NEW
GALLERY TO OPEN AT HISTORIC GOMEZ MILL HOUSE
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
Contact:
Dr. Ruth Abrahams 212-294-8329 (PDF Press
Release) 
(Flyer
of SNIPPETS)
New York,
NY (May 6, 2011) On Sunday May 22, 2011 at 11:30 a.m. Gallery
'G' at Gomez Mill House will be inaugurated on the second
floor of the nearly 300 year-old Gomez Mill House. The Gallery
will offer two exhibits each season inspired by the historic significance
of the Gomez Mill House.
The inaugural
show, SNIPPETS: the Art and Craft of Paper Cutting,
highlights a "Snippet" of the long and myriad paper
cutting traditions from cultures around the world. The extraordinary
examples include Chinese Paper Cutting by Hou Tien Cheng of Freehold,
NJ, Calligraphy Quilts by Eleanor Winters of Brooklyn, NY, Modern
Silhouettes by Ella Richards of New York, NY, Jewish Paper Cutting
by Melanie Dankowicz of Chicago, IL, contemporary German Scherenschnitte
by octogenarian craft master, Ann Sanders of Wolfeboro, NH, and
a historic work of Scherenschnitte produced in 1838 by Gomez family
member Sara R. de R. Lopez when she was 86. Historic period miniature
portraits of Sara and her grandson Aaron Lopez Rivera will accompany
this last work. The exhibit is inspired by Dard Hunter, the extraordinary
paper historian and papermaker, who lived and worked at the Mill
House from 1912 to 1918.
Explanations
and illustrations of early origins of the paper cutting practices
are presented. Artist statements accompany the beautiful contemporary
works by these established artists and craft masters from New
York, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Illinois.
SNIPPETS:
the Art and Craft of Paper Cutting was organized and curated
by Dr. Ruth Abrahams, executive director of the Gomez Foundation
for Mill House. The show was made possible by the generous cooperation
of the artists who donated the works, by David M. Kleiman, curator
of the Loeb Visitors Center at Touro Synagogue in Newport Rhode
Island, by Lucy Bugea, a descendent of Sarah R. de R. Lopez, and
with the generous support of the Sy Syms Foundation.
The mission
of the Gomez Foundation for Mill House is to preserve this unique
historic house-the oldest extant Jewish residence in America as
a significant regional and national, ranked museum-and to educate
the public about the contributions of its former owners to the
multicultural history of the Hudson River Valley.
The Gomez
Mill House and Historic Site is located at 11 Mill House Road
off 9W, in Marlboro, NY. Museum admission is $8 for adults, $6
for visitors age 65 and over and for groups of 10 or more (reservations
required), and $3 for students and children age 5 to 12; children
under age 5 are admitted free. The site is open from April 17
through November 6, 2011.
For more
information contact: Gomez Mill House and Historic Site at (845)
236-3126 or via Email: gomezmillhouse@juno.org
