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  • Saturday, July 23, 11:00 am – 12:00 noon – Ropes Mansion Garden Tour

    Explore the Ropes Mansion’s 1912 garden design with Paula Richter, Curator for Exhibitions and Research at the Peabody Essex Museum. The session is followed with a free drop-in art-making activity from noon to 2 pm in the Ropes Mansion Garden, which is open to the public. Cold lemonade is served. Garden activity is weather permitting.  Talk made possible by the Margaret Nowell Graham Lecture Fund. Free drop-in garden activity made possible by the Ropes Mansion Botanical Lecture Fund. Meet at the Garden on Saturday, July 23 at 11 am. The Garden is located at 318 Essex Street in Salem. $12 for PEM members, $15 for nonmembers. Register in advance by calling 978-542-1511, or visit http://www.pem.org/calendar/event/1530-ropes_mansion_garden.

  • Sunday, April 24 – Wednesday, April 27 – Inspired by the Sea: The Material Culture of Newport and Other Ports of Call

    There is still time to register for the 2016 Newport Symposium, to be held April 24 – 27. The sea has always been the heart of Newport’s cultural identity. Through the 17th and 18th centuries, maritime enterprise forged cultural connections between cosmopolitan Newporters and makers, traders and collectors in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. But even as the city’s economy shifted away from trade towards scientific inquiry and recreation in the 19th and 20th centuries, the environment, heritage and mythology of the sea ensured that Newport remained a wellspring of artistic inspiration.

    Tom Michie, Senior Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will speak on Real and Imagined Luxury Goods and their Impact on New England.  Patricia Kane of the Yale University Art Gallery will give a talk entitled Faithfully Made of the Best Materials: Cabinetmaking in Rhode Island, and Karina Corrigan, H.A. Crosby Forbes Curator of Asian Export Art at The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem will present Asia In Amsterdam: The Culture of Luxury in the Dutch Golden Age, and all that happens before lunch on Monday!  For a complete list of speakers and topics, and we assure you the list is tantalizing, visit http://www.newportmansions.org/learn/newport-symposium/symposium-program

    $550 for members of the Preservation Society of Newport County, $600 for general public.  Register online at www.newportmansions.org.

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  • Saturday, February 21, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm – Behind Audacious

    Dean Lahikainen, The Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of American Decorative Art at the Peabody Essex Museum and curator of Audacious, provides an overview of the wood art movement and the extraordinary collection built by Bob and Lillian Montalto Bohlen. The lecture will take place Saturday, February 21, from 11 – noon in the Morse Auditorium. Reservations required by calling 978-745-9500, x 3011. Free with Museum admission. The show, Audacious: The Fine Art of Wood from the Montalto Bohlen Collection, opens at the Museum on this day, and you may observe three master wood-turners, whose works are included in the exhibition, demonstrate key techniques used to create their art.

    Binh Pho: Painting and Piercing
    1-2:30 pm | Atrium

    Binh Pho is known for his beautiful painted and pierced turnings, featuring rich stories behind each piece. See how Pho uses these unconventional approaches to express his own style.

    Ron Gerton: Hollowing a Wood Vessel
    1-2:30 pm | Studio 1 | Create Space

    Ron Gerton has developed equipment to turn and hollow vessels up to eight feet in diameter. Watch Gerton show his tools and techniques as he removes wood from the inside of a solid piece through a small center hole, creating a uniformly thin-walled hollow vessel.

    Stuart Mortimer: Triple Twist on a Stem
    1-2:30 pm, | Studio 2 | Create Space

    Stuart Mortimer is known for his spiral work. Join him as he demonstrates his method for creating a goblet in walnut with a triple twist on the stem, and turns a small hollow form from wet wood, using heat and friction to dry the piece.

    Then, at 3 pm, there will be a closing presentation in the Morse Auditorium. Artists Binh Pho, Ron Gerton and Stuart Mortimer join Curator Dean Lahikainen for an informal conversation with each other and the audience. Questions welcome. Please reserve by February 20.

  • Thursday, February 19, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm – I’m a Lumberjack

    Spend a winter night in the North Woods while celebrating the art of trees and Branching Out, at the Peabody Essex Museum on Thursday, February 19, from 6 – 9. Hang out with a chainsaw artist, savor samples from Salem’s own Far From the Tree Cider, contribute to an art installation and pose in our photo booth, complete with lumberjack accessories. Don’t forget to wear your boots and plaid flannel!  PEM members free, nonmembers $10 at the door.  Sponsored by Greater Boston Mini.  For reservations you may call 978-745-9500, ext. 3011.  Thank you bfptees.ca for the image below.

  • Friday, December 5, 7:15 pm – 9:15 pm – Chasing Ice and Birds in a Changing Climate

    The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem has announced a special event to take place Friday, December 5, from 7:15 – 9:15.  Attend a special screening of the award-winning film Chasing Ice by environmental photographer James Balog, a featured artist in the Museum’s Branching Out exhibition. His videos of Arctic glaciers reveal ancient mountains of ice disappearing at a breathtaking rate. Following the film, researcher and author Trevor Lloyd-Evans presents the effects of climate change on migratory birds. Chasing Ice, 2012, 75 minutes. Book signing follows. Co-sponsored by Mass Audubon and Essex County Ornithological Club. A brief business meeting of the E.C.O.C. is held 7-7:15 pm. Reservations not required.  For directions, visit www.pem.org.

