Magic Realism and Modernism: An International Symposium
Events Calendar
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Mar 2 2015 - 11:45am to 1:00pm
Visiting Artist: Marie Lorenz
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Mar 4 2015 - 5:00pm to 9:00pm
Art in Process: Historic Cast Hall
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Mar 4 2015 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Panel Discussion: A Fine Arrangement
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Mar 5 2015 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Opening Reception for the Continuing Education Annual Juried Student Exhibition 2015
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Community Education
March 1, 2015 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Sunday Family Workshop: Minecraft Portraits
Bring the magic of Minecraft into the real world by building colorful paper blocks to design your own pixilated portrait. Free weekly workshops aim to strengthen initiatives in family development and art education.
Cost: Free
Location: Historic Landmark Building
Academic Program
March 2, 2015 - 11:45am to 1:00pm
Visiting Artist: Marie Lorenz
Marie Lorenz is an interdisciplinary artist. Since 2002, she has been designing and building boats that she uses to explore New York City waterways.
Cost: Free
Location: Hamilton Auditorium, Historic Landmark Building
Community Education
March 4, 2015 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Art at Lunch: Thomas Hart Benton: Painting the Sound
Leo G. Mazow, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Arkansas, lectures on the manner in which artist Thomas Hart Benton brought to life passages from lyrics, finding pictorial solutions to questions posed by music.
Cost: Free
Location: Hamilton Auditorium, Historic Landmark Building
Academic Program
March 4, 2015 - 5:00pm to 9:00pm
Art in Process: Historic Cast Hall
Every first Wednesday of the month, Art in Process will feature PAFA's Historic Cast Hall with open hours, tours of the cast collection, and open cast hall drawing.
Cost: Free with museum admission
Location: Historic Landmark Building
Academic Program
March 4, 2015 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Panel Discussion: A Fine Arrangement
Join Jan Baltzell and Michael Gallagher, co-curators for A Fine Arrangement, for a panel discussion.
Cost: Free with museum admission
Location: School of Fine Arts Gallery, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Community Education
March 5, 2015 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Opening Reception for the Continuing Education Annual Juried Student Exhibition 2015
Cost: Free
Location: Gallery 128, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Community Education
March 6, 2015 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Homeschool Workshop: Landscape Letters
This month's workshop will focus on Landscape Letters in the Peter Blume: Natue and Metamorphosis exhibition.
Cost: $10 per child, free for members
Location: Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Community Education
March 7, 2015 - 4:00pm
Unlocking the Urban Garden: A Social Experiment
Live performances, locally sourced vegetarian fare, and educational connections to the life choices of artists on view in the galleries and conversations with Philadelphia-based urban gardeners working today.
Cost: $20 general admission / free for members
Location: Historic Landmark Building
Community Education
March 8, 2015 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Sunday Family Workshop: Cassatt Family Portrait
Based on American-Impressionist painter and PAFA alum Mary Cassatt, learn chalk pastel techniques to create a family portrait.
Cost: Free
Location: Historic Landmark Building
Public Program
March 11, 2015 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Tasso's Oak Knitting Circle
Join us for the return of our Tasso's Oak Knitting Circle! Hosted by PAFA's Art in Process.
Cost: Free with museum admission
Location: Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Admission
March 14, 2015 - 10:00am to 3:00pm
Certificate & BFA Open House
Join us for a day filled with student/faculty panel discussions, Q&A sessions, and studio and classroom tours.
Cost: Free
Location: Historic Landmark Building, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Community Education
March 15, 2015 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Sunday Family Workshop: Beauty of Motion
From Violet Oakley to Peter Blume, painters depict different types of dance in many PAFA’s collection. Come learn Bollywood dance techniques and make a dance collage
Cost: Free
Location: Historic Landmark Building
Community Education
March 18, 2015 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Art at Lunch: A Place for Memory
In her new book, Patricia Moss-Vreeland invites us to reconsider ideas we have about memory and creativity as well as revealing memory as a creative act. As an extension of her artistic practice, Moss-Vreeland discusses her process of design, inspiration, and collaboration through public participatory events.
Cost: Free
Location: Hamilton Auditorium, Historic Landmark Building
Community Education
March 19, 2015 - 6:00pm
Peter Blume and His Jewish Experience
Samantha Baskind, Professor of Art History at Cleveland State University, explores how Blume's religio-cultural heritage intersects with is artistic identity.
Cost: $15 general admission / free for members
Location: Hamilton Auditorium
Student Life
March 20, 2015 - 9:00am to March 21, 2015 - 5:00pm
New Student Weekend
Community Education
March 20, 2015 - 9:00am to 4:00pm
Magic Realism and Modernism: An International Symposium
This daylong symposium presents new research by renowned art historians that re-examines the important period of American cultural production in the 1940s and 1950s.
Cost: $20 general admission / $10 members
Location: Auditorium, Historic Landmark Building
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Docent Tour: Highlights of the Permanent Collection
Tuesday–Sunday | 1:00 and 2:00 pm
Docent-led tours of the permanent collection featuring some of American art's finest paintings and sculptures. We recommend you call on the day of to confirm these times.