April 14, 2020
What and who is involved?
What does it mean to have a diverse collection?
What are the challenges to achieving that?
Join a conversation about the Blanton’s recent acquisitions of important works by four groundbreaking female artists. After a short presentation, you can participate in an “Ask Me Anything”-style Q&A with our Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs Carter Foster and Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings Holly Borham. From a drawing by Elisabetta Sirani, who established a painting academy for woman artists in Bologna, Italy in the mid-seventeenth century, to prints by twentieth-century trailblazers Elizabeth Catlett, Helen Frankenthaler, and Barbara Jones-Hogu, our curators will discuss the ways these recent additions to the collection expand the story the Blanton can tell about the history of art.
And, because it’s happy hour, we encourage you to sit back and sip a cocktail – or mocktail – inspired by tonight’s talk. We suggest a Manhattan, in honor of featured artist Helen Frankenthaler, who was born in and spent her formative years in the Big Apple.
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