de Young Calendar http://www.famsf.org./deyoung/calendar/day.asp New de Young Events en-us Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST webmaster@famsf.org webmaster@famsf.org <![CDATA[Docent Tour in the Anderson Gallery: <i>Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt: Conceptual Color in Print</i>]]>
]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Docent Tour: Exploring World Cultures — Art from Africa or the Pacific Islands]]>
]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Docent Tour: A Few of Our Favorite Things]]>
]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Docent Tour: American Art — Colonial through Contemporary]]>
]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Docent Tour: In Pursuit of Excellence — American Decorative Arts]]>
]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Docent Tour: From Gallery to Garden — Sculpture at the de Young]]>
]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[November Artists-in-Residence: Jim Berenholtz and Gregangelo]]>
Every month the museum invites artists to install and demonstrate their art form at the de Young. This interactive program enables visitors to meet artists and gives the artists an opportunity to work with the public. Artists working in various media are encouraged to apply.

Artists are on site Wednesday–Sunday, 1:00–5:00 p.m. (until 8:45 p.m. on Fridays).

RA-Balisk, The Temple of the New Sun

Artists in Residence Jim Berenholtz (Hu Ra Designs) and Gregangelo (Velocity Circus) create a multi-media theatrical adventure through a solar temple. Explore the mysterious inner sanctum of the temple with archetypal wall paintings, three-dimensional altars, and dazzling special effects integrated into the interactive installations.  The temple art is based primarily on ancient Egyptian icons, motifs, and symbols, and also incorporates influences from other solar-worshipping, pyramid-building civilizations, such as those of ancient Mexico and Central and South America. Traditional iconography is interpreted with a contemporary sensibility, making RA-Balisk not an ethnographic documentation of something that might have existed in the distant past, but rather a vibrant, living, sacred space that brings the ancient artistic spirit forward to the present and into the future…

Friday, November 13
6:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Opening Reception in the Kimball Education Gallery
]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Docent Tour: <i>Amish Abstractions: Quilts from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown</i>]]>
]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Docent Tour: <i>Amish Abstractions: Quilts from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown</i>]]>
]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Art after School: 3rd Grade]]>
Join us for the de Young's free after-school class for children in the 3rd grade.

Art after School offers an in-depth exploration of world cultures through the museum's extensive collections of art from Africa, Mesoamerica, Oceania, and North America. Through careful observation and engaging art activities, these classes explore the connections between the visual arts, language arts, and social studies. The class supports the California state standards for 3rd grade.]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Holiday Artisan Fair]]>
The third annual Holiday Artisan Fair takes place November 20 and 21 at the de Young Museum. This seasonal event celebrates art and craft with distinctive pieces from tabletop to textiles. The fair features the work of seventeen of the Bay Area’s finest artisans, as well as an expanded selection of unique gifts, books, objects, and jewelry from noted designers and publishers featured in the Museum Store. The fair is held in the de Young’s Piazzoni Murals Room. Admission is free and FAMSF members receive a 10% discount on all purchases.

Every purchase helps support FAMSF collections and exhibitions.

Open from 9:30 am until 8:30 pm on Friday, November 20, and until 4:30 pm on Saturday, November 21.
]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Textile Arts Council Lecture: The Magic of Indigo]]>
In "The Magic of Indigo," Bay Area fiber artist and teacher Barbara Shapiro explores the history of one of the world's oldest and most widely used dyestuffs. From the Berber tribes of the Sahara to the blue-jeaned youth of America, we all feel the power of this ancient material.]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Doing and Viewing Art & Big Kids/Little Kids]]>

Amish Quilts

Family tour and art activity for ages 4 to 12. Children under 8 must be accompanied by adult. Register 15 minutes before class. Space is limited and on a first-come-first-served basis. Activities relate to the exhibition Amish Abstractions:  Quilts from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown.

]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Docent Tour: <i>Posing as Art: Photographs of People, 19th Century to Now</i>]]>
]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Doing and Viewing Art & Big Kids/Little Kids]]>

Amish Quilts

Family tour and art activity for ages 4 to 12. Children under 8 must be accompanied by adult. Register 15 minutes before class. Space is limited and on a first-come-first-served basis. Activities relate to the exhibition Amish Abstractions: Quilts from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown.

