Free For All Saturday May

Join us for a day of family-friendly activities inspired by the exhibition Play / Pretend!

FREE for ALL Saturday is free for everyone, and all materials are provided.

What to Expect:

• Curator Led Tour of Howard Gardiner Cushing: A Harmony of Line and Color with Guest Curator Ricardo Mercado at 12:00pm
• Performance Art by Exhibiting Artist Entang Wiharso with Sylvia Ann Soares, Drajad Seto, and Dan Covey with puppetry at 1:30pm
• Exhibition Inspired Art Making (get ready to play!)
• Scavenger Hunt
• Exhibition Inspired Activity Book

*RSVP is appreciated but not required.

Photo Release: By participating in this event, I hereby give my permission for the Newport Art Museum to take and use photograph(s) of myself and my children for Museum publicity, promotion, documentation, and publication, including the Museum’s website and social media. To be used for Museum purposes only.

Entang Wiharso has had more than 45 solo gallery and museum exhibitions since 1995 across Asia, Europe and the United States and participated in numerous biennale exhibitions including the 2019 Kunming Art Biennale; 55th Venice Biennale; Prospect.3 New Orleans, Prague Biennale 6 as well as in many prestigious international institutions including Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, National Gallery of Australia, Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Jeonbuk Museum, Museum MACAN, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Gunma Museum of Modern Art, Hilger Brotkunsthalle, Singapore Art Museum, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Lyon Musée d’art contemporain, Mori Art Museum, National Gallery of Victoria, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, and Herbert F. Johnson Museum. In 2019, Wiharso was a Guggenheim Fellow and has participated in numerous residencies around the world.

Ricardo Mercado is an art historian specializing in the art of the nineteenth century, with a
particular focus in the Americas and transatlantic exchange. He holds a B.A. in Art History from Columbia University, and a Master of Arts from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art, a joint program with the Clark Art Institute. During his time at the Clark, Ricardo led a reinterpretation project for the museum’s collection of eighteenth–century British silver objects. Ricardo also held a Judith M. Lenett Memorial Conservation Fellowship in American Art, working closely with the Senior Paintings Conservator from the Williamstown Art Conservation Center. The Lenett project focused on the artist Howard Gardiner Cushing and involved treating a portrait of the artist’s wife, Ethel Cochrane Cushing, from the collection of the Newport Art Museum. Ricardo is currently the Charles H. Sawyer Curatorial Fellow at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts.