The de Saisset is the South Bay's FREE museum of art and history. The de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University is the South Bay's free Museum of art and history.
The museum was founded adjacent to Mission Santa Clara de Asís on SCU's campus in 1955. It is currently one of three museums in the South Bay to hold accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums. Operated and supported by Santa Clara University, the de Saisset Museum also is privately funded and member-supported. The de Saisset Museum collects, preserves, exhibits, and interprets objects of art and history for the educational and cultural enrichment of all people. The museum achieves its mission through an active program of exhibitions, collections, education programs, and publications. As an important resource for SCU, the de Saisset actively collaborates with the larger University community in order to foster the integration of diverse forms of learning. The de Saisset presents 6 to 10 temporary exhibitions every year. Exhibitions highlight the diversity of our community, address issues of contemporary society, showcase the work of under-recognized or under-appreciated artists, and emphasize the strengths of the permanent collection. The museum also serves as the caretaker of the University's California History Collection, which is on permanent view. Since its founding, the de Saisset's permanent collection has expanded to include more than 12,000 objects collected in six main areas: California history, Mission-era liturgical vestments, decorative arts, works on paper, painting & sculpture, and new media. The collection includes prints from the Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, 19th century, and Modernist periods. The museum has an extensive collection of contemporary works on paper, with a special emphasis on artists from the San Francisco Bay Area. The de Saisset Museum offers a variety of educational programs including lectures, symposia, workshops, and family days. In addition, the de Saisset provides free docent tours of the California History Collection and Mission Santa Clara. MISSION The de Saisset Museum supports Santa Clara University's goal of educating the whole person through a diverse and accessible range of exhibitions, collections, and educational programs that highlight the art and history of the San Francisco Bay Area and the local Santa Clara Valley. As a center of lifelong learning, the de Saisset Museum facilitates discovery, experience, and inspiration through engaging objects of art and history. Core Values: - The Museum will present exhibitions that highlight the diversity of our community (in age, gender, and ethnicity), feature a variety of media, offer a diverse representation of topics and viewpoints, showcase the work of recognized and under-recognized or under-appreciated artists, address issues of contemporary society, and highlight the strengths of our permanent collection. - The Museum will continue the development, management, and preservation of the permanent collection, thereby creating an artistic and historic legacy for the community. - The Museum will engage in University departmental collaborations, expanding the environment that fosters the integration of different forms of learning as well as the Jesuit ideals of reasoned and rigorous inquiry. - The Museum will provide a welcoming and service-oriented atmosphere that encourages participation by diverse audiences. - The Museum will nurture a sense of pride and ownership among its principals, including the University, advisory board, staff, members, donors, volunteers, and visitors.
Mission: The de Saisset Museum supports Santa Clara University's goal of educating the whole person through a diverse and accessible range of exhibitions, collections, and educational programs that highlight the art and history of the San Francisco Bay Area and the local Santa Clara Valley. As a center of lifelong learning, the de Saisset Museum facilitates discovery, experience, and inspiration through engaging objects of art and history. Core Values: - The Museum will present exhibitions that highlight the diversity of our community (in age, gender, and ethnicity), feature a variety of media, offer a diverse representation of topics and viewpoints, showcase the work of recognized and under-recognized or under-appreciated artists, address issues of contemporary society, and highlight the strengths of our permanent collection. - The Museum will continue the development, management, and preservation of the permanent collection, thereby creating an artistic and historic legacy for the community. - The Museum will engage in University departmental collaborations, expanding the environment that fosters the integration of different forms of learning as well as the Jesuit ideals of reasoned and rigorous inquiry. - The Museum will provide a welcoming and service-oriented atmosphere that encourages participation by diverse audiences. - The Museum will nurture a sense of pride and ownership among its principals, including the University, advisory board, staff, members, donors, volunteers, and visitors.
MONDAY OCT 12 - Santa Clara University
We are honored that Vincent Medina and Louis Trevino of mak-'amham / Cafe Ohlone are providing a keynote for Monday's Indigenous Peoples Day virtual program.
