NASHER MUSEUM OF ART AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

@NasherMuseum no. 251 / Now on view

Memorial Tribute for Barkley L. Hendricks at the Nasher Museum
Saturday, May 20, 2017, 2-4 PM

Please join us to celebrate the life of American artist Barkley L. Hendricks. The lecture hall opens at 1:30 PM with music by the John Brown Quartet. The program includes remarks by Cynthia Brodhead, Dr. Kenneth Montague, Richard J. Powell, Trevor Schoonmaker and Teka Selman. Now on view: three paintings and three photographs by Barkley L. Hendricks. Visitors are invited to record their memories and thoughts about Barkley at a recording booth in the University Classroom.

Nasher Creates: Sketching in the Galleries
Saturday, May 20, 10:15 AM

Sketching in the Galleries with local artist Tedd Anderson. Free with admission.

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Free Family Day
Sunday, May 21, Noon-4 PM

Creative collisions at the Nasher! Get inspired by places where visual art, poetry and dance intersect. The Arts in Action LEAP team will present an energetic dance performance inspired by art on view. Poetry Fox will set up his typewriter to create original poems for visitors. Watch an artist create new works of art ─ and then make your own, at activity stations throughout the museum.

Admission to the museum is free on Family Days.

Bicyclist Appreciation Breakfast / National Bike to Work Day
May 19, 8-10 AM, Bryan Center Plaza (map)

In celebration of Bike to Work Day, Duke students and employees are invited to Bryan Center Plaza to enjoy free breakfast, coffee and cycling swag. Durham Cycles will offer free bike inspections and minor on-the-spot adjustments.

Upcoming Gallery Tours and Talks

Thursday, May 18, 6 PM
Explore the transformative aspects of All Matterings of Mind with gallery guide Maggie Griffin.

We offer Highlights Tours most Thursdays (6 PM free) and Sundays (2 PM with admission).

                       

Banner photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion. Family Day and Tour photos by J Caldwell. Photo of Barkley L. Hendricks by Duke Photography. Sketch courtesy of Tedd Anderson.

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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