NASHER MUSEUM OF ART AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

@NasherMuseum no. 246 / SPINOKIO part II

Artist Talk: Nina Chanel Abney
TONIGHT! 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.

Upcoming Gallery Tours and Talks

Saturday, April 15, 11 AM
Visit the museum’s collection with gallery guide Ruth Caccavale for a slow art discussion about The Harrowing of Hell painting attributed to the German School.

Sunday, April 16, 2 PM
Highlights Tour: Spring – Join gallery guide Kati Henderson for a tour of representations of the spring season from the permanent collection.

We offer highlights tours most Thursdays (6 PM) and Sundays (2 PM). View complete listings.

Gallery Talk: Medieval Stained Glass
Thursday, April 13, 6 PM

See and learn about beautiful works of stained glass, recently conserved, in the museum’s collection. Duke scholar Alexandra Dodson will talk about how Medieval artists mixed pigments and made stained glass. Within The Collection Galleries.

Nasher Creates: Sketching in the Galleries
Saturday, April 15, 10 AM

Sketching in the Galleries with local artist Ben Bridgers. Free with admission.

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Annual Semans Lecture: Sandra Jackson-Dumont
Thursday, April 20, 7 PM

5:30 PM Cash bar, 6 PM Free Highlights Tour

7 PM The Nasher Museum presents Sandra Jackson-Dumont, the Frederick P. and Sandra P. Rose Chairman of Education at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

At the Met, she is responsible for the vision and management of education, public programs, live arts/performance, audience development and academic programs. Her work encompasses a wide range of experiences designed for a diverse cross-section of audiences. She is known for her ability to blur the lines between academia, popular culture and non-traditional art-going communities. Jackson-Dumont has organized numerous exhibitions, lectures, performances, symposia and new education initiatives.

The Nasher Museum is pleased to share a podcast episode from “Art, Activism, Race and the Law: A Conversation,” inspired by themes in Nina Chanel Abney: RoyalFlush. Panel participants were Jillian Johnson, Durham City Councilwoman and director of operations at Southern Vision Alliance; Trina Jones, Duke law professor; Sherrill Roland, Greensboro-based artist, activist and creator of the Jumpsuit Project; and William A. Darity, Jr., Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy at Duke. 

>>> Listen on soundcloud <<<

                       

German School, The Harrowing of Hell (detail), c. 1600. Oil on panel, 78 1/4 x 52 1/4 inches (198.8 x 132.7 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art. Museum purchase, 2000.12.1. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion.

French, God and the Tree of Knowledge (detail), c. 1250. Stained glass and lead, 26 x 17 7/8 x 1/4 inches (66 x 45.4 x 0.6 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Gift of Mrs. Ella Brummer in memory of her husband, Ernest Brummer, 1978.20.9. Photo by Mary Higgins. 

Nina Chanel, SPINOKIO photos by J Caldwell. Art courtesy Ben Bridgers. Quote image courtesy Duke Chronicle.

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.

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