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Movies That Matter: The Wisdom of Trauma (2021)
2024-12-05 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell St., Fort Worth, TX, 76107, United States
This film is a journey with physician and bestselling author Dr. Gabor Maté, a man who has dedicated his life to understanding the connection between illness, addiction, trauma, and society. Trauma is the invisible force that shapes our lives. It shapes the way we live, the way we love and the way we make sense of the world. It is the root of our deepest wounds. Dr. Maté gives us a new vision: a trauma-informed society in which parents, teachers, physicians, policymakers and legal personnel are not concerned with fixing behaviors, making diagnoses, suppressing symptoms and judging, but seek instead to understand the sources from which troubling behaviors and diseases spring in the wounded human soul. He points us to the path of individual and collective healing.
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Movies That Matter is a free bi-monthly film series program of the City of Fort Worth’s Human Relations Commission that celebrates diversity and inclusion. Each event features a film screening, followed by a moderated discussion with local subject matter experts.
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Friday Evening Lecture | Rembrandt: The World of the Studio
2024-12-06 18:00 - 19:00 UTC | Kimbell Art Museum, Kimbell Art Museum, Camp Bowie Boulevard, Fort Worth, TX, USA, Fort Worth, TX, United States
H. Perry Chapman, professor emerita, Department of Art History, University of Delaware
Evening lectures by distinguished guest speakers address a range of topics relating to the appreciation and interpretation of art. They are free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
To request an accessibility accommodation for a Kimbell program, please email us as far in advance as possible.

Exhibition Lecture Series with Letitia Huckaby, Marcellis Perkins, and Johnica Rivers
2024-12-13 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell St., Fort Worth, TX, 76107, United States
Photo: Letitia Huckaby
Join us for a compelling conversation featuring artist Letitia Huckaby and Texas Christian University (TCU) doctoral candidate Marcellis Perkins, moderated by writer and curator Johnica Rivers. The discussion will explore Huckaby’s photographs in the special exhibition Diaries of Home. Huckaby was selected to create a pair of portraits depicting Charley and Kate Thorp, a formerly enslaved couple who played a crucial role at AddRan Male and Female College (later renamed TCU) from its founding in 1873. The Portrait Project tells TCU’s story through diverse portraiture around the campus that commemorates historically marginalized and underrepresented members of the university’s community.
Since no known photographs of the Thorps exist, Huckaby photographed their living descendants to craft silhouette portraits that honor the couple’s enduring legacy. The resulting series, A Living Requiem, is a collection of these descendant photographs, on display in Diaries of Home. Rivers will lead a conversation on the Thorp family’s impact and Huckaby’s unique approach to capturing their history through art.

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth announces the launch of the Exhibition Lecture Series, a dynamic new program featuring curators and artists from the Modern’s special exhibitions and permanent collection. This series provides a rare opportunity to explore the creative processes, curatorial strategies, and artistic visions that shape modern and contemporary art. The Exhibition Lecture Series is a free program open to the public.
Seating begins at 5:30 pm. Free admission tickets (limit two per person) are available at the Modern’s information desk beginning at 3 pm on the day of the lecture. A limited number of tickets (limit two per person) will be available for purchase online ($5) from 10 am until 4 pm the day before the lecture.

Second Saturdays | Dutch Golden Age Second Saturdays: The Art of Still Lifes
2024-12-14 14:00 - 15:00 UTC | Kimbell Art Museum, Kimbell Art Museum, Camp Bowie Boulevard, Fort Worth, TX, USA, Fort Worth, TX, United States
Special presentations by local creatives explore themes inspired by the special exhibition Dutch Art in a Global Age: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Free.
To request an accessibility accommodation for a Kimbell program, please email us as far in advance as possible.

Friday Evening Lecture | Luster and Sheen: Worldly Taste in the Dutch Republic
2025-01-10 18:00 - 19:00 UTC | Kimbell Art Museum, Kimbell Art Museum, Camp Bowie Boulevard, Fort Worth, TX, USA, Fort Worth, TX, United States
Claudia Swan,The Inaugural Mark Steinberg Weil Professor of Art History, Washington University, St. Louis
Evening lectures by distinguished guest speakers address a range of topics relating to the appreciation and interpretation of art. They are free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
To request an accessibility accommodation for a Kimbell program, please email us as far in advance as possible.

