This month @ The Blanton

Programs & Events

Mequitta Ahuja, Parade, enamel on canvas, Gift of Melanie Lawson and John Guess, Jr. in honor of Jeanne and Michael Klein. Found in New Works for the Collection Programs are free for members or included with admission, unless otherwise noted. Thursdays are free at The Blanton, and the museum is open until 9PM on the third Thursday of each month. Perspectives Thursday, June 3, 12:30PM Blanton curators on New Works for the Collection. Special Lecture: Josef Albers and Werklehre Saturday, June 5, 2PM In conjunction with WorkSpace: Anna Craycroft, UTart history graduate student Allison Myers leads a class on basic principles of design using artist and educator Josef Alber's Werklehre- "design with materials"- techniques from the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College. Perspectives Thursday, June 10, 12:30PM Kenneth Hale, Department of Art & Art History, UT, on Matisse as Printmaker Special Lecture: Why Matisse Matters Saturday, June 12, 2PM Blanton Auditorium, Free John Elderfield, chief curator emeritus of painting and sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, on Matisse. Funding is provided by the Charles and Dorothy Clark Lectureship in Fine Arts. Perspectives Thursday, June 17, 12:30PM Risa Puleo, The Blanton's assistant curator of contemporary art, on WorkSpace: Anna Craycroft. Third Thursday Thursday, June 17, 5 -9PM Join us for our free evening of art and activities. 6:30PM Yoga in the Galleries. Space is limted. Tickets available from 5:30PM near the front desk. 7PM Blanton Book Club: Matisse on Art, edited by Jack Flam 7:30PM Gallery Talk: Collectors on New Works for the Collection Enjoy an extended happy hour in the Blanton Cafe featuring a glass of wine and a slice of gourmet pizza for $5. Media sponsor for Third Thursdays: Univision Special Lecture: Zen Meditation and Art Saturday, June 19, 2PM In conjunction with WorkSpace: Anna Craycroft, artist Sam Sanford leads a workshop on Zen meditation, exploring the relationship between meditation and art. Perspectives Thursday, June 24, 12:30PM Catherine Zinser, manager of The Blanton's prints & drawings center on Picasso: A Graphic Inquiry. Special Lecture: Fabrication and Disintegration of Contemporary Art Saturday, June 26, 2PM Blanton Auditorium, Free Profiled in the New Yorker as “the art doctor,” Christian Scheidemann, a leading conservator of modern and contemporary art and founder of Contemporary Conservation Ltd. in New York, explores issues related to the conservation of contemporary art.