BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and t he Public Arts" X-WR-TIMEZONE:Eastern Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871438162 DTSTART:20260201T170000Z DTEND:20260201T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871439187 DTSTART:20260202T150000Z DTEND:20260202T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871440212 DTSTART:20260203T150000Z DTEND:20260203T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871441237 DTSTART:20260204T150000Z DTEND:20260204T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871442262 DTSTART:20260205T150000Z DTEND:20260205T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871443287 DTSTART:20260206T150000Z DTEND:20260206T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871445336 DTSTART:20260207T170000Z DTEND:20260207T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871446361 DTSTART:20260208T170000Z DTEND:20260208T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871447386 DTSTART:20260209T150000Z DTEND:20260209T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871449435 DTSTART:20260210T150000Z DTEND:20260210T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871450460 DTSTART:20260211T150000Z DTEND:20260211T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871451485 DTSTART:20260212T150000Z DTEND:20260212T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871452510 DTSTART:20260213T150000Z DTEND:20260213T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871453535 DTSTART:20260214T170000Z DTEND:20260214T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871455584 DTSTART:20260215T170000Z DTEND:20260215T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871456609 DTSTART:20260216T150000Z DTEND:20260216T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871457634 DTSTART:20260217T150000Z DTEND:20260217T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871462755 DTSTART:20260218T150000Z DTEND:20260218T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871464804 DTSTART:20260219T150000Z DTEND:20260219T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871465829 DTSTART:20260220T150000Z DTEND:20260220T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871467878 DTSTART:20260221T170000Z DTEND:20260221T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871468903 DTSTART:20260222T170000Z DTEND:20260222T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871469928 DTSTART:20260223T150000Z DTEND:20260223T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871470953 DTSTART:20260224T150000Z DTEND:20260224T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871471978 DTSTART:20260225T150000Z DTEND:20260225T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871473003 DTSTART:20260226T150000Z DTEND:20260226T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871474028 DTSTART:20260227T150000Z DTEND:20260227T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871475053 DTSTART:20260228T170000Z DTEND:20260228T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871476078 DTSTART:20260301T170000Z DTEND:20260301T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871477103 DTSTART:20260302T150000Z DTEND:20260302T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871478128 DTSTART:20260303T150000Z DTEND:20260303T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871479153 DTSTART:20260304T150000Z DTEND:20260304T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871481202 DTSTART:20260305T150000Z DTEND:20260305T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871482227 DTSTART:20260306T150000Z DTEND:20260306T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871483252 DTSTART:20260307T170000Z DTEND:20260307T220000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871484277 DTSTART:20260308T160000Z DTEND:20260308T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871485302 DTSTART:20260309T140000Z DTEND:20260309T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871486327 DTSTART:20260310T140000Z DTEND:20260310T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871487352 DTSTART:20260311T140000Z DTEND:20260311T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871488377 DTSTART:20260312T140000Z DTEND:20260312T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871489402 DTSTART:20260313T140000Z DTEND:20260313T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871490427 DTSTART:20260314T160000Z DTEND:20260314T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871491452 DTSTART:20260315T160000Z DTEND:20260315T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871492477 DTSTART:20260316T140000Z DTEND:20260316T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871493502 DTSTART:20260317T140000Z DTEND:20260317T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871494527 DTSTART:20260318T140000Z DTEND:20260318T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871495552 DTSTART:20260319T140000Z DTEND:20260319T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871497601 DTSTART:20260320T140000Z DTEND:20260320T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871498626 DTSTART:20260321T160000Z DTEND:20260321T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871499651 DTSTART:20260322T160000Z DTEND:20260322T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871500676 DTSTART:20260323T140000Z DTEND:20260323T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871501701 