Artbreaks
Take some time to feed your mind during your lunch hour!
Artbreaks are offered at noon every Tuesday of each month. Curators and guest scholars from a variety of fields share their thoughts and perspectives on art.
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FORM, FUNCTION, AND FURNITURE
TUESDAY · JULY 13 · NOON / FREE
With over ten years experience in the field of furniture conservation and restoration, Magali Somers Maus has established a reputation as one of the leading conservators and restorers of fine antique furniture in the United States. Her work is known throughout the country in private collections and museums, including the Birmingham Museum of Art. Trained at the prestigious West Dean College in England, Maus is now based in Mountain Brook. In this talk, she will share tips on restoration techniques and discuss examples from the Museum collection.
RENAISSANCE PAINTING DECONSTRUCTED: THE MAKING OF A PANEL PAINTING
TUESDAY · JULY 20 · NOON / FREE
Associate Curator of Education Suzy Harris gives an overview of the technical process of early Renaissance panel painting.
MEDITATE WITH ART IN THE JAPANESE GALLERY
TUESDAY · JULY 27 · NOON / FREE
Curator of Education Samantha Kelly invites you to take a deep breath and explore a work of art in the Japanese Gallery a new way. |
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TWO LANDSCAPES, MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES
TUESDAY · AUGUST 3 · NOON / FREE
Kristen Greenwood, Assistant Curator of Education, presents an interactive looking experience with a European landscape painting and an Asian landscape painting.
A COLORFUL TRADITION: JAPANESE DYEING TECHNIQUES
TUESDAY · AUGUST 10 · NOON / FREE
Susan Powers, Curatorial Assistant, will explain Japanese fabric-dyeing techniques and discuss traditional patterns and motifs used to decorate kimono. She studied historic costume and fabric design at the University of Georgia and at the Kawashima Textile School in Kyoto, Japan, and wrote her master’s thesis on a resist dyeing method that was used to adorn women’s underkimono until the early 20th century.
THE CARNEGIE EFFECT: PHILANTHROPY AND THE ARTS
TUESDAY · AUGUST 17 · NOON / FREE
Kendra Quandt, Director of Development, discusses the history of philanthropy and its role in the arts from Carnegie to the Vogels.
EROTIC POSTURES: THE TWIST IN NINETEENTH CENTURY FIGURES
TUESDAY · AUGUST 24 · NOON / FREE
Samantha Kelly, Curator of Education, explores the visual relationship between two adjacent works in the nineteenth century gallery, Gloria Victis! by Antonin Mercie and Aurora by William-Adolphe Bouguereau.
ASIAN ART: A LEGACY OF GIVING
TUESDAY · AUGUST 31 · NOON / FREE
Senior Curator and The Virginia and William M. Spencer III Curator of Asian Art, Donald Wood, PhD gives an overview of how the Museum’s collection came to be one of the largest in the Southeast, largely in part due to several major contributions. |
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PATTERN, COSTUME AND ORNAMENT IN AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART
TUESDAY · SEPTEMBER 7 · NOON / FREE
Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Ron Platt presents a gallery talk on the exhibition, Pattern, Costume and Ornament in African and African-American Art. Don’t miss this opportunity to tour the exhibition with the curator before it closes September 12.
KIMONO CULTURE, DRESSING AND SEWING
TUESDAY · SEPTEMBER 14 · NOON / FREE
Michelle Slagle, certified kimono consultant, will deliver an interactive kimono talk and share examples from her own collection.
LIFETIME LOVE: COLLECTING DECORATIVE ART
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 21 · NOON / FREE
Associate Registrar Mary Villadsen shares the abbreviated story of how the Buten Collection came to Birmingham, making our Wedgwood collection one of the largest in the world and a rival to the Wedgwood Museum in England.
INTO THE WILD: EXPLORING NINETEENTH CENTURY LANDSCAPES
TUESDAY · SEPTEMBER 28 · NOON / FREE
Assistant Curator of Education Kristen Greenwood explores the development of nineteenth century landscape painting from its rogue beginnings to a respected genre. |
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