upcoming exhibition
Frank Lloyd Wright in Manchester: The Histories of the Zimmermans and Kalils
The Currier Museum of Art announces Frank Lloyd Wright in Manchester: The Histories of the Zimmermans and Kalils.
Drawn from the Currier’s extensive archives, this installation brings together letters, photographs, and original blueprints to tell the story of two clients who made a bold decision: to commission Frank Lloyd Wright—America’s most iconoclastic architect—to design their homes in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Wright himself never visited Manchester, yet his architectural vision took striking root here through the imaginations of Isadore and Lucille Zimmerman and Toufic and Mildred Kalil. Both families, led by visionary women, were drawn to Wright’s deeply unconventional approach to living and building. As physicians and relative outsiders to Manchester’s social fabric, the Zimmermans and Kalils may have found in Wright’s designs a mirror for their own values—modern, forward-looking, and unbound by tradition.
More than just buildings, the Zimmerman House (1950) and Kalil House (1955) are portraits of their patrons—intimate spaces shaped by radical ideas of harmony, nature, and domestic life. The personal histories behind these commissions reveal the often-overlooked fact that the story of Wright’s architecture is also the story of the clients who took aesthetic risk.
The Currier Museum is the only art museum in the country to steward two Frank Lloyd Wright homes, each open to the public through guided tours. This new installation offers essential context for visitors, enhancing the house tour experience with deeper insights into the creative partnerships and cultural moment that brought these modernist homes to life.
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artist in residence
Our Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program invites artists to live and work at the museum. While in residence, artists consider the collection and community, and refresh our perspectives on the role of the museum. The program is central to the Currier Museum’s mission of connecting our audiences with art and creative thinking, whether of the past or the future. We hope to learn from our visiting artists – and be surprised by their perspectives.
Artists working in all media participate in the AIR program, which has three main components: 1) an open call to support emerging artists making socially engaged art; 2) an invitational through which artists are selected to develop special projects, commissions, or exhibitions; and 3) artist-led, community-centered public art projects in the city of Nashua, NH.
Open Call for Artist in Residence Applications
Our annual open call is currently live from October 1 – December 1, 2022. Artists who share the museum’s goal of positively impacting communities through the transformative power of art are encouraged to apply to this residency.