Aspen Art Museum

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.

Registration Required

Location to be shared upon registration

Join Zina Saro-Wiwa for the final iteration of the Illicit Gin Institute, which will be a “Silent Prekese Picnic.” Prekese (also known as Aidan Fruit) is a pod that is a species of the pea family and is grown on the Aidan Fruit tree. It is used mostly in savory soups and sometimes teas across West Africa, but it smells like toasted caramel and vanilla. Regarded as highly medicinal with many scientifically-documented health benefits, it is one of Saro-Wiwa’s favorite botanicals. The picnic, which will take place in a beautiful, bucolic setting near the museum, will be conducted in a warm and friendly silence. Attendees are invited to wander in, interact with prekese pods, and taste Saro-Wiwa’s deliciously ambrosial vegan prekese ice creams served with chocolate sauce spiked with clove gin and fresh strawberries. Other tree-related gins and savory treats will be offered. The observed silence is in service of the prekese itself, which, according to the artist, will allow the botanical to do the talking and encourage participants to engage with the unknown from a place of openness, humility, and meditative contemplation. A chance to listen to trees speak within you.

Free and open to the public

Registration Required

Aspen Art Museum

As part of the ongoing Questrom Lecture Series, the AAM will host a panel discussion with leading artists, scholars, and curators Allan Schwartzman, Doris Salcedo, Rebecca Siegel, and Naima Keith to explore the present landscape and future potential for monuments, as well as examine current debates about who and what should—or should not—be memorialized. This event is free and open to the public.

Free and open to the public.

Registration Required

Tonight, the Aspen Art Museum and Aspen galleries will open their doors to offer guests the opportunity to view a wide selection of works after hours. After Hours at the Aspen Art Museum will also feature a special cocktail by artist Adam Stamp’s Slippery Slope bar.

Please note that you will need to register separately for String Quartet for Six Players, with Stephen Prina.

Free and Open to the Public

Registration required

Aspen Art Museum

Stephen Prina will stage a special performance of his 1976 composition String Quartet for Six Players, which takes as a starting point Mozart’s String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, albeit conceptually rearranged. Using chance as a guiding compositional principle, the work is performed in response to the throwing of a die. Musical performers are from the Aspen Music Festival and School.

Wednesday, August 4, 6–9 PM
Thursday, August 5, 2–8 PM
Friday, August 6, 10 AM–2 PM

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.

Registration required

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!

Event co-chairs
Amy Phelan and Jamie Tisch


Email: For inquiries, please email us at info@aspenartmuseum.org.

Every August, the Aspen Art Museum hosts a week of events celebrating art and artists that lead up to our annual ArtCrush summer gala. This week honors those whose creativity and vision have the greatest impact on the field of contemporary art. The annual ArtCrush gala will end with a live auction of 10 incredible contemporary artworks.

Open to all

Registration Required

Presented in collaboration with the Aspen Music Festival and School (AMFS), this free and inclusive chamber concert series features one-hour performances by the most advanced AMFS students and visiting musicians in Aspen.

With universal acclaim, vocalist Catherine Russell has performed on four continents. She’s been a hit at major Jazz Festivals including Monterey, Newport, North Sea, JazzAscona, Montreal, Bern, Rochester International, Panama, Tanglewood, and at sold-out venues like The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Scullers in Boston, The Dakota in Minneapolis, Jazz at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in NYC, SFJazz in San Francisco, and Pasadena Pops in Los Angeles. All Music Guide says, “Russell emerged as a retro old school vocalist for the ages.”