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NASHER MUSEUM OF ART AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
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 Exhibition Opening – John Akomfrah: Precarity
Thursday, March 29 (times below)
The Nasher Museum presents the major exhibition, John Akomfrah: Precarity, a new three-channel video installation created by John Akomfrah, the London-based artist and filmmaker.
5:30 PM Cash bar 6 PM Free Highlights Tour 5:30–6:30 PM Performance by Art of Cool All-Star Band, led by Al Strong 7 PM Directors Series: Free talk by Franklin Sirmans, director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami General admission is free all day Thursday, 10 AM–9 PM.   Directors Series: Franklin Sirmans
Thursday, March 29, 7 PM Franklin Sirmans, Director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), will give a talk on “Miami’s Art Museum.” Since he became director of PAMM in fall 2015, Sirmans has implemented a distinct approach, mixing scholarship and education and building upon the museum’s history since its origins in 1984. More about Sirmans. General admission is free all day Thursday, 10 AM–9 PM!
 Art of Cool All-Star Band, led by Al Strong
Thursday, March 29, 5:30–6:30 PM Celebrating America’s earliest pop music, the Art of Cool All-Stars, led by Al Strong, will perform a wide array of exciting selections from the early jazz repertoire of New Orleans. This performance complements the opening of John Akomfrah: Precarity.
 Disability and the Arts
Saturday, March 31, 12:30–4 PM
The Nasher Museum and Duke Disability Alliance present an afternoon of exploring the intersection of disability pride and artistic liberty.
Meet guest artists Antoine Hunter (dancer), Barbara Barnes (illustrator) and Carrie Sandahl (filmmaker), who will share stories and give demonstrations to address common misperceptions about the “limits” of disability. Visitors are invited to take part in the discussions and socialize over refreshments. Then, join us in the galleries for interactive sensory tours led by Nasher Museum Educator for Community Audiences, Liz Peters. Free and open to the public. More information: tinyurl.com/disabilityart. Please see the facebook event and share with friends. The Nasher Museum and Duke Disability Alliance make every effort to welcome people with disabilities of all kinds. ASL interpreters will be present for the duration of the event. Please contact dukedisabilityalliance@duke.edu with other requests for accommodations.  Easter Family Brunch
Sunday, April 1, Noon–3 PM Join us Easter Sunday for a decadently delicious brunch accompanied by Karen Novy with live acoustic music. We’re serving our signature breakfast-lunch flavors as well as mimosas, Nasher Marys, Spiked Tea and Blackberry Collins cocktails. Please reserve your seats online or by calling 919-684-6032.
 Frances Mayes: Reading and Talk
Tuesday, April 3, 11 AM Author Frances Mayes, who wrote the best-selling novel Under the Tuscan Sun, will give a reading and a talk from her newest book, Women in Sunlight, the story of four American strangers who bond in Italy and change their lives. For this discussion, visitors are encouraged, but not required, to read the book. The book will be available for purchase in the Nasher Museum Store.
 Creative Writing in the Galleries: Art and Your Imagination
Three Saturdays, May 5, 12 and 19, 10:15 AM–12:15 PM
Registration is now open for the workshop, “Creative Writing in the Galleries: Art and Your Imagination” (May 5, 12 and 19,10:15 AM –12:15 PM).
Series fee (includes museum admission): $40. Museum members and Durham Public Schools classroom teachers: $25. Registration is required and closes April 27: please email nashered@duke.edu. 
John Akomfrah, Precarity (still), 2017. Three-channel HD video (color, sound), 46:03 minutes. Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Gift of the artist and Smoking Dogs Films. Commissioned by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University with funds provided by the Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family Fund for Acquisitions, the VIA Art Fund, and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation; 2018.3.1. Still courtesy of Smoking Dog Films, London, United Kingdom. © John Akomfrah. Portrait of Al Strong by Chris Charles – Creative Silence Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection is presented by The Helis Foundation and organized by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and The Baltimore Museum of Art. 
Contributing sponsorship is provided by The Lambent Foundation and The Holt Family Foundation. At the Nasher Museum, this exhibition is made possible by the Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family Fund for Exhibitions; Ann Chanler and Andrew Scheman; Katie Thorpe Kerr and Terrance I. R. Kerr; Lisa Lowenthal Pruzan and Jonathan Pruzan; and Gail Belvett. 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 © 2000-2018 Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Unauthorized use is prohibited |