VISITOR CENTER Main Hall, Building C
Open Wednesday - Sunday from Noon - 5pm
$3 Adults, $2 Students/Seniors and Free kids 12 and under
Location: 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island NY 10301
(718) 448-2500 newhouse@snug-harbor.org
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden is the product of more than three decades of restoration and development to convert the first home for retired sailors to a regional arts center. Snug Harbor is a place where history, architecture, visual art, theater, dance, music and environmental science come together and provide dynamic experiences for all ages. It is the largest ongoing adaptive reuse project in America, consisting of 28 buildings, and is one of New York City’s unique architectural complexes and historic landscapes. Majestic Greek-revival buildings, the City’s first designated landmarks, present exhibitions on historical subjects and contemporary art. The Harbor’s Music Hall is the second oldest in New York City and serves as the centerpiece for performing arts at Snug Harbor. The Botanical Gardens are spread across the site and include the celebrated Chinese Scholar’s Garden and the soon to be opened Tuscan Garden, based on the 18th Century garden at the Villa Gamberaia in Florence, Italy. The Harbor is also home to Art Lab, the Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island, the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, the John Noble Collection, SHARP/Snug Harbor Artist Residency Program, Staten Island Children's Museum and the Staten Island Museum & Archives. Snug Harbor is proud to be a distinguished Smithsonian.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center acknowledges generous support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Newhouse Family, the Greenwall Foundation and the Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island.
DIRECTIONS Via mass transit from Manhattan, take the 1 to South Ferry, 4/5 to Bowling Green or R/W to White Hall. Exit and walk south to blue neon Staten Island terminal to take FREE ferry. After landing take the S40 bus at Gate D to travel along Richmond Terrace, less than a 10-minute ride. Let the bus driver know that you want to get off at Snug Harbor.
Military may receive free admission to all exhibitions for immediate family (husband, wife and children) with Department of Defense ID.
Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for 2012
COMING IN 2012
Snug Harbor celebrates Music on Staten Island with multi-media exhibition and concert series. The exhibition launches in 2012 to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the Music Hall with a multimedia display that includes Staten Island-based musicians, vocalists, composers and instrument makers. Music history ranging from Native American songs and eccentric harpist Maud Morgan to contemporary rock musicians will be featured. A history spanning 500 years will fill galleries and include manuscripts, instruments, artifacts, photos and video interviews.
PAST EXHIBITIONS
Paul Moakley Vir Fidelis
June 22 - October 23, 2011
Reception 6 to 9pm Friday, July 8
Artist Talk: 2pm Saturday, August 13
Workshop: 2pm Saturday, September 24
Paul Moakley has created an in-depth chronicle of an all-boys catholic High School captured through large-format photographs and short films. The artist is a seasoned documentary photographer who recently began exploring time-based installation projects. Following the visual language of his photographic work, Moakley's auteur video projects are shot in a photographically composed style that incisively question prescribed gender roles, identity formation, and group mentality in teen-aged boys.
image: Vir Fidelis: Baseball Player with Eye Drops, 2011, C-print
Vir Fidelis is made possible in part by a DCA Premier Grant from the Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island with public funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
The Wick & the Stick
Early Lighting from the Renaissance to the Victorian Era
October 6, 2010 - July 31, 2011
Lecture: 2pm, Sat, May 21
Illuminating: Art, Light, and the George Way Collection by Dr. Todd Magreta
Lecture: 2pm, Sat, June 11
Illumination through the Centuries by George Way
Early lighting pieces are displayed with paintings, etchings and other decorative arts pieces that explore the crucial role candlelight played in daily life and how it was used for metaphorical ends by artists. Courtesy of the George Way and Jonathan Z. Friedman Collections.
