Sir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation Lessons of the Hour (2019) interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick Douglass. Through critical research, fictional reconstruction, and a marriage of poetic image and sound, Julien asserts Douglass’ enduring lessons of justice, abolition, and freedom that […]
Glenn Kaino’s powerful aerial sculpture Bridge is comprised of 200 golden arms hanging from the ceiling of SAAM’s Luce Foundation Center. Each is a casting of the outstretched right arm of Tommie Smith, the American winner of the men’s 200-meter race at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. During the medal ceremony, Smith bowed his head […]
Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection launches the first dedicated collection galleries at the Museum. Providing unprecedented access to core works in San José’s only publicly held art collection, SJMA’s collection galleries position artists as storytellers to imagine the Museum as a space where culture and meaning are actively made and always in process. […]
In 2020 Judy Ledgerwood produced a significant body of unique prints with Manneken Press. a project that continued over a period of months and resulted in more than thirty monotypes. Using watercolor, rather tan traditional printing inks, the aqueous media flowed, allowing the colors to pool, run together, settle and dry in unique patterns and […]
In 2020 Judy Ledgerwood produced a significant body of unique prints with Manneken Press. a project that continued over a period of months and resulted in more than thirty monotypes. Using watercolor, rather tan traditional printing inks, the aqueous media flowed, allowing the colors to pool, run together, settle and dry in unique patterns and […]
Sarah Smelser's "Sandia" images filter her experience of the desert environments of the American Southwest, its particular qualities of light, heat, emptiness and expansive spaces of the landscape through an abstract sensibility.
"Array" are twenty circular woodcuts by Rupert Deese, the series unfolded over seven years: Array 700 appeared in 2005, followed by Array 350 and Array 500 in 2006, with the project culminating in Array 1000 in 2012. Each print divides the circular field into a distinct tiling system. Beginning with nine equal radial divisions, Deese further organizes the space through additional radial lines and […]
Not simply users of technology, women have played vital roles as inventors and makers across the history of technology. Yet their contributions aren’t always acknowledged in popular and official histories of technological innovation. Motherboards brings together artists whose work foregrounds the many ways that women have shaped the technology industry. Motherboards highlights the central role of women in […]
FREE FIRST THURSDAY Thursday, May 7, 2026 11 am – 7 pm Enjoy FREE Museum admission and 2-for-1 All Day Happy Hour on the first Thursday of every month from 11 am to 7 pm during Free First Thursday. NEW! Free public tours at Noon. MINI MUSE 4 – 6:30 pm Get creative with us […]
Every LAST Sunday of every month, Fort Lauderdale residents receive FREE admission to NSU Art Museum as part of Fort Lauderdale Neighbor Days. Fort Lauderdale Residents Receive: 2-for-1 Wine in the Museum Café FREE admission, residents must show a photo ID, driver’s license, or residential utility bill with proof of Fort Lauderdale address. Visit the […]
FREE FIRST THURSDAY Thursday, May 7, 2026 11 am – 7 pm Enjoy FREE Museum admission and 2-for-1 All Day Happy Hour on the first Thursday of every month from 11 am to 7 pm during Free First Thursday. NEW! Free public tours at Noon. MINI MUSE 4 – 6:30 pm Get creative with us […]