]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs"]]>

Docent Lecturer: Sharon Walton 

 

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Docent Lecturer: Doris Chun 

 

]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young presents closing night of Season Four with a special performance and the unveiling of the completed art installation <i>RA-Balisk</i>, by Jim Berenholtz and Gregangelo]]>

Wilsey Court
6:00–8:30 p.m.
Arabic music by DJ Nader: "Internationally Local." Taking the international music scene to higher levels and connecting the globe, DJ Nader blends many types of music behind house beats while maintaining a Middle Eastern feel. No song is outdated, and no mix is too simple. The DJ Nader Show gives off a vibe that will make you feel good, with music that your body needs.

6:00–8:30 p.m.
Hands-on art making for everyone, with "art diva" Kim Erickson. Tut's death mask is famous, but too fragile to travel out of Egypt. Make one of your own, and then have your picture taken by our mini gold pyramid.

 

6:00–8:30 p.m.
Henna Garden will be on site to provide henna tattoos for a nominal fee. Drawn freehand, henna tattoos are 100-percent natural, safe, temporary, and painless—a unique way to enhance your body, personality, and spirit. The tattoos last one to three weeks. www.hennagarden.com

Kimball Education Gallery
5:00–8:45 p.m.
Unveiling of the completed Cultural Encounters Commissions installation RA-Balisk, the Temple of the New Sun, by November Artists-in-Residence Jim Berenholtz and Gregangelo. RA-Balisk is a multimedia theatrical adventure through a solar temple. Explore the mysterious inner sanctum of the temple with archetypal wall paintings, three-dimensional altars, and dazzling special effects integrated into the interactive installations. Info: Cynthia Inaba, 415-750-3528 or cinaba@famsf.org.

Koret Auditorium
7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. (two seatings)
Special performance: Ekara, the Egyptian Journey of the Soul, by November Artists-in-Residence, Jim Berenholtz and Gregangelo, with Velocity Circus. A live ritual dance performance to original music by San Francisco composer Berenholtz, set to ancient Egyptian texts from the Book of the Dead, and featuring members of the Velocity Circus dance troupe. Free; tickets are required and available at Koret Auditorium from 5:30 p.m. while they last. Seating is limited and first come, first served; doors open at 6:00 p.m.

]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs"]]>

Docent Lecturer: Marsha Holm

 

]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "Women Yesterday: Living in Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome"]]>

Docent Lecturer: Kay Payne

This look into the public and private lives of women living in the ancient era presents them within the historical and cultural context of their time. Generations of women whose identities are now lost are seen through a multitude of images and objects that express the range of their experience, illustrating the quality of their lives and the spirit of their souls.

]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Lecture: In the Shadow of the Pyramids: The Grand Egyptian Museum Project]]>
On Saturday, November 28 at 3 pm, Mohamed Ghoneim, the general coordinator of the Grand Egyptian Museum Project in Giza will present a lecture titled In the Shadow of the Pyramids: The Grand Egyptian Museum Project in the Koret Auditorium at the de Young.

The lecture provides a sneak peek into the future of museums in Egypt. Mohamed Ghoneim will speak about the international contest that culminated in the selection of an architect to design the museum's structure, the different galleries that will be housed within the museum, plans for the breathtaking surrounding gardens, and the exciting location of the museum in Giza, near the Great Pyramids.]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[December Artists-in-Residence: Clare Parry and Julia Westerbeke]]>
Every month the museum invites artists to install and demonstrate their art form at the de Young. This interactive program enables visitors to meet artists and gives the artists an opportunity to work with the public. Artists working in various media are encouraged to apply.

Artists are on site Wednesday–Sunday, 1:00–5:00 p.m.

The Deluge, a Collaboration by Julia Westerbeke and Clare Parry

In December, artists Julia Westerbeke and Clare Parry team up to create The Deluge, a collection of stacked, boxlike enclosures that house fantastical and ornamental imagery. In this installation, the quotidian yields the marvelous as these seemingly ordinary containers become a framework for collages, paintings, and sculptures that are by turns beautiful and strange. The artists call each box a menagerie of sorts, where science fiction meets Victorian design, and antique decorative motifs live side-by-side with alien tendrils of Dr. Seussian flora. Visual symbols of the future and the past co-exist here, creating a Darwinian environment where one design seems to encroach upon or sprout from another. The boxes are loosely inspired by 17th-century cabinets of curiosity, made for the nobility to display curios and oddities from around the globe.

