Past Programs
December 2021
FAMILY ART SESSIONS
Hands-on for the Holidays
Week of December 26 – December 31
Sarasota Art Museum
1 pm – 3 pm
FREE for Members
Included with Museum Admission
This year, the Museum is introducing a new lineup of art-making activities for all ages. Whatever your holiday traditions, Sarasota Art Museum is here to help you make new memories and revisit cherished ones. Visit our studios and enjoy drop in hands on art-making activities with a professional artist-educator. From snow globes to imaginary animal portraits, you’re sure to find activities to spark creativity and fun.
Sunday, Dec. 26 – Create your own Winter Scene Snow Globes. We’ll play in the studio with oil pastels, watercolors, and fine lines.
Monday, Dec. 27 – Inspired by the beauty of birch and aspen trees, we’ll paint together in our Into The Woods workshop.
Tuesday, Dec. 28 – Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my! Drop into our studio and make your own glittering Imaginary Animals.
Wednesday, Dec. 29 – Celebrate one of our favorite spirit animals in the Turtles and Tides workshop. We’ll explore these magical creatures and the patterns and textures that define them.
Thursday, Dec. 30 – Capture the essence of this adorable primate in our Lemur Portraits studio.
Friday, Dec. 31 – Boom, crack, pop! It’s time to ring in the new year. Let’s create a sky full of light and color in our Cityscape Fireworks workshop.
November 2021
CURATOR TALK
David Budd: Motion Within Stillness
Emory Conetta and Tim Jaeger
Thursday, November 4
6pm – In the galleries
Co-curators Emory Conetta and Tim Jaeger will speak about David Budd’s unique approach to abstract painting and the various evolutions of this painting technique the artist explored in the 1970s.
This Curator Talk will take place in the 3rd Floor Tom & Sherry Koski Gallery so that the artwork can be experienced during the program.
October 2021
CURATOR TALK
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott
Lowery Stokes Sims, Joe Lewis, & Barry Blinderman
Thursday, October 28
6pm – Via Zoom
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott is co-curated by Lowery Stokes Sims and Matthew Weseley, and organized by Raphaela Platow, the Contemporary Arts Center’s Alice & Harris Weston Director and Chief Curator. Following its debut in Cincinnati, the exhibition travelled to the Portland Art Museum, Sarasota Art Museum and Chicago Cultural Center.
Additional support for this exhibition has been generously provided by:
Ernie Kretzmer Gerald and Sondra Biller |
Music on the plaza
SPIN - Featuring FABI WORLD MUSIC
Thursday 14 October 6 pm – 8 pm
Marcy & Michael Klein Plaza
Join us for SPIN on Thursday, August 19, in the Marcy and Michael Klein Plaza for our live music and movement program.
ABOUT FABI WORLD MUSIC
Fabi World Music is an acoustic trio that explores world music with a Miami twist. Fabi World Music is known for their world beat-rootsy-grooves.
BISTRO will be open with full-bar and food menu.
Bistro SPIN Menu
- Guava and cheese pastelitos
- Miami Chopped- charred corn, hearts of palm, avocado cilantro dressing
- Rice Bowl- Black beans, charred corn, avocado, cilantro, smoked tomato vinaigrette
- Columbian style hot dogs with plantain chips- potato sticks, roasted pineapple, pink sauce
- Churros with dulce de leche
September 2021
BISTRO COOKING DEMOS
Thailand
Thursday, September 30
5 pm – 8 pm
Bistro
- Green papaya Salad and a lesson on condiments in Thailand
- Pad Thai you can make at home
- Mango Sticky rice
SPOTLIGHT TALK
Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott
Tuesday, September 28
6 pm
Via Zoom
Spotlight Talks prompt consideration of ideas related to exhibitions and artworks currently on view at the Museum that are not present in exhibition or online text, making each program a unique conversation and experience to engage with the work in new ways.
BISTRO COOKING DEMOS
India
Thursday, September 16
5 pm – 8 pm
Bistro
- Garlic naan bread with black dahl
- Biriyani and raita
- Mango Lassi
CURATOR TALK
Charles McGill: In the Rough
Guest curator Joe Lewis
Thursday, September 9
6 pm
Via Zoom
While trained as a figurative painter, Charles McGill is celebrated for his assemblage works that re-purpose the plastic, steel, leather, vinyl, and hardware from vintage golf bags, transforming the accessory and game of golf from a symbol of exclusion and privilege to a site for discussions surrounding racial and class inequities.
