Gallery Walk: The Best of Friends
Sunday, February 6, 2011, 1 pm
Kresge Art Museum
Join KAM education staff during First Sunday Gallery Walk. Learn about the Friends of Kresge acquisitions made during the past 35 years.
WKAR Member Night
Thursday, February 10, 2011, 6-8 pm
Kresge Art Museum
Enjoy light refreshments and docent-led tours of the Best of Friends exhibition. The docents spend countless hours studying objects in the museum collection and are pleased to answer your questions.
Creative Kids: You Gotta Have HeART!! all ages FREE!
Saturday, February 12, 2011, 1-3 pm
Kresge Art Museum
Make one-of-a-kind Valentine cards for the special people in your life. We provide all materials – no registration required.
The Stanley & Selma Hollander Lecture on Jewish Arts and Music
Film: The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground
Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 7-9:30 pm
147 Communication Arts Building
This documentary film explores the art and music of the Grammy Award-winning roots band The Klezmatics, founded in klezmer arrangements with Yiddish. Journey with the band from New York's Lower East Side to Krakow, Poland and beyond. Bring your dancing shoes...
For additional information, please contact MSU Jewish Studies: (517) 432-3493.
Department of Art & Art History Guest Lecture: Movana Chen
February 15, 2011, 7 pm
Room C20, Snyder Hall
A fusion of fashion, performance, installation, and sculpture, Chen's most recent project reconstructs donated books into knitted text that examines communication barriers between cultures. She has exhibited internationally and was featured in the 2010 International Fashion Art Biennale in Seoul.
Department of Art & Art History Open Studio Tour - CANCELLED
Kresge Art Center
Don't miss this annual opportunity! Take a peek inside Kresge Art Center as graduate and undergraduate students open their studios to share and discuss their work.
Art Museum is open on President's Day
Monday, February 21, 2011
Department of Art & Art History Research Lecture: Sally Helvenston Gray - Designers' Challenge: The Use of Shawl-patterned Fabrics in Tea Gowns of the 1870s – 1880s
Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 7 pm
Room 108, Kresge Art Center
Helvenston Gray will discuss the unique discovery of a number of tea gowns and wrappers constructed of the same or similar shawl-patterned cachimere decousse fabrics dating to the late nineteenth century. The marriage of textile design with garment design is explored, along with the origin and spread of this particular fashionable style.
Film: The Art of the Steal
(2009, 101 min., documentary, directed by Don Argott)
Presenter: Brian Gilmore, Director, Housing Law Clinic and Associate Clinical Professor, MSU College of Law
Thursday, February 24, 2011, 7-9 pm
Room W449, MSU Main Library
The true story of a multi-billion dollar heist and how they got away with it. The film chronicles the long and dramatic struggle for control of the Barnes Foundation, a private collection of art valued at more than $25 billion. "ENGROSSING...A totally absorbing story about the exploitation of art and the thorny entanglement of culture, capitalism, and politics." Anthony Kaufman, indieWIRE
Co-sponsor: MSU Library Film Series.
