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Wife & Model
September 23, 2020
While headed to Italy on a transatlantic cruise ship in 1902 with her mother and younger brother, twenty-one year old art student Corinne Lawton Mackall writes in her diary, I am prostrate and overjoyed at finding Gari Melchers’ name on the passenger l …
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An Artist’s Fascination with Light
June 24, 2020
As an expatriate in Holland, Germany, and Paris and back in the United States, every time Gari Melchers pulled up stakes he was compelled to find a new studio to work in. First considerations were always given to light —and not just any light—northern …
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Picturing New Connections: An Art Program for People with Memory Loss
June 22, 2019
Sitting in a doctor’s office a few years ago, I picked up an old copy of Neurology Now and read an article that intrigued me as a museum educator. The author described a new tour, Meet Me at MoMA, introduced by the Museum of Modern Art 2006 to sp …
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Pink Gallery Walls?
April 11, 2019
Our guests often ask if the unusual pink wall color in the studio’s gallery rooms is original to Gari Melchers’ time. The answer is no. The color was chosen about a decade ago by the architects who worked on the studio’s renovation. They felt it would …
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Looking to Learn: Learning to Look
July 22, 2018
Sometimes just slowing down in our fast-paced world can make a considerable difference. Taking the time to sit down and focus on a single painting in a gallery full of art can help students make considered, thoughtful, and detailed observations. …
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