3:30 p.m. - 4:35 p.m. PDT via Zoom
Vincent Medina and Louis Trevino in conversation with Catherine Moore, President of SCU's Native American Coalition for Change
The Office for Diversity and Inclusion, the de Saisset Museum, the College of Arts & Sciences Center for the Arts & Humanities tUrn Project, and the Native American Coalition for Change (NACC) are pleased to host this conversation as well as an evening keynote with Shannon Rivers of the Gila River Indian Community.
To learn more about these speakers and to register for these and other events throughout the day:
https://www.scu.edu/turn/headliners/monday/
Kristin Kusanovich | Patricia Gualinga (video) | Autumn Peltier (video) | Daniel Press | Shannon Rivers | Gina Chavez | Bryan Altamirano-Gopar | Sofia Sandoval Larco | Mayra Jiménez Ríos |
We stand in solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter and all who seek racial justice in regard to the recent killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor, and in recognition of the systemic racism and oppression faced by African-Americans and other persons of color in our country.
We vow to speak up and confront racism.
Among our core values, the de Saisset Museum is committed to presenting art by individuals and communities that are under-represented and to focus on current events and themes of social justice, so as to create platforms by which voices, stories, and narratives that have historically been silenced or marginalized can be shared. As part of an academic institution, we are further dedicated to education and (un)learning. We remain committed to this work, and to doing more, and doing it better.
We invite you to join us in a Vigil for Racial Justice on Tuesday, June 2 from noon to 1:30 PM hosted by our parent organization Santa Clara University and organized by SCU's Campus Ministry, the Office for Diversity and Inclusion, the Office for Multicultural Learning, Counseling and Psychological Services, and other partners. This community conversation will provide opportunities to reflect as well as to hear ideas about how to work for racial justice in our everyday lives. For more information on the vigil and instructions on how to join, visit:
https://www.scu.edu/events/#!view/event/date/20200602/event_id/212456
#museumsarenotneutral #blacklivesmatter #BLM
Art in second image by @shirien.creates
EXPERIENCE This photo was taken a year ago today as we staged artworks from our permanent collection to go on display in our exhibition Making an Impression: Printmaking Possibilities. Here you can see several of the pieces after they were framed, waiting in our collections storage area to be moved to the Auditorium.
#MuseumFromHome
https://www.scu.edu/desaisset/exhibitions/makinganimpression/
Earlier this week, we shared that our museum opened its doors in 1955 as "the de Saisset Museum and Art Gallery". Today, we are sharing a little more on our "history" (pun intended, as you'll see): In the mid 1970s, the museum acquired a second, and equally important, focus to art, which is our focus on history, specifically the history of Santa Clara Valley. The museum's History Collection includes objects related to Native California, the Mission Period, the California Ranchos, and the early days of Santa Clara College (the original name of what we know today as @SantaClaraUniversity).
John Sykes, Santa Clara College, 1903, oil on canvas, de Saisset Museum permanent collection, Santa Clara University, 2011.6.10, on view in California Stories from Thámien to Santa Clara.
https://www.scu.edu/desaisset/collections/history/
#CAMuseumsWeek
@calmuseums @AmKansenChu @BobWieckowskiCA
We stand with our Asian and Asian American neighbors in the face of the racist and xenophobic violence they face as scapegoats for the COVID-19 virus. We refuse to be silent bystanders. We vow to speak up if we witness [email protected] #stopdiscriminasian
Stop DiscriminAsian (SDA) is a coalition of workers within arts and culture who are confronting the racism, xenophobia and violence towards diasporic Asians that have been amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic.
