Bellarmine Museum Project

FAIN: CH-50658-09

Fairfield University (Fairfield, CT 06824-5195)
Jesus R. Escobar (Project Director: May 2008 to December 2008)
Jill Johnson Deupi (Project Director: December 2008 to March 2014)

To Support: Endowment for programs in and maintenance of a new university art museum.

This Challenge Grant seeks to enhance the teaching of the humanities at Fairfield University by endowing $2.5 million for a new university museum. Fairfield will install and inaugurate an art museum in Bellarmine Hall, our signature building on campus steeped in a rich history of American architectural tradition. The museum will display a collection that focuses on art of the Medieval and Renaissance periods. The Bellarmine Museum Project will promote the centrality of art history within the teaching of the humanities, as well as advance Fairfield University's strategic goal of integrating the curriculum within the context of its Jesuit, Catholic mission. In addition, it fulfills our mission to share with the wider community our resources and special expertise.

Associated Products

Everett Raymond Kinstler: Pulps to Portraits Exhibition Brochure (Exhibition)
Title: Everett Raymond Kinstler: Pulps to Portraits Exhibition Brochure
Curator: Jill Deupi
Abstract: Exhibition brochure and checklist for Everett Raymond Kinstler: Pulps to Portraits exhibition at the Bellarmine Museum of Art, June 14 - September 28, 2012.
Year: 2012
Primary URL: https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/kinstler_ephemera/3
Primary URL Description: Exhibition brochure and checklist for Everett Raymond Kinstler: Pulps to Portraits exhibition at the Bellarmine Museum of Art, June 14 - September 28, 2012.

From Italy to America: Photographs of Anthony Riccio Exhibition Catalogue (Exhibition)
Title: From Italy to America: Photographs of Anthony Riccio Exhibition Catalogue
Curator: Mary Ann McDonald Carolan
Curator: Jill J. Deupi
Abstract: Born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut, Mr. Riccio has spent the past four decades documenting, in word and image, the experiences of Italians and Italian-Americans not only in Southern Italy – from Campania to Sicily – but also in the culturally rich immigrant communities of Boston’s North End and his native city’s “Little Italy.” That Riccio was able to create these revealing and sensitive portraits speaks to the trust he inspired in those with whom he worked. Breaking through the usual “veil of silence” in which elderly Italian-Americans typically enveloped themselves to guard against the unwarranted hostilities of outsiders, the artist was welcomed into his subjects’ homes and lives. That trust is evident in the stories that these, the so-called anziani, shared with Riccio. It is also written on their countenances, which bear witness to an era marked not only by grueling physical labor and taxing living conditions but also by enduring faith as well as an unwavering commitment to family, friends, and country, both natal and adoptive. These are the people – their stories and their lives – that Anthony Riccio introduces us to through his incredible body of work.
Year: 2012
Primary URL: https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/riccio_ephemera/8
Primary URL Description: From Italy to America: Photographs of Anthony Riccio Exhibition Catalogue

Immortality of the Spirit: Chinese Funerary Art from the Han and Tang Dynasties Collections (Exhibition)
Title: Immortality of the Spirit: Chinese Funerary Art from the Han and Tang Dynasties Collections
Curator: Leopold Swergold
Curator: Jill J. Deupi
Curator: Ive Covaci
Abstract: For the ancient Chinese, life in the afterworld was as important as one’s existence on earth. This belief structure led to the creation of elaborate – often lavish – burial rituals in which the dead were laid to rest in tombs intended to replicate splendid earthly dwellings. These final resting places were, therefore, well-provisioned by surviving family members with mingqi, or “spirit articles,” for the deceased’s journey into the afterlife; an essential component of such rites, since those not properly prepared for the next world could return to visit misfortune upon the living. This exhibition, Immortality of the Spirit: Chinese Funerary Art from the Han and Tang Dynasties, features thirteen pottery funerary objects from the Han (206 BCE-220 CE) and Tang (618-907 CE) Imperial dynasties, on loan from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Swergold. Such artifacts provide us with great insights into daily life during these critical periods in Chinese history and are pointed reminders of these societies’ clearly delineated class hierarchies and carefully orchestrated societal rituals.
Year: 2012
Primary URL: https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/immortality_ephemera/1
Primary URL Description: Immortality of the Spirit: Chinese Funerary Art from the Han and Tang Dynasties Collections

The Essential Line: Drawings from the Dahesh Collection (Exhibition)
Title: The Essential Line: Drawings from the Dahesh Collection
Curator: J. David Farmer
Curator: Jill J. Deupi
Abstract: The Essential Line celebrates the act of drawing in the 19th century with the first exhibition selected from the drawings collection of the Dahesh Museum of Art (DMA). Dedicated to European 19th-century academic art, the museum opened in 1995 and has acquired through purchase and generous donations a collection of drawings that demonstrate the diversity of work in this creative period.
Year: 2012
Primary URL: https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/dahesh_ephemera/1
Primary URL Description: The Essential Line: Drawings from the Dahesh Collection

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