August 2021
BISTRO COOKING DEMOS
Greece
Thursday 26 August 5 pm – 8 pm
Bistro
- The Greek salad of my youth
- Falafel with all the dips and sauces
- Baklava
July 2021
MUSIC ON THE PLAZA
SPIN - Featuring The Hongs
Thursday 15 July 6 – 8 pm
Marcy & Michael Klein Plaza
Join us for SPIN every third Thursday this summer in the Marcy and Michael Klein Plaza for our live music and movement program.
ABOUT THE HONGS
Multinational Afro-Beat/electronic rock group, The Hongs, was formed by Jamaican-born musician, Gordon Myers, and have since become one of the most popular bands of the international Miami music scene.
The Hongs blend elements of Afro-Beat/electro-pop with nu-wave creating a unique sound. Spreading the dance/Afro-Beat/rock/electro/house hybrid one toe at a time…The Hongs inspire Art.
BISTRO – SPIN MENU
BISTRO will be open with a full bar and food menu.
BISTRO SPIN SPECIALS
- ROASTED CHICKEN AND CORN EMPANADAS with chipotle aioli
- SPINACH AND MANCHEGO EMPANADAS
- ARUGULA WITH CHARRED CORN warm bacon vinaigrette and heirloom tomatoes
- BLACKENED MAHI SANDWICH with house made tartar sauce and chips
- TRES LECHE CAKE with cinnamon whipped cream
June 2021
MUSIC ON THE PLAZA
SPIN - Featuring Shantel Norman & Co.
Thursday 17 June 6 – 8 pm
Marcy & Michael Klein Plaza
ABOUT SHANTEL NORMAN & CO.
Considered one of the best singers in the United States, this native of Lexington, North Carolina will lighten up your evening with pop, rock, soul, and funk.
Shantel Norman was a contestant on the Apollo Theater Amateur Night in New York City, Triad Idol (North Carolina), and appeared on ABC Network’s reality show Karaoke Battle USA, which was hosted by Joey Fatone (N-Sync), with panel judges Carnie Wilson (Wilson Phillips), Joe Levy (Editor-in-Chief, Rolling Stone and Maxim magazines), and Brian “The Cowboy” Scott (Former Karaoke World Champion, and Country Songwriter).
BISTRO – SPIN MENU
BISTRO will be open with a full bar and food menu.
BISTRO SPIN SPECIALS
- Watermelon Salad with mint and feta and a white balsamic vinaigrette
- Roasted beet and goat cheese tartine
- Pear, gorgonzola, and truffle balsamic flatbread
- Smoked Salmon with dill cream, heirloom tomatoes, and herb salad on ciabatta
- Bison meatball sliders
- Watermelon Gin cooler with rosemary
May 2021
FREE DAY
Free Day Activities
Sunday 30 May
Museum Free Day is the last Sunday of every month.
Join us for Museum Free Day!
Bring your friends and family to explore new art and thought-provoking exhibitions, and participate in our fun activities.
Mary’s Front Porch – 11:15 am to 12:00 pm
Imagine sitting on a front porch and curling up to a good book. Let your imagination glide along as the words take you to another place. Absorbing the words brings about knowledge, imagination, and exposure to vocabulary. Encouraging a thirst for knowledge, the Front Porch is where children of all ages can share their imagination and creativity.
Musical Interludes – 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
All instrumental – performers are local musicians. First musician/group is the Michael Ross Trio. Mr. Ross’s motto is: “Get a good sound, swing hard, and play the bass like a bass.”
What is your medium?- 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Many individuals come to the museum to view the art but many may not understand the art medium that the artist utilizes to express their art movement. What is your medium? is a program that can be offered either during Free Day where each individual have the opportunity to learn a particular medium – it is an introductory class and at the end of the session, each individual will receive a brown bag to carry the supplies that are given to take home. This program can be both an exhibition-related and non-exhibition-related program. This will allow the museum to engage with the teaching artists group here in Sarasota. This program is an art driven life for everyone. First art medium is: Watercolor.