SDA seeks to expand awareness through the galvanization of individual voices in solidarity with other marginalized communities to expose and subvert the systemic racism and economic injustice exacerbated by this unprecedented moment of global emergency.
https://www.stopdiscriminasian.org/
The de Saisset Museum opened its doors in November 1955 (image c. 1956), which means our museum (and our building) will be 65 years strong this fall! Did you know that we actually opened as "the de Saisset Museum and Art Gallery"? You may have noticed a few clues still present on our facade (though, admittedly hard to see in this photo).
https://www.scu.edu/desaisset/about/info/history/
Did you know that the de Saisset Museum is one of three museums in the South Bay accredited by the American Alliance of Museums? If you can name the other two museums in the comments, you win.....bragging rights! (We'll share the answer tomorrow)
California Association of Museums
@AmKansenChu @BobWieckowskiCA American Alliance of Museums
Happy International Museum Day 2020 and day 3 of the first-ever California Museums Week!
The de Saisset Museum is dedicated to presenting exhibitions that highlight the diversity of our community, feature a variety of media, offer a diverse representation of topics and viewpoints, showcase the work of recognized and under-recognized or under-appreciated artists, address issues of contemporary society, and celebrate the strengths of our permanent collection. We look forward to sharing details about our work throughout the week.
#IMD2020 #Museums4Equality #CAMuseumsWeek
THANK YOU to our volunteers. The de Saisset Museum is grateful for the more than 30 active volunteers who assist us in multiple areas of the museum -- From the educational outreach by our California History Docent Council, to consultation and advisement from our Collections Committee, to cataloging and documentation by our Collections Volunteers, we could not do the work of this museum without your support.
#nationalvolunteerweek #nationalvolunteerappreciationweek
Closed Art Institutions Brighten Up the Day With #MuseumSunshine Images
We were happy to participate in the #MuseumSunshine campaign yesterday across Twitter and hope it brought some joy and positivity to your day.... or at least your social media channels.
https://observer.com/2020/04/museum-sunshine-art-institutions-twitter-hashtag/
Originated by the New-York Historical Society and the Hirshhorn Museum, the hashtag saw institutions across the country sharing images of sunrises, starbursts and anything bright and yellow.
DISCOVER the beauty in landscapes all around you on this 50th anniversary of #EarthDay
Henrietta Shore
Untitled (Landscape), n.d.
de Saisset Museum #permanentcollection, Santa Clara University, 1.822.1988
#MuseumFromHome #5WomenArtists #CaliforniaArtist
DISCOVER This fun print by Fritz Scholder that captures the essence of those sunny California summer days....
Fritz Scholder
Palo Alto Palm, 1989
Lithograph, Museum Proof
Printed at Smith Andersen Editions by Patrick Surgalski
de Saisset Museum #permanentcollection, Santa Clara University, Smith Andersen Editions Archive, Gift of Marguerite Saegesser, 3.1172.1988
#MuseumSunshine ☀️☀️☀️
#MuseSocial
We miss this place. And we miss sharing it with all of you. If you have favorite memories of your visits to the de Saisset Museum, we'd love to hear them!
DISCOVER & BE INSPIRED Another wildflower watercolor by California artist Fanny McClatchy Richardson (1859-1948). Today is #NationalHaikuPoetryDay and April is #NationalPoetryMonth so we wrote a haiku inspired by this artwork. We'd love to hear your own haiku poems inspired by this artwork or other pieces of art. Please share in the comments!
Bright yellows and white
Slivers of satiny green
Loving the soft lines
Fanny McClatchy Richardon
Untitled (notes on back of artwork: Fawn Lily, Sonoma Co.), before 1948
de Saisset Museum #permanentcollection, Santa Clara University, Bequest of Fanny McClatchy Richardson, 1.655
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Our student team rocks! And we miss them!
In honor of Student Employee Appreciation week and #NationalHighFiveDay we're sending this awesome group virtual high fives!
DISCOVER This cover is 101 years old this month! Thanks to a recent research request, we had the opportunity to revisit the works in our #permanentcollection by Arnold G. Mountfort (1873-1942). Mountfort created the cover art for this April 1919 edition of Pictorial Review that featured "seven color pages of Easter fashions."
Arnold G. Mountfort R.A.
