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Blanton All Day: Jingle Jam feat. performance by Conspirare

2024sat14dec10:00 amsat8:00 pmBlanton All Day: Jingle Jam feat. performance by ConspirareFuel your December festivities with art-inspired activities that include a performance by Conspirare Artist Citizen Choral Collective.

Event Details

WHEN/WHERE: 
10 a.m.–8 p.m., Saturday, December 14
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, 200 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Austin, TX 78712

ADMISSION:
$20: Ages 18 & up
$10: Ages 6-17
FREE: Ages 5 & under
FREE: Blanton Members Not yet a member? Join today!

(Please note, other regular discounts such as UT-Austin ID Holder, Military, K-12 Teacher, Museum Reciprocal, and Senior do not apply.)

EVENT SCHEDULE

MORE INFORMATION COMING SOON. All events subject to change. The galleries open till 8 p.m.

Art on View (Michener Gallery Building)

Explore a wide variety of galleries & don’t miss these special exhibitions:

A selection of festive cards on a table with colouring pencils and glue nearby

Experience Art (Michener Building)

Join any of these guided offerings, created by our Education team to enhance your museum experience.

10:30 a.m. – Drawing to See: Join a Blanton educator who will lead this half-hour experience of close looking with pencil and sketch pad in hand. The more you draw, the more you’ll see! Recommended for ages 6 years & up.
11 a.m. – Look & Listen Storytime: Blanton gallery teachers will lead you and your family through picture book readings connected to works of art. Storytime will inspire close looking, creativity, and curiosity. Recommended for ages 4-8 years old.
11:30 a.m. – Looking Together: Spend time with a small group that wants to share the experience of noticing, wondering, and making meaning. Guided activities may emphasize interpretation, personal connections, creativity or play! Recommended for ages 12 years & up.

11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. – Enjoy Creative Cardmaking on the Moody Patio. Materials provided.

2pm – Curator’s Choice: Art of the Spanish Americas (Michener Building)

Rosario I. Granados, Marilynn Thoma Curator, Art of the Spanish Americas, will discuss a depiction of The Sleeping Christ Child featured on a copper plate. This talk will take place in our European Art/Art of the Spanish Americas gallery which features a variety of artworks depicting the Virgin Mary, revered by Christians as the Mother of God.

Image Credit: Unknown Artist, “La Virgen María, San José, San Juan Evangelista niño con el Niño Jesús dormido [The Virgin Mary, Saint Joseph and the Infant Saint John the Baptist with the Sleeping Christ Child],” Cuzco, Peru, 18th century, Oil on copper, Collection of Carl & Marilynn Thoma

A woman smiling and holding a viola

4pm – Art with an Expert: Dr. Elizabeth Weinfield (Capitol Room, Smith Building)

Music historian Dr. Elizabeth Weinfield will discuss European art favorite Saint Cecilia by Simon Vouet, and female musicians and composers in the 17th–century.

About the Speaker

Elizabeth Weinfield is a music historian whose research explores the relationships among gender, performance, and race in the early modern period. Her interests include music by women in the crypto-Jewish communities of Antwerp, music in the 17th-century Constantinople harem, performance practice, and the early music revival in America. A native New Yorker, she holds a PhD in historical musicology from the Graduate Center (CUNY), an MSt in music from Oxford, and a BA in art history from Rutgers. She previously taught music history at City College, Fordham, and Yeshiva. Weinfield has served as the editor of the digital publication the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and as a researcher at the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments. Founder and artistic director of the ensemble Sonnambula, Weinfield has designed site-specific concerts at the Met Museum, the Cloisters, the Hispanic Society, the Frick, and recently published the first complete recording of the music of the 17th-century composer, Leonora Duarte (Centaur Records, 2019). Her writing on old instruments and historical performance has been published in the Galpin Society Journal, the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, and the Huffington PostFortnight Journal; is forthcoming in the Journal of Musicology; and with Cambridge University Press. She is working on her first book, Leonora Duarte (1610–1678), Converso Composer in Antwerp: An Early-Modern Feminist Identity, a monograph on Duarte that investigates music’s role in the convergence of business and culture in the early modern domestic space.

A large group of choir singers wearing jeans and dark tops

3-4pm & 5-6pm – Live Performance by Conspirare
6-7:30pm – DJ Set by Breakaway Records (Michener Building)

We’re thrilled to bring members of the Conspirare Artist Citizen Choral Collective to the Blanton! You can also enjoy another DJ set by Breakaway Records.

About Conspirare

Conspirare is a GRAMMY®-winning choir and nonprofit performing arts organization that believes in the power of music to transform, heal, and connect.

Conspirare shares the gift of singing through:
–Conspirare: A Company of Voices
–Our GRAMMY® -winning professional choir that performs, records, and teaches.
–Conspirare Symphonic Choir: Our choir of volunteer musicians who audition and perform.
–Conspirare Artist Citizen Choral Collective: Gathers local educators and singers to co-create a choral culture through community involvement, engaging rehearsals, and high-level performance. 
–Music in Schools: Our musicians inspire and uplift choir students and their teachers at diverse middle and high schools through master classes and free performances.
–Big Sing: Free community singing opportunities held at public places like schools, libraries, and museums.

Food & Drink

Enjoy food for by purchase by Vegan Nom or B.Y.O.P. [bring your own picnic] and enjoy it on the grounds.

Free for Attendees: Thanks to H-E-B, there will be hot cocoa & cookie-decorating bar, while supplies last.

Go to our Before You Visit page for more details and information when planning your visit. Visit our FAQs section to help plan your day at the Blanton. A limited number of lockers are available to use in our Check-In Building (first come, first served). If you have specific accommodation needs, please email us at accessibility@blantonmuseum.org Please note, the Blanton café is closed until further notice.

Remember to share your experience on social using #BlantonNewGrounds  & #MoodyPatio and tag us @blantonmuseum!

PARKING / TRANSPORT: Parking is available in the Brazos Garage. Normal rates can be paid directly at the garage. (Blanton Members get a $4 discounted rate at Check-In, valid all day). Ride-shares can drop off in the Museum Drop-Off on the east side of the museum. Bicycle racks are available on the south side of Jester Center and on the west side of the museum’s Smith Administration Building. Public transit is encouraged; Cap Metro bus routes 1, 3, 7, 10, 18, 19, 20, 801, and 803 have stops within walking distance. 

Support for Blanton All Day is generously provided by H-E-B. Media Sponsor: The Austin Chronicle.

Time

December 14, 2024 10:00 am - 8:00 pm(GMT-06:00)

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