Legacy of Lincoln February 13 - August 29, 2010
Legacy of Lincoln celebrates the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln the candidate’s Right makes Might speech at Cooper Union and closes out his 200th Birthday Bicentennial. Abraham Lincoln rose from humble beginnings and little public expectation to preside over one of the most important and complex moral and legal issues to confront the young nation. The Legacy of Lincoln examines his sorrowful demeanor tempered by the humor that was a Lincoln hallmark. The exhibition focuses on three subjects, the 1860 Candidate at Cooper Union, the President depicted in thirty political cartoons from Harper’s Illustrated and One Life a selection of ten photographic portraits from the Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition Service.
The first gallery recreates the stage setting of the 1860 candidate’s Right makes Might speech that launched him onto the national stage. A variety of artifacts are on loan from the archives of Cooper Union, including 1860 pamphlets and rare books on the candidate’s political journey. A second gallery features editorial cartoons from Harper’s Illustrated that depict the range of mythologies inspired by Lincoln’s political career and those who shared the national stage. Lastly the center hall of Snug Harbor’s historic Minard Lefevre building is filled with One Life a selection of portraits produced by the Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition Service.
Additionally a log-cabin screening room presents a range of documentaries and feature films about the sixteenth President, such as Looking for Lincoln by Henry Louis Gates, Jr, Young Mr. Lincoln with Henry Fonda, Lincoln in Illinois with Raymond Massey and Lincoln with Sam Waterston. Visitors are invited to record their thoughts on the log walls of the screening room, much like the resourceful young Lincoln who wrote on scraps of wood because he could not afford paper. A series of programs will explore the condition of historical celebrity through Mary Todd reenactors and a lecture on photographer Mathew Brady.
Dutch Treats
May 7 - December 23, 2010
Dutch Treats features over 100 works of 17th Century Dutch art and furniture. The exhibition celebrates the Quadricentennial Celebration of the arrival of the Henry Hudson in New Amsterdam. Collector George Way’s keen eye and passionate search for exquisite works of art over the past four decades has resulted in one of the finest collections of Dutch and English furniture, artifacts and fine arts in America. Dutch Treats features a furnished period room and a gallery of paintings, all selected from Way’s remarkable collection.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS: Lecture: Saturday, September 26, 2009
Decorative Arts Historian Barry Leo Delaney spoke on the history of 18th century Dutch art and furniture. Delaney is a recognized scholar in the field decorative arts and former Curator of the Staten Island Museum and the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt Museum. He is the Senior Appraiser at O’Toole Ewald Art Associates, Inc.
Waintrob Collection April 2 - December 23, 2010
The Waintrob Collection is an eclectic archive of works of art from the leading American and European artists of the Twentieth century, which evolved through the hobby of two New York brothers, Sidney (1906-2002) and Abraham “Budd” (1908-2004) Waintrob. Snug Harbor is the first venue to host a exhibition of this remarkable Collection of paintings, works on paper and photographs. The exhibition features Henry Moore, Alberto Giacometti, Antoni Tapies, Jose De Creeft, Elizabeth Frink, Will Barnet, Raphael Soyer, among other artists. For almost forty years, under the logo of Budd Studio, the Waintrob brothers made their living as renowned equestrian photographers. They also had deep and longstanding social roots in the New York art world, and in their spare time, they photographed their artist friends. Their portraits of artists became so popular both in the United States and Europe that their extracurricular activity took on a life of its own, eventually eclipsing their equestrian work. The Waintrob brothers never charged artists for their work on principle, but artists felt the need to acknowledge their extraordinary services and thus began exchanging their art for the photographic portraits. The practice caught on within the art community and after fifty years later their hobby, the Waintrob brothers' collection, was born.
The works of art in the exhibition are accompanied by one of the Waintrob brothers' photographic portraits, thereby endowing the art with a dimension of the individual's creative personality. Although the Waintrob brothers’ photographs have been widely exhibited, the public has never seen works of art acquired by the duo. In total, the exhibit uniquely documents and illustrates an enormously creative period in the development of western art, and bears witness to the personal dedication and participation of the Waintrob brothers. The Waintrob Collection exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalog.