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Happy New Year from the Morris Museum!

Explore the Morris Museum with our new digital guide on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app. Our guide takes you behind the scenes with an audio guide featuring permanent collection highlights, video interviews with New Jersey artists in their studios, expert arts commentary, and way-finding maps, among other digital content. Use the app during your visit, at home, or anywhere, anytime! Bloomberg Connects also lets you explore more than 500 museums, galleries, sculpture parks, gardens, and cultural spaces around the world, all with one free download from the App Store or Google Play Store. https://lnkd.in/ezKXab-d

Several members of the Morris Museum Education Team recently attended Spark!Lab's 2024 Network Conference. This year's focus was introducing Inventive Identity development in Spark!Lab, and deepening our visitors' confidence as creative problem solvers in their lives and communities. This conference was attended by members of each Spark!Lab Network site and was held at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC. During one panel, learning facilitator Cara Schanz discussed how the Morris Museum Spark!Lab team goes about adapting activities, and how it supports inventiveness in our visitors. She also highlighted the inventiveness of our Ambassador team, specifically their original activity ‘Contraptions in Action’, and the supplemental parts that are designed and created for the Museum's ‘Soundscapes’ activity. #sparklab #smithsonian #morrismuseum

On a recent visit, Assemblywoman Aura Kenny Dunn toured the "New Sculpture/New Jersey" exhibition that features 11 sculptors from the Garden State. She met with artist Valerie Huhn and Morris Museum President and CEO Thomas J. Loughman who gave insight on the work on view. The exhibition will be up through February 2! 

Did you know the Morris Museum hosted 3,854 students from 48 different K-12 institutions in FY 24? The recently published annual report discloses recent accomplishments and other key insights. For more information and to access the annual report: https://lnkd.in/ehpAeQbK Image Caption: Pine tree with bamboo and peonies (detail), Japanese 18th c. Six-panel folding screen (byobu), overall dimensions 60 x 144 inches. Gift of Nelson Schaenen, Jr.

Thank you Amanda Eustice for filming an interview with President and CEO Tom Loughman today in the New Sculpture/New Jersey exhibition. We look forward to when the News 12 New Jersey Road Trip segment airs in the coming weeks!  

This morning the Morris Museum hosted a leadership breakfast to engage with community leaders so that the institution can better support and connect with them throughout the year. The breakfast was followed by a tour of the galleries led by President and CEO Thomas J. Loughman and included the newly opened exhibitions "Michael Malpass, Sculptor of Wit (1946-1991)" and "Voices: Mid-century Oaxacan Embroidery and Weaving from the Permanent Collection."

Morris Museum Annual Golf Outing September 30, 2024 Spring Brook Country Club morrismuseum.org/golf Join us on Monday, September 30 for our annual golf outing! This year's tournament is perfectly suited to be a great day on the course: early autumn, with a refreshment cart, and more!

Morris Museum Annual Golf Outing September 30, 2024 Spring Brook Country Club morrismuseum.org/golf Be like Mike Austin and attempt to hit an official record-long drive at 515 yards. Austin currently holds the Guinness World Record for his drive at the Winterwood Golf Course in 1974. This year's tournament is perfectly suited to be a great day on the course: early autumn, with a refreshment cart, and more!

Hole-In-One Challenge! Morris Museum Annual Golf Outing September 30, 2024 Spring Brook Country Club morrismuseum.org/golf Our Golf Outing is coming up in just two short weeks. Test your skills and get a hole-in-one on Hole 9 (173 yards) to win $25,000 (and $25,000 for the Morris Museum). Remember, no Mulligans! "Hole-in-One" is sponsored by D’Arcy Johnson Day Lawyers. Professional golfers are ineligible to participate.