Lunch & Learn : Express art history talks
La Musa Azul with Carl Abbott
Tuesday 25 May 12 pm
FREE for Museum Members; $10 not-yet Museum Members
RSVP required.
LUNCH & LEARN: EXPRESS ART HISTORY TALKS
Perfect Objects: Michael Thonet's No. 14 Chair
Tuesday 18 May 12 pm
Marcy & Michael Klein Plaza
Movement at the Museum
YOGA FOR ALL
Sunday 16 May 10 am
Marcy & Michael Klein Plaza
The Movement Series unites mind and body for a holistic art experience.
Bistro Cooking Demo
Italy
Thursday 13 May 5:30 pm
Bistro
Italy Menu
- Classic Negroni Cocktail
- Crudo Two Ways: Tuna Crudo with caperberries & Snapper Crudo with pistachio and mint
- Branzino — Olives, charred lemon, parsley
- Chocolate Budino with Amaretti crumble
Music on the plaza
Ariel Blue
Saturday 8 May 11 am – 1 pm
Marcy & Michael Klein Plaza
MOVEMENT AT THE MUSEUM
Meditation for ALL
Marcy & Michael Klein Plaza
FAMILY DAY
Look, Talk, Create!
Saturday 1 May 2 pm – 4 pm
Thomas McGuire Hall
Look: Enjoy the Janaina Tschäpe: Between the Sky and the Water exhibition prior to Family Day activities. Admission is free for those 17 and under accompanied by an adult.
Enjoy: Come enjoy lunch specials at the Bistro prior to the presentation and art-making activities. Specials include: Waffles with strawberries and whipped cream, red velvet whoopie pies, and strawberry Shirley Temples.
Talk: Seating for the presentation and art-making activities will open at 2pm. At 2:15pm, we will start our interactive presentation, where Emory Conetta, the Museum’s Curatorial Assistant, will guide us in exploring the works in the exhibition, and Ross Johnston, an Environmental Scientist, will speak on the aquatic animals that can be experienced in the Museum’s current exhibition and the importance of recycling and reuse to protect our oceans and wildlife.
Create: Use materials provided by the Museum to create your own aquatic-inspired artwork to take home!
Sponsored by:
April 2021
Lunch & Learn: Express Art History Talks
The Architecture of Paul Rudolph
Tuesday 27 April 12 pm
Virtual – via Zoom
Join us for this virtual program to learn about the architecture of Paul Rudolph with the Museum’s Curatorial Assistant, Emory Conetta.
ARTIST TALK
Janaina Tschäpe
Wednesday 21 April 7:30 pm
6-7 pm Prix Fixe Dinner (Optional)
Marcy & Michael Klein Plaza
Movement at the Museum
YOGA FOR ALL
Sunday 18 April 10 am
Marcy & Michael Klein Plaza
The Movement Series unites mind and body for a holistic art experience.
FAMILY DAY
Look, Talk, Create!
Saturday 10 April 2 pm – 4 pm
Thomas McGuire Hall
Look: Enjoy the Janaina Tschäpe: Between the Sky and the Water exhibition prior to Family Day activities.
Admission is free for those 17 and under accompanied by an adult.
Talk: Emory Conetta, the Museum’s Curatorial Assistant, and Ross Johnston from Mote Marine will speak on the aquatic animals that can be experienced both at Mote and in the Museum’s current exhibition, Janaina Tschäpe: Between the Sky and the Water.
Create: Use materials similar to the artist to create your own aquatic-inspired artwork to take home!
Sponsored by:
ARCHITECT TALK
Carl Abbott
Thursday 8 April 6:30 pm
Thomas McGuire Hall
Lunch & Learn: Express Art History Talks
The Architecture of M. Leo Elliott
Thursday 8 April 12 pm
Marcy & Michael Klein Plaza
Grab lunch from Bistro and join us to learn about the Museum Campus architecture by M. Leo Elliott
March 2021
Lunch & Learn: Express Art History Talks
Zen Jail by JPW3
Thursday 25 March 12 pm
Marcy & Michael Klein Plaza
Grab lunch from the Bistro and join us to learn about JPW3’s Zen Jail.