Julia Westerbeke and Clare Parry met while attending the MFA program at the University of California, San Diego. While their individual practices are visually different, these artists immediately noticed that they share much of the same interests and source material: themes of ornamentation, detail, intimacy, fantasy, and the feminine. The Deluge, their second major collaboration, explores how two artists can use the same point of inspiration to create diverse yet deeply intertwined imagery. This is their ecosystem, and each box is an experiment in symbiosis and encroachment.

In a similar vein, the artists invite the public to create interiors for empty boxes waiting to be filled. Worktables replete with drawing and sculpture materials are provided, along with books full of the images that spurred this installation. Given similar tools and inspiration, participants are encouraged to create their own artworks from the same bases, making works with noted similarities and differences. These boxes will slowly accumulate work from different participants until they are chock-a-block with imagery.

Please join us for this exciting exhibition!


Saturday, December 12, 2009
3:00–5:00 p.m.
Reception in the Kimball Education Gallery

]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs"]]>

Docent Lecturer: Doris Chun

 

]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "Amish Quilts: Geometry and Simplicity, Community and Belief"]]>

Docent Lecturer: Judy Cunningham

]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Art after School: 4th Grade]]>
Join us for the de Young's free after-school class for children in the 4th grade.

Art after School offers an in-depth exploration of world cultures through the museum's extensive collections of art from Africa, Mesoamerica, Oceania, and North America. Through careful observation and engaging art activities, these classes explore the connections between the visual arts, language arts, and social studies. The class supports the California state standards for 4th grade.]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Cultural Encounters:Friday Nights at the de Young is closed until January 15, 2010.]]>
Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young is closed for the remainder of 2009. Make sure to check out our fifth season, starting January 15!]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Doing & Viewing Art and Big Kids/Little Kids]]>

Holiday Art

Family tour and art activity for ages 4 to 12. Children under 8 must be accompanied by adult. Register 15 minutes before class. Space is limited and on a first-come-first-served basis. Activities relate to holiday art.

]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Symposium: <i>Amish/American: Quilts in Context</i>]]>
A diverse panel of speakers presents an in-depth look at the art of Amish quilts. Each guest discusses a different aspect of Amish and American quiltmaking traditions. 

Collectors Faith and Stephen Brown make introductory remarks.
Joe Cunningham: "The Quiltmaker's Quandary"
Jonathan Holstein: "On Collecting and Its Consequences"
Janneken Smucker: "Gifts of Humility, Objects of Pride"
Robert Shaw: "American Quilts: The Democratic Art"

Joe Cunningham's early mentors were steeped in quilt history and traditional techniques, leading him to a life of studying, making, and writing about quilts. he travels widely to lecture and teach on the subject. Cunningham lives in San Francisco with his wife and two sons.

Jonathan Holstein's interest in quilts has been as a collector, curator of exhibitions, lecturer, and writer; he is particularly interested in their aesthetics. In 1971 he and his wife were curators of Abstract Design in American Quilts at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York. His many publications include American Pieced Quilts (Editions des Massons, 1972), The Pieces Quilt: An American Design Tradition (New York Graphic Society, 1973), and Abstract Design in American Quilts: A Biography of an Exhibition (The Kentucky Quilt Project, 1991). 

Robert Shaw, formerly curator at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont, is the author of American Quilts: The Democratic Art, 1780–2007, and numerous other books. He has organized quilt exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Japan; written articles for Antiques magazine and other publications; and served as a consultant to private collectors, museums, and Sotheby's. 

Janneken Smucker is a PhD candidate in American civilization at the University of Delaware. Research for her dissertation, From Rags to Riches: Amish Quilts and the Crafting of Value, has been generously supported by fellowships from the Smithsonian Institution, Winterthur Museum and Library, the International Quilt Study Center and Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the American Quilt Study Group.


]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Doing and Viewing & Big Kids/Little Kids]]>

Holiday Art

Family tour for children aged 4 to 12. Children under 8 must be accompanied by adult. Register 15 minutes before class. Space is limited and on a first-come-first-served basis. Projects relate to holiday art.

]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "Women Yesterday: Living in Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome"]]>

Docent Lecturer: Kay Payne

This look into the public and private lives of women living in the ancient era presents them within the historical and cultural context of their time. Generations of women whose identities are now lost are seen through a multitude of images and objects that express the range of their experience, illustrating the quality of their lives and the spirit of their souls.

