Artist Talk: Crystalle Lacouture
Saturday, September 21, 2024
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Free for Members; $5 plus Museum admission for general public
Conference Room
Speaker: Crystalle Lacouture
Crystalle Lacouture’s upcoming Wall at WAM installation, Correspondence (for Elizabeth Bishop), is a monumental, 67-foot-long mural brimming with hidden meaning and vibrant, geometric design. At this artist talk, Lacouture will reveal the inspirations behind the patterns and coded messages in her work, as well as the process that brought her art to life on the Wall at WAM. Correspondence (for Elizabeth Bishop) will be on view starting September 18.
Contemporary Art
Ongoing
The contemporary art gallery chronicles the past eight decades as a still-evolving chapter, illustrating how artists across disciplines, generations, and geographies respond to the experiences of their time. From the mid-20th century to works being created today, contemporary art challenges conventions, explores new media, and expands our shared visual language.
Examples from mid-century through the 1970s, including iconic works by Grace Hartigan, Alex Katz, Louise Nevelson, and Andy Warhol provide visitors with landmarks from which to explore more recent contributions by artists including Tony Feher, Beatriz Milhazes, Nam June Paik, Doris Salcedo