the contributions of the Italian Renaissance “Petite Masters,” American self-taught artists, works addressing social change issues, modern American printmaking and photography, and contemporary art from Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and Wisconsin.
As a teaching museum, the Haggerty seeks to enhance the undergraduate educational experience by engaging students in various disciplines to think about the world and their subject matter through the lenses of the visual arts. The museum also works collaboratively with elementary and middle school teachers, local artists, and College of Education faculty and students to design programs that engage children and youth in educational activities. Additional educational opportunities for the campus and community include free tours, lectures, workshops and performances.
Submission Policy
The Haggerty does not accept unsolicited materials (slides, prints, CDs, DVDs, etc.) from artists or their agents. The museum does not set up appointments with artists to review their work. If unsolicited materials are sent to the museum without the artist or agent's prior knowledge of museum policy, the museum is not obligated to return materials without a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Under no circumstances may artists send or drop off original works. The museum can not take responsibility for the safety of original works.
Current exhibitions
Thenceforward, and Forever Free
August 22 - December 22, 2012
Thenceforward, and Forever Free is presented as part of Marquette University’s Freedom Project, a yearlong commemo- ration of the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War. The Project explores the many histories and meanings of emancipation and freedom in the United States and beyond. The exhibition features seven contemporary artists whose work deals with issues of race, gender, privilege, and identity, and more broadly conveys interpretations of the notion of freedom. Artists in Thenceforward are: Laylah Ali, Willie Birch, Michael Ray Charles, Gary Simmons, Elisabeth Subrin, Mark Wagner, and Kara Walker. The exhibition includes works in diverse media, from Wagner’s 17-foot-tall collage made from 1,121 dollar bills to Simmons’s site-specific chalk drawing installation to Subrin’s two-channel, HD video. Paintings by Charles and Birch, drawings by Ali, and prints by Walker are also featured. Essayists for the exhibition catalogue are Dr. A. Kristen Foster, associate professor, Department of History, Marquette University, and Ms. Kali Murray, assistant professor, Marquette University Law School.
Freedom Of/For/To
Photography from the Permanent Collection
August 22 - December 22, 2012
The exhibition Freedom Of/For/To is comprised of contemporary photographs from the museum's permanent collection that explore the fluid definition of the word and elicit questions about our collective (mis)understanding of freedom at home and abroad. The photographers represented in the exhibition, including Adam Bartos, Edward Burtynsky, William Clift, Stella Johnson, Miguel Rio Branco, Irina Rozovsky, and Joel Sternfeld, offer a variety of viewpoints that encourage us to consider how we define and protect freedom in a global context.
The Freedom Project: Text/Context
An exhibition by the Chipstone Foundation
August 22 - December 22, 2012
History—the study of past human events, words, and creations—is an imprecise science. The authoritative words we read in history books often do not fully correspond with reality. This inconsistency applies not only to the interpretive words written by historians, but also to the original quotes uttered by figures from the past. In this gallery, you encounter a small gathering of objects that are in one way or another linked to the laudable concept of human freedom. Yet their stories are complex and, at times, conflicted. They suggest that understanding the past begins when we consider multiple perspectives and voices—when we replace the idea of "reading history" with the broader concept of "exposing histories."
Future exhibitions
January 16 – May 19, 2013
Images of the Virgin Mary
Images of the Virgin Mary is an exhibition of more than 20 international works of art from the late fourteenth century to the present. Organized chronologically based on the life of the Virgin, this exhibition features five major Marian subjects: the Annunciation, Nativity, Flight into Egypt, Pietà, and Assumption and Coronation. These themes, along with other depictions of the Madonna and Child, are illustrated in a variety of media, including paintings, important prints, and statues of Mary.
Dark Blue
The Water as Protagonist
The photographers included in the exhibition Dark Blue utilize water as an active element, making pictures that are, at their core, psychological engagements. Water is often perceived as a restorative element, an essential means to health and happiness. Yet, at the same time, it is a force formidable for its potential to threaten life.
June 5 – August 4, 2013
August 21, 2013 – December 22, 2013
Current Tendencies III
Past exhibitions
Selections from the Mary and Michael J. Tatalovich Collection
June 6 - August 5, 2012
Significant gifts by dedicated patrons have often been the building blocks of museum collections. The decision by Michael and Mary in 2010 to gift the entirety of their growing collection of 90 large-scale American prints significantly enriched the Haggerty Museum of Art's focus of works on paper as well as strengthened the holdings of postwar images by important American artists who took advantage of the print renaissance of the 1970s and 80s. Their first gift in 1997 of the print Leg by Jasper Johns marked the beginning of a partnership that has included an exhibition of works from their collection in the museum, From Warhol to Bartlett in 1998, and subsequent gifts and loans to augment other projects undertaken by the museum. This postwar collection includes many exemplary works by seminal Pop and Minimal artists, alongside exciting works by newer artists. Because the collection has grown by 50 percent since the 1998 exhibition, this effort marks the first time many works will be seen publicly.
NYC July 4, 1981
Photographs by Tom Arndt
June 6 - August 5, 2012
On the night of July 4, 1981, photographer Tom Arndt came upon what he referred to as a "wall of sound" as he entered New York City's Little Italy and Chinatown. He saw garbage cans doused in gasoline, set aflame, and exploding with fireworks as people ran through the rain-soaked streets. The series of photographs Arndt took capture the intensity of the night's celebration of Independence Day, while simultaneously emitting a strange disconnect from the specifics of time and place. The photographs have an uneasy resemblance to contemporary images of urban warfare and ask the viewer to reconcile the duality of celebrating freedom versus fighting for freedom.
Mark Ruwedel
Dusk
June 6 - August 5, 2012
The exhibition Mark Ruwedel Dusk presents eight black and white images that capture the degraded, fringe spaces of the high desert in Southern California. The photographs describe a landscape of simultaneous development and decay. Ruwedel chooses to photograph those houses that seem to be either once inhabited or incomplete constructions. Yet most of these houses occupy a middle zone, where the viewer is perplexed in wondering if they are coming or going, generative or degenerative. Photographed at dusk, the images record an atmosphere that is melancholic and sublime.