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Go beyond a typical visit to the museum and enjoy a “Smart Find” experience at the Smart! This scavenger hunt will activate the galleries with hidden cues and clues that invite families to search for…
Together with your family, enjoy a guided tour of the Smart’s current exhibition, Expanding the 50th: Shared Stories. With our team of museum educators, families will receive an insider’s look into the exhibition as they…
Celebrate the final month of the Smart Museum’s current exhibitions, Expanding The 50th: Shared Stories and Robert Earl Paige: Give the Drummer Some! Explore the people, places, and things that feel like “home” to you….
De-stress at the Smart before finals with free snacks, refreshments, and fun art kits based on the current exhibitions Expanding the 50th: Shared Stories and Robert Earl Paige: Give the Drummer Some!
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Join us for the public culmination of the UChicago courses “Site-Based Practice: Choreographing the Smart Museum,” led by Julia Rhoads, Director of the Dance Program in Theater and Performance Studies (TAPS), and “Sound and Light…
Founded in 1976 by Susan Gosin and Bruce Wineberg to explore the untapped potential of hand papermaking as an art medium, Dieu Donné introduces artists from a wide variety of practices to the creative possibilities…
Dive into the vibrant world of color, shape, and scale as you explore the evolution of abstract art, with influences from twentieth-century artists Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, and Norman Lewis. Then, make your own abstract…
“Conversation Pieces” is a programming series that invites UChicago scholars and/or creatives and their surprise guests to enter into dialogue with artworks in Expanding the 50th: Shared Stories. For the last in the series this…
Join designers from MODA for an evening celebrating the world of artist Robert Earl Paige. Designers will showcase garments created using the vibrant motifs featured in Paige’s Smart Museum exhibit, Give the Drummer Some! Includes…
For Alumni Weekend 2025, and on the occasion of the Museum’s 50th anniversary year, the Smart is teaming up with student creators of University of Chicago’s storied Scavenger Hunt for a day-long program promised to…