Docent-led tours of Morven are available January through November, featuring a guided history of the home and exhibited collections. During Festival of Trees, the museum is open on an open house format. No formal tours will be given, however docents will be available to answer any questions. Please check Morven's Visit Page for hours.
Enthusiastic, Copyright 2009 Lonni Sue Johnson
Morven Museum and Garden is pleased to announce Puzzles of the Brain: An Artist’s Journey through Amnesia, an exhibition on loan from The Walters Museum of Art in Baltimore, MD.
The Walters has partnered with the Cognitive Science Department of the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Science at Johns Hopkins University to present a focus show exploring the impact of severe brain damage on the life and creativity of an artist.
The show tells the story of Lonni Sue Johnson, a successful artist and Princeton native, who drew for The New Yorker and The New York Times. She suffered severe amnesia resulting from an attack of encephalitis in late 2007. The illness caused substantial brain damage, resulting in the complete loss of artistic productivity. Through intensive art therapy led by her mother Margaret Kennard Johnson (also an accomplished artist), Johnson began to produce a portfolio of “recovery art.” Her art provides unique insight into the devastating effects of amnesia, as well as the complementary roles played by language and memory in her artistic expression. Johnson’s case gives researchers a rare opportunity to contribute to the scientific understanding of brain function and art, and to apply that understanding to an appreciation of the synergies between art and science.
Puzzles of the Brain: An Artist’s Journey through Amenisa has been organized by the Walters Art Museum in partnership with the Cognitive Science Department of the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at The Johns Hopkins University. The exhibition received generous support from the Johns Hopkins University Brain Science Institute, and the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. We gratefully acknowledge Aline Marie Johnson’s role in helping us tell Lonni Sue’s story.
Additional support is provided by:
Jack Morton Exhibits
PNC Wealth Management
Princeton Brain & Spine Care
Princeton Magazine
Rita Allen Foundation
For a list of programs in conjunction with this exhibit, please visit Morven’s events page.
Meconopsis Napaulensis, Blue Poppy. Photograph by Linda Rutenberg.
Morven Museum & Garden proudly hosts a photographic journey through the mysterious realm of the nocturnal garden. Photographer Linda Rutenberg has travelled to thirty-five international gardens over the last five years in an effort to capture the world that comes alive as most of us close our eyes for the night. The result is an experience that transcends the usual daytime walk through a garden. Ms. Rutenberg has chosen well-known public gardens as her subjects ranging from Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania to the San Francisco Botanical Gardens in California. Discover the theatrical, colorful and sensuous world of The Garden at Night.
Join us for programs associated with this exhibit:
Opening Reception
Thursday, June 14, 2012, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
A Photographic Journey: The Garden at Night, A Lecture by Linda Rutenberg
Friday, June 15, 2012, 10:00 a.m.
call 609.924.8144 x. 106 for reservations