  • Saturday, September 27 – Saturday, November 1 – Trees as Art

    This Peabody Essex Museum exhibition, running from September 27 – November 1 in the Art & Nature Center of the Museum, explores the often surprising ways in which contemporary artists use trees as an inspiration as well as a medium for their art. Made from bark, wood, roots, seedpods, leaves and sap, over 30 varied works and a selection of hands-on interactive opportunities ask us to consider our relationship with trees as a vital natural force. From Diego Stocco’s music compositions made with trees and leaves to Joe Wheelwright’s figurative root sculptures, this exhibition celebrates the varied ways in which people are connected to and creatively inspired by trees.

    Support provided by the East India Marine Associates of the Peabody Essex Museum. For complete details visit www.pem.org.

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  • Through August 31 – Toshio Shibata, Constructed Landscapes

    The Peabody Essex Museum, located at East India Square in Salem, is showing the photographic work of Toshio Shibata now through August 31 in its Hilborn Gallery. One of Japan’s preeminent landscape photographers, Toshio Shibata is known for exploring the delicate balance between human-made structures and nature. Photographing erosion control barriers, water catchments, roads, dams and bridges, he examines the unique appearance of such structures in his native land. Through his lens, riverbeds can look like origami, and waterfalls resemble kimono.

    This exhibition of 28 large-format works will be the artist’s first solo show in an American museum since 1995 and the first time his color pictures will be shown in America.

    Shibata was recently featured in a two-person show at the National Arts Center, Tokyo, and in a solo retrospective at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum.

    All works are by Toshio Shibata, and appear courtesy of the artist; Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica; and Laurence Miller Gallery, New York. Black and white works are gelatin silver prints, color works are color coupler prints. Support provided by the East India Marine Associates of the Peabody Essex Museum. For hours and directions, visit www.pem.org.

  • Friday, February 21, 7:45 pm – 9:00 pm – Collaborating With Birds

    Renowned comparative psychologist Irene Pepperberg, Ph.D., shares her groundbreaking studies on intelligence and communication in African Grey parrots on Friday, February 21, beginning at 7:45 pm in the Morse Auditorium of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. Her talk is followed by a panel discussion with Mary Jo McConnell, a featured artist in the Beyond Human: Artist-Animal Collaborations. Co-sponsored by the Essex County Ornithological Club. Made possible by The Margaret Nowell Graham Memorial Lecture Fund.

    Beyond Human: Artist–Animal Collaborations features nearly 40 paintings, installations, photographs and audio and video recordings by artists who co-create or investigate art with live animals. From William Wegman’s iconic photography of his Weimaraners to Mary Jo McConnell’s paintings of elaborate bowerbird displays and Julia Oldham’s interpretative insect dances, Beyond Human reveals the varied ways in which contemporary artists interface with animals to create original and surprising works of art. Come and explore the nature of creativity, interact with live critters and be a part of the creative process.

    Beyond Human features works by the following artists: Julie Andreyev, Hilary Berseth, Catherine Chalmers, Emil Fiore, Mark Fischer, Ryan Hackett, Steven R. Kutcher, Mary Jo McConnell, Alex Melamid and Vitaly Komar, Jim Nollman, Julia Oldham, Christine Peter, Daniel Ranalli, Ken Rinaldo, Corinna Schnitt, William Wegman, Yukinori Yanagi, and Amy Youngs.

    Support provided by the East India Marine Associates of the Peabody Essex Museum.

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  • Tuesday, August 6, 9:30 am – 11:00 am – Ropes Mansion Garden in Bloom

    The Peabody Essex Museum will sponsor a Tour and Workshop at the Ropes Mansion on Tuesday, August 6, from 9:30 – 11:00 am. Join gardener Robin Pydynkowski to learn how to prune spring flowering plants (shrubbery, roses and vines) and how pruning now prepares for next season. Gain insight into the importance of a garden journal and why photos and annotating can help rectify or prevent common garden errors. Bring photographs of your garden to discuss with the expert. Made possible by the Ropes Botanical Lecture Fund.  Please reserve by August 1 at www.pem.org.  The Ropes Mansion is located at 318 Essex Street in Salem. The house was built for Samuel Barnard, a merchant. In 1768, Judge Nathaniel Ropes, Jr., purchased the house from Barnard’s nephew. The Ropes family then inhabited the house until 1907, when the house was given to the Trustees of the Ropes Memorial for public benefit.

    Although altered through the years and then restored, the house looks much like its original form, with a symmetrical facade of two stories, three small pedimented gables through the roof, roof balustrade, and modillioned cornice. (Compare it to the Crowninshield-Bentley House.) In 1807, however, its interior was extensively renovated. In the mid-1830s five rooms and the central hall were remodeled, and today’s doorway installed (with details inspired by Asher Benjamin’s pattern book.) In 1894 the house was moved away from the street and further modified internally. A large, fine garden was added behind the house in 1912.

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  • Friday, January 27, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Japanese New Year at PEM

    This is The Japan Year for The Garden Club of the Back Bay.  The Peabody Essex Museum will host a Japanese New Year event on Friday, January 27 from 6 – 9, including hands-on art activities for kids of all ages.  Supper by the bite.  Special performances and interactive storytelling will be part of the celebration.  To learn more, call 978-542-1539, or email elisabeth_buell@pem.org.