Yager Museum Marks Season with Community Days

ONEONTA—The Yager Museum of Art & Culture, located on the Hartwick College campus, invites the public to celebrate the end of the fall semester and the holiday season with Community Days. The museum will be open daily from Monday, December 9 through Saturday, December 14 from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

“With Hartwick’s finals week concluding on Thursday [December 12], the museum would normally close until January,” Museum Coordinator Doug Kendall explained. “We’re designating Friday, December 13, and Saturday, December 14, as ‘Community Days.’ We know it can be challenging visiting the museum while the college is in session, so we especially invite visitors from the Oneonta area and Otsego and Delaware counties to visit. We will offer some special activities and there will be plenty of parking adjacent to the museum.”

According to a media release, Museum Curator Quentin Lewis will offer a special tour of the exhibition, “With That Shadow Over Them: Constructing Catskill Reservoirs, Remembering Home,” on Friday, December 13 at 3 p.m. Museum Coordinator Kendall will give a curator’s tour of “No Child’s Play”: Impressionist Paintings by Anna Richards Brewster on Saturday, December 14, at 3 p.m. A scavenger hunt will provide children of all ages an opportunity to explore the museum’s exhibits.

Cider and cookies will be available on both days, officials said.

Admission to the museum is free, as always. Visitors are encouraged to bring non-perishable food items that will be donated to local food pantries.

Other exhibitions on view include:

• “Masterpieces of European and American Art: Hartwick College’s Art Treasure Room,” a permanent exhibition of works ranging from the Italian Renaissance to 20th-century pieces by Rockwell Kent and Childe Hassam.
• “A Deep Dive in a Large Ocean: Tradition, Tourism, and Transformation in Micronesian Cultures,” a student-curated exhibition based on the museum’s Royal Gifford Collection. “A Deep Dive” closes after December 14.

The Yager Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. when Hartwick College is in session. The museum is closed on Sundays, Mondays and college holidays. To reach the museum, take West Street to Clinton Street and turn right onto Cayuga Drive. Follow Cayuga Drive to Yager Hall. Parking is available adjacent to the museum entrance.

For more information on The Yager and these exhibitions, visit the museum’s website, Facebook page, or Instagram page, call (607) 431-4480, or e-mail Kendall at kendalld@hartwick.edu.