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Museum Nights: Noche de Museo

Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United States

¡Disfruta de noches de museo! Join us to celebrate our newest exhibition, Under the Spell of the Palm Tree: the Rice Collection of Cuban Art, with film, music, dance and more! It’s the opening night of the 19th Gainesville Latino film festival with the showing of the Brazilian political drama A Bruddah’s Mind. Delicious nibbles, […]

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Art & Mindfulness: Finding Delight in the Present Moment

Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United States

This 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 […]

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Museum Nights: Aperture & Alchemy

Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United States

Join us in celebration of the current exhibition of photographs by Jerry Uelsmann an internationally renowned and visionary photographer who also called Gainesville home.  In honor of his imagination, wit + whimsy, this Museum Nights takes inspiration from the artist we loved and admired. Enjoy live music with the Ramblin’ Mutts band, explore the gallery […]

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Museum Nights: Dog Days of Summer

Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United States

It’s a brisk 70 degrees at 50% humidity in the museum. Come on in and cool off during this most sweltering summer period named for the dog star ‘Sirius’ which rises and sets with the sun this time of year. Director of Kilva Sa Planetarium James Albury will be here to make the literal connection […]

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Creative Gator

Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United States

Open to all UF Students, Creative Gator at the Harn Museum of Art will create an inclusive and welcoming space with artmaking, mindfulness and movement workshops, demonstrations and tours. Students will get to know their local art museum through an interactive daytime program featuring exhibitions, local artists and performers, and a variety of activities. Scheduled […]

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Museum Nights: Art + PRIDE

Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United States

It’s a pARTy! Celebrate Pride Month with DJ Elio spinning the tunes, docents “spinning the yarn” and you spinning around on the dance floor! Join us on a Museum Nights evening positively bursting with pride in our diverse art collections and communities. Fun, food and friends await. Tabling partners include the Pride Community Center of […]

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Jerry Uelsmann: A Celebration of His Life and Art

Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United States

Jerry Uelsmann was known for his combination printing of multiple negatives into fantastical photographic landscapes. With imagination and wit, he turned landscapes into conundrums, or re-imagined reality altogether. His photographs are collected and exhibited in museums around the world. Jerry Uelsmann: A Celebration of His Life and Art commemorates this beloved UF artist, teacher, colleague […]

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Art & Mindfulness

Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United States

This 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 […]

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Museum Nights: Spring into Summer

Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United States

What do we love about our Florida home? The orange groves, the seaside, the changing landscapes as seen in the exhibition Florida Impressions…YES! Yes, we do! We also love the history of music in Gainesville. This is an evening at the museum to enjoy live music with Jason Hedges which honors rock legend Tom Petty […]

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Gallery Talk: She/Her/Hers

Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United States

Join Cofrin Curator of Asian Art, Dr. Tongyun Yin, for a gallery talk highlighting the exhibition She/Her/Hers: Women in the Arts of China which explores the intersecting roles women have played as pictorial subjects, artists, and consumers of art in premodern, modern, and contemporary China. Discover the newest additions of hanging scrolls, fan painting, and […]

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Survivors of Violence Art Exhibit

Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United States

The 2023 Survivors of Violence Art Exhibit at the Harn Museum of Art will run from April 4–30. A reception for the artists will be held on April 6, from 10 a.m. to noon and is free and open to the public. Explore other ways you can observe Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM): April 4: […]

Posing Questions on Posing Beauty: A conversation with Deborah Willis

Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United States

Join us for a conversation with Deborah Willis, award winning MacArthur Fellow, artist, curator, professor and eminent scholar in the history of Black photography, and Jade Powers, the new Curator of Art at the Harn Museum. Willis and Powers will explore topics presented in the current Harn exhibition Posing Beauty in African American Culture, including […]

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