NEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION
76 BELLEVUE AVENUE, NEWPORT, RI 02840 www.newportartmuseum.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: THE MUSEUM'S MISSION IS TO CHAMPION A PROVOCATIVE DIVERSITY OF CREATIVE VOICES AND EXPERIENCES WITHIN A HISTORIC NEWPORT SETTING.

THE MISSION OF THE NEWPORT ART MUSEUM IS TO CHAMPION A PROVOCATIVE DIVERSITY OF CREATIVE VOICES AND EXPERIENCES WITHIN A HISTORIC NEWPORT SETTING, THUS SPARKING REFLECTION, INSPIRATION, DISCOVERY, AND CONNECTION TO OURSELVES, OUR COMMUNITY AND OUR WORLD. THE ART ASSOCIATION OF NEWPORT, NOW THE NEWPORT ART MUSEUM, WAS FOUNDED IN 1912 ON THE BELIEF THAT ART IS A CIVILIZING INFLUENCE AND AN ESSENTIAL COMPONENT TO CREATING VIBRANT COMMUNITIES. CHARTER MEMBERS INCLUDED GERTRUDE VANDERBILT WHITNEY, PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR MAUD HOWE ELLIOTT, LOUISA STURTEVANT, AND OTHER ARTISTS AND INTELLECTUALS. THE MUSEUM'S CAMPUS SITS ON 3-ACRES AND INCLUDES THREE BUILDINGS, INCLUDING THE FORMER JOHN N.A. GRISWOLD HOUSE, WHICH IS ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES, THE HISTORICALLY- SIGNIFICANT CUSHING GALLERY, AND THE COLEMAN CENTER FOR CREATIVE STUDIES, WHERE THE MUSEUM SCHOOL IS LOCATED. THE MUSEUM'S COLLECTION CONSISTS OF NEARLY 3,000 WORKS OF ART IN A RANGE OF MEDIA INCLUDING WORKS ON P

THE MUSEUM CARES FOR A COLLECTION OF OVER 2,600 ART OBJECTS, ACQUIRES NEW COLLECTION PIECES EACH YEAR, AND SERVES ITS COMMUNITY THROUGH EXHIBITIONS, PUBLIC PROGRAMS, STUDIO ARTS EDUCATION, ARTS OUTREACH, AND PRESERVES ITS HISTORIC BUILDINGS, ALL OF WHICH HAVE RECEIVED REGIONAL AND NATIONAL RECOGNITION.

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