Newark Stories

Exhibition Design & Graphic Design

June 6th, 2016 - June 25th 2017

Newark Stories helps usher in the 350th anniversary of Newark by telling the stories of four Newerkers who were key benefactors to the Museum and influential on its broad collections.  Lida Clanton Broner, Caroline Bamberger Fuld, Howard W. Hayes and W. Clark Symington’s’ collections all remind us of the strength of different interests and perspectives in collecting. Collections in the exhibition range from South African art to Asian bronze and ceramics as well as many works by Modern American Artists. One of the sections focuses on Lida Clanton Broner,  a hardworking Newarker who collected 100 works of beadwork, pottery, mission school crafts and other personal items on a personal journey to South Africa.  These works would be displayed at the Newark Museum in 1943, and be seen as the first exhibition of South African art in an American Museum.  Later much of this collection would be donated to the Newark Museum and can be seen on view in Newark Stories.