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NASHER MUSEUM OF ART AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
@NasherMuseum no. 244 / Cloud Garden
 Upcoming Gallery Tours and Talks
Thursday, March 30, 6 PM
Free Highlights Tour: Selections of people and places represented in the current exhibitions, with gallery guide Peggy Murray. Sunday, April 2, 2 PM Gallery guide Ruth Caccavale will lead a discussion with a Lenten theme featuring works from the collection. Saturday, April 8, 11 AM Celebrate National Slow Art Day! Enjoy a slower look at a single work of art in All Matterings of Mind with gallery guide Maggie Griffin, who will focus on Cloud Garden (pictured above), by artist Pinaree Sanpitak. 
 Public Talk: Nicholas Wolterstorff of Yale Divinity School
Thursday, March 30, 7 PM Nicholas Wolterstorff, Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale Divinity School, will give a talk entitled, “Social Protest Art and the Work of Georges Rouault.” Co-Sponsored by Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts and the Center for Christianity and Scholarship. More information.
 Nasher Reads: Black Panther
Wednesday, April 5, 11 AM, and Sunday, April 9, 3 PM Join Patrick Holt, adult services librarian from the Durham County Library, and museum gallery guides Kathy World and Ruth Caccavale will discuss Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates. More information.
 Art, Activism, Race and the Law
Thursday, April 6, 7 PM With (pictured above, from left to right) William A. Darity, Jr., Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy at Duke; Jillian Johnson, Durham City Councilwoman and director of operations at Southern Vision Alliance; Trina Jones, Duke law professor; and Sherrill Roland, Greensboro-based artist, activist and creator of the Jumpsuit Project. Free and open to the public.
 Art & Mindfulness Pop-Up Fair
Friday, April 7, 6 PM The Nasher Museum and DuWell present a dreamy evening inspired by art and National Stress Awareness Month. Enjoy aromatherapy, massages, yoga, meditation, Tibetan singing bowls, sketching in the galleries and refreshments Also enjoy Slow Art Tours of All Matterings of Mind: Transcendent Imagery from the Contemporary Collection.
Free with admission. Admission is free for Duke students. Admission is $3 for non-Duke students. Head over to the Nasher after the Duke DEMAN Happy Hour at 4 PM! Co-presented by DuWell, the Buddhist Meditation Community at Duke, Devils After Dark, Duke Recreation and other student groups.
 Artist Talk: Nina Chanel Abney
Tuesday, April 11, 7 PM
6 PM Informal chat with gallery guides before the artist talk
7 PM Meet the Chicago-born artist whose first solo museum show is on view at the Nasher Museum through July 16.
 Special Family Program: SPINOKIO PART II
TWO SHOWS! Wednesday, April 12, 10:30 AM and 11:30 AM Join us for the exciting second act of the Hip Hopera, following last year’s world premiere at the Nasher. This Afro-Futuristic take on Carlo Collodi’s classic Pinocchio includes hand-crafted puppets by Tarish “Jeghetto” Pipkins, projections and a live score performed by DJ and musician Pierce Freelon.
Free with admission.
Banner photo courtesy of museum visitor, Kayla McIntyre, via Facebook. Pinaree Sanpitak, Cloud Garden, 2008. Acrylic on canvas, 78 x 98 ½ inches (198.1 x 250.2 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Gift of Frances P. Rollins in honor of Kimerly Rorschach, 2012.16.1. Image courtesy of the artist and Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, New York. © Pinaree Sanpitak. Mindfulness photo by Ryan Helsel. Nina Chanel, Spinokio photos by J Caldwell. Nasher Museum exhibitions and programs are generously supported by the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, the late Mary D.B.T. Semans and James H. Semans, the late Frank E. Hanscom III, The Duke Endowment, the Nancy Hanks Endowment, the Courtney Shives Art Museum Fund, the James Hustead Semans Memorial Fund, the Janine and J. Tomilson Hill Family Fund, the Trent A. Carmichael Fund for Community Education, the Neely Family Fund, the E. T. Rollins, Jr. and Frances P. Rollins Fund for the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the Marilyn M. Arthur Fund, the Sarah Schroth Fund, the George W. and Viola Mitchell Fearnside Endowment Fund, the Gibby and Michael B. Waitzkin Fund, the K. Brantley and Maxine E. Watson Endowment Fund, the Victor and Lenore Behar Endowment Fund, the Margaret Elizabeth Collett Fund, the Nasher Museum of Art General Endowment, the Friends of the Nasher Museum of Art, and the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost, Duke University. The Collection Galleries is made possible by Nasher Annual Fund donors with special support from Anita and John Schwarz. 2001 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27705 (Map) | nasher.duke.edu | 919-684-5135 Visit Exhibitions Calendar Café Join Support © 2000-2017 Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Unauthorized use is prohibited |