Aspen Art Museum

Member events

• May 24, 2023

  • 5 PM

    Member Preview and Reception
    Florian Krewer: everybody rise

    Open to all Members
    
    5:30 PM Walkthrough with Exhibition Curator Matthew Higgs
    
    Join us for a Member reception for everybody rise, the first institutional solo exhibition by Florian Krewer in the United States.
     
    Focusing on works made over the past five years, everybody rise proposes a chronological reading of Krewer’s work—one that amplifies key moments and shifts in his practice often made in relation to significant biographical events.

• Jul 28, 2023

  • 5 PM Aspen ArtWeek

    Launch of Nairy Baghramian’s Outdoor Sculpture

    Free and open to the public
    
    Join us for the unveiling of ArtCrush Honoree Nairy Baghramian’s new site-specific commission for the Aspen Art Museum, created as part of her solo exhibition Jupon de Corps. 

• Aug 1, 2023

  • 5 PM Aspen ArtWeek

    Aspen ArtWeek Welcome Party

    Limited to AAM Members and ArtCrush Guests
    
    Join Aspen Art Museum and Prada in celebrating the start of Aspen ArtWeek with a Welcome Party hosted at the Museum. ArtCrush Gala auction works will be displayed for patrons to view. The party features music by DJ Cardamami.

• Aug 2, 2023

  • 4 PM Aspen ArtWeek

    A Lover’s Discourse:
    Artist Panel
    Moderated by
    Curator Stella Bottai

    Free and open to the public
    Registration required.
    
    In conjunction with the current show A Lover’s Discourse, participating artists Guglielmo Castelli (b. 1987, Italy), Chase Hall (b. 1993, USA), Stanislava Kovalcikova (b. 1988, Czechoslovakia) and Zeinab Saleh (b. 1996, Kenya) come together in a panel, moderated by AAM Curator-at-Large Stella Bottai, to discuss their work and the making of the exhibition, in which their paintings are juxtaposed with pieces borrowed from private collections in Aspen.

• Aug 3, 2023

  • 12 PM

    Artist Commission: Matt Copson at Smuggler Mine

    12–4 PM
    Free and open to the public
    *Registration required
    Artist Matt Copson, with composer Oliver Leith, will present a multi-sensory installation within the caves of Aspen’s storied Smuggler Mine. Celebrated for his virtuosic laser animations, innovative theater works and his 2022 opera *Last Days made also in collaboration with Leith, Copson will develop a site-specific, immersive environment that draws from the mine’s organic and built architectures to create a singular audiovisual world.

  • 2 PM

    Making Their Mark: A Conversation Between Komal Shah and Sarah Douglas

    Free and open to the public.
    Registration Required
    
    Please join us on the rooftop of the Aspen Art Museum for a conversation between Komal Shah and Sarah Douglas to celebrate Making Their Mark: Art by Women in the Shah Garg Collection, a new publication edited by Mark Godfrey and Katy Siegel.

  • 4 PM Aspen ArtWeek

    Roberto Lugo’s The Village Potter

    Free and open to the public
    
    Join artist Roberto Lugo at his Aspen Art Museum rooftop Bodega and purchase ceramics made by the artist in support of the museum.
    
    As part of the Aspen Art Museum’s ArtCrush Auction Exhibition, acclaimed Philadelphia-based artist, activist, and educator Roberto Lugo collaborates with his representing gallery, R & Company, and the Aspen Art Museum to transform his widely-recognized digital platform, The Village Potter, into a physical storefront.

  • 5 PM Aspen ArtWeek

    Musical Performance: Alice Smith

    Free and open to the public
    Registration Required
    Limited Seating
    
    Hailed in contemporary art circles for her nuanced collaborations with artists such as Isaac Julien and Kahlil Joseph, and widely renowned for her once-in-a-generation talent, singer and songwriter Alice Smith, accompanied by pianist, Dennis Hamm, will perform a small, intimate set on the Aspen Art Museum’s rooftop against the backdrop of Aspen Mountain.

  • 9 PM Sharp

    Artist Performance: Poncili Creación
    MOUNTAIN STORY

    Free and open to the public
    Registration Required
    
    Following major performances at New York City’s MoMA PS1 and Melbourne’s Rising Festival, as well as Aspen Art Museum’s own 2023 Youth Art Expo, Poncili Creación returns to the mountains to stage a newly commissioned puppet performance for Aspen ArtWeek.

• Aug 4, 2023

  • 9 AM Aspen ArtWeek

    Morning Hike on Smuggler Mountain

    Free and open to the public
    
    Prior to the Artist Honoree Talk with Nairy Baghramian, Nicola Lees, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, please join us for an invigorating morning hike along the Hunter Creek Loop on Smuggler Mountain.
    
    With special thanks to Erin Leider-Pariser.