MUMA invites community groups and members of the public to engage in its program of events, including keynote lectures, workshops and forums, film and video screenings, performances, and floor talks by curators and artists. All are designed to expand critical debate and participation in the contemporary visual arts.
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Join Hobart-based artists Mish Meijers and Tricky Walsh in conversation with curator Francis E Parker as they discuss The Collector 7: the Processor of Circumstance, part of the ongoing series of project exhibitions commissioned for the Merlyn Myer Gallery, the Monash University Museum of Art, and the latest instalment of their superfiction Henri Papin – the Collector.
Date: Tuesday 24 April Time:12.30 – 1.30pm Venue: Monash University Museum of Art
Modernism, art, architecture and collaboration Join guest curator Luke Parker and artist Spiros Panigirakis in the MUMA exhibition spaces as they discuss modernism, artistic collaboration and the Bauhausian ideal of integrating art and architecture, in the context of the current exhibition Narelle Jubelin: Vision in Motion.
Date: Saturday 12 May 2012 Time: 12.30 – 1.30pm Venue: Monash University Museum of Art
Narelle Jubelin: Vision in Motion teases out some of the historical and theoretical intersections underpinning contemporary art’s engagement with modernist architectural discourses. Join Vision in Motion guest curator Ann Stephen, who will discuss the exhibition, together with the legacy of modernism on art, architecture and design, with a guest panel including artist Callum Morton and architectural historian, theorist and critic Karen Burns.
Date: Wednesday 23 May 2012 Time: 5.30pm -7.30pm Venue: Monash University Museum of Art
Social history and needlepoint Artist Kate Daw and Public Historian Peg Fraser will tease out ideas around ‘the subversive stitch’ and discuss the social and cultural history of needlepoint in relation to the MUMA exhibition Narelle Jubelin: Vision in Motion.
Date: Saturday 16 June 2012 Time: 12.30 – 1.30pm Venue: Monash University Museum of Art