INVITE YOU TO ITS
31st Annual Meeting
Tuesday, October 26th at 5:30 pm
AT THE ELI WHITNEY MUSEUM
RSVP • 203.777.1833 or kl@eliwhitney.org
This Annual Meeting honors David Giles Carter. A passionate advocate of the arts, he has curated collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, and the John Herron Museum in Indianapolis, and been Museum Director at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. He has been a trustee of the Eli Whitney Museum from its inception. He has chronicled the evolution of the Museum's site and programs with his camera and a disciplined and artful eye. |
David Giles Carter |
Krys Danielewicz |
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Jesse Rosenblatt |
Dan Lesko |
Adena Coste |
The inventor, Eli Whitney, and the painter, John Trumbull, were contemporaries. By 1825, Whitney’s Armory had begun to shape America’s economic future. In 1831, a collection of Trumbull’s miniatures established the Yale Art Gallery…which would chronicle America’s cultural future. |
Speaker Jock Reynolds HENRY J HEINZ II DIRECTOR YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY |
Jock Reynolds is a creative artist and arts administrator. His photographs, installations and performances, often collaborations with his wife, Susan Hellmuth, have been exhibited in both public and private collections in Europe, Japan, Australia and the United States. He directed the Washington Project for the Arts (a regional artists’ resource gallery) and New Langdon Arts, an alternative artists’ space in San Francisco. Since 1998, Mr. Reynolds has directed the Yale University Art Gallery, the oldest university art gallery in the western hemisphere. His tenure at Yale has overseen the most substantial transformation of the Museum’s facilities in that long history. |
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