Opening Day at Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden!
Opening Day | April 1, 2023
This year the Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden will reopen for the season on Saturday, April 1st. Visitors will find many exciting innovations and changes that will enhance their experience and provide a variety of memorable experiences.
Opening Day!
On Saturday, April 1st, we will open our doors to the public at 11am and offer free admission. Three new exhibitions will be on display in the museum, early spring flowers and colors will grace our Japanese-inspired garden, and there will be a variety of fun activities and tours for all ages. Chick’s Candy Store will provide the day with wonderful music.
Expanded Open Hours
This season the Hammond will expand the days and hours that we are open to the public to Wednesday-Sunday, 11am-5pm.
Spring Exhibitions
Our 2023 season of rotating exhibitions begins with:
Laura Cannamela: A Thousand Layers
Hays Gallery
Exhibition: April 1-May 20, 2023
Laura Cannamela’s cut paper relief forms are created with many layers of paper and, also, many layers of meaning. Informed by many sources, including the Genji Monogatari, topographic maps, waterfalls, Persian Miniatures, Tibetan thangkas, and Jūnihitoe kimonos, these intimately sized works reflect their literary, historical, and natural references.
The Elemental Clay: Ceramics by Helen Kunzman
Goelet Gallery
Exhibition: April 1-May 20, 2023
The Elemental Clay “On the potter’s wheel I feel harmony with the universe. Throwing clay on the wheel is an intuitive and spontaneous process. Transformation can happen when you push to unexpected places. And if the clay can survive the transformation – then the alchemy can happen…”
-Helen Kunzman
Brush With Nature: Asian Brush Artists Guild
Guild Hall
Exhibition: April 1-May 6, 2023
This annual exhibition of paintings by ABAG members presents landscapes and bird-and-flower paintings based on and inspired by traditional Chinese techniques and materials.
Opening Day! Programs (April 1):
1:30pm Welcome and Introductions
Alisa Sakai (Chair, Board of Trustees)
Elizabeth Hammer (Executive Director)
Helen Kunzman (Exhibiting Artist)
Laura Cannamela (Exhibiting Artist)
2pm Brush with Nature: Asian Brush Artists Guild
Susan Lanzano (ABAG president)
2:15 Painting demonstration
Gary Heise (ABAG member and artist)
3pm Garden Tour
Lara Netting (Board of Trustees member)
Opening Day kicks off a season of varied and engaging programs, exhibitions, and events, including our Cherry Blossom Festival on April 30th, a special piano concert by famed soloist Taka Kigawa on June 3rd, the Family Tanabata Festival on July 8, and our celebrated annual Moon Viewing Concert on September 30th, to name just a very few. As ever, visitors can savor the changing seasonal faces of our garden, which now benefits from much loving attention over the winter.
About Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden
Hammond Museum & Japanese Stroll Garden: The Museum hosts Moonviewing concert in addition to a Swing Band Dance in August and a Shakespeare play during the summer. We also offer children’s programs on designated Saturdays and the Animal blessing in May. The most important exhibit is our garden, it is a beautiful 3 acre Japanese Stroll Garden that will please all, from the young to the old. It features a waterfall, maple terrace and two ponds that are filled with frogs and fish. The exhibits that we offer in the galleries range from Asian to Contemporary art. We also offer a gift shop that specializes in hard to obtain Asian items.
The Hammond Museum was created as a foundation of support to promote global awareness and development of Eastern cultures with the West. It continues to reach out and support its wide community of artists and performers in the Greater New York Metropolitan Region.