Aspen Art Museum

Member events

• Apr 8, 2021

  • 9 AM How To...

    How To … Track the Art World Through Data with Julia Halperin

    We are delighted to invite you to the next edition of “How To…” where Charlotte Burns will be in conversation with journalist Julia Halperin about how the art market and museums are behind the curve when it comes to learning from data. Topics discussed will include the results of an art market study of African American and Women artists and trends in institutional behavior.
    
    Julia Halperin is executive editor of Artnet News, where she oversees editorial operations for the world’s most widely read art news site and manages a staff of editors and writers in London, Berlin, and New York. Previously, she served as the news editor of Art + Auction magazine and as the museums editor of the Art Newspaper, where she oversaw international coverage of museums and other major art institutions. Her writing has appeared in WIRED magazine, the New York Observer, and New York magazine.

• Apr 30, 2021

  • 10 AM Art Fairs

    Frieze New York: Preview with Rebecca Siegel and Mary Zlot

    In advance of Frieze New York, which takes place in person at The Shed in NY May 5-9, and digitally May 5-14, we are inviting you to join us on Friday, April 30, at 10 AM MT for a digital preview of the fair.

• Jul 31, 2021

  • 2 PM ArtCrush

    Midsummer Blowout
    with Sparkle Nation’s Gabrielle Rucker, KDNK, and performance by Brothers of Brass
    

    Free and open to the public
    
    no registration required
    
    The AAM invites the community to join Gabrielle Rucker of Sparkle Nation Book Club for a special youth program. Live music will be courtesy of KDNK community radio and Denver-based band Brothers of Brass. Other family activities include garden-related art-making activities.
    
    

• Aug 3, 2021

  • 4 PM ArtCrush

    The Illicit Gin Institute program by Zina Saro-Wiwa

    Registration Required
    
    Free and open to the public
    
    Aspen Art Museum
    
    We welcome British-Nigerian artist Zina Saro-Wiwa to Aspen to unveil some of her rare and delicious botanical gins from her Illicit Gin Institute distillery. The Illicit Gin Institute is a thinktank and distillery created by the artist that explores the poetics and possibilities of palm wine gin—also known as “kaikai” or “ogogoro” or “illicit gin.” A spirit that, like tequila or clairin rum, was at first created by necessity as an inexpensive drink. Unlike tequila or rum, however, it has not yet been understood or appreciated globally. In this smoky yet smooth palm wine spirit, Saro-Wiwa sees a potent vehicle for storytelling, regeneration, and environmental repair. A voice for the maligned but historically Edenic Niger Delta region from which she hails. She has woven the gin into her art practice since 2013, and it has now culminated in the building of her own distillery and a research drive into Niger Delta botanicals and foodways. The tasting will consist of an introductory lecture and tastings of some of the botanical gins produced by her experimental distillery in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Her delicious botanical gin chocolates will also be offered.

  • 4 PM ArtCrush

    Private Collection Visit

    Invite Only
    
    The Aspen Art Museum has a historic program of collection visits, which offers access to some of Aspen’s most iconic private homes.
    
    Spaces for these visits are limited and priority will be given to AAM members
    
    If you are interested in joining this event or future collection visits, please see our membership benefits and become a member today!

• Aug 4, 2021

  • 12 PM ArtCrush

    THE NOTHING

    At Capacity
    
    Pine Creek Cookhouse
    
    Cooking collective Spiral Theory Test Kitchen—Precious Okoyomon, Bobbi Salvör Menuez, Quori Theodor, and SK Lyons—present THE NOTHING, a post-Anthropocene eating experience and once in a lifetime culinary adventure. Enjoy a hike up to Pine Creek Cookhouse, followed by a sumptuous, out-of-this-world feast surrounded by the mountains.

  • 2 PM ArtCrush

    The Illicit Gin Institute program by Zina Saro-Wiwa

    Registration Required
    
    Aspen Art Museum
    
    Zina Saro-Wiwa’s next Illicit Gin Institute event is all about fruit and flowers. The artist will lecture once again on the gin and her practice with some emphasis on the idea of “sweetness” and the place of flowers in Nigerian culture. The tasting will open with a plain gin and a toast to the ancestors, followed by botanical gins flavored with unusual botanicals such as green orange peel and hibiscus. Bright and refreshing champagne cocktails that feature not only the gins but also bitters made from local Niger Delta basils and bitter leaves will also be offered.

  • 6 PM

    Stars Above Aspen Astronomy Night by Aspen Center for Environmental Studies

    Ticketed by Aspen Skiing Company Here
    
    ACES invites you to the top of Aspen Mountain for their 4th annual Stars Above Aspen Astronomy Night! In partnership with Aspen Snowmass, explore the cosmos from 11,212 feet at this all-ages event that’s sure to be out of this world.

  • 6 PM ArtCrush

    L’Officiel ArtCrush Photo Booth: Into the Wood
    by Adam Stamp

    Wednesday, August 4, 6–9 PM
    Thursday, August 5, 2–8 PM
    Friday, August 6, 10 AM–2 PM
    
    Registration required
    
    Into the Wood is a new pop-up, interactive installation by Los Angeles–based artist Adam Stamp. Created for ArtCrush 2021 and presented by L'Officiel Magazine, Into the Wood will provide a backdrop for Aspen Art Museum visitors to be photographed.
    
    

  • 6 PM ArtCrush

    ArtCrush Welcome Party

    Limited to AAM Members and ArtCrush Ticket Buyers
    
    Registration required
    
    Join the AAM and L'Officiel in celebrating the launch of ArtCrush 2021 with a welcome party at the museum. Exhibitions on view include Cerith Wyn Evans’s Aspen Drift; Precious Okoyomon’s *Every Earthly Morning the Sky’s Light touches Ur Life is Unprecedented in its Beauty; Shara Hughes; as well as the ArtCrush auction galleries and The Store. The event also marks the launch of L'Officiel’s Photobooth project, a weeklong pop up photography studio in the museum.