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@NasherMuseum no. 278 / Happy Holidays from your Nasher Museum
Upcoming Tours
Holiday Season Highlights Tours
Thursdays, 6 PM & Sundays, 2 PM
Discover amazing works of art with a knowledgeable Nasher Gallery Guide. Bring friends and family or come on your own for a guided Highlights Tour of the Nasher Museum’s exhibitions. Tours last approximately one hour.

Highlights Tours of The Medici’s Painter are free with special exhibition admission.

Sketching in the Galleries
Sketching in the Galleries with artist Rachel Goodwin
Saturday, December 16, 10 AM
Artist Rachel Goodwin will share a brief sketching demonstration–and then you can try it out in the galleries. The museum will provide drawing pencils and sketch pads. This program is free with general museum admission.

Crown Yourself
"Crown Yourself:" The Dolci Experience in Flowers and Art
Saturday, December 16, 2-5 PM
The Nasher Museum and Sarah P. Duke Gardens present a special opportunity to expand our understanding of 17th-century Florence and the inspiration Florentines took from nature. Take in a special tour of The Medici’s Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence, then walk to Duke Gardens to enjoy refreshments and make crowns (or wreaths or centerpieces) with botanical materials.

Gardens members $40; Nasher Museum members $40; General public $50; Duke students $10. Registration required: Call 919-668-1707.

Holiday Shopping in the Museum Store
The Perfect Gift
The Nasher Museum Store features gifts that are unusual, inspired and affordable for everyone on your list. Members receive discounts in the store!

Upcoming Tours
Prospect.4 Rewind
Thank you to all who joined the Nasher Museum in New Orleans last month for the opening weekend of Prospect.4:The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp–the international art event of the fall season! The museum is very proud of Trevor Schoonmaker, who worked for three years to bring P.4 to fruition. Please enjoy photos from the weekend and feel free to share.

The perfect soundtrack to accompany our P.4 photo album is Trevor’s playlist, available on YouTube.

Here, too, is Trevor’s excellent talk about P.4 in New York last May.

Contemporary Artist Series: Stacy Lynn Waddell
Contemporary Artist Series: Stacy Lynn Waddell
Wednesday, December 27, 11 AM
Fresh from her residency at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, Durham artist Stacy Lynn Waddell will give a talk about how her work connects–and does not connect–with Old Masters such as Carlo Dolci. Her talk is part of the Contemporary Artist Series for our special ticketed exhibition,  The Medici’s Painter: Carlo Dolci and 17th-Century Florence.

The talk is free and open to all.

Bilingual Storytime
Bilingual Storytime at the Nasher Museum
Thursday, December 28, 11 AM
Join us for an art-making activity and a story read in Spanish and English by our friends from Durham Public Library. Free for kids ages 1-5 and adult caregivers. Groups of 8 or more must register: nashered@duke.edu.

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Ruth Orkin, Tree at Tavern-on-the-Green, Central Park, New York City (detail), 1961 (printed 1974). Chromogenic print, 14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 27.9 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum. Bequest of Nancy Hanks, 1983.10.80. © Ruth Orkin.

Carlo Dolci, Poetry (Poesia) (detail). Oil on panel, 21 1⁄3 x 16 3⁄6 inches (54 x 42 cm). Galleria Corsini, Florence.

Sketch courtesy Rachel Goodwin. Photo of Stacy Lynn Waddell by Wendy Hower. All other photos by J Caldwell.

Nasher Museum exhibitions and programs are generously supported by the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, the late Mary D.B.T. Semans and James H. Semans, the late Frank E. Hanscom III, The Duke Endowment, the Nancy Hanks Endowment, the Courtney Shives Art Museum Fund, the James Hustead Semans Memorial Fund, the Janine and J. Tomilson Hill Family Fund, the Trent A. Carmichael Fund for Community Education, the Neely Family Fund, the E. T. Rollins, Jr. and Frances P. Rollins Fund for the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the Marilyn M. Arthur Fund, the Sarah Schroth Fund, the George W. and Viola Mitchell Fearnside Endowment Fund, the Gibby and Michael B. Waitzkin Fund, the K. Brantley and Maxine E. Watson Endowment Fund, the Victor and Lenore Behar Endowment Fund, the Margaret Elizabeth Collett Fund, the Nasher Museum of Art General Endowment, the Friends of the Nasher Museum of Art, and the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost, Duke University.

The Collection Galleries is made possible by Nasher Annual Fund donors with special support from Anita and John Schwarz.

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