Calendar
Exhibitions
June 19 - 20
Beneski Museum of Natural History, Amherst College
Historic Deerfield
- Tea Talk: Ritual and Refinement in Early New England Parlors
“Thank God for tea!” wrote the British clergyman and essayist Reverend Sydney Smith—one of many to pay impassioned tribute to the world’s most popular infusion. Tea and tea drinking arrived in New England by the late 17th century, a time of burgeoning trade and expansion of the British Empire. This exhibition will feature ceramics, furniture, prints, glass, and pewter from Historic Deerfield’s collection. On view through February 16, 2014 at the Flynt Center of Early New England Life - Lobby.
Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
- Art for All: Additions to the Collection from Antiquity to Today
This exhibition celebrates the recent growth of Amherst College’s art collection.
Smith College Museum of Art
- The Summer of Love: Psychedelic Posters from the SCMA Collection
Featuring designs by some of the major California poster artists of the 1960s, “The Summer of Love” strives to understand the emergences side of to 1960s counterculture through poster art that vividly evokes a particular place and time.
Yiddish Book Center
- A velt mit vetelekh: The Worlds of Yiddish Culture
- A Bintel Brief
A Bintel Brief: A graphic novel adapted from letters to the Forverts newspaper's advice column
Events
Wednesday, June 19
Historic Deerfield
- Three Bags Full: All About Wool
Every Saturday and Sunday May 4 through June 30, 2013. From Colonial times to the present, spring has been the season for shearing sheep. The first step in this process is washing the wool, followed by: picking, carding, spinning and dyeing. Visitors can participate in many of these steps and make a project to take home. - Open Hearth Cooking Demonstration: Spring Brings Fresh Food
Experience the sights, sounds, and aromas of hearth cooking while learning about colonial foods and diet.This month we feature ingredientsthat were in season and abundant like fresh eggs and milk, and seasonal produce like asparagus and berries.
Smith College Museum of Art
Thursday, June 20
Historic Deerfield
- Three Bags Full: All About Wool
Every Saturday and Sunday May 4 through June 30, 2013. From Colonial times to the present, spring has been the season for shearing sheep. The first step in this process is washing the wool, followed by: picking, carding, spinning and dyeing. Visitors can participate in many of these steps and make a project to take home. - Open Hearth Cooking Demonstration: Spring Brings Fresh Food
Experience the sights, sounds, and aromas of hearth cooking while learning about colonial foods and diet.This month we feature ingredientsthat were in season and abundant like fresh eggs and milk, and seasonal produce like asparagus and berries.
Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
- It's Cool at the Mead
This event is part of the Mead's reoccurring "It's Cool at the Mead" series featuring curator led gallery talks every Thursday at 2pm and Friday at 11am from June 20-August 23 (excludes July 4-5).