• Tour
• General Public

Friday Tour: Composing Color

Fri. April 17 • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Join Smart curator Galina Mardilovich for a guided tour of Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas.

• Screening
• General Public

Film: Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers (1990)

Thu. April 23 • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

A screening of Wu Wenguang's documentary about Beijing in the late '80s. At Max Palevsky Cinema in Ida Noyes Hall. In collaboration with Doc Films.

• Talk
• General Public

Dorothy Berry & Sumayya Ahmed on Archives

Thu. May 7 • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Dorothy Berry and Sumayya Ahmed discuss the possibilities of Black archives within and outside of cultural heritage institutions. In collaboration with the Black Metropolis Research Consortium.

• Talk
• General Public

Olga Alexopoulou & Vanja Malloy on Quantum Color

Tue. May 12 • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Artist Olga Alexopoulou and Smart Museum Dana Feitler Director Vanja Malloy discuss the history and future of color.

• Talk
• General Public

Ross Gay & Angel Bat Dawid on Poetry

Thu. May 14 • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Poet Ross Gay and composer and multi-instrumentalist Angel Bat Dawid host an evening of creative exchange inspired by the vibrant abstractions of Alma Thomas.

• Talk
• General Public

Nicole Stott with Sarah & Joseph Belknap on the Cosmos

Mon. May 18 • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Join a conversation at the intersection of art, science, and imagination, featuring astronaut Nicole Stott in dialogue with artists Sarah and Joseph Belknap.

• Roundtable
• General Public

Smart Salon: Contemporary Chinese Artists in Chicago

Tue. May 19 • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Ellen Larson, Associate Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia, moderates a conversation with artists magicfeifei, Miao Wang, Linye Jiang, and gallerist Qiuchen Wu.

• Tour
• General Public

Friday Tour: Beyond Boundaries

Fri. May 29 • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Join Associate Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia Ellen Larson for a guided tour of Beyond Boundaries: Three Decades of Contemporary Chinese Art at the Smart.

• Tour
• General Public

Friday Tour: Composing Color

Fri. June 26 • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Join Smart curator Galina Mardilovich for a guided tour of Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas.