Message from the Director of the Snite Museum of Art

Author: Snite Museum of Art

To Our Museum Community and Beyond:

Images. We live in a world filled with images. Small and large, handheld and wall-mounted, still and moving, images fill our daily life. In recent days, horrifying images of senseless violence and death have added clarity to the injustices rampant in the world we share. From the devastating death of George Floyd recorded on film and shared, the global community was presented with undeniable visual evidence of racism and inequality, yet again.…

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Raclin, Murphys make lead gift for new art museum at Notre Dame

Author: Snite Museum of Art

Raclin Murphy Xmas PhotoLeft to right: Carmen Murphy, her mother Ernestine Raclin, husband Chris Murphy.

Longtime philanthropists in the greater South Bend community – Ernestine Raclin and her daughter and son-in-law Carmen and Chris Murphy – have made a lead gift to the University of Notre Dame for the construction of a new community asset, the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art at Notre Dame.…

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