Friday Afternoon Gallery Talk

Featuring: Scott Winterrowd, Director of Education, Meadows Museum

Join us for this free disability-friendly family day where families can enjoy the museum in a safe and understanding environment, allowing parents to network with one another and children to discover new friends! Through multisensory art, music and movement activities, children will practice motor and social skills, choice making and experimentation, all while exploring their own creativity. Accommodations are made to many spaces and activities, increasing accessibility for those with visual impairment, and special materials are available to facilitate the museum experience. Braille materials and ASL interpreters can be made available if requested in advance, and Spanish-speaking volunteers will also be present. All are welcome.

This program is presented in collaboration with the Blind Children’s Vocational Discovery and Development Program, a division of Texas Health and Human Services. Any person requiring a disability-related accommodation in order to participate in this program should contact the education coordinator atmuseumaccess@smu.edu at least one week prior to arrange the accommodation. For more information call 214.768.3980.

Luis Martín Lecture Series in the Humanities

Speakers: Ali Asgar Alibhai, Visiting Lecturer, The University of Texas at Dallas; Amanda Dotseth, Curator, Meadows Museum; Julie Harris, Art Historian; Wendy Sepponen, Mellon Curatorial Fellow, Meadows Museum; and Abbey Stockstill, Assistant Professor, Meadows School of the Arts

While the Meadows Museum is perhaps best known for its excellent collection of Early Modern and Modern Spanish art, it is also home to significant holdings of medieval and Renaissance painting and sculpture. Recent years have seen the significant addition of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century panel paintings to the collection, which help to offer a more balanced history of Spanish art. In order to contextualize these important acquisitions, this lecture series will consider art-making in the Middle Ages, beginning with the oldest object in the Meadows collection, which dates to the tenth century. It will highlight the ways in which Spain’s multi-confessional makeup inspired a remarkable diversity of visual expression. Architecture and its adornments; intimate, portable objects; sacred books; and monumental altarpieces all made by and for Iberian Christians, Muslims and Jews will be examined. The six-part lecture series will conclude with a look forward to the stylistic shifts characteristic of Renaissance art and architecture in the sixteenth century. For more information, contact meadowsmuseuminfo@smu.edu.

Amanda Dotseth, Curator, Meadows Museum