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Enjoy special after-hours access to Expanding the 50th: Shared Stories and Robert Earl Paige: Give the Drummer Some! as part of EXPO CHICAGO‘s kick-off events in South Side.
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Join University of Chicago’s student poetry group “Catcher in the Rhyme” for a poetry presentation, embedded in the vibrant Give the Drummer Some! installation by South Side artist, designer, and educator Robert Earl Paige. The…
With his installation Give the Drummer Some!, artist Robert Earl Paige invites visitors to the Smart into a colorful world of design and patterns, and for this Family Day, you will be able to design…
“Conversation Pieces” is a series that invites UChicago scholars and their surprise guests to enter into dialogue with artworks in Expanding the 50th: Shared Stories. Join us in the Smart galleries on Friday, April 11,…
Co-convened by the Chicago Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression‘s Student Advisory Board, join a lively discussion about how curatorial decisions shape public discourse and cultural understanding. The panel will be hosted in the Smart…
Join us for the Graduate Student Mixer: Women, Textiles, Development! This immersive experience will highlight the weaving styles of the Gullah-Geechee, Chimayo, Andean, and Burmese communities. We’ll also explore women’s role in textile production and…
To celebrate the opening of Expanding the 50th: Shared Stories, join the Smart Museum of Art for a panel with commissioned artists Bethany Collins, Caroline Kent, and Mary Mattingly, moderated by curator Galina Mardilovich. The…
Join the Hyde Park Art Center and the Smart Museum of Art in celebrating the first major publication to focus on artist, designer, and educator Robert Earl Paige. Held in the Smart Museum’s atrium where…
Join the Smart Museum of Art and the Nicholson Center for British Studies for the conversation entitled “Art and Historicity” with Dr. Julia Alexander and Dr. Andrei Pop. Free, register online. About the speakers: Julia…
Join the Smart Museum of Art and the Nicholson Center for British Studies for the lecture “The Museum as Cenotaph or Time-Machine? Thoughts on Art, History, and Institutions in Our Nearsighted Moment,” with Dr. Julia…