Past Events

Installation view of Alia Ali's site-specific installation of Love with 5 photographs on blue wall with patterns of Love painted in Arabic
Gallery Talk with Gillian Holzer
Thursday, October 1, 2020 | 4:00 pm鈥4:30 pm
Web conference showing museum interns and staff
Q + Art with Academic Curator Claire Nettleton and a meet and greet with our Benton interns
Thursday, September 24, 2020 | 5:00 pm鈥8:00 pm
Calligraphy boards with brushs and circular strokes
Calligraphy for Change with the 5C Calligraphy Club and Q + Art with Daphnide Toussaint '20
Thursday, September 17, 2020 | 5:00 pm鈥7:00 pm
Tall bronze outdoor sculpture of female figure holding stacked pots above while pouring water from a handheld pot
Gallery Talk with Daphnide Toussaint '20 on Alison Saar's Imbue
Thursday, September 17, 2020 | 4:00 pm鈥4:30 pm
Classroom of 3rd graders in the collections study room area with museum staff
Q + Art with Steve Comba, associate director/registrar at the Benton
Thursday, September 10, 2020 | 5:00 pm鈥6:00 pm
Screenshot of 2 individuals on Zoom
New Podcast Episode: "Museums in a Pandemic: The Scream"
Thursday, September 10, 2020 | 3:00 pm鈥4:00 pm
Screenshot of 2 individuals on Zoom
New Podcast Episode: "Museums in a Pandemic: At Least Six Feet Apart"
Thursday, September 3, 2020 | 3:00 pm鈥4:00 pm
Screenshot of online conference via Zoom
New Podcast Episode: "Museums in a Pandemic: At Least Six Feet Apart"
Thursday, August 27, 2020 | 3:00 pm鈥4:00 pm
Speaker view on Zoom with multiple participants
New Podcast Episode: "Who is the Benton Museum of Art?"
Thursday, August 20, 2020 | 3:00 pm
Permanent Collection Open House Series: "Native American Art" with Steve Comba, Associate Director and Registrar
Friday, May 1, 2020 | 2:00 pm鈥3:00 pm
Installation view of In the Shadow of Numbers: Charles Gaines Selected Works from 1974 - 2012. Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer
Permanent Collection Open House Series: "The Project Series Highlights" with Rebecca McGrew, Senior Curator
Friday, April 24, 2020 | 2:00 pm鈥3:00 pm
Woodcut on paper of a religious scene of the Temptation of Christ
Permanent Collection Open House Series: "Arts of Devotion, 1400-1800" with Victoria Sancho Lobis, Director
Friday, April 17, 2020 | 2:00 pm鈥3:00 pm
Installation view of exhibition with composite photographs mounted on walls
Canceled due to COVID-19: Gabrielle Civil | Experiments in Joy: Longing & Landscapes
Thursday, April 16, 2020 | 5:00 pm鈥10:00 pm
Woodcut on paper with scene of people shielding from weather
Permanent Collection Open House Series: "Parisian Ecologies, 1850-1930" with Claire Nettleton, Academic Curator
Friday, April 10, 2020 | 2:00 pm鈥3:00 pm
Color photograph of Architecture of Authority
Permanent Collection Open House Series: "Art of Borderlands" with Victoria Sancho Lobis, Director
Friday, April 3, 2020 | 2:00 pm鈥3:00 pm
Wideview of an event in a gallery with speaker up front and group of people in the audience
Jeff Chang | Beyond Empathy: 鈥淭here are no pure worlds鈥
Thursday, March 5, 2020 | 4:00 pm鈥10:00 pm
Performance artist entering into a gallery with a group of followers behind
NIC Kay Performance: pushit!! [an exercise in getting well soon]
Saturday, February 29, 2020 | 4:00 pm鈥7:00 pm
Two people in a panel at the front of a group of audiences
Tina Campt | Listening to Images: Alternative Methods of Analysis
Thursday, February 13, 2020 | 4:00 pm鈥9:00 pm
View into a gallery for a public lecture with audiences in seats with a speaker up front
Kevin Quashie | Quiet Storms
Thursday, November 21, 2019 | 4:00 pm鈥9:00 pm
Three people with microphones speaking as part of a panel in a museum gallery
Ntone Edjabe | FESTAC 鈥77 A Mixtape
Thursday, October 31, 2019 | 5:00 pm鈥11:00 pm