Elizabeth Myers
Mitchell Art Museum
Asking persistent and timely questions about the human experience, through art and with extraordinary artists.
Note our new summer hours (through July 7): Thursdays & Fridays, 12:30–6:30 p.m., and Saturdays & Sundays, 10:30 a.m.–6:30 p.m.
Some Light Reading (A Summer Exhibition)
Through July 7
In this exhibition, artworks by five artists and poetic texts by four writers address the magical, life-making qualities of light. Referenced here are the sun and moon, the stars, an oil lamp, and an electric chandelier. But visual art and literature can be sources of illumination as well. The writer and activist Audre Lorde, writing about “poetry as illumination,” once noted that, “The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.” Including work by Vija Celmins, Emily Dickinson, Rockne Krebs, Audre Lorde, Virgil Marti, Eileen Myles, Eileen Neff, Virginia Woolf, and Bahar Yürükoğlu.
On View at the Greenfield Library: Two Art Books–Louise Bourgeois and Fischli/Weiss
Through September 8, 2024
News & Highlights
2023 by the Numbers
In the ten months we were open, /m presented 7 exhibitions, exhibited 129 artworks by 66 artists, hosted 72 events (receptions, talks, workshops, performances, screenings, and tours), brought 17 world-class artists, curators, educators, and musicians to Annapolis from Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond, and Washington, DC, and wrote a 36-page strategic plan. (We also ate more than we should have and drank 10 gallons of homemade Mexican ponche—not the kind pictured here!)
A New Name, a New Identity
We entered 2023 with a new name: Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Museum. By replacing “gallery” with “museum” we celebrate of our longstanding accreditation (since 2012) by the American Alliance of Museums. Our new lettermark, /m, uses the language of subdomains to underscore the museum’s relationship to its host, St. John’s College.
Thank You to our Funders
The Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Museum’s (/m) programs are made possible through the generous support of the Maryland State Arts Council, Arts Council of Anne Arundel County, CovingtonAlsina, PNC Bank, and Chesapeake Medical Imaging. Additional support provided by Richard Groenendyke, Joshua Rogers, Ruth Mitchell, John and Hilda Moore Fund, Joy Chambers and Peter Bungay, Laura Ricciardelli and David Watt, Lillian Vanous Nutt, Anna Greenberg, Norman J. Fisher and Doris Fisher Foundation, Mitchell Art Museum Board of Advisors, and our other loyal members and patrons.