]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs"]]>

Docent Lecturer: Jim Kohn

]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[American Decorative Arts Forum Slide Lecture: "Harbor and Home: Furniture of Coastal New England, 1725–1825"]]>
Brock Jobe, Winterthur Museum, Wilmington, Delaware]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs"]]>
]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "Amish Quilts: Geometry and Simplicity, Community and Belief"]]>

Docent Lecturer: Martha Walker

]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs"]]>
]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs"]]>
]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs"]]>
]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "Amish Quilts: Geometry and Simplicity, Community and Belief"]]>

Docent Lecturer: Martha Walker

]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Ancient Art Council Lecture: "Curse of the Pharaohs"]]>

Tutankhamun Lecture Series

 

Dr. David Silverman, Eckley Brinton Coxe, Jr., Professor of Egyptology, and Curator of the Egyptian Section of the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania

]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Art after School: 5th Grade]]>
Join us for the de Young's free after-school class for children in the 5th grade.

Art after School offers an in-depth exploration of world cultures through the museum's extensive collections of art from Africa, Mesoamerica, Oceania, and North America. Through careful observation and engaging art activities, these classes explore the connections between the visual arts, language arts, and social studies. The class supports the California state standards for 5th grade.]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young opens for its Fifth Season January 15, 2010!]]>
On Friday nights, the entire museum is open until 8:45 p.m. Friday Nights at the de Young offers a variety of interdisciplinary arts programs, including live music, poetry, films, dance, tours, and lectures. The cafe is open with a special Friday Nights dinner menu, and a no-host cocktail bar is serving drinks. There are art making activities for everyone. Programs are subject to change.

The Fifth Season of Friday Nights at the de Young is open January 15 to November 26, 2010. Check back soon for an updated schedule!
]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Textile Arts Council Lecture: The Art Quilt: 20 Years of Development]]>
California quilt maker Yvonne Porcella gives an overview of the development of the Art Quilt movement, dedicated to quilts as art made for the wall. Ms. Porcella is the founder of Studio Art Quilt Associates, and her work is in the permanent collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs"]]>
]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "Rediscovering Tutankhamun: Amateurs, Tourists, Looters, and Archaeologists"]]>
Docent Lecturer: Julia Geist]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Art after School: 6th & 7th Grade]]>
Join us for the de Young's free after-school class for children in the 6th & 7th grades.

Art after School offers an in-depth exploration of world cultures through the museum's extensive collections of art from Africa, Mesoamerica, Oceania, and North America. Through careful observation and engaging art activities, these classes explore the connections between the visual arts, language arts, and social studies. The class supports the California state standards for 6th & 7th grades.]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "Women Yesterday: Living in Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome"]]>

Docent Lecturer: Kay Payne

This look into the public and private lives of women living in the ancient era presents them within the historical and cultural context of their time. Generations of women whose identities are now lost are seen through a multitude of images and objects that express the range of their experience, illustrating the quality of their lives and the spirit of their souls.

]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Docent Lecture: "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs"]]>
]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Art after School: 8th Grade]]>
Join us for the de Young's free after-school class for children in the 8th grade.

Art after School offers an in-depth exploration of world cultures through the museum's extensive collections of art from Africa, Mesoamerica, Oceania, and North America.  Through careful observation and engaging art activities, these classes explore the connections between the visual arts, language arts, and social studies. The class supports the California state standards for 8th grade.]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Textile Arts Council Lecture: Primitivism and Abstraction in Persian Tribal Flatweaves]]>
The Textile Arts Council presents Alberto Levi, rug scholar and owner of the Alberto Levi Gallery, Milan.]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[Docent Tour: Anderson Gallery — Works on Paper]]>
]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:45 PST <![CDATA[de Young Poetry Series with Michael Ondaatje]]>
Save the date for a special reading and booksigning event with Michael Ondaatje

Most famous for his novel The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje is a poet, editor, professor, filmmaker, and novelist of numerous works of fiction. Ondaatje introduced his characteristic style of writing in Coming Through Slaughter, which has been adapted for the stage and is soon to be a film production. 

Originally from Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje has become part of the literary cloth of Canada as an editor with Coach House Books, and in 1988 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Tickets will be available in 2010. Please check back for more information.
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