In accordance with the Ontario Chief Medical Officer of Health, the ROM is temporarily closed to the public, effective November 23.
The health and safety of our staff, volunteers and visitors remains our top priority. We will continue to follow the recommendations of our public health officials and look forward to opening our doors again once it is safe and responsible to do so. | | Call for submissions
Calling all kids and teens.
Help the ROM create a portrait of life during the pandemic that reflects your unique experiences. Share your stories and perspectives through original, creative works of art and capture history while it's being made.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and it's had a profound effect on how you - kids and teens - learn, play, create, communicate, and so much more. You can help make sense of this moment and shape how it goes down in history - and how it will come to life in a new exhibition.
Submit your original artwork for a chance to be displayed in a new, crowd-sourced, ROM original exhibition this coming fall. | | Live event Wednesday, April 14; 1:00 - 2:00pm EDT Free on Zoom. RSVP Required.
Contemporary Ethiopian artist Elias Sime is joined by Meskerem Assequed and the ROM's Silvia Forni in an engaging discussion of his artistic process and current projects. Sime's works - intricately woven and densely layered - draw upon their materiality to comment on humanity, the urgency of ecological sustainability, and the resilience of nature.
ROM Connects is generously supported by The Schmidt Family.
Elias Sime: Tightrope is organized by the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York. | | Live event Thursday, April 15; 4:00 - 5:00pm EDT Free on Zoom. RSVP Required.
Join conservation and wildlife photographer Andrew Wright as he shares some of his favourite photographs and experiences. Wright, an adjunct professor at Canada's Simon Fraser University, is an established conservation photographer involved in many current conservation initiatives and is the author of two (soon to be three) books.
This program will feature a descriptive presentation designed for blind and low-vision audiences.
ROM Connects is generously supported by The Schmidt Family. | | ROM at Home opens the doors to the Museum with programming - live discussions, topical Q&As, descriptive audio experiences, and behind-the-scenes videos from ROM curators and experts - all accessible through our website and social media channels.
This month, we take a closer look at fashion and design, from the avant-garde to the timelessly elegant. Watershed moments in history can be marked by distinct shifts in clothing, architecture, furniture, and decorative arts, as style takes the form of personal and public expression. Explore the dynamic interplay between fashion, culture, and nature through the works of pioneering designers and the influence of the natural world on the creative process. | | On Demand
Nora E. Vaughan Senior Curator, Global Fashion & Textiles, Alexandra Palmer, discusses the socio-cultural context that brought about Dior's overnight success, a popularity that endures to this day. | | ROM magazine
The sherwani is one of the most recognizable forms of male Indian dress. This structured jacket's many reinventions have charted global history across pre-modern and modern territorial borders, from its use by Rajput rulers to the exoticized fantasies of Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld. Today, the reinvention of the sherwani continues in the hands of contemporary Indian designers. | | ROMKids Show
This time on the ROMKids Show we learn all about the ground beneath our feet. Mineralogist Veronica Di Cecco returns to talk about what makes crystals, minerals, and rocks unique. We'll learn how minerals impact our daily life from their use in makeup and jewellery to their use in cell phones and batteries. And to finish - a delicious science experiment - making sugar crystals! | | Textile Museum of Canada event Wednesday, April 14; 12:00 - 1:00 pm EDT Online program. Ticket purchase required.
Join Sarah Fee, curator of the ROM exhibition The Cloth that Changed the World: India's Painted and Printed Cottons, in conversation with Dr. Ruth Barnes (Yale University Art Gallery) and Dr. Rajarshi Senguputa (Hyderabad University). Dr. Barnes will discuss the significance of 15th century ceremonial cloth of the 'dancing ladies' genre on loan from the Textile Museum of Canada to the ROM for the exhibition. Dr. Sengupta will present the contemporary chintz artists from southeastern India featured in the exhibition.
$10 General, $5 Students. | | This program has been organized in partnership with the Royal Ontario Museum. | | Join a community looking to answer essential questions about our world.
The ROM plays an important role as a place of discovery, learning, and escape and your support through ROM membership will help ensure our ongoing research, preservation, and curatorial work continues.
As a ROM Member, you will receive unlimited free admission to galleries and special exhibitions all year long. Plus, enjoy exclusive previews of exhibitions, advance booking opportunities, discounts, and so much more.
Join today and receive 15% off* on new one-year levels with promo code ROMSAVE15. Your new membership will begin as soon as the ROM reopens. | | Terms & Conditions: *Offer only valid on select new one-year ROM Family, ROM Dual and ROM Individual memberships purchased online with promo code. Excludes Patrons, Circle, and two-year membership levels. Offer subject to change without notice. Offer expires May 31, 2021. Cannot be combined with other offers or discounts. To enquire about this offer by phone call 416.586.5700. | | All images courtesy of ROM unless otherwise noted. For The Artist's Voice: image of Elias Sime courtesy of Brett Moen. For Describing our World: Spirit Bear image © Andrew Wright. For Sherwani: Portrait of Maharaja Sardar Singh Artists: Bert Harris (painter), Johnston & Hoffman Studio (photographer) 1896. Oil on canvas based on a photograph Umaid Bhawan Palace UBP 102. New & Noteworthy: Textile Museum of Canada: Ceremonial cloth (bottom of image) depicting dancing women or female musicians, made in Western India for the Indonesian market; fifteen to sixteen century; cotton, hand-drawn, mordant-dyed, resist-dyed, painted indigo, 500 x 98 cm, From the Opekar/Webster collection, T94.0825. For Membership: Image credit:@capturings.
For media inquiries, please contact media@rom.on.ca
The ROM is an agency of the Government of Ontario.
You are receiving this email because you expressly consented to receive ecommunications from romnews@rom.on.ca or because you have a recent business relationship with the ROM. Please add romnews@rom.on.ca to your address book to ensure we land in your inbox. You may unsubscribe at any time using the link at the bottom of this email. | | | | | | |
No comments:
Post a Comment