Take a Break Visit the Benton Museum
We are open this summer through the end of July. Take a break and bring all of your colleagues and friends to explore our wonderful exhibitions.
Tours:
Self-guided tours are perfect for people who just want to come and look around on their own time.
Docent-led tours include:
Architecture and Sculpture Walk- Takes visitors around campus and into various buildings to discuss the fascinating pieces.
How-to-Look- Demonstrates how to do a formal analysis of works of art.
Enrichment through Art- Enhances awareness and appreciation of art through the Benton’s permanent collection and its special exhibitions.
Exhibitions:
Permanent Exhibition:
From Old Masters to Revolutionaries: Five Centuries of the Benton’s Best
Current Exhibitions: Open until July 30, 2017
Work It features paintings by Ellen Emmet Rand and other women artists in the first half of the 20th century—how they fought for opportunities, paid their bills, and found ways to have their art and creativity seen and taken seriously.
Objectifying Myself explores work by women artists, created between 1968 and 2005, which serve, to some degree, as self-portraits. But these “self-portraits” employ surrogate objects rather than depictions of the artists’ faces or bodies.
An Installation. Liz Whitney Quisgard is an award-winning, nationally renowned artist who lives and works in New York City. Her career spans six decades and the work in this installation features an environment of patterned textiles and sculpture created in the last two decades.
To schedule a tour with one of our docents, please call Allison Golomb, Education Coordinator, 860.486.1711 or email allison.golomb@uconn.edu. ***Please give 2 weeks advance notice for a guided tour.
THE WILLIAM BENTON MUSEUM OF ART
University of Connecticut
School of Fine Arts
245 Glenbrook Road
Storrs, CT
www.benton.uconn.edu
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For more information, contact: The Benton Museum at 860-486-4520