Blanton All Day: Photo/Synthesis

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 12 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.

1–4pm – Collage Activity – In partnership with Austin Creative Reuse, attendees are invited to create collage pieces that reflect themselves and their stories.

2pm – Curator’s Choice: Who am I? (Michener Building)

Potrait of a Gentleman by Simon Vouet has recently been reattributed to another artist, David de Haen. Holly Borham, Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings and European Art, discusses this fascinating recent discovery about our European Collection.

4–8pm – Pop Up Print Exhibition: Figures in Focus (H-E-B Study Room, Michener Building)

Drawing from the Blanton Museum’s growing photography collection, this pop-up exhibition in the H-E-B Study Room will feature modern and contemporary photographs that take the human figure as their central subject. Using a variety of photographic techniques, artists capture the body in a range of settings, from staged portraiture in the photographer’s studio, to interactions with the natural landscape, and in the kaleidoscopic whirl of a carnival ride. These artists illustrate the power of photography to shape perception, identity, and vision itself. Figures in Focus includes works by James Luna, Shirin Neshat, Zanele Muholi, Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman, and others.

Image Credit: Shirin Neshat, Ghada, 2013, digital chromogenic print, 26 × 17 1/2 in., Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, 2018.195, © Shirin Neshat

4pm – Art with an Expert: Indigeneity & Photography (Capitol Room, Smith Building)

Take a deep dive into art, art histories, and more with these hour-long talks presented by distinguished art professionals. Native America: In Translation artist Koyoltzintli and Diné (Navajo) photographer Will Wilson will discuss Indigenous culture and the medium of photography, both in terms of their work and in relationship to the exhibition on view at the Blanton. The conversation will be moderated by Kaila Schedeen, PhD exhibitions and collections manager at UT’s Art Galleries at Black Studies.

Art With an Expert is organized by the Blanton Museum of Art.

Support for this program at the Blanton is provided by the Carolyn Harris Hynson Centennial Endowment.

Image Credit: Koyoltzintli, Spider Woman Embrace, Abiquiu, New Mexico, 2019, from the series MEDA, 2017–19, archival pigment print, 24 x 30 in., Courtesy of the artist.

3pm – DJ Set by Breakaway Record
5pm – Live Performance by Superfónicos (Moody Patio)

We’re welcoming back the Superfónicos who’ll be stirring up Colombian Funk, Cumbia and Afro-beat on the Moody Patio. Enjoy an opening DJ set by Breakaway Records.

Food & Drink

B.Y.O.P. [bring your own picnic] and enjoy it on the grounds. Alternatively, food by Vegan Nom and drinks from Haymaker will be available for purchase.