All events take place at the museum unless otherwise noted.

Gala Premiere Opening
Please note the museum will be closed to the public all day.
July 7, 2007
7:00 pm–10:00 pm
Celebrate in style with live music, cocktails, and a buffet dinner. The exhibition will be open to Gala attendees for a special preview. Tickets are $125 per person and available by contacting Judy Pellerin, Museum Secretary, or calling (413) 597-2037. Parking will be available the night of the Gala behind Thompson Chapel. Shuttle service will run continually to the museum entrance. Please check in upon arrival. The museum is wheelchair accessible. Guests with special needs should call the museum in advance.

“Villa America”
July 11–July 22, 2007
'62 Center for Theatre and Dance
The Williamstown Theater Festival presents the world premiere of “Villa America,” an original play commissioned by the Festival about the lives of Gerald and Sara Murphy. Written and directed by Crispin Whittell, tickets are available at wtfestival.org or by calling (413) 597-3400.

Family Festival
Bon Voyage! Travel with the Murphys
Saturday, July 14
1:00–4:00 pm
3:00 pm exhibition tour
Celebrate the opening of Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy with a family festival set on the museum's front lawn. Discover how the Murphys inspired modern artists and writers such as Picasso and Hemingway as they traveled from America to France. Enjoy French crêpes, ice cream, and other treats; make paintings and collages in Paris; and learn to dance the Charleston on Broadway. Go on a treasure hunt in the galleries and join an exhibition tour at 3:00 pm. An all-day outdoor concert by the Kwajmal Jazz Band showcases the music from the 1920s to 1940s.

Gallery Talk
Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy
Tuesday, July 17
2:00 pm
Deborah Rothschild, Curator of Making It New and Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art

Gallery Talk
Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy
Tuesday, July 24
2:00 pm
Kathryn Price, Assistant Curator

Teachers’ Workshop: Making Connections
Wednesday, July 25
9:00 am–4:00 pm
Elementary school teachers are invited to explore ways to teach with art and make connections to exhibitions at Kidspace at MASS MoCA and the Williams College Museum of Art.

Gallery Talk: The Murphys & Dance
Saturday, July 28
2:00 pm
Emily Schreiner, Coordinator of Education Programs

Summer Camp: Moving Through Visual Art
Monday August 6 – Friday August 10
10:30 am – 2:00 pm
Explore the connections between visual art and movement in this intensive art camp for young people aged 11 to 14. This program includes a field trip and workshop at Jacob’s Pillow. In a tour of Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy, participants will enter the world of modern art, where the inspiring couple, Sara and Gerald Murphy, were friends with such artists as Pablo Picasso and Fernand Leger, writers F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, as well as singers and dancers. Just as the Murphys created art out of their life, participants will explore and experience visual art through looking, making, and performing. Limited enrollment. Call 413-597-2038 for reservations. Fee: $50 per participant.
Visiting artist, Julia Morgan Leamon   

Gallery Talk for Educators
Curricular Possibilities of Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy
Tuesday, August 7
3:00 pm
Cynthia Way, Director of Education and Visitor Experience, and Emily Schreiner, Coordinator of Education Programs

Gallery Talk: The Murphys & Literary Connections
Saturday, August 11
2:00 pm
Cynthia Way, Director of Education and Visitor Experience

Gallery Talk: The Murphys & the Machine Age
Tuesday, August 14
2:00 pm
John Stomberg, Deputy Director

A Place for Style in Everything: An "Un-Symposium"
Saturday, September 15
1:00–5:00 pm
Followed by reception and cocktails.
Art, music, dance, and cocktails set the stage for conversations about life in the 1920s, Murphy-style. This is a free event. Please call the museum at (413) 597-2037 to reserve a seat.

Guest speakers include:
Amanda Vaill, author, Everybody Was So Young: Sara and Gerald Murphy, A Lost
Generation Love Story
Harold Koda, Curator-in-Charge, Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Kenneth Silver, Professor of Fine Arts, Chair Department of Fine Arts, New York University
John Kinder, mixologist, Chicago

Performances by Williams College students.

Teachers’ Workshop: Making It New
Friday, September 28
9:00-4:00 pm
Designed for high school teachers, this workshop explores the curricular connections in the exhibition, Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy. Following a tour of the exhibition, we will discuss ways to use the interdisciplinary curriculum developed for this xhibition by a team of English, history, and art teachers from Greenwich Central High School in East Greenwich, New York.

Interdisciplinary Gallery Talk Series
Distinguished scholars explore facets of the literature, theater, music, and art presented in the exhibition Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy.

On Literature
Sara and Gerald Murphy and Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night
Wednesday, October 10 at 12:10 pm
Robert Bell, Frederick Latimer Wells Professor of English

On Costume
Wednesday, October 17 at 12:10 pm
Deborah A. Brothers,Costume Director and Lecturer in Theatre

On Music
Wednesday, October 24 at 12:10 pm
David L. Smith,John W. Chandler Professor of English

On Cubism
Wednesday, October 31 at 12:10 pm
Charles W. Haxthausen, Faison-Pierson-Stoddard Professor of Art History

Concert
La chanson des rêveurs: Songs of Poulenc and Milhaud
Saturday, November 3
7:00 pm
Allison Mondel, soprano; Dan Foster, piano
Held in conjunction with Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy, this concert features the songs of Francis Poulenc and Darius Milhaud, who forged a bold new style built upon modernist ideals and captured the wit, flare, and insouciant charm of their age.