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Past events

Sami Schalk wearing a bright colored sparkling bodysuit, eyeglasses, and an iridescent sequin face mask leaning over a supermarket shopping cart

Indisposable: Structures of Support After the ADA, Chapter 2

18 November 2020
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. EST

Artist Vanessa German wearing a white dress with black spots stands in a garden path under a landscaped arch, surrounded by orange, purple, red, and yellow flowers

Listening as an Act of Love / Dispatches from the Future with Vanessa German - Session #3

5 November 2020
4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. EDT

Artist Vanessa German wearing a white dress with black spots stands in a garden path under a landscaped arch, surrounded by orange, purple, red, and yellow flowers

Listening as an Act of Love / Dispatches from the Future with Vanessa German - Session #2

1 October 2020
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Person lying on the grass looking at a mountain range.

Indisposable: Structures of Support After the ADA, Chapter 1

17 September 2020
3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

Artist Vanessa German wearing a white dress with black spots stands in a garden path under a landscaped arch, surrounded by orange, purple, red, and yellow flowers

Listening as an Act of Love / Dispatches from the Future with Vanessa German

1 September 2020
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Epaul Julien, 13th, 2018 Mixed media photo collage, encaustic wax, acrylic, gesso and resin on wood 28 x 24 inches

Curator-led tour: May 8 (CANCELED)

8 May 2020
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Spirit McIntyre singing and playing the cello

PerSister in Song - Virtual Concert

30 April 2020
4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. EST

Epaul Julien, 13th, 2018 Mixed media photo collage, encaustic wax, acrylic, gesso and resin on wood 28 x 24 inches

Curator-led tour: April 11 (CANCELED)

11 April 2020
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

The Graduates, founded in 2012, is a performance ensemble composed of four formerly incarcerated women from Louisiana.

Life, a performance by The Graduates

4 March 2020
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Epaul Julien, 13th, 2018 Mixed media photo collage, encaustic wax, acrylic, gesso and resin on wood 28 x 24 inches

Curator-led tour: March 3

3 March 2020
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

PerSister portraits by Allison Beondé

Exhibition opening: March 2

2 March 2020
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Lola Flash, Syzygy, 2019

Curator-led tour: November 16

16 November 2019
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Utopian Imagination exhibition gallery detail 8

Utopian Imagination | Artists in Conversation

23 October 2019
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Farxiyo Jaamac, IFTIN, 2017, Private Collection

Curator-led tour: October 5

5 October 2019
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Sue Austin | Creating the Spectacle! Part 1: Finding Freedom, 2012 | Video

Curator-led tour: August 17

17 August 2019
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt | The Preying Hands: In a Little Corner Chapel to Mammon in the Cathedral of Moloch, Greed Makes Human Sacrifice Expedient Upon the Altar of Racism, Displacement and Gentrification, 1985 | Mixed-media installation

Curator-led tour: July 13

13 July 2019
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry | Evidence of Things Not Seen, 2008 | Oil on linen, toner on silk

Curator-led tour: July 10

10 July 2019
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Maria Berrio | Nativity, 2014 | Collage with Japanese paper, acrylic and watercolor paint, pencil, and rhinestones

Curator-led tour: June 15

15 June 2019
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Athi-Patra Ruga Umesiyakazi in Waiting, 2015

Exhibition opening

11 June 2019
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Curator-led tour: May

10 May 2019
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Perilous Bodies: Artists in Conversation

Perilous Bodies: Artists in Conversation

12 April 2019
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Curator-led tour: March

16 March 2019
4:00 p.m - 5:00 p.m.

Vanessa German performing in Aetna Theater, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art 2016. Photo Allen Phillips

Opening reception

5 March 2019
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

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