Talks

Photo of Kent Monkman sitting next to a painting in his studio holding a paint brush

Artist Talk: Kent Monkman

Saturday, November 22, 2025
2:00 pm
Abstract painting of a sawmill surrounded by dark green landscape and distant dark gray mountains

Pop-Up Talk: Curator Max Bryant on “Timber!”

Tuesday, December 2, 2025
1:00 pm
Headshot of Olivia Lonetti

Friends Lecture: Lustrous Legacy: History of American Jewelry

Thursday, December 11, 2025
11:00 am
Photo of Sopheap Pich standing in front of a stone elephant sculpture at a temple in Cambodia

Artist Talk: Sopheap Pich: Transitions

Thursday, January 8, 2026
6:30 pm
guests seated in an auditorium listening to a lecture

Friends Lecture: Alison Saar

Sunday, January 11, 2026
2:00 pm
guests seated in an auditorium listening to a lecture

Friends Lecture: Michael Kleber-Diggs

Thursday, February 5, 2026
6:00 pm
guests seated in an auditorium listening to a lecture

Friends Lecture: Clara Osowski

Sunday, March 15, 2026
2:00 pm
Painting of two workers on a dockyard, pulling on ropes, with a ship in the background

Curator Talk: Work for America: Images of Labor and Industry During the Great Depression

Sunday, March 29, 2026
2:00 pm
guests seated in an auditorium listening to a lecture

Friends Lecture: Rachel McGarry

Thursday, April 16, 2026
11:00 am
Three panel huipil; elaborate embroidery encircles the neck; white ground cloth with patterning primarily in green with accents in purple, blue, orange and red; design consists of rows of stylized bird and tree pattern alternating with rows of diamonds

Curator Talk: Weaving Identities: Maya Huipiles from Guatemala

Sunday, April 19, 2026
2:00 pm
guests seated in an auditorium listening to a lecture

Friends Lecture: Max Bryant

Thursday, May 14, 2026
11:00 am
abstract image: layers of bright orange and bright red loops and curlicues over brown circles extending from the upper left across to the lower right of the painting; bright blue, orange, brown, red, and tan squares throughout; horizontal bright blue narrow rectangles almost dance across the image.

Walls of Wonder and Fluttering Forms: Exploring Abstraction in the Works of Yoshida Hodaka and Chizuko

Sunday, May 31, 2026
2:00 pm