Movement at the Museum
YOGA FOR ALL
Sunday 21 March 10 am
Marcy & Michael Klein Plaza
The Movement Series unites mind and body for a holistic art experience.
Lunch & Learn: Express Art History Talks
Perfect Objects: The Paperclip
Tuesday 2 March 12 pm
McGuire Hall
The Perfect Objects series puts the spotlight on iconic design objects and why they are so enduring.
February 2021
Lunch & Learn: Express Art History Talks
Zen Jail by JPW3
Thursday 25 February 12 pm
Marcy & Michael Klein Plaza
Grab lunch from the Bistro and join us to learn about JPW3’s Zen Jail.
Movement at the Museum
YOGA FOR ALL
Sunday 21 February 10 am
Marcy & Michael Klein Plaza
The Movement Series unites mind and body for a holistic art experience.
Lunch & Learn: Express Art History Talks
Perfect Objects: Timex Watch
Tuesday 16 February 12 pm
McGuire Hall
The Perfect Objects series puts the spotlight on iconic design objects and why they are so enduring.
Movement at the Museum
Meditation for ALL
Sunday 14 February 10 am
Suhler Gallery
The Movement Series unites mind and body for a holistic art experience.
Lunch & Learn: Express Art History Talks
La Musa Azul by Carl Abbott
Thursday 11 February 12 pm
Marcy & Michael Klein Plaza
Grab lunch from the Bistro and join us to learn about Carl Abbott’s La Musa Azul installation from one of the Museum’s crew members!
January 2021
Lunch & Learn: Express Art History Talks
Architecture: Paul Rudolph & M. Leo Elliott
Thursday 28 January 12 pm
Marcy & Michael Klein Plaza
Grab lunch from the Bistro and join us to learn about the Museum Campus architecture by Paul Rudolph & M. Leo Elliott.
May 2020
ARTIST TALK
Architecture in the Anthropocene
Max Strang
Thursday 7 May 6pm
April 2020
ARTIST TALK
Leah Rosenberg
Thursday 30 April 6pm
PERFORMANCE
The Shock of the New
Sunday 19 April 3pm
ARTIST TALK
The Work and Influences of Jennifer Packer
Sunday 19 April 1pm
FILM SCREENING
The Last Green Thread
Saturday 18 April 4pm
18 min
SCHOOL OF THOUGHT
Frank Sirmans
Thursday 16 April 6pm
MASTER CLASS
THE ART MARKET: What’s Up with that Banana, Anyway?
Tuesday 14 April 10am - 12pm
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED: ART SINCE THE 60s
Conclusion & Discussion
Tuesday 7 April 6pm
This session will recap the previous 14 talks. If you missed them, this will be a fun “speed art history” session!
This talk is part of an on-going art history series titled, This is What Happened: Art Since the 60s. These sessions are open to the general public and double as a core component of the Museum’s docent training program.
March 2020
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED: ART SINCE THE 60s
The 90s Part II Relational Aesthetics & Immersive Installation
Tuesday 31 March 6pm
This talk is part of an on-going art history series titled, This is What Happened: Art Since the 60s. These sessions are open to the general public and double as a core component of the Museum’s docent training program.
THE MEMORY PROJECT
Let's Talk : Dr. Thomas W. (Bill) Clyburn, PH.D.
Saturday 21 March 4 pm
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED: ART SINCE THE 60s
The 90s Part I Photography & Identity
Tuesday 17 March 6 pm
Our preferred medium of verisimilitude can’t help but form a relationship to our sense of self. See how these twinned practices intersected in the 90s.
This talk is part of an on-going art history series titled, This is What Happened: Art Since the 60s. These sessions are open to the general public and double as a core component of the Museum’s docent training program.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED: ART SINCE THE 60s
Painting is Dead. Long Live Painting. Painting in the 80s
Tuesday 3 March 6 pm
We humans have been at this painting thing for a long time. It keeps dying, and it keeps coming back. Why?
This talk is part of an on-going art history series titled, This is What Happened: Art Since the 60s. These sessions are open to the general public and double as a core component of the Museum’s docent training program.
February 2020
ARTIST TALK
Dan Cameron on Tony Feher
Thursday 27 February 6 pm
Dan Cameron is a New York-based curator, art writer, arts administrator, archivist and educator. Cameron was Senior Curator at the New Museum from 1995 to 2006, and he is the founder of Prospect New Orleans. He was Chief Curator at Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, California from 2012 to 2015 and has headed major international projects since then. As part of Color. Theory. & (b/w), Cameron guest curated three works by artist Tony Feher. Following heightened political activism on AIDS-related issues and his own health struggles, Feher’s artistic practice evolved into discovering devalued objects whose “colors and forms conveyed the clarity and simplicity in their found state that matched the ideal in Feher’s own mind.”
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED: ART SINCE THE 60s
Global Pop
Tuesday 18 February 2020 6pm
Take a tour around the world to see how “Pop Art” takes on the vernacular.
This talk is part of an on-going art history series titled, This is What Happened: Art Since the 60s. These sessions are open to the general public and double as a core component of the Museum’s docent training program.
Waste Land
Thursday 13 February 2020 6pm
Directed by Lucy Walker
98 min.
Waste Land follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of catadores—self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz’s initial objective was to “draw” the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives.
January 2020
How to Look at Art with Jerry Saltz
Thursday 23 January 2020 6pm
A special evening with one of the art world’s most celebrated and passionate voices, Jerry Saltz. Jerry Saltz is the senior art critic at New York Magazine and its entertainment site, Vulture. He is the winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism and the 2019 National Magazine Award.
Before joining New York Magazine, Saltz had been art critic for The Village Voice since 1998 and was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize during his tenure there. Saltz is both the go-to broadcast commentariat on art world issues (i.e. Koons’ Rabbit sale) and one of the rare art critics who manages to make criticism both smart and fun. A frequent guest lecturer, he has spoken at the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Whitney Museum, and many others and has appeared at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, and numerous other prestigious venues.
Saltz’ new book How to be an Artist will be published by Riverhead Books in March 2020.
Jerry Saltz’s How to look at Art was part of the Museum’s How to… series which takes a look at the simple approach to the complex challenges of life to look at how we might best live in the world today. For example, How to…Eat when hundreds of millions of people around the globe are food insecure or worse, how should we eat for the health of our planet and the health of our bodies? Nutritionists, environmentalists, chefs and policy experts will weigh in on the subject. How to…Build looks at what materials are both cost effective and have limited extraction impact? How should we prepare our buildings to withstand the ravages of a constantly shifting climate? Should government agencies mandate style? Listen to architects, climate scientists and urban planners discuss. How to…Write a Letter looks at some epic correspondence from the past and examines what it takes to craft a letter in an era of tweets and texts. How to… Read the Newspaper looks at the editorial process to see how the print edition is shaped to establish hierarchies of information. How to…Think welcomes a philosopher, an educator and a brain scientist to discuss how we process information and how we can develop our critical thinking faculties in a world of overstimulation.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED: ART SINCE THE 60s
What Happened? Conclusion & Discussion
Tuesday 14 January 2020 6pm
What happened during This is What Happened? This interactive session will draw some conclusions, find patterns and themes, open up new paths of exploration and evaluation for the period and set the stage for the Spring series, Art Now: Art Since the 90s.
This talk is the conclusion to the art history series titled, This is What Happened: Art Since the 60s. The next series will start in Spring 2020. These sessions are open to the general public and double as a core component of the Museum’s docent training program.
