via email:
Forever & Today, Inc.
141 Division Street
New York, NY 10002
info@foreverandtoday.org
www.foreverandtoday.org
Forever & Today hosts Tea Symposium in Honor of Future Historical Importance
Presented by The Division Museum of Ceramics and Glassware
Tea served by Barbara Choit, Founder/Director
Saturday, February 28, 2009, 12-6 pm
The Division Museum of Ceramics and
Glassware
is pleased to present Tea Symposium
in Honor of Future Historical Importance.
Please join us for a cup of tea at Forever & Today this Saturday, February 28, and allow us to make you a permanent member of the Friends and Founders of the Division Museum.
At the Tea Symposium, visitors to the event will not only have the opportunity to facilitate the Museum's expansion of its collection but will have the chance to become part of the history of the 21st Century, preserved by the Museum.
All guests will be encouraged, upon finishing their tea, to smash their cups; the fragments will then be collected and entered into the Museum's registry, along with any debris that will contribute the rich history of our times.
The Museum acquires all of its ceramic and glass items from a group of benefactors officially known as the Friends and Founders of the Division Museum of Ceramics and Glassware. While their collecting interests vary immensely in terms of subject matter, specialization, and enthusiasm, each individual possesses a large enough group of ceramic and glass items to be considered a collection worthy of archiving. These items have been de-accessioned from their former owners because they are cracked, chipped, or shattered.
We gratefully rely on the benevolence of The Friends and Founders, who generously engage in the act of fragmenting their own consummated collections to forward the Museum's pursuit of completeness.
ABOUT THE DIVISION MUSEUM OF CERAMICS AND GLASSWARE
The Division Museum of Ceramics and Glassware is the only private institution in New York City dedicated to the future historical importance of 21st Century ceramics and glassware. Founded in 2004 by distinguished ceramics collector Barbara Choit, the Museum exclusively collects damaged ceramic and glass items, primarily everyday items of food preparation and consumption.
It is the mission of the Museum to preserve these artifacts in their current condition. Within the fields of both historical archaeology and anthropology the study of ceramic fragments have come to define the activities and values of lost cultures. We preserve these contemporary artifacts as fragments in the service of future historical import. The impact of the Museum will extend to its benefactors, who in building the Museum’s collection, succeed in establishing the Museum as an institution in which they founded.
ABOUT FOREVER & TODAY, INC.
Forever & Today, Inc., is a new, non-profit-oriented initiative that is a sponsored organization of the New York Foundation for the Arts. Currently inhabiting a 100 square foot storefront on the cusp between New York’s Lower East Side and Chinatown, Forever & Today is a mere thumbprint on the ever-expanding demographic of contemporary art that offers a unique set of circumstances for artists to create new work and engage the public.
Directors Ingrid Chu and Savannah Gorton formed a curatorial partnership in 2008 to found Forever & Today, Inc. As an organization with no fixed identity and a playful sensibility, projects may take the form of exhibitions, site-specific installations, publications, editions, and public programs, focusing on a collaboration with a single artist.
