All lectures are held in the Arthur M. Loew Auditorium on the lower level of the museum. All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Family and teen programs are now also offered free of charge, thanks to generous support from the Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation and the Friends of Hopkins Center and Hood Museum of Art.
Click here to download the museum's 2008 general brochure, which includes a preview of all of our upcoming exhibitions.
7 June, Saturday, 2:00 PM
Special Introductory Tour of Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body with Exhibition Curator Barbara Thompson, Curator of African, Oceanic, and Native American Collections
*24 June, Tuesday, 12:30 PM
Museum Galleries
Lunchtime Gallery Talk
GIRLHOOD IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Nazera Wright, Thurgood Marshall Fellow, Dartmouth College
*25 June, Wednesday, 4:30 PM
Museum Galleries
Artist Gallery Talk
Zaneli Muholi, South African photographer and new media artist
*27 June, Friday, 4:30 PM
Arthur M. Loew Auditorium
Artist Lecture
Dead eyes! the ugly side of black dolls
Senzeni Marasela, South African photographer and installation artist
28 June, Saturday, 2:00 PM
Introductory Tour of Dressing Up Culture: Molas from Kuna Yala
*8 July, Tuesday, 12:30 PM
Museum Galleries
Lunchtime Gallery Talk
African Remembrances: Black Womanhood in European and Contemporary Diasporic Art
Angela Rosenthal, Associate Professor of Art History, Dartmouth College
9 July, Wednesday, 5:30 PM
Arthur M. Loew Auditorium
Lecture
REPRESENTING ANCIENT ART IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: ALMA TADEMA’S THE SCULPTURE GALLERY
T. Barton Thurber, Curator of European Art
This lecture is presented in conjunction with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Classical Association of New England’s Summer Institute, with its theme “Revolution and Reaction: Radical Changes and Continuities in the Ancient World.” For other public programs during the week of 7–12 July, go to www.dartmouth.edu/~classics/CANE/2008/index2.html. This lecture also corresponds with the exhibition Alma-Tadema and Antiquity: Imagining Classical Sculpture in Late-Nineteenth-Century Britain, on view in the Hood’s Harrington Gallery from 28 June through 28 September.
9 July, Wednesday, 7:00 PM
Hood Museum of Art Galleries
Music Performance
Artful Compositions
The Upper Valley Music Center presents seasonally themed classical chamber music performed by senior members and graduates of their strings program.
For more information, please call (603) 646-2809.
12 July, Saturday, 2:00 PM
Introductory Tour of Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body
15 July, Tuesday, 12:30 pm
Harrington Gallery
Lunchtime Gallery Talk
pompeii and herculaneum in Alma-Tadema’s painting the sculpture gallery
T. Barton Thurber, Curator of European Art
*16 July, Wednesday, 6:00-8:30 pm
Arthur M. Loew Auditorium
Black Womanhood Film Festival
The Hood presents a special evening featuring three significant films that explore women’s identities and self-image in Africa and its diasporas. Intermission refreshments provided by Tastes of Africa.
"Fantacoca" from Africa, Africas by Agnes Ndibi presents the disturbing cultural phenomenon of skin bleaching in Cameroon and the challenge it poses to notions of black pride and identity (23 min.).
Perfect Image? by Maureen Blackwood exposes stereotypical images if black women and explores women's own ideas of self worth (30 min.).
Black Women On: The Light, Dark Thang by Celeste Crenshaw and Paula Caffey explores the politics of color within the African American community (52 min.).
19 July, Saturday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM
Hood Museum of Art Membership Program
The Hood Museum membership program will be hosting a booth at the Hanover Street Fest with information on museum exhibitions and educational programs for friends of all ages. There will also be discounts on Museum Shop items, fantastic raffles, and a fun art activity the whole family can enjoy. For information about becoming a member, please call (603) 646-2808.
22 July, Tuesday, 12:30 PM
Sack Gallery
Lunchtime Gallery Talk
JOSEPH BLACKBURN’S JONATHAN SIMPSON, 1758: THE PORTRAYAL OF STATUS IN COLONIAL BOSTON
Barbara J. MacAdam, Jonathan L. Cohen Curator of American Art, and Margaret E. Spicer, Professor Emerita of Theater and Adjunct Curator of the Henry B. Williams Costume Collection
*25 July, Friday, 4:30 PM
Arthur M. Loew Auditorium
Artist Roundtable Discussion
performing black womanhood: film, photography, and new media arts
Participants will include artists Wangechi Mutu, Ingrid Mwangi, and Berni Searle. Moderated by Rory Bester, independent scholar, South Africa. Performance by Ingrid Mwangi to follow.
29 July, Tuesday, 12:30 PM
Museum Galleries
Lunchtime Gallery Talk
looking through the Colonial lens: Postcards in Black Womanhood
Barbara Thompson, Curator of African, Oceanic, and Native American Collections
2 August, Saturday, 2:00 PM
Introductory Tour of Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body
5 August, Tuesday, 12:30 PM
Harrington Gallery
Lunchtime Gallery Talk
X-RAY VISION: A CONSERVATOR’S VIEW OF THREE MAJOR PAINTINGS IN THE HOOD COLLECTION
Sandy Webber, Conservator of Paintings, Williamstown Art Conservation Center
*8 August, Friday, 4:30 PM
Arthur M. Loew Auditorium
Artist Lecture
EVERYTHING THAT IS PROFOUND LOVES THE MASK: THE FEMALE MASQUERADE TRADITION IN AFRICA
Artist Esiaba Irobi, Associate Professor of International Theatre at Ohio University, Athens
Special Event
27 September, Saturday, 1:30–5:00 PM
Arthur M. Loew Auditorium
Symposium: Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Panel discussion to follow.
Details to come.
Starred events are co-sponsored by the Fannie and Alan Leslie Center for the Humanities, the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, the 2008 Summer Arts Festival, and the Allen and Joan Bildner Endowment for Human and Intergroup Relations.
ARTVENTURES
Interactive tours for children ages eight and older are offered on the first Saturday of each month, October through May. Children explore works of art through lively discussions, hands-on activities, and creative projects. Participation in each ArtVenture is limited to twenty children on a pre-registration basis. Thanks to the generous support of the Friends, there is no charge for admission. For information, call (603) 646-1469.
GROUP TOURS
Free guided tours of the museum’s collections and exhibitions are available by appointment for any group of five or more. Contact the museum’s education department at (603) 646-1469 or hood.museum.tours@dartmouth.edu.
The museum also offers a wide range of programs for Dartmouth students, faculty, and staff, and for regional schools.
The museum is open every Wednesday evening until 9:00 p.m., so please visit after work!
All museum exhibitions and events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. For the safety of all of our visitors, the Hood Museum of Art will enforce legal seating capacity limits at every event in accordance with RSA 153:5 and Life Safety Code 101.
Assistive listening devices are available for all events.
The museum, including the Arthur M. Loew Auditorium, is wheelchair accessible. For accessibility requests, please call 603-646-2809 or e-mail Access-Hood@Mac.Dartmouth.edu.
