Support the Museum
Annual Giving
Gifts to the Annual Fund provide unrestricted support that is essential to the daily operations of the Hunterdon Museum of Art. Annual Fund contributions make it possible to offer a wide array of quality exhibitions and educational programs and maintain our beautiful historic site, the stone mill and the Clinton Mills Dam and Dike. Your tax deductible gift ensures that the museum will continue to be a place where people of all generations come together through art and art education.
The Hunterdon Museum of Art is unique. Housed in an 1836 mill, the museum exhibits contemporary art and design and has a large studio program for children and adults. Lectures by artists and curators, workshops by exhibiting artists, programs for schools, classes for adults and children with developmental disabilities, and a summer art camp that offers over sixty weeklong camps are some of the programs that distinguish us. Your gift to the Annual Fund makes the museum and its programs possible.
To give to the Annual Fund please contact the museum at (908) 735-8415.
Please check to see if your employer will match your contribution. The match will substantially increase your support, making your gift to the Hunterdon Museum of Art even more beneficial to the museum.
Endowment
The museum's endowment provides financial stability to the institution. Revenue from the endowment helps fund all facets of the museum. Please contact the museum at (908) 735-8415 to find out how to give to the Hunterdon Museum of Art endowment.
Sponsorships
Individuals, corporations and foundations are invited to support the museum's programs by underwriting an exhibition, an education program or a special event.
The museum presents approximately thirteen exhibitions of contemporary art and design annually. From thematic exhibitions that show major trends in contemporary art to one-person shows that reflect quiet personal journeys, the museum offers exhibitions that engage and challenge our audience. Underwriting an exhibition or partially underwriting an exhibition gives you or your company the opportunity to be acknowledged on the gallery walls, in press releases, brochures or catalogs and in donor lists, and allows you to have a private party in the galleries.
The museum's education activities for children and adults include studio, interpretive and outreach programs. With more than 200 workshops and art courses that support lifelong learning each year, HMA is an educational resource for its community. Educational offerings for children and adults, including a program that is specifically for adults with severe developmental disabilities, play a central role in the Hunterdon Museum of Art's services to the public. Sponsorships can be tailored to your educational interests. You or your company will be acknowledged in all of our educational marketing materials and in the museum's donor lists.
Artzone is a space where young children visiting the museum with their families can do a hands-on art activity using instructions provided by the museum or make art from their imaginations. In ArtZone, children feel the excitement of creating a work of art, the pleasure of being in a museum without being told not to touch, and the pride of hanging their own work of art in a museum. It is in the comfortable environment of spaces like Artzone that lifelong interest in the arts begins to take shape. Your company's underwriting can brand Artzone or provide partial support.
Gifts to the Collection
The Hunterdon Museum of Art collects and preserves works on paper. Over 600 works dating back to the 1930s make up a collection of prints, drawings, paintings and artists books. The museum welcomes gifts that are appropriate for the collection. Please call the museum's Exhibitions Department at (908) 735-8415, Ext. 17 to discuss possible gifts to the collection.
Limited Edition Prints Published by Hunterdon Art Museum
The Hunterdon Art Museum has published two limited edition prints by the noted artists Faith Ringgold and Melvin Edwards. Sales of these prints support the Museum's exhibitions and education programs. To purchase these prints, which were printed by Lafayette College's Experimental Printmaking Institute, please call the Museum at (908) 735 - 8415, extension 14.
Faith Ringgold: Somebody Stole My Broken Heart
The Hunterdon Art Museum has published two limited edition prints by the noted artists Faith Ringgold and Melvin Edwards. Sales of these prints support the Museum's exhibitions and education programs. To purchase these prints, which were printed by Lafayette College's Experimental Printmaking Institute, please call the Museum at (908) 735 - 8415, extension 14.
Somebody Stole My Broken Heart
Paper size: 30 x 22
Image size: 24 x 18
Edition size: 60
Medium: Serigraph
Date: 2007
Publisher: Hunterdon Museum of Art
Member Price: $750
Non-Member Price: $900
Faith Ringgold Bio
Faith Ringgold, one of America's most prominent artists, has created a significant body of work over almost a 50-year period. Ms. Ringgold's work is in numerous collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art in New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.
Born in 1930, Ms. Ringgold's artwork reflects her interest in documenting the African-American experience as well as the dynamics of color and issues of composition and form. Greatly influenced by her mother who was a fashion designer, Ms. Ringgold uses fabric in many of her artworks. She is especially known for her painted story quilts, where she combines painting, quilted fabric and storytelling.
In addition, Ms. Ringgold has written and illustrated many children's books. Tar Beach, her first book, was a Caldecott Honor Book and winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for illustration.
Melvin Edwards: Premonitions
Premonitions
Paper size: 30 x 22
Image size: 24 x 18
Edition size: 60
Medium: Serigraph
Date: 2007
Publisher: Hunterdon Museum of Art
Member Price: $750
Non-Member Price: $900
Melvin Edwards Bio
Melvin Edwards has a strong reputation for incorporating hardware and scrap metal in his sculpture, which gives each piece different levels of poetic meaning and interpretation. His large-scale outdoor public works can be found in New York City, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; San Diego, California; Columbus, Ohio; Montvale, New Jersey; Dakar, Senegal; and Nangano, Japan. His works often allude to African-American culture. During his career, Edwards took time to explore his cultural ethnicity while spending time in Africa. The knowledge he gained from his travels is embodied in his artwork.
Edwards' sculpture and prints are in the collections of numerous museums and national and corporate collections across the world. Some of the museums and collections that have exhibited Edwards' work include the Santa Barbara Museum of Art; the Richard Grey Gallery in Chicago; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; Cornell University; the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; and The Studio Museum in Harlem.
