
April 2021
Rara avis: John James Audubon: Artist, Naturalist, & Early Conservationist
Join curator Roberta Olson for “Rara avis: John James Audubon: Artist, Naturalist, and Early Conservationist”! On Wednesday, April 14th, at 5 p.m. Roberta Olson, Curator of the New-York Historical Society and Professor of Art History Emerita at Wheaton College, will give a virtual lecture titled “Rara avis: John James Audubon: Artist, Naturalist, and Early Conservationist”. This event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Birds of the Northeast: Gulls to Great Auks. Learn more about the exhibition here. Learn more about the…
Find out more »Art in Focus: Diptych: Scenes from the Life of Christ and the Virgin
Our virtual Art in Focus series offers the opportunity for a close look at a single work of art. On Thursday, April 15th, join Curator of Education and Academic Engagement Michelle DiMarzo for a discussion of the Unknown French, Diptych: Scenes from the Life of Christ and the Virgin, mid-14th century, relief sculpture, ivory. Take a peek at Scenes from the Life of Christ and the Virgin and send any questions you have about the artwork ahead of the Art in Focus to…
Find out more »Virtual Lecture: Women, Status, and the Family Code in Morocco
Join Silvia Marsans-Sakly for “Women, Status, and the Family Code in Morocco”! On Tuesday, April 20th, at 5 p.m. Silvia Marsans-Sakly, Assistant Professor of the Department of History, will give a virtual lecture titled “Women, Status, and the Family Code in Morocco”. This event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition By Design: Theater and Fashion in the Photography of Lalla Essaydi. Learn more about the exhibition here. Learn more about the event and how to watch on Eventbrite.
Find out more »Painters and Poets: Unity of Nature Past and Present
Join poet Kay Cosgrove for a virtual webinar on Wednesday, April 21 at 7:30 p.m. The emphasis on the natural world is an ever-present theme for American poets and painters. Through the eyes of these poets and painters, we discover the captivating beauty of the American landscape. Kay Cosgrove takes us through a journey into America’s earliest poets from the 19th century, where landscape was used to emphasize American land and language, to the 20th century where the ecopoetic movement…
Find out more »May 2021
Art in Focus: Lalla Essaydi, Harem Revisited #31
Our virtual Art in Focus series offers the opportunity for a close look at a single work of art. On Thursday, May 20th, join Curator of Education and Academic Engagement Michelle DiMarzo for a discussion of Lalla Essaydi’s Harem Revisited #31, 2012, chromogenic print. Take a look at the current exhibition By Design: Theater and Fashion in the Photography of Lalla Essaydi and send any questions you have about the artwork ahead of the Art in Focus to Curator of Education Michelle DiMarzo…
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