Upcoming Events
Museum Nights: AWE-some & Fab-YOU-lous!
Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United StatesGet ready for some serious affirmation, folks! The Harn’s newest exhibition, AWE-some: time :: materiality :: meaning, has us inspired to encourage even more fab-YOU-lous-ness. Learn more about the stunning photography from awesome curator Carol McCusker in a Museum Nights-sized gallery talk. Enjoy Day With(out) Art: Being & Belonging film screening, jazz by Hot Club […]
Art and Mindfulness: A Fresh Look, Seeing with our Wisdom Eye with Jan Snyder
Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United StatesThis series of guided meditations, led by instructors from the UF Mindfulness team, is inspired by art in the Harn collections and held at the museum. Take a break from your regular schedule to slow down, experience stillness, and re-charge. Forty minutes of guided meditation is followed by an art spotlight tour. Please register through […]
Posing Beauty in African American Culture
Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United StatesPosing Beauty explores the contested ways in which African and African American beauty have been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media including photography, video, fashion and advertising. This exhibit challenges the relationship between beauty and art by examining the representation of beauty and different attitudes about aesthetics through the themes […]
HESCAH lecture: Mary Coffey, At the Edge of Whiteness: Brown Feeling and the Public Life of Blackness in José Clemente Orozco’s U.S.-based Prints
Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United StatesThis talk explores the Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco’s US-based lithographs on the public life of Blackness, executed during his second and longest sojourn in the United States between 1928 and 1934. I argue that his representation of variety theater in Harlem, in the first lithograph he produced, and his representation of lynching in the […]
Museum Nights:
Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United StatesJoin us for a lively evening celebrating the beauty of the arts of Africa and the African diaspora, including the Harn’s newest exhibition Posing Beauty in African American Culture. Enjoy local dance and music with the UF Afro Pop and Agbedidi Ensembles, featuring remarkable artists from Gainesville and North Florida. This evening is also a […]
Art and Mindfulness: Stilling the Mind, Opening the Senses
Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United StatesThis series of guided meditations, led by instructors from the UF Mindfulness team, is inspired by art in the Harn collections and held at the museum. Take a break from your regular schedule to slow down, experience stillness, and re-charge. Forty minutes of guided meditation is followed by an art spotlight tour. Please register through […]
Gallery Talk: Posing Beauty: Conversations around Black Beauty
Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United StatesIn this talk, Jade Powers will lead visitors through a deeper exploration of themes within the exhibition: “Constructing a Pose,” “Body and Image,” and “Modeling Beauty and Beauty Contests” and explore the complex and evolving relationship between beauty and art in contemporary art and culture.
HESCAH Talk: Women Artists in 20th-Century China: A prehistory of the Contemporary
Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United StatesThis talk will reflect on two intersecting themes, the rise of women as artists and as female subjects for art, in the context of the evolving status of women in twentieth-century China. Against the backdrop of the nascent modern education for women and the emergence of feminism between 1910 and 1940, it interrogates, in light […]
HESCAH Talk: Calligraphic Language in Contemporary Chinese Art
Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United StatesCalligraphy entered contemporary Chinese art at the time modernist art reappeared in China in the 1980s, and gradually became an important component in contemporary art. Because the Chinese written language is partially ideographic and partially pictographic, calligraphy-related works can be categorized into a few groups. The first group can be traced back to traditional calligraphy, […]
Artist Talk: Fabiola Jean Louis
Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United StatesMarie Antoinette Is Dead by Fabiola Jean-Louis, from the series, Rewriting History recently became a part of the Harn’s collection. Jean-Louis – a Haitian-born, New York-raised artist and visual activist – will discuss her work on view in AWE-some. Her exquisite photographs evoke the privilege and luxury of 18th and 19th century aristocratic portraiture which […]
Museum Days: Wonder Lens
Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United StatesEnjoy an afternoon of cultivating wonder and capturing awe at your art museum! Experience the beauty and brilliance of photography during a docent-led tour of AWE-some: time :: materiality :: meaning then engage with the art of slow looking through a hands-on activity. Meet local photographers at our ‘Ask an Artist Stations’ to discover the […]
Gallery Talk
Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United StatesLearn more about the Harn’s exhibition of Florida-themed art, gifted from the collection of Samuel H. and Roberta T. Vickers. Chief Curator and Curator of Modern Art, Dulce Román, will give an overview of the art on view in Florida Impressions, highlighting the varied native Floridian and visiting artists who created stirring images of the […]