Make
Nov 1, 2016, 10:30 AM
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Community
Nov 1, 2016, 4 PM
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Make
Nov 2, 2016, 2:30 PM
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Discuss
Nov 2, 2016, 5:30 PM
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Community
Nov 3, 2016, 10:30 AM
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Program Feature: Learn
This winter break (December 26–30, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.), the museum offers a full week of workshops for 4–5 and 6–10 year-olds to take inspiration from artists whose work is currently on view. After a great run of Summer Workshops, these workshops build on the format of thematic, exploratory projects for kids to use their imaginations to make artworks that are celebrated at the end of each day.
Sign up now for the entire week or choose à la carte options for creative challenges involving fun winter activities, the chance to play while making art, and—new this year—lunch provided by the AAM!
As always, scholarships are also available for RFV residents.
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Faces of the AAM
The Statue of Liberty, artist Danh Võ, and We The People
Danh Võ, We The People (Detail), 2011. Courtesy Lawrence and Joan Altman
The Statue of Liberty was created in Paris by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi in collaboration with civil engineer/architect Gustave Eiffel. It was a gift to the USA from France to commemorate the centenary of American independence. The just over 151-foot, 225-ton sculpture was recognized at the time as one of the greatest technical achievements of its age, and hailed as a work that bridged the worlds of art and engineering. Representing the possibility of life without tyranny or oppression, for many, the Statue of Liberty is a powerful and symbolic icon of freedom, welcoming generations of global immigrants to America at the entrance of New York Harbor since its inauguration in October 1886.
Born in Vietnam, in 1975 (the year that marked the end of the Vietnam War), Danh Võ grew up in Denmark after his family fled his native country in a homemade boat when he was four years old. While he has no memories of this early childhood, Võ nevertheless draws on his personal experiences to explore broader historical, social, and political themes, like the segmented 1:1 replica of the Statue of Liberty, We The People (2010–14). Created using the same fabrication techniques and material as the original (copper)—yet without any intention of realizing its assembly as a whole—Võ’s We The People is comprised of a total of 250 individual components; allowing viewers to reflect on the construction of the idea of liberty itself, and to remind us all—especially as we approach the national election—of the collective action it takes to build anything: be that an ideal, a place, a museum, a city, or a nation.
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AAM SHOP
- CEAL FLOYER: A HANDBOOK
British artist Ceal Floyer (b. 1958) plays with conventional patterns of perception in a sophisticated way, piercing through them with a keen sense of irony and the simplest of means. This is the first publication to systematically document sixty-three works selected by the artist herself.
The AAM Shop is always open online, and AAM members receive discounts on a host of products.
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the AAM’s Andrea and James Gordon Roof-Deck Café
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Tuesday–Saturday
Lunch: 11:30 AM–2:30 PM
Beverages: 10:30 AM–6 PM
Sunday
Beverages & Pastries: 10:30 AM–6 PM
AAM Members enjoy $1 bottomless cups of coffee all the time!
Click here to check out Julia and Allen Domingos’s fresh and local lunch creations for this week.
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Current Exhibitions
Dec 15, 2023-Sep 29, 2024
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AAM exhibitions are made possible by the Marx Exhibition Fund. General exhibition support is provided by the Toby Devan Lewis Visiting Artist Fund.
Major support for Julian Schnabel Plate Paintings 1978–86 is provided by Sandy and Paul Edgerley. Additional support is provided by the AAM National Council.
Mary Ramsden’s (In / It) is funded in part by the AAM National Council.
Danh Võ’s exhibition is supported by the Simone and Kerry Vickar Roof Deck Sculpture Fund, and funded in part by the AAM National Council.
AAM education programs are made possible by the Questrom Education Fund. AAM talks and lectures are presented as part of the Questrom Lecture Series and made possible by the Questrom Education Fund.
Education Workshop support is provided by Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy and Mary and Patrick Scanlan. Scholarships for AAM Workshops are funded by Cari and Michael J. Sacks.
Gary Hume’s Front of Snowman is funded in part by the AAM National Council.
Ceal Floyer’s exhibition is funded in part by the AAM National Council. Additional support is provided by the Etkin Family Digital Media and Moving Image Fund.
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