Silvermine Guild Artist and Faculty, Member Nancy McTague-Stock from Wilton, will present a lecture “Water as a Muse: Contemplating Perception” on Sunday, October 23rd at 2:30pm.
The fall lecture series returns to the Silvermine Arts Center in New Canaan with two very exciting lectures featuring Silvermine Guild Artist members Nancy McTague-Stock and David Dunlop. On October 23rd at 2:30pm, Nancy McTague-Stock will present “Water as a Muse: Contemplating Perception” and on November 6th at 4:30pm “Music and Art: How to Sing Like a Painting and Paint Like a Song” will be presented by David Dunlop.
In the lecture “Water as a Muse: Contemplating Perception” on October 23rd, Nancy McTague-Stock, Silvermine Guild Artist and Faculty member of the School of Art, will discuss her interest in creating imagery that offers a glimpse of under recognized rhythms of nature, with specific references to her exhibition, “Fragments of the Aquatic,” on view in the Silvermine Galleries, September 25th through November 4th. She will also incorporate the works of other artists throughout history who have also found their muse in water, both as subject matter and process. Nancy’s work as a painter, printmaker and photographer subtly alludes to the fragility of nature and the importance of our role in the care of the environment.
A resident of Wilton, Ms. McTague-Stock is an artist who works in a variety of media. Her work has been exhibited in many venues including the Mattatuck Museum, Housatonic Museum, Stamford Museum, Lockwood Mansion Museum, University of Connecticut and Sacred Heart University in Connecticut; the Walter Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art in Mississippi, the Bristol Museum in Rhode Island, the Attleboro Museum, the Art Institute of Boston, Wheaton College and Hampshire College in Massachusetts, Appalachian State University, University of Fayetteville in North Carolina and Virginia Commonwealth University. Nancy’s work is collected in the United States and abroad, both privately and publicly. In addition to her art, she has also taught and lectured for numerous organizations, including the Nature Conservancy, Silvermine School of Art, the Art Institute of Boston’s MFA students, League of University Women, Aldrich Museum for Connecticut Art Educators, and the Connecticut Art Educator's conference. She created the 'Landscapes into Tuscany' painting tours in the 1990's, is a private college consultant for artists, served as a Master Printer for the Monothon at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking and worked as a U.S. juror for London's Prince of Wales Foundation's Student Art Exhibition.
David Dunlop, a Silvermine Guild Artist and Faculty Member, has a lecture on “Music and Art: How to Sing Like a Painting and Paint Like a Song” on Sunday, November 6th at 4:30pm.
David Dunlop’s lectures are always stimulating, fun, and sell out quickly, often with standing room only. Each lecture is unique and David always brings amazing insight into his discussions, actively involving the audience. He is extensively well-read, searching for the underlying principles of art, exploring original sources and recent advances in neuroscience. That he is eager to share his discoveries is reflective in the titles of his lectures. His lecture, “Music and Art: How to Sing Like a Painting and Paint Like a Song” on November 6th, is no exception. Dunlop will bring to light how we can listen to music and find new patterns and possibilities of painting. Artists borrow from the alternate art forms. Poets and painters borrow from dance just as musicians do. This lecture considers how we can look at one art form and discover a new way to understand another. Rhythm, accent, meter, layered harmony, phrase breaks, ambiguity, surprise and composition – music and art work together and how they can reveal new opportunities for artist and musicians. Musicians discover the fleeting and illusive condition of the flow state just as artists do. They use models and traditional forms that mimic the forms of painting and sculpture. Meaning, emotion, and history are carried in traditional models that mutate and expand as our culture shifts its needs. We can listen to music and find new patterns and possibilities of painting.
A resident of Wilton, David Dunlop has been a teacher at the Silvermine School of Art since 1993. He has given art history lectures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and has been a visiting artist/lecturer at multiple institutions, including the Caramoor Center for Music and Arts, Katonah, New York; the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont; and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona. Mr. Dunlop is a modern-day old master whose luminous landscapes draw from both Renaissance techniques and contemporary science. His work is nationally known and featured in many prominent collections throughout the United States and abroad. Galleries and institutions have granted David solo shows since 1981. He also hosted and wrote the 2009 Emmy Award-winning PBS television series “Landscapes Through Time.”
All lectures are held at the School of Art Auditorium (Sara Victoria Hall) and ticket prices are $10 per person for members and $12 per person for non-members. For more information and to purchase tickets in advance, call the School Office at 203-966-6668 ext. 2 or visit our website at www.silvermineart.org.
