CLASSES, TALKS, and PROGRAMS
Profiles in Creative Aging
Art for Personal Reflection
Looking at art and artist lives to spark personal reflection – a fresh approach on the “Life Review” process. Check it out and contact Rena!
New York Adventure Club
Thank you for sponsoring 10 ninety-minute sessions sweeping across American art. If you missed any of the sessions, contact NYAC for a recording.
Classi Learning – Registration is open!
Ex-Pat Artists Rock the Modern Art World:
James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent
James Abbott McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent may have never met, but their art careers took similar trajectories. Both left the U.S. to make their work overseas, and both shocked their contemporary art worlds with their paintings and oversized personalities. But how exactly did the beauty of their works break through traditional conventions to invent the modern art language? This is the story of two visionary artists who put American art on the international map and helped invent art of the 20th century.
Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 4 – 5 p.m. ET
James McNeill Whistler
Information and registration here!
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 4 – 5 p.m. ET
John Singer Sargent
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The 60-minute sessions will be recorded. Join us!
Catalog of Talks and Classes perfect for public groups!
Catalog of Talks and Keynotes. Check out these talks for your next corporate event!
Eating, Drinking, Shopping in the Big City: American Artists on the Town
- Keynotes
- New Employee Orientations
- Retreats and Strategic Planning
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
- Brainstorming and Creativity sessions
- Organizational Culture
- and more
- Increase productivity
- Boost creativity
- Release stress
- Spark inspiration
- Refresh and recharge
For a digital tour with Rena, please contact Frazier at the museum.
- Scenes: Highlights of the Permanent Collection
- The Sassoons, global empire and art collections to match
- Chagall: Love, War, and Exile about his exile in New York
- Edith Halpert, about a New York art dealer who shaped the modern art world
- Hare with Amber Eyes, about the Ephrussi family and their art collections and diaspora
- Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art
- Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry, unique, delightful voice in American art
- Tissot and the Bible
- New York, 1962-64
- Marta Minujín and Arte! Arte! Arte!
- Discover what clothing in Colonial portraits says about the sitter and the formation of a new nation
- Read landscapes to explore what they reveal about the future of America
- Pull apart American myths
- Uncover the signs of trouble around the Civil War
- Laugh over coded paintings about the changing roles of men and women in the 19th century
Tour #2
American Women’s Lives
What was daily life like for American women during the Colonial period? How did that change with the growth of the marketplace economy? How did roles evolve, so that women’s artists voices were added to American painting?
By exploring the paintings in the American Wing and the Modern and Contemporary galleries, we learn how women navigated societal expectations with their own passions and drives. The results are surprising, delightful, and insightful. Come explore the stories told and learn whether you, too, are a New Woman.
Contact Rena for more information and scheduled tour dates today!
- Shaping the American Identity
- Many Voices of American Art
- Land-People-City
- The Modern City: New York City Art 1900-1945
- Giving Voice to American Women Artists
- Women Artists from the Renaissance to the U.S.
- American Artist Families
- Books and Storytelling in American Art
- Secular Baroque
“Your presentations are superb, and if I can remember even half of all the new names and works of art we saw, I will consider myself well ahead of the game. What a glorious world of women’s art.” Dorothy D, February 2019
Contact Rena to learn more!