Untitled, cover published April 1919
Commercial reproduction of painting
16 1/8 x 11 1/8 in.
de Saisset Museum permanent collection, Santa Clara University, Bequest of Patricia O'Neill Mountfort, 3.96.3
#easter #bunny #pictorialreview
EXPERIENCE Did you know that arts and cultural institutions from around the world create coloring book pages of their permanent collection? And that they are free to download and color?
Started in 2016 by the New York Academy of Medicine Library (NYAM), each February hundreds of institutions from around the world share black and white images of artworks from their collections for all of us to enjoy.
The annual #ColorOurCollections social media campaign also has a permanent website, so you can download a selection today at colorourcollections.org
We can't wait to see what you color!
This detail comes from the The British Library
The de Saisset Museum is named after Ernest de Saisset, who was a student at Santa Clara College and an aspiring artist. His youngest sibling, Isabel de Saisset left a bequest to then University of Santa Clara that resulted in the founding of our museum (which opened in 1955) and the start of our #permanentcollection with 100 of Ernest's painting and de Saisset family heirlooms.
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#NationalSiblingsDay
Ernest de Saisset, Self Portrait, late 19th century, oil on canvas, Gift of the Estate of Isabel de Saisset, 1.52. Ernest de Saisset, A Woman (Isabel de Saisset), n.d., oil on canvas, Gift of the Estate of Isabel de Saisset, 1.29.
While you may not be able to visit a local museum or galleries right now, you can still Experience, Discover, and Be Inspired by art.
We'll continue to share pieces from our permanent collection and works on loan currently "on view" so you can make discoveries, focus on your own experience, and just "be" with the art. We also look forward to sharing some behind the scenes content and activities you can do at home.
And we also look forward to hearing from you -- What do you see? What is meaningful to you? What inspires you?
April Updates - Museum From Home
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DISCOVER & Share. Do you have a favorite tree or other plant in your yard, neighborhood, or community that brings you joy and peace? Please share in the comments.
Pictured here:
Arnold G. Mountfort
Portrait of a Tree, 1939
Oil on canvas, 42.5 x 34.75 in.
de Saisset Museum permanent collection, Santa Clara University, Gift from the Bequest of Patricia O'Neill Mountfort, 1.404
#permanentcollection #museumfromhome
Our "current" exhibition Making an Impression: Printmaking Possibilities, celebrates the expressive potential for artists to create works on paper through various printmaking processes. Drawn entirely from the museum's permanent collection, this exhibition features over thirty artworks by many well-known artists including both California favorites and internationally recognized names.
Here is just a small selection to enjoy from home. Discover. Experience. Be Inspired.
Can you name #5WomenArtists? @Womeninthearts
Inez Storer
Art Lessons, 2003
Monoprint, collage, and drypoint
Printer Kathryn Kain, Smith Andersen Editions
de Saisset Museum permanent collection, Santa Clara University, Smith Andersen Editions Archive, Gift of Paula and Phillip Kirkeby, 2003.12.1
de Saisset Museum permanent collection, Smith Andersen Editions Archive, Santa Clara University, Gift of Peter Kirkeby, 2007.2.3
Squeak Carnwath
Object Lesson, 2001
Color aquatint, sugar lift etching with hardground
Edition 14/30
Printed at Paulson Fontaine Press
de Saisset Museum permanent collection, Santa Clara University, work selected by students in SCU Professor Andrea Pappas' winter 2008 class, ARTH 188: Women in the Visual Arts. Funds for this purchase were made possible by a gift from the Marmor Foundation in honor of Paula Kirkeby, 2008.2.1
Kathryn Kain
Tattooed Mermaid, 2010
From the series Indelibly Yours
Monoprint with sugar lift, rainbow roll, chine collé, and paper lithography
Edition Varié 16/20
de Saisset Museum permanent collection, Santa Clara University, Smith Andersen Editions Archive, Gift of Sharon and Robert Yoerg, 2014.6.5
Favianna Rodriguez
Museum print
de Saisset Museum permanent collection, Santa Clara University, Smith Andersen Editions Archive, Gift of Sharon and Robert Yoerg, 2014.6.11
We are loving seeing all the poppies in bloom right now. And check out the second image of a watercolor of poppies from our permanent collection. Follow #floweryourfeed for the next 24 hours and enjoy the blossoming array of florals!
