Schedule of Events
Events listed below with a location are live, in-person programs. When possible, those events will also be streamed and the recordings posted to our YouTube channel.
More events will be listed as the exhibition approaches - please check our Eventbrite site to register.
Register for Events
Art in Focus: Julie Mehretu, Corner of Lake and Minnehaha, 2022, color screenprint
Thursday, April 9, Noon and 1 p.m.
Walsh Gallery and streaming
Art Speaks!
Thursday, April 9, 6 p.m.
Campus and community members are invited to share their own responses to the exhibition through works of poetry and short prose.
Walsh Gallery
Lecture: Florine Stettheimer and Americana
Thursday, April 16, 5:30 p.m.
Barbara Bloemink, PhD
Bellarmine Hall, Diffley Board Room and streaming
Part of the Edwin L. Weisl, Jr. Lectureships in Art History, funded by the Robert Lehman Foundation
Art historian Barbara Bloemink, one of the foremost experts on Florine Stettheimer – a quintessential New York modernist – will give a talk exploring the artist’s passion for Americana, represented in the exhibition by the painting George Washington in New York, ca. 1939, on loan from Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
Art in Focus: Rosson Crow, Fragility (Pax Americana), 2023, acrylic, spray paint, photo transfer, and oil on canvas
Thursday, May 7, Noon and 1 p.m.
Walsh Gallery
Family Day Series
12:30-2 p.m. and 2:30-4 p.m.
(Space limited; registration required)
Stars, Stripes & Brushstrokes: American Impressionism Workshop
Saturday, January 24
What’s so “American” about American Impressionism? We’ll use Childe Hassam’s Italian Day, May 1918 painting as a jumping-off point for a fun painting workshop in the American Impressionist style.
Bellarmine Hall, Museum Classroom
Red, White, and YOU!: A Comics Workshop
Saturday, February 21
Escape the chill and draw some comics with us! Participants will be guided to create a comic-strip-like depiction, either of a significant moment either in American history, or in their and their family's personal history.
Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts Lobby
Stitching Stories: Design Your Family Flag
Saturday, March 28
Participants and family members will be invited to celebrate the flags of their family background by designing and creating a new flag that expresses their unique identity and heritage!
Bellarmine Hall, Museum Classroom
Bits & Pieces, Stars & Stripes: Reimagined Flags from Recycled Finds
Saturday, April 25
Participants will be invited to bring their own materials and choose from the broad array of fabrics, single-use plastics, egg cartons, and the like, to create a unique 3D flag assemblage inspired by some of the contemporary artworks that use unconventional materials, from American military gear to native wildflowers.
Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts Lobby