Second Saturdays | Dutch Golden Age Second Saturdays: Printmaking Demonstration with Guest Artist Lari Gibbons
2025-01-11 14:00 - 15:00 UTC | Kimbell Art Museum, Kimbell Art Museum, Camp Bowie Boulevard, Fort Worth, TX, USA, Fort Worth, TX, United States

Wednesday Series: Art in Context
2025-01-15 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Kimbell Art Museum, Kimbell Art Museum, Camp Bowie Boulevard, Fort Worth, TX, USA, Fort Worth, TX, United States
“Discipline Bears Fruit”: Portraits of Children in Seventeenth-Century Netherlands

Nancy E. Edwards, curator of European art/head of academic services, Kimbell Art Museum
These lectures, part of a continuing series, introduce the permanent collection and selected exhibitions on view at the Kimbell.
To request an accessibility accommodation for a Kimbell program, please email us as far in advance as possible.

The Artist's Eye: Nishiki Sugawara-Beda
2025-01-18 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | Kimbell Art Museum, Kimbell Art Museum, Camp Bowie Boulevard, Fort Worth, TX, USA, Fort Worth, TX, United States
Nishiki Sugawara-Beda, artist, Dallas
Moderated by Jennifer Casler Price, senior curator of Asian, African, and Ancient American art
What does the art of the past mean to the artist of the present? In this ongoing program, moderated by Kimbell staff, artists and architects discuss works in the museum’s collection, share the special insights of the practicing professional, and relate older art to contemporary artistic concerns, including their own. The program is free and requires no reservations.
To request an accessibility accommodation for a Kimbell program, please email us as far in advance as possible.

Artist Talks: Cowboy
2025-02-01 13:00 - 15:30 (America/Chicago) | Amon Carter Museum of American Art, 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth, TX, 76107, United States
Join the Carter for a free lecture and conversation with five of the contemporary artists featured in the exhibition Cowboy. Artists Yumi Roth and Emmanuel David (speaking together), Fabian Guerrero and rafa esparza (speaking together), and R. Alan Brooks will discuss their process for creating works that articulate the popular mythologies surrounding the image and concept of the cowboy. All speakers will participate in an audience Q&A.
Seating for the talk will be first come, first served. A recording of the talks will be available on the Carter’s YouTube channel a couple of weeks after the event.
American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided during the talk.
Questions? Email or call 817.989.5013.

Dutch Golden Age Second Saturdays | Northern Baroque Sounds: Texas Camerata
2025-02-08 14:00 - 15:00 UTC | Kimbell Art Museum, Kimbell Art Museum, Camp Bowie Boulevard, Fort Worth, TX, USA, Fort Worth, TX, United States

Lecture | Luster and Sheen: Worldly Taste in the Dutch Republic
2025-02-09 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Kimbell Art Museum, Kimbell Art Museum, Camp Bowie Boulevard, Fort Worth, TX, USA, Fort Worth, TX, United States
Claudia Swan, The Inaugural Mark Steinberg Weil Professor of Art History, Washington University, St. Louis
In 1620, in the Dutch city of The Hague, an artisan received a patent for a technique that enabled him to polish whalebone in a manner that achieved spectacular “luyster en glans” (luster and sheen), comparable to the highly favored and more expensive foreign hardwood, ebony. Frames, cabinets, and furnishings crafted of ebony (and lookalike materials) were especially favored luxury goods in the seventeenth century. These included Asian lacquer objects and European objects made in imitation of the foreign technique. Like lacquerware, shimmering shells, opalescent conchs, and the mother-of-pearl with which it was often inlaid, ebony is representative of Dutch taste for the sheen and gleam of highly worked foreign materials. This lecture aims to show that highly lustrous items—shells, lacquerware, porcelain, polished woods and stones, and, of course, oil paintings—were especially prized, and that the taste for luster and sheen was closely intertwined with global trade.
Lectures by distinguished guest speakers address a range of topics relating to the appreciation and interpretation of art. They are free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
To request an accessibility accommodation for a Kimbell program, please email us as far in advance as possible.

Wednesday Series: Art in Context
2025-02-12 12:30 - 13:30 UTC | Kimbell Art Museum, Kimbell Art Museum, Camp Bowie Boulevard, Fort Worth, TX, USA, Fort Worth, TX, United States
House of the Dragon: Dragons and Their Painters in Chinese Art

Jacqueline Chao, The Cecil and Ida Green Curator of Asian Art, Dallas Museum of Art
These lectures, part of a continuing series, introduce the permanent collection and selected exhibitions on view at the Kimbell.
To request an accessibility accommodation for a Kimbell program, please email us as far in advance as possible.

