Members Event | Art-Making Activity for Families “Portraits in Black and White”
Dawoud Bey, A Girl with a Knife Nosepin, Brooklyn, NY, 1990, inkjet print (printed 2019), collection of the artist, courtesy of Sean Kelly Gallery, New York; Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago; and Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco. © Dawoud Bey
Amy Sherald, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, oil on linen, 2018, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. / The National Portrait Gallery is grateful to the generous donors who made this commission possible and proudly recognizes them at npg.si.edu/obamaportraitstour
Installation view of Dawoud Bey: An American Project.
Installation view of Dawoud Bey: An American Project.
MFAH members at the Family Level and above are invited to reserve tickets for an afternoon of art-making activities. Providing inspiration are portraits by artist Dawoud Bey in the exhibition Dawoud Bey: An American Project and artist Amy Sherald in the upcoming exhibition The Obama Portraits Tour.
Tickets
Limit of 5 tickets per family. Activities are recommended for ages 4 to 12, with adult supervision. This event takes place in the classroom on the lower level of the Law Building.
Visiting the Exhibitions
Dawoud Bey: An American Project (now on view) and The Obama Portraits Tour (opening April 3) are included with general admission, which is free for members.
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“Dawoud Bey: An American Project” is co-organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Generous support provided by:
The African American Art Advisory Association (5A) at the MFAH
Krista and Michael Dumas
Merinda Watkins-Martin and Reginald Martin
Nancy Powell Moore
Joan Morgenstern
“The Obama Portraits Tour” has been organized by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Support for the national tour has been generously provided by Bank of America.
Generous support provided by:
Tony Chase and Dina al Sowayel
Joyce Z. Greenberg
Ellen S. Susman
Jay Jones and Terry Wayne Jones
Merinda Watkins-Martin and Reginald Martin