DTSTART:20260324T140000Z DTEND:20260324T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871502726 DTSTART:20260325T140000Z DTEND:20260325T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871503751 DTSTART:20260326T140000Z DTEND:20260326T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871504776 DTSTART:20260327T140000Z DTEND:20260327T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871505801 DTSTART:20260328T160000Z DTEND:20260328T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871506826 DTSTART:20260329T160000Z DTEND:20260329T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871507851 DTSTART:20260330T140000Z DTEND:20260330T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871508876 DTSTART:20260331T140000Z DTEND:20260331T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871509901 DTSTART:20260401T140000Z DTEND:20260401T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871510926 DTSTART:20260402T140000Z DTEND:20260402T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871512976 DTSTART:20260404T160000Z DTEND:20260404T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871516050 DTSTART:20260406T140000Z DTEND:20260406T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871517075 DTSTART:20260407T140000Z DTEND:20260407T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871518100 DTSTART:20260408T140000Z DTEND:20260408T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871519125 DTSTART:20260409T140000Z DTEND:20260409T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871520150 DTSTART:20260410T140000Z DTEND:20260410T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871521175 DTSTART:20260411T160000Z DTEND:20260411T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871522200 DTSTART:20260412T160000Z DTEND:20260412T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871523225 DTSTART:20260413T140000Z DTEND:20260413T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871524250 DTSTART:20260414T140000Z DTEND:20260414T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871525275 DTSTART:20260415T140000Z DTEND:20260415T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871526300 DTSTART:20260416T140000Z DTEND:20260416T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004520Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871527325 DTSTART:20260417T140000Z DTEND:20260417T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871528350 DTSTART:20260418T160000Z DTEND:20260418T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871529375 DTSTART:20260419T160000Z DTEND:20260419T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871531425 DTSTART:20260421T140000Z DTEND:20260421T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871533474 DTSTART:20260422T140000Z DTEND:20260422T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871534499 DTSTART:20260423T140000Z DTEND:20260423T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871535524 DTSTART:20260424T140000Z DTEND:20260424T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871536549 DTSTART:20260425T160000Z DTEND:20260425T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871537574 DTSTART:20260426T160000Z DTEND:20260426T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871538599 DTSTART:20260427T140000Z DTEND:20260427T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871539624 DTSTART:20260428T140000Z DTEND:20260428T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871540649 DTSTART:20260429T140000Z DTEND:20260429T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871541674 DTSTART:20260430T140000Z DTEND:20260430T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871542699 DTSTART:20260501T140000Z DTEND:20260501T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871543724 DTSTART:20260502T160000Z DTEND:20260502T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871544749 DTSTART:20260503T160000Z DTEND:20260503T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871545774 DTSTART:20260504T140000Z DTEND:20260504T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871546799 DTSTART:20260505T140000Z DTEND:20260505T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871547824 DTSTART:20260506T140000Z DTEND:20260506T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871548849 DTSTART:20260507T140000Z DTEND:20260507T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871549874 DTSTART:20260508T140000Z DTEND:20260508T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871550899 DTSTART:20260509T160000Z DTEND:20260509T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871551924 DTSTART:20260510T160000Z DTEND:20260510T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871552949 DTSTART:20260511T140000Z DTEND:20260511T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871553974 DTSTART:20260512T140000Z DTEND:20260512T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871554999 DTSTART:20260513T140000Z DTEND:20260513T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871556024 DTSTART:20260514T140000Z DTEND:20260514T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871557049 DTSTART:20260515T140000Z DTEND:20260515T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871558074 DTSTART:20260516T160000Z DTEND:20260516T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871559099 DTSTART:20260517T160000Z DTEND:20260517T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871560124 DTSTART:20260518T140000Z DTEND:20260518T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871561149 DTSTART:20260519T140000Z DTEND:20260519T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871562174 DTSTART:20260520T140000Z DTEND:20260520T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871563199 DTSTART:20260521T140000Z DTEND:20260521T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871564224 DTSTART:20260522T140000Z DTEND:20260522T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871565249 DTSTART:20260523T160000Z DTEND:20260523T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871566274 DTSTART:20260524T160000Z DTEND:20260524T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871568324 DTSTART:20260526T140000Z DTEND:20260526T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871569349 DTSTART:20260527T140000Z DTEND:20260527T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871570374 DTSTART:20260528T140000Z DTEND:20260528T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871571399 DTSTART:20260529T140000Z DTEND:20260529T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871572424 DTSTART:20260530T160000Z DTEND:20260530T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261014T004521Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_51780871573449 DTSTART:20260531T160000Z DTEND:20260531T210000Z DESCRIPTION:Exhibition: Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Public Arts\n\nExamining the extraordinary impact the talented Yeats fami ly had on cultural life and the public arts in Ireland during a century cr ucial to its history\, the exhibition features over two hundred works from premier public and private collections. Paintings\, drawings\, prints\, e mbroideries\, books\, and letters by patriarch John Butler Yeats and his c hildren William\, Lily\, Elizabeth\, and Jack\, as well as William’s dau ghter\, Anne\, highlight examples of individual artistry. They also demons trate how the Yeats family’s artistic expression was varied and deeply c ollaborative. In illustrated poetry\, set designs\, embroideries for home and liturgical use\, printed broadsides\, paintings\, sketchbooks\, and ot her media\, the siblings drew upon each others’ acumen. These endeavors were often fraught with conflict\, resulting in creative tensions and fina ncial hardships. \n\nThe exhibition opens by exploring portraiture of fami ly members and representations of the places that were important to them. It moves on to objects illustrating the family’s engagement with youth a s a site of education\, entertainment\, and memory. Subsequent sections re veal how the Yeatses created objects that transformed private spaces throu gh imaginative innovation and material practices\, as well as how they sha ped public life through theater\, publishing and printing\, and visual rep resentations of a distinctive Irish identity as the nation established its elf post-independence. \n\nRecent gifts to Boston College anchor the exhib ition: Jack B. Yeats paintings and Lily Yeats Stations of the Cross embroi deries received by the McMullen Museum and additional acquisitions of Yeat s family materials by the John J. Burns Library. These are complemented by major loans from the Model\, home of the Niland Collection\, the National Gallery of Ireland\, the Library of Trinity College Dublin\, the O’Brie n Collection\, and the Collection of Carolyn A. and Peter S. Lynch. Supple mented by additional loans from other collections and anonymous lenders\, the exhibition constitutes the most expansive exploration of the Yeats fam ily’s contributions to the public arts to date. Many objects are publicl y displayed for the first time\, others for the first time outside Ireland .\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue\, edit ed by Marjorie Howes\, which includes fifteen essays contributed by an int erdisciplinary team of scholars who offer new insights into historical con texts and interpretive frameworks for studying the Yeatses. \n\nOrganized by the McMullen Museum in conjunction with the John J. Burns Library\, Col laborating in Conflict has been curated by Marjorie Howes\, Christian Dupo nt\, and Diana Larsen. The exhibition is underwritten by Boston College wi th major support from the Patrons of the McMullen Museum\, the John C. Don ohue Estate\, Robert ’63 and Ann Marie Reardon P’91\, and the Anna Fra nces Vegkeley Ryan Estate in memory of John Anthony Ryan Jr. ’50. Additi onal support has been provided by William J. Lundregan III\, Esq.\, ’62\ , JD’67\, P’93\, ’96 and Elaine Stein-Cummins in memory of Daniel Cu mmins ’58.\n\nBoston College’s Irish Studies program is organizing a s ymposium to accompany the exhibition. With lectures by experts in Ireland ’s visual arts\, theater and performance\, textiles and embroidery\, pri nting and publishing\, and social and cultural history\, it will be held a t Connolly House and the McMullen Museum on February 20 and 21. GEO:42.340795;-71.162583 LOCATION:McMullen Museum of Art SUMMARY:Exhibition: "Collaborating in Conflict: The Yeats Family and the Pu blic Arts" URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.bc.edu/event/exhibition-collaborating-in-confl ict-the-yeats-family-and-the-public-arts CATEGORIES:Arts CATEGORIES:Exhibition CATEGORIES:Visual Arts END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR