Imitation is the Highest Form of Flattery
You might have seen that imitating beloved art—with what you can find around the house—is all the rage during this time of sheltering in place. The Springfield Museums invite you…
Honoring Healthcare Heroes
As courageous healthcare workers stand between COVID-19 and the public, the Springfield Museums staff looked to our collections to celebrate the heroism of those who risk their own well-being to…
Art That Calms
The Springfield Museums are filled with art that evokes all sorts of emotions. Among those is the feeling of calm. We asked our art museums team to help us consider…
Women’s History Month 2020
March is Women's History Month and the Springfield Museums have been celebrating by featuring women on our Instagram account (@springfieldmuseums). We have also been highlighting women artists in our weekly…
Black History Month 2020
To honor Black History Month this year, we shared artwork by Black artists in our weekly series Treasures at the Springfield Museums in the Sunday Republican and on our Instagram page, @springfieldmuseums.…
Learning in the Freest Form at the Museums
The sheer size of the exhibit made me feel like a mere spectator of something far larger than myself, which draws astonishing parallels to the climate crisis we are living…
Emily Mason Spent Five Decades Exploring Abstraction
Emily Mason, whose work is in the collection of the Springfield Museums, died December 10 in her Brattleboro, VT, home. One of America's foremost non-representational painters, Emily Mason spent more…
Celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month
September 15 – October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month in the United States. We participated by featuring Hispanic artists from our collections on social media and as part of…
New Acquisition Invites Alternative Story Telling
The Springfield Museums’ new acquisition In the Gardens of Mount Olympus, by Mara Sfara, is a playful and quirky sculpture that moves—that is, the sculpted gods and goddesses depicted in…
Unfinished Things: The Use of Drawing in Isabel Bishop’s Paintings
Rather than creating stereotypical or sexualized images as some of her male contemporaries did, Bishop produced beautiful representations of real women going about their daily lives. Isabel Bishop (American, 1902-1988)…