Wednesday, September 1, 2021 – AN ARTIST WHOSE WORKS ARE THE CREATURES OF NATURE
FROM THE ARCHIVES
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
457th ISSUE
If you can’t get enough of the cicadas
piercing the late-summer air,
head to the Staten Island Museum,
where artist Jennifer Angus
has a show called
Magicicada
inspired by the museum’s collection
of the big bugs — “one of the world’s
largest.”
Artist Jennifer Angus presents Magicicada, taking inspiration from the museum’s collection of cicadas – one of the world’s largest. Angus has created an immersive environment to discover, full of exquisite and ornamental patterns and imaginative vignettes, unexpectedly created with hundreds of preserved insects.
Magicicada is the genus of seven species of periodical cicadas which emerge out of the ground in remarkable numbers every 13 or 17 years.
This exhibition celebrates not just cicadas but all insects, ‘the little things that run the world’ as described by renowned biologist E. O. Wilson.—Jennifer
MAGICADA PHOTOS BY CHRISTINE CRUZ
MAGICADA IS ON EXHIBIT AT:
Staten Island Museum
at Snug Harbor
1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A,
Staten Island, New York
STATENISLANDMUSEUM.ORG
Our first program with our partners the R.I. branch of the NYPL is on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21st.
The program with author Kim Todd will be at 6:30 p.m.
There are two ways to enjoy the program:
Watch on ZOOM at the Community Room at our NYPL branch
Watch on ZOOM at home
https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2021/09/21/author-talk-kim-todd
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TUESDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY
THE TWO NEW ELEVATORS, SOON TO BE OPEN AT THE MANHATTAN TRAM STATION
ED LITCHER, GLORIA HERMAN, NINA LUBLIN, LAURA HUSSEY
ALL ARE RIGHT.
STATEN ISLAND MUSEUM
Acknowledgments
Jennifer Angus: Magicicada is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Staten Island Museum is supported in part by public funds provided through the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and by the New York State Council on the Arts.
FUNDING PROVIDED BY ROOSEVELT ISLAND OPERATING CORPORATION PUBLIC PURPOSE GRANTS CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE BEN KALLOS DISCRETIONARY FUNDING THRU DYCD
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