ART ON FILM
Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz
Thursday 9 January 2019 6pm
Worst Possible Illusion is an intimate look at the creative life and work of one of the art world’s most heralded artists, Vik Muniz. The film follows Muniz on a whimsical, world-hopping journey from his studio in Brooklyn, New York, to his native Brazil to see his grandmother; to Chicago, his first home in the United States where he worked as a gas-station attendant and pushed carts in a grocery store; to Arizona, where he creates a gigantic bone drawing in the desert and goes to extraordinary lengths to capture it on film. In this engaging documentary, Muniz charmingly articulates his modus operandi and philosophies, providing the viewer with an enchanting, intimate and humorous glimpse into his creative life and work. After the screening, find out how to draw in the sky, hire a helicopter to shoot an earthwork and capture it all on film during the Q&A with the filmmaker.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED: ART SINCE THE 60s
Video & Digital Art
Tuesday 7 January 2020 6pm
2019
November 2019
ART ON FILM
Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz
Thursday 14 November 2019 6pm
Worst Possible Illusion is an intimate look at the creative life and work of one of the art world’s most heralded artists, Vik Muniz. The film follows Muniz on a whimsical, world-hopping journey from his studio in Brooklyn, New York, to his native Brazil to meet his grandmother; to Chicago, his first home in the United States, where he worked as a gas-station attendant and pushed carts in a grocery store; to Arizona, where he creates a gigantic drawing in the desert and goes to extraordinary lengths to capture it on film. In this engaging documentary, Muniz charmingly articulates his modus operandi and philosophy, providing the viewer with an enchanting, intimate and humorous glimpse into his creative life and work.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED: ART SINCE THE 60s
Feminist Art
Tuesday 26 November 2019 6pm
This talk is part of an on-going art history series titled, This is What Happened: Art Since the 60s. These sessions are open to the general public and double as a core component of the Museum’s docent training program.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED: ART SINCE THE 60s
Minimalism
Tuesday 19 November 2019 6pm
Long misunderstood, “Minimalism” has become a catchall phrase for “less is more”, but what were these artists truly examining through their pioneering investigations of space? Learn about how both Warhol and Judd can be considered “Minimalists” and how art exhibitions and artist communities shape our ideas about what constitutes a “movement”.
This talk is part of an on-going art history series titled, This is What Happened: Art Since the 60s. These sessions are open to the general public and double as a core component of the Museum’s docent training program.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED: ART SINCE THE 60s
Social Sculpture
Tuesday 12 November 2019 6pm
Each generation creates a new moniker for these related practices—Social Sculpture, Relational Aesthetics, Social Practice Art. Central to all of these movements is the notion that art is a transformative agent in shaping society, and that the role of the citizen is to engage as an active agent in the process of bringing about the world.
This talk is part of an on-going art history series titled, This is What Happened: Art Since the 60s. These sessions are open to the general public and double as a core component of the Museum’s docent training program.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED: ART SINCE THE 60s
Earth Art
Tuesday 5 November 2019 6pm
“Earth Day” officially began in 1970, but artists have long been engaged with the natural world, as the history of landscape painting can attest. Learn about how artists of this period took their environmental interests, combined them with political activism and exploration beyond the museum-gallery system, and created a new generation of “Earth Art”.
This talk is part of an on-going art history series titled, This is What Happened: Art Since the 60s. These sessions are open to the general public and double as a core component of the Museum’s docent training program.
October 2019
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED: ART SINCE THE 60s
Conceptual & Process Art
Tuesday 29 October 2019 6pm
Inspired by anti-consumerist gestures, a rising interest in non-western cosmologies, and a desire to ensure the prominence of ideas over objects, so-called “Conceptual Art” resonates with the rise of “experienced-based” consumer phenomena we are witnessing today. This session will examine the wide-ranging set of investigations circulating around the “dematerialization of art”.
This talk is part of an on-going art history series titled, This is What Happened: Art Since the 60s. These sessions are open to the general public and double as a core component of the Museum’s docent training program.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED: ART SINCE THE 60s
Happenings & Performance
Tuesday 22 October 2019 6pm
Visual artists have long toyed with performance and play, and engaged in a variety of experimental, experiential gestures that blur the lines of visual art and theatre. Learn about the early origins of performance, such as Dada’s “Cabaret Voltaire“, that laid the groundwork for everyone from Allan Kaprow through Gutai to the Viennese Actionists.
This talk is part of an on-going art history series titled, This is What Happened: Art Since the 60s. These sessions are open to the general public and double as a core component of the Museum’s docent training program.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED: ART SINCE THE 60s
Prehistory of Postmodernism
Tuesday 15 October 2019 6pm
When the radical group of artists who came to be known as the Impressionists burst onto the scene in 1874, our ideas about “art” were forever changed, and the notion of the avant-garde was born. While the art emerging in the 1960s may have seemed shocking and new, these revolutionary gestures are rooted in an earlier era. Learning about “contemporary art” from the 1860s will help you grasp and appreciate the new, now.
This talk is part of an on-going art history series titled, This is What Happened: Art Since the 60s. These sessions are open to the general public and double as a core component of the Museum’s docent training program.
April 2019
CURATOR TALK
Dr. Alicia Longwell
Thursday 18 April 2019 6pm
Dr. Longwell, Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator at the Parrish Art Museum in Long Island, will discuss the curatorial program of the Parrish, developed over her thirty-five year tenure at the Museum. She has organized numerous survey and solo exhibitions on Marsden Hartley, Frederick Kiesler, Dorothea Rockburne, Alan Shields, and Jack Youngerman. Longwell received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where her dissertation topic was John Graham, the subject of a retrospective she organized for the Parrish Art Museum in 2017.
CURATOR TALK
Valerie Cassel Oliver
Thursday 4 April 2019 6pm
Join us for a conversation with Valerie Cassel Oliver, Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Previously the Senior Curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, she also co-curated the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Biennial Exhibition in 2000 and directed the Visiting Artists Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She will be speaking on her curatorial practice and her most recent project co-curating the first major survey of the work of Howardena Pindell.
March 2019
CURATOR TALK
Sheila Hicks: Material Voices
Thursday 21 March 2019 6pm
Drawing on global weaving traditions, the history of painting and sculpture, and architecture, Sheila Hicks has redefined how fiber is used to create art, influencing a generation of artists. Curator Karin Campbell of Joslyn Art Museum will share how Hick’s oeuvre has taken shape over time and discuss the essential links between the artist’s work and lived experience.
MASTER CLASS
Part II: Collector's Series
Tuesday 12 March 2019 10am
Master Classes offer a deeper look at various subjects, though are designed for any level, so no advance training is required. The Connoisseurship Series is a 3-part series, and need not be done in order as the courses will rotate continuously.
PART II: We all gather things around us, but what makes a “collection”? What is the difference between “shopping” and “collecting”? An art collection is a highly personalized reflection of the collector — one’s values, one’s interests, one’s ‘taste.’ Are you interested in starting a collection? Do you have art, but not sure if it constitutes a collection? This Master Class will look at some extraordinary collections and collectors, examine what makes a great collection, and offer insight into how to develop a collection, on any budget.
PERFORMANCE
Out There: Performance by Princess
Tuesday 9 March 2019 8pm
The performance duo Princess, comprising of Alexis Gideon and Michael O’Neil (JD Samson & MEN), use music as the backbone of a multi-disciplinary practice that often explores issues of queerness and the concept of masculinity. Simultaneously gay, straight, queer, masculine, and feminine, Princess embodies the fluidity and coherence between the seemingly contradictory. Out There is a concept video album and live performance that explores the role men ought to be playing during the current cultural reckoning of misogyny. According to the artists, the science fiction narrative piece is likened to Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” meets “Hamilton” meets Kraftwerk, and builds on the long legacy of concept albums like Ziggy Stardust and Deltron 3030.
The world premiere of Out There takes place at the Andy Warhol Museum on March 1, followed by a tour and the NYC premiere at the New Museum in April.
February 2019
CURATOR TALK
ACCESS + ABILITY
Thursday 28 February 2019 6pm
There has been a surge of design with and by people with a wide range of physical, cognitive, and sensory abilities. Cara McCarty, Curatorial Director at Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and co-curator of the exhibition Access + Ability, will explore how users and designers are expanding and adapting accessible products and solutions in ways previously unimaginable, from low-tech products that assist with daily routines to the newest cutting-edge technologies.
ART ON FILM
Waste Land
Tuesday 12 February 2019 7pm
Filmed over nearly three years, Waste Land follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of “catadores” — self designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz’s initial objective was to “paint” the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both the dignity and despair of the catadores as they begin to re-imagine their lives.
Extraordinary Playscapes
Tuesday 12 February 2019 7pm
January 2019
ARTIST TALK
Jean Shin
Thursday 31 January 2019 6pm
Jean Shin is nationally recognized for her monumental installations that transform everyday objects into elegant expressions of identity and community. For each project, she amasses vast collections of a particular object — prescription pill bottles, sports trophies, sweaters — which are often sourced through donations from individuals in a participating community. These intimate objects then become the materials for her conceptually rich sculptures, videos, and site-specific installations. Distinguished by her meticulous, labor-intensive process, and her engagement of the community, Shin’s arresting installations reflect individuals’ personal lives as well as collective issues that we face as a society.