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Saturday, August 21, 2010 8:15 a.m.
[before museum opens]
A DEAF Media Docent Tour:
Birth of Impressionism:
Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay
This exhibition puts forth nearly
100 works by the famous masters who called France their home during the
mid-19th
century and from whose midst arose one of the most original and recognizable
of all artistic styles, Impressionism. This
exhibition begins with paintings by naturalist artists such as Bougereau and
Courbet and presents American expatriate
James McNeil Whistler’s Arrangement in Gray and Black, known to many as “Whistler’s
Mother.” Early work by Manet,
Monet, Renoir and Sisley are on view as well as a selection of Degas’ paintings.
With: Orkid Sassouni
ADMISSION: Confirmed Pre-paid RSVPs only.To
guarantee our group rate and provide an ease of obtaining tickets, DEAF Media
has volunteered to facilitate prepaid tickets on-line through our PayPal
account.
[Note: all admission monies go to the deYoung Museum and not to DEAF Media.]
Tickets: $16.00 (Adult admission
regularly $21.00) Space is limited. RSVPs accepted in order of receipt. First reply, first served.
RSVP:rsvp@deafmedia.org
(You will receive instructions on how to pay and complete
confirmation.)
WHO: Orkid Sassouni graduated from Gallaudet University with
a major in Art History and Museum Studies under the
guidance of Deaf Art Historian, Dr. Deborah (Sonnenstrahl) Meranski. She studied
Studio Photography at the Parsons
School of Design in New York City, as well as receiving an Interdisciplinary
Master of Arts degree from San Francisco State
University. Since 1996 she has also been a gallery lecturer for the Sign of
Arts program at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in
New York City and a DEAF Media Docent since 2001.
Note: DEAF Media Docent tours are for the Deaf Community first,
and accompanying hearing friends and family.
Others may attend only on a space-available basis.
Where: The de Young Museum
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco Map Link Flyer PDF
** DEAF MEDIA DOCENTS is a project of DEAF Media, Inc. It
provides Deaf museum guides and lecturers for arts and culturalinstitutions
in
the Bay Area. Thanks to the S.F. Fine Arts museums, Darol Nance, DEAF Media
donors, and volunteers for support of this event.
