Upcoming Events
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]