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February 2019
Children’s Art Afternoons At Morven Museum & Garden
Dive deep into Morven’s history through this 6-week class with Arts Council of Princeton’s Veronica Olivares. Focus on crafts and art forms created during the Revolutionary War era, explore historically based projects including miniature portraits, pen and ink landscapes, doll-making, quilt-making, silhouettes and basketry. Master artists of this era such as John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, John Trumbull and Gilbert Stuart will be introduced.
Find out more »Architectural Drawing & Painting for Adults at Morven
Join local artist and published illustrator Barbara DiLorenzo on a guided exploration of Morven interiors and exteriors. Explore the historical architecture of this Princeton landmark using a variety of media, including pencil, watercolor, watercolor pencil, and gouache. Please bring basic drawing and painting supplies to the first class, including pencils (include H & B pencils), a basic watercolor set (we recommend Winsor & Newton), sketch book and/or watercolor book (90 lb or 140 lb weight), as well as any other…
Find out more »Children’s Art Afternoons At Morven Museum & Garden
Dive deep into Morven’s history through this 6-week class with Arts Council of Princeton’s Veronica Olivares. Focus on crafts and art forms created during the Revolutionary War era, explore historically based projects including miniature portraits, pen and ink landscapes, doll-making, quilt-making, silhouettes and basketry. Master artists of this era such as John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, John Trumbull and Gilbert Stuart will be introduced.
Find out more »Architectural Drawing & Painting for Adults at Morven
Join local artist and published illustrator Barbara DiLorenzo on a guided exploration of Morven interiors and exteriors. Explore the historical architecture of this Princeton landmark using a variety of media, including pencil, watercolor, watercolor pencil, and gouache. Please bring basic drawing and painting supplies to the first class, including pencils (include H & B pencils), a basic watercolor set (we recommend Winsor & Newton), sketch book and/or watercolor book (90 lb or 140 lb weight), as well as any other…
Find out more »Children’s Art Afternoons At Morven Museum & Garden
Dive deep into Morven’s history through this 6-week class with Arts Council of Princeton’s Veronica Olivares. Focus on crafts and art forms created during the Revolutionary War era, explore historically based projects including miniature portraits, pen and ink landscapes, doll-making, quilt-making, silhouettes and basketry. Master artists of this era such as John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, John Trumbull and Gilbert Stuart will be introduced.
Find out more »Architectural Drawing & Painting for Adults at Morven
Join local artist and published illustrator Barbara DiLorenzo on a guided exploration of Morven interiors and exteriors. Explore the historical architecture of this Princeton landmark using a variety of media, including pencil, watercolor, watercolor pencil, and gouache. Please bring basic drawing and painting supplies to the first class, including pencils (include H & B pencils), a basic watercolor set (we recommend Winsor & Newton), sketch book and/or watercolor book (90 lb or 140 lb weight), as well as any other…
Find out more »Living Artfully: Marjorie Merriweather Post’s Willwood
Hillwood Estate, Museum & Garden’s Executive Director Kate Markert One of the wealthiest women in America when she inherited her father's Postum company (later General Foods) at age 27 in 1914, Marjorie Merriweather Post went on to be a pioneering business woman, serious art collector, generous philanthropist, and noted hostess throughout her long life.  She created Hillwood, her 25 acre Washington, D.C. estate, in 1955 at age 68, planning from the outset that it would become a public institution upon…
Find out more »The Art of Gardening at Chanticleer
Chanticleer’s Executive Director R. William Thomas Join Chanticleer’s Executive Director and Head Gardener R. William “Bill” Thomas for a visual tour and behind-the-scenes look at what the Washington Post calls “one of the most interesting and edgy public gardens in America.” Chanticleer, once the home of the Rosengarten family, is known for its residential-scale plant combinations featuring foliage textures and colors, its wide variety of containers, and its imaginative homemade furniture. This is a garden where the staff are the designers,…
Find out more »Children’s Art Afternoons At Morven Museum & Garden
Dive deep into Morven’s history through this 6-week class with Arts Council of Princeton’s Veronica Olivares. Focus on crafts and art forms created during the Revolutionary War era, explore historically based projects including miniature portraits, pen and ink landscapes, doll-making, quilt-making, silhouettes and basketry. Master artists of this era such as John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, John Trumbull and Gilbert Stuart will be introduced.
Find out more »Architectural Drawing & Painting for Adults at Morven
Join local artist and published illustrator Barbara DiLorenzo on a guided exploration of Morven interiors and exteriors. Explore the historical architecture of this Princeton landmark using a variety of media, including pencil, watercolor, watercolor pencil, and gouache. Please bring basic drawing and painting supplies to the first class, including pencils (include H & B pencils), a basic watercolor set (we recommend Winsor & Newton), sketch book and/or watercolor book (90 lb or 140 lb weight), as well as any other…
Find out more »March 2019
Girl Scouts Badge Workshops
Saturday, March 2 from 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. $18 including all supplies, snack, and badge Morven Museum & Garden Scribe Girl Scout Badge Workshop- Juniors Morven is the home of one of America’s first female published poets, Annis Boudinot Stockton.  The girl scouts will tour Morven Museum with the Curator of Education to “meet” Annis and learn a bit about her life and writing.  To complete the Poetry part of the Scribe badge, each girl will write a…
Find out more »Reimagining Morven & its Historic Gardens
Morven Museum & Garden reopened in September 2018 with its reimagined permanent history exhibition Historic Morven: A Window into America’s Past receiving wide acclaim.  Curator Elizabeth Allan will share insights into the exciting changes featured in the Museum’s new exhibit and some background on its inhabitants. Plans for Morven’s historic garden renovations, including gardens inspired by Annis Boudinot Stockton (18th century), Harriet Potter Stockton (19th century), and Helen Hamilton Stockton (20th century), based upon writings and journals of these women,…
Find out more »Children’s Art Afternoons At Morven Museum & Garden
Dive deep into Morven’s history through this 6-week class with Arts Council of Princeton’s Veronica Olivares. Focus on crafts and art forms created during the Revolutionary War era, explore historically based projects including miniature portraits, pen and ink landscapes, doll-making, quilt-making, silhouettes and basketry. Master artists of this era such as John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, John Trumbull and Gilbert Stuart will be introduced.
