Friends of the Haggerty Museum of Art members are cordially invited to celebrate the New Year at the Haggerty! Join us for this festive event featuring a captivating live vocal performance by Catherine Steinhafel, an effervescent signature cocktail, delicious heavy hors d'oeuvres, and the delightful company of fellow Haggerty Friends. This year, attendees will enjoy an exclusive preview of our 2025 spring exhibitions, complete with insights into the installation process and special access to the collection vaults. Not yet a Friends member? You can join when registering for the party!

Special thanks go out to event Chair and Friends Board Member Casey O'Brien!

Please join us for an opening reception for our Spring 2025 exhibitions including:

The Big 4-0, Vol. 2: New Views of the Collection

Parallel Play: The Art of Science and the Science of Art

Visual Legacies: Photographs by Ellie Lee Weems

A gallery talk with Dr. Deanna Arble (Biology) and Lynne Shumow (Haggerty Museum of Art) featuring the exhibition Parallel Play: The Art of Science and the Science of Art.

Parallel Play: The Art of Science and the Science of Art was created as an integral component of Marquette’s Biology class, Creative Problem Solving. This cross-disciplinary course teaches STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) students to embrace divergent thinking as a path to innovative problem solving. The class is team-taught by Dr. Deanna Arble, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences and Lynne Shumow, Curator for Academic Engagement, Haggerty Museum of Art.

Featuring work from the Haggerty’s permanent collection, the Parallel Play exhibition makes connections between the work of artists and scientists with a special emphasis on the essential elements of scientific research—rejection, revision and the formulation of new ideas. The exhibition aims to demystify the process of innovation across disciplines and to illuminate the multiple routes of discovery and interpretation that art has to offer.

Details to follow