The Artist's Eye: Sedrick Huckaby
2025-02-15 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | Kimbell Art Museum, Kimbell Art Museum, Camp Bowie Boulevard, Fort Worth, TX, USA, Fort Worth, TX, United States
Sedrick Huckaby, artist, Fort Worth
Moderated by George T. M. Shackelford, deputy director, Kimbell Art Museum
What does the art of the past mean to the artist of the present? In this ongoing program, moderated by Kimbell staff, artists and architects discuss works in the museum’s collection, share the special insights of the practicing professional, and relate older art to contemporary artistic concerns, including their own. The program is free and requires no reservations.
To request an accessibility accommodation for a Kimbell program, please email us as far in advance as possible.

Friday Evening Lecture | The Power of Jade: The Charismatic Olmec “Standing Figure” at the Kimbell Art Museum
2025-02-28 18:00 - 19:00 UTC | Kimbell Art Museum, Kimbell Art Museum, Camp Bowie Boulevard, Fort Worth, TX, USA, Fort Worth, TX, United States
Mary E. Miller, director, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
Evening lectures by distinguished guest speakers address a range of topics relating to the appreciation and interpretation of art. They are free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
To request an accessibility accommodation for a Kimbell program, please email us as far in advance as possible.

Alex Da Corte: Cut/Uncut
2025-02-28 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell St., Fort Worth, TX, 76107, United States
The Exhibition Lecture Series is a dynamic new program featuring curators and artists from the Modern’s special exhibitions and permanent collection. This series provides a rare opportunity to explore the creative processes, curatorial strategies, and artistic visions that shape modern and contemporary art. The Exhibition Lecture Series is a free program open to the public.
Seating begins at 5:30 pm. Free admission tickets (limit two per person) are available at the Modern’s information desk beginning at 4 pm on the day of the lecture. A limited number of tickets (limit two per person) will be available for purchase online ($5) from 10 am until 4 pm the day before the lecture.

Join us for an engaging evening with acclaimed artist Alex Da Corte as part of the Exhibition Lecture Series. On Friday, February 28 at 6 pm, Da Corte will present “Cut/Uncut” and engage in conversation with Alison Hearst, the exhibition’s organizing curator.
Alex Da Corte: The Whale marks the first comprehensive museum exhibition to explore Da Corte’s dynamic relationship with painting. Spanning the past decade, the exhibition features over forty paintings, drawings, and a video work that examines painting as a performative act.
Known internationally for his interdisciplinary installations that merge painting, video, performance, and sculpture, Da Corte draws from art history, design, and pop culture. His works blend fantasy with darker undertones, while traversing high and low cultural themes. In The Whale, Da Corte views painting as a space that captures cultural “ghosts”—referencing the Jungian concept of a journey into the subconscious, likened to the mythical “belly of the whale.”
The exhibition includes Da Corte’s signature reverse-glass paintings, evoking the invisible labor of traditional animation and sign-making; Puffy Paintings, crafted from stuffed neoprene; Shampoo Paintings, created with everyday hair products; and Slatwall Paintings, which incorporate found objects. By taking up such unconventional techniques, the artist challenges the dominance of painting on canvas, expanding the boundaries of the medium and revealing new opportunities for expression.
Organized by the Modern, the exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with contributions from Da Corte and essays by Hearst, scholar Kemi Adeyemi, art historian Suzanne Hudson, and poet Hanif Abdurraqib.

Artist Talk: Jean Shin
2025-03-13 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Chicago) | Amon Carter Museum of American Art, 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth, TX, 76107, United States
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Event Description

Artist Jean Shin will talk with former Carter curator Maggie Adler about her work in the exhibition Jean Shin: The Museum Body. Following their conversation, both speakers will participate in a Q&A. Seating for the talk will be first come, first served.
American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided during the talk.
Part of the March Second Thursday at the Carter.
About Jean Shin
Jean Shin (b. 1971) is known for her expansive and often public sculptures, transforming accumulations of discarded, everyday objects into powerful monuments to consumption, identity, community, labor, and ecology. Born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in the U.S., Shin is currently based in New York. Her work has been widely exhibited and collected in over 150 major museums and cultural institutions, including solo exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC; and Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, where in 2020 she was the first Korean American woman artist featured in a solo exhibition. Shin has received numerous awards, including the Frederic Church Award for her contributions to American art and culture. Her works have been highlighted in The New York Times and Sculpture Magazine, among others.
Her body of work includes several permanent public artworks commissioned by major agencies and municipalities, including a landmark commission for the MTA’s Second Ave Subway in NYC. She is a tenured Adjunct Professor at Pratt Institute and holds an honorary doctorate from New York Academy of Art. Her piece for the 2023 Armory Show Huddled Masses, organized by the curator Eva Respini and presented by Boston’s Praise Shadows Art Gallery, was called a “standout” by The New York Times. Shin works in Brooklyn and Hudson Valley, New York.
Questions? Email or call 817.989.5013.
