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Event Series Monarch Makes

Monarch Makes

Join us at the Barry Art Museum for this year's collaborative craft! Guests are invited to practice hands-on activities with museum staff and contribute to a community artwork that will be displayed at the museum in August 2024. This year's craft is inspired by the dollhouse on view at the Barry Art Museum in gallery […]

Free

Event Series BAM Saturday Tour: Martha Chase

BAM Saturday Tour: Martha Chase

This Saturday, join us as we tour our Martha Chase: Progressive Kindness exhibition. It was a product of the Progressive Era (1896-1917), a momentous time in American history, marked by significant reform in labor, suffrage, and social science. Emergent leaders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul spread […]

Event Series Monarch Makes

Monarch Makes

Join us at the Barry Art Museum for this year's collaborative craft! Guests are invited to practice hands-on activities with museum staff and contribute to a community artwork that will be displayed at the museum in August 2024. This year's craft is inspired by the dollhouse on view at the Barry Art Museum in gallery […]

Free
Event Series U-Nite: After Hours Programming

U-Nite: Black & Bold feat. The Coco Comb Project by Dr. Tonya M. Shell

Barry Art Museum 1075 West 43rd Street, Norfolk, VA, United States

Barry Art Museum is proud to celebrate Black History Month with U-Nite: Black & Bold feat. The Coco Comb Project: Rooted in HAIRitage & Culture by Dr. Tonya M. Shell (Poetikk Justice) Renowned Visual Artist, Clayton Singleton of Clayton Singleton Fine Art The Dawn is Ours: Amanda Gorman Textiles from South Africa Performances featuring the […]

Free – $5.00
Event Series Monarch Makes

Monarch Makes

Join us at the Barry Art Museum for this year's collaborative craft! Guests are invited to practice hands-on activities with museum staff and contribute to a community artwork that will be displayed at the museum in August 2024. This year's craft is inspired by the dollhouse on view at the Barry Art Museum in gallery […]

Free
Event Series Monarch Makes

Monarch Makes

Join us at the Barry Art Museum for this year's collaborative craft! Guests are invited to practice hands-on activities with museum staff and contribute to a community artwork that will be displayed at the museum in August 2024. This year's craft is inspired by the dollhouse on view at the Barry Art Museum in gallery […]

Free

Guest Lecture: Kimberly Thomas

Barry Art Museum 1075 West 43rd Street, Norfolk, VA, United States

Saturday, February 17th, join us at the Chrysler Museum Glass Studio at noon for a glassblowing demonstration, then at 2:30 PM at the Barry Art Museum for a public guest lecture. Bio: Kimberly Thomas is a biracial interdisciplinary sculptor and flameworker currently residing in Denver, Colorado. She is known for her work’s intentionally flawed and […]

Free

Coffee & Contemporary – Black History Month

Barry Art Museum 1075 West 43rd Street, Norfolk, VA, United States

Join us in celebration of Black History Month as we screen a GEEX Lecture by Better Together.

BAM Saturday Tour: Black Artists & Subjects

This Saturday, join us as we trace the vein of Black subjecthood and artistry within the museum's collection. By beginning with pieces that demonstrate a white artist's rendering of the Black image, and then pivoting off the heel of important artistic figures like dollmaker Leo Moss, the Barry Art Museum seeks to discuss the importance […]