Second image: Fanny McClatchy Richardson
Golden Poppy. Sacramento Valley., painted before 1948
From the Wildflowers of California series
de Saisset Museum Permanent Collection, Santa Clara University, 1.535, Gift of Fanny McClatchy Richardson
#fannymcclatchyrichardson #californiaflora #museumfromhome #5Womenartists National Museum of Women in the Arts
We are temporarily closing the museum to the public starting today, Tuesday, March 10, 2020 and currently anticipate re-opening to the public on Tuesday, April 14, 2020.
While it continues to be the case that we have no known cases of COVID-19 on our Santa Clara University campuses, the University Administration is enacting new measures to prioritize the well-being of our community:
Effective today, in-person classes will switch to online formats and will continue to meet electronically through April 10, 2020. As part of these measures, students are also being encouraged to return home if possible during this period.
As many of you may know, our student Visitor Service Associates serve as our primary gallery monitors and without their support we cannot remain open to the public.
Thank you for your patience and understanding, and we truly apologize for any inconvenience this closure may cause.
In the coming days and weeks we will continue to share any updates.
Can you name #5WomenArtists
In the Leaded Water series California artist Linda Yao addresses the Flint Water Crisis and what she describes as "the resultant chaotic governance, negligence and state of emergency that eroded the public health, infrastructure and morale of the orphaned satellite of the greater Motor City."
She goes on to explain her process and its parallel to the actual situation in Flint:
"These works are built upon white acid-free Bristol board. Acrylic paste is crushed irregularly into the paper, creating an almost-invisible textured adulteration of the smooth foundation. India ink is then dragged with joint knives and squeegees in compounded layers over the modified surface, catching up and unmasking the corruption and corrosion beneath. The resultant impedimenta define the gritty sludge of a once vibrant urban landscape."
Linda Yao
The Poisoned City (Leaded Water Nos. 5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 14), 2016
India ink and acrylic on Bristol board
de Saisset Museum #permanentcollection, Santa Clara University, 2019.7 Museum Purchase, Acquisitions for Diversity Project, work selected by students in SCU Professor Heather Clydesdale's winter 2019 class, ARTH 66: Fabricating Nature in East Asia. Funds for this purchase were made possible by the Hearst Foundation's Community Initiatives for the Arts grant (CIVA).
Image courtesy of the artist.
@Womeninthearts
#WomensHistoryMonth
#InternationalWomensDay
#Currentlyonview
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California History Docents respond to the new exhibition
We asked our California History Docents some questions about the newly designed California Stories exhibition... Here are some of their responses. If you like the new exhibition too and want to help us continue this work, please go #allinforscu and the de Saisset Museum. Your donations will help support the incorporation of oral histories, sound, and additional resources that we hope to develop with the Ohlone community, SCU students, and other subject matter experts. Donate today! https://givingday.scu.edu/giving-day/20913/department/20921
Hurry before it's too late! Tuesday through Friday of this week are the final days to experience Unbound: The Art of Deterioration, a group exhibition of artists working with book materials and the printed page. For full image credits for the above artworks, please visit the exhibition page: https://www.scu.edu/desaisset/exhibitions/unbound/
We waited as long as we could, but earlier this week we said goodbye to this incredible mural painted by our Art Prep Team for the Jazz Greats exhibition title wall. The mural was based on a photo of Eric Dolphy by Chuck Stewart. You can read more about the Art Prep Team murals on our blog: https://www.scu.edu/desaisset/blog/blog-posts/collaboration-behind-the-scenes-with-the-art-prep-team.html
TUNE IN: The Ethics of Collecting Art Enjoy this stimulating panel conversation with Kenneth Lapatin (J. Paul Getty Museum), Christopher Hallett (UC Berkeley), Renee Dreyfus (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco), and Louise Chu (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco). This event is organized by SCU's Classics Department as part of the Classics 2017-18 Lecture Series, funded by a Hackworth Grant for Applied Ethics and co-presented by the Classics Department, the Department of Art and Art History, the Leavey School of Business, and the de Saisset Museum.
