Second Sundays,  New Program  12:00-5:00 pm

A new series for all ages! Join us every Second Sunday from November through June for lectures, performances, artist-led tours, art/science demonstrations and workshops, music and a special brunch menu.

November 8 Second Sunday Kick-off

In conjunction with The Shape of Light: Gabriel Dawe, Outside the Lines: Color Across the Collections, and Chromatics: Minimalism and Color Field Experiments, program highlights:

Brunch at the Newark Museum, catered by David Ellis Events

12 noon – 3pm, Engelhard Court

Join us for a special menu of delicious treats, prepared specially for Newark Museum visitors.  (Reservations required.)

“How We See Color”  Lecture by Neuroscientist and Artist Bevil Conway 

1pm, Billy Johnson Auditorium

A neuroscientist who studies vision and color at Wellesley College, Conway is also an artist. He discusses how our brains process color and how that shapes art practice.

Newark Museum through the Eyes of Aferro Gallery Artists

2pm, Meet in the South Wing Rotunda

Anne Q. McKeown, Aferro Gallery Artist in Residence tours the Museum and talks about what inspires her and the ways that works in the collection impact her own work as a painter, printmaker and master papermaker.

Performance: Antoinette Montague, Jazz Vocalist

3pm, Engelhard Court

Internationally recognized, born and raised in Newark, Antoinette Montague brings her “powerful” and “soulful” voice to the halls of the Museum, accompanied by pianist Danny Mixon.

Conversation:  James Little, Artist and Curator, Tricia Laughlin Bloom 

4pm, Billy Johnson Auditorium

Abstract artist James Little, featured in Outside the Lines, discusses his use of materials to make tactile canvases in which color is the subject – “…the interactions of certain colors, their placement, and the temperature of color.”