Design the Night
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Design your own night out in this dynamic summer evening on June 21. Mix, match, and custom-tailor your Museum experience. Enjoy live music, films, hands-on artmaking, lively discussions, and demonstrations by local artists and designers. Local gourmet food trucks-including Mama Kim’s Korean BBQ and Sugarush Truck-offer tantalizing walk-up treats in the Chace Center plaza, where live bands provide a little night music.
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Design the Night: Tools - Discover those implements and utensils, mechanisms, and machines that shape art. Artists' talks, demonstrations, and hands-on making consider the diverse tools used to create art.
Food, Fun, More! Ongoing
Mama Kim's Korean BBQ Mobile Restaurant, Like No Udder’s all-vegan soft-serve ice cream truck, jazz music, and a tool & cash bar.
The Artist's Lab 5-7 pm
You are invited to a dinner party...help artist and designer Dave Sharp set the table. Investigate design as an exercise in problem-solving within material and time constraints through the generative usage of mixing and matching new combinations of existing ideas.
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Artists on Art 5:30-6 pm
Stone carver Laura Travis discusses Hand of God, Auguste Rodin’s marble sculpture, and shares hand tool examples.
Multimedia Gallery Experiment 5:30-8:30 pm
Christopher Novello, a video game instrument performance artist, interprets art, space and mood into sound and visuals via the codebending instrument he built.
Hands-On Art: Printmaking 6-8 pm
Using examples and techniques of Japanese woodblock printing as inspiration, carve, ink and press your own print. Art instructor Paul Carpentier leads this drop-in session. All materials provided, no experience necessary.
‘Eames: The Architect and the Painter’ 6:30-7:50 pm
American husband-and-wife designers Charles and Ray Eames, creators of the iconic Eames chair, are synonymous with modern design. This documentary film captures the couple’s personal story and celebrates their profound influence on 20th-century design. Narrated by actor and RISD graduate student James Franco. (2011/80 min./not rated) Co-sponsored by Cable Car Cinema.
Panikon Deima: An audio-visual meditation on man, myth and discord in the garden 8-9 pm
Has anxiety found its way into the garden? On the occasion of midsummer, when everything is renewed and growing, there is an underlying sense that some things may be out of whack. Artists Erik Carlson and Erik Gould examine our notions of harmony and dissonance in the realm of Pan.