It was so wonderful to have Ren Geisick back at the museum! Her quintet closed out the performances for Jazz Appreciation Family Day on the SJJazz BoomBox Stage @sanjosejazz #jazz
#happeningnow at Jazz Appreciation Family Day. Members of SCU's Jazz Combo performing on the SJJazz BoomBox Stage @sanjosejazz @santaclarauniversity @santaclaracas #jazz
Jumping for joy! It's Jazz Appreciation Family Day!! #jazz #jazzappreciationmonth #wehavethebeststaff #jumpforyou
Jazz Appreciation Family Day is underway with the U19s from the San Jose Jazz High School All-Stars on the SJJazz BoomBox Stage! @sanjosejazz #jazz #jazzgreats #jazzappreciationmonth
The annual Day of Giving is here! Are you going to go all in for SCU and the de Saisset Museum? #allinforSCU #Repost @santaclarauniversity with @get_repost ・・・ TODAY is SCU Day of Giving 2018! Here's what you can do to help: 1. 🔥Use hashtag #allinforSCU on Instagram today to help unlock $5,000 (unlocks at 100 hashtag uses)! 🔥 2. Give now to the area of YOUR choice by clicking the link in our bio! Go BRONCOS LET'S DO THIS!!!!!!! 🐴🐴🐴 #lifeatSCU #santaclarauniversity #scufamily #scugrateful
Day 2 of "Jazz Greats: Classic Photographs from the Bank of America Collection." Doors open at 11AM! This exhibition is provided by Bank of America's Art in Our Communities Program®️ #jazzgreats #exhibition #museum #onview #nowopen #art #photography #jazz #vinyl #recordplayer #freeadmission
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Glenn Kaino's "Bridge" makes a powerful (and impressive) statement in "Gold Rush." See how it's installed from start to finish. #goldrushexhibition opening tomorrow
From start to finish--installing Sarah Smith's "Endless Gathering Lull" for the upcoming #goldrushexhibit opening January 15 (reception 1/21).
Looking for a unique way to spend your Saturday? Why not stop by for our last 3D printing workshop. Your work could be selected to go on exhibit. You never know... Tomorrow, 1-4 p.m., FREE
3D printing in process. Stop by before 4 today and see the printer in action.
Amah-Ka-Tura at Family Day
Amah-Ka-Tura in action: A song like this would have been sung in the village as the women were busy grinding acorns.
The de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University is the South Bay's free Museum of art and history. The museum was founded adjacent to Mission Santa Clara de Asís on SCU's campus in 1955. It is currently one of three museums in the South Bay to hold accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums. Operated and supported by Santa Clara University, the de Saisset Museum also is privately funded and member-supported. The de Saisset Museum collects, preserves, exhibits, and interprets objects of art and history for the educational and cultural enrichment of all people. The museum achieves its mission through an active program of exhibitions, collections, education programs, and publications. As an important resource for SCU, the de Saisset actively collaborates with the larger University community in order to foster the integration of diverse forms of learning. The de Saisset presents 6 to 10 temporary exhibitions every year. Exhibitions highlight the diversity of our community, address issues of contemporary society, showcase the work of under-recognized or under-appreciated artists, and emphasize the strengths of the permanent collection. The museum also serves as the caretaker of the University's California History Collection, which is on permanent view. Since its founding, the de Saisset's permanent collection has expanded to include more than 12,000 objects collected in six main areas: California history, Mission-era liturgical vestments, decorative arts, works on paper, painting & sculpture, and new media. The collection includes prints from the Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, 19th century, and Modernist periods. The museum has an extensive collection of contemporary works on paper, with a special emphasis on artists from the San Francisco Bay Area. The de Saisset Museum offers a variety of educational programs including lectures, symposia, workshops, and family days. In addition, the de Saisset provides free docent tours of the California History Collection and Mission Santa Clara.
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