Mural goes multisensory

Mural by Sante Graziani at the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, in Springfield, Mass.

The museum explains:

“Sante Graziani submitted the winning design to a mural competition hosted by the Springfield Museums. The artist’s mural, which was painted in 1947 and celebrates Springfield’s vibrant artistic community, remains on view in its original location at the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts. In celebration of the 75th anniversary of Graziani’s mural, the Springfield Museums invite visitors to explore a custom-made tactile reproduction of the artwork. This multisensory interactive includes buttons and sensors that activate audio recordings and encourage visitors to engage with the mural through touch and sound.’’

Sweetening a false spring

Making maple syrup in the New England woods (hand-painted lithograph, 1856), by Nathaniel Currier, at the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Mass.

Her only vice

"Untitled,'' by Gertrude Kasebier (1852-1934), in the show "Photo-Secession: Painterly Masterworks of Turn of the Century Photos,'' at the D'Amour Museum of Fine Art, Springfield, Mass., starting April 12.