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Help us imagine a future free of lead poisoning! This interdisciplinary and participatory workshop brings together scholars, advocates, lawyers, organizers, artists, medical professionals, and others whose work addresses the impact of lead contamination in water,…
Celebrate the birthdays of two icons: Malcolm X and Lorraine Hansberry on an imagined museum visit to the Smart on their shared birthdays! Facilitated by Lead Museum Educator and Teaching Artist Nicole Bond, we will…
Renaissance historian Ada Palmer explores the relationship between war, strife, and artistic production reflecting on objects in Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe as well as other examples of art, music, and literature. Palmer…
A Conversation with Rachel Cohen, Bellamy Mitchell, and Nora Lambert Join us for an evening conversation about the place of artworks in the personal lives of their beholders, both past and present. Many of the…
Join Jill Burke (University of Edinburgh) and Patricia Simons (University of Michigan) for a nuanced investigation into the construction of gender-based narratives and power dynamics in early modern European art. Many of the works in…
Take a poetic trek through ancient Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Smart Museum’s exhibition Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe. Presented in collaboration with the Poetry Foundation, this two-part lunchtime series takes us…
Do you love books? Do you read them, do you write them, do you work in a journal, have you made a book? If you’ve answered yes to any of the above, this interactive conversation…
The first Health Humanities Symposium at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art explores the relationship between health, healing, and crisis. As we’ve seen throughout this past year, health is a contested personal, cultural,…
Teaching virtual or hybrid? Confused? Us too—come talk it through, access available resources, and participate in an artist experience! Join the Smart Museum of Art and the Oriental Institute (OI) for a look into the…
Take a poetic trek through ancient Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Smart Museum’s exhibition Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe. Presented in collaboration with the Poetry Foundation, this two-part lunchtime series takes us…