Find out more »Architectural Drawing & Painting for Adults at Morven
Join local artist and published illustrator Barbara DiLorenzo on a guided exploration of Morven interiors and exteriors. Explore the historical architecture of this Princeton landmark using a variety of media, including pencil, watercolor, watercolor pencil, and gouache. Please bring basic drawing and painting supplies to the first class, including pencils (include H & B pencils), a basic watercolor set (we recommend Winsor & Newton), sketch book and/or watercolor book (90 lb or 140 lb weight), as well as any other…
Find out more »Children’s Art Afternoons At Morven Museum & Garden
Dive deep into Morven’s history through this 6-week class with Arts Council of Princeton’s Veronica Olivares. Focus on crafts and art forms created during the Revolutionary War era, explore historically based projects including miniature portraits, pen and ink landscapes, doll-making, quilt-making, silhouettes and basketry. Master artists of this era such as John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, John Trumbull and Gilbert Stuart will be introduced.
Find out more »Architectural Drawing & Painting for Adults at Morven
Join local artist and published illustrator Barbara DiLorenzo on a guided exploration of Morven interiors and exteriors. Explore the historical architecture of this Princeton landmark using a variety of media, including pencil, watercolor, watercolor pencil, and gouache. Please bring basic drawing and painting supplies to the first class, including pencils (include H & B pencils), a basic watercolor set (we recommend Winsor & Newton), sketch book and/or watercolor book (90 lb or 140 lb weight), as well as any other…
Find out more »Still Life Stew Storytime at Morven
Vegetables can be a feast for the eyes and the tummy when they go from art to dinner! Helena Clare Pittman and Victoria Raymond’s picture book and Morven’s Masters of Illusion exhibition will inspire young artists as they hear the story read by Morven’s Curator of Education, view some pieces in the exhibition, and then create their own still life watercolor paintings. Children will take home their paintings and stew recipe.
Find out more »New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra Salon: Homage
Morven welcomes the New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra for a Salon afternoon featuring a musical mix of contemporary and traditional classical works reflecting, or honoring, earlier compositions.  This first-time chamber orchestra event in Morven’s Stockton Education Center provides an intimate, informal Salon tradition of music, conversation, and light refreshments. Composers on the program include Timo Andres, William Bolcon, Christopher Rouse, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.  Artistic Director Mark Hyczko provides a lively, informative, and fun introduction to each of these works.
Find out more »April 2019
Illustrated lecture with trompe loeil artist Gary Erbe
Join us for an illustrated lecture by renowned trompe l’oeil artist Gary Erbe, Q&A, and book signing of Erbe’s collectible FOOTPRINTS: THE ART AND LIFE OF GARY ERBE. FOOTPRINTS available for purchase and signing separately. Ticket includes admission to Museum galleries Saturday, April 13.
Find out more »August 2019
Camp Morven – Art of Sports
Take me out to the ball game! New Jersey was home to many “firsts” in the history of the game of baseball and during the summer of 2018, Morven’s campers will be inspired to create a variety of artwork from posters to baseball cards to objects and artifacts including, perhaps, a recreation of a vintage game!
Find out more »Camp Morven – Art of Sports
Take me out to the ball game! New Jersey was home to many “firsts” in the history of the game of baseball and during the summer of 2018, Morven’s campers will be inspired to create a variety of artwork from posters to baseball cards to objects and artifacts including, perhaps, a recreation of a vintage game!
Find out more »Camp Morven – Art of Sports
Take me out to the ball game! New Jersey was home to many “firsts” in the history of the game of baseball and during the summer of 2018, Morven’s campers will be inspired to create a variety of artwork from posters to baseball cards to objects and artifacts including, perhaps, a recreation of a vintage game!
Find out more »Camp Morven – Art of Sports
Take me out to the ball game! New Jersey was home to many “firsts” in the history of the game of baseball and during the summer of 2018, Morven’s campers will be inspired to create a variety of artwork from posters to baseball cards to objects and artifacts including, perhaps, a recreation of a vintage game!
Find out more »Camp Morven – Art of Sports
Take me out to the ball game! New Jersey was home to many “firsts” in the history of the game of baseball and during the summer of 2018, Morven’s campers will be inspired to create a variety of artwork from posters to baseball cards to objects and artifacts including, perhaps, a recreation of a vintage game!
Find out more »