Join Madeline Murphy Turner for a conversation on 20th- and 21st-century artworks that expand our understanding of geometric abstraction. Bringing together artists from Europe, North America, and South America, this Art Study Center Seminar explores how geometry can serve as a reference within itself or as a bridge to historical, ancestral, and natural forms. This […]

Join an exhibition curator for a discussion about some of the drawing materials and techniques seen in works in the special exhibition Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black celebrates the act of drawing using familiar tools—charcoal, chalk, crayon, and graphite. Each type of material has distinctive properties: […]

Simple tools can be powerful vehicles for artistic expression. Sensitively used, charcoal and graphite become antennae, sensory extensions, and seismographs of our attention, tracing the very act of observation onto a surface. Join artist Joshua Hart in the Materials Lab to first familiarize ourselves with these materials and to develop a wide range of marks, […]

Join us for a screening of a documentary film about the compelling story of György Kepes, considered the “Father of Media Art.” The film poses a thought-provoking question: “Can technology itself serve as the solution to the problems it creates?” This film is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static (August 30, […]

Have you ever wondered what happens in our conservation labs? Join members of our Straus Center staff for an informal conversation about their work treating objects in our collections. Taking place just outside the Straus Center in the Lightbox Gallery, this presentation will give you the chance to get up close and hands-on with a […]