The Riverside Press-Enterprise
Art museum offers weekend programs
Programs related to the Claremont Museum of Art’s exhibition “John Frame: Mephistopheles and the Swan Girl” are planned for Saturday and Sunday at the museum.
The first is “John Frame: Short Films and Insights,” at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday.
In the program, Frame, a Wrightwood artist and graduate of Claremont Graduate University, will screen several of his very short films, some of which have not been shown publicly before, according to a news release.
The free program includes a question-and-answer session.
The film program will be followed by Art Walk from 6 to 9 p.m. with a wine reception and dancing on the Depot Plaza.
On Sunday, Artstation will return to the Claremont Museum of Art on Free Family Day, after a twoyear pause. High school students in Project ARTSTART will lead families in creating art projects related to the exhibition “John Frame: Mephistopheles and the Swan Girl.”
Artstation, on the first Sunday of the month, features lessons developed to help children explore different aspects of the exhibition as well as their own imaginative capabilities.
The exhibition “John Frame: Mephistopheles and the Swan Girl,” at the museum through April 24, presents work by artist John Frame based on his production designs for the 2018 staging of Gounod’s “Faust” by the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Portland Opera. It also includes Frame’s work on the Academy Award-winning short film “The Swan Girl.” (2016). Both projects relate to the Faust story.
Frame has been making sculpture in Southern California since the early 1980s, and his work has been exhibited extensively in the United States as well as in Europe, Japan and China. He is a two-time recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and has received a New Talent Award from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and a J. Paul Getty Museum Individual Artist Fellowship.
The exhibition is sponsored by the Haskell Fund and Dr. Norman Cadman.
The Claremont Museum of Art, in the historic Claremont Depot at 200 W. First St., is open from noon to 4 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. For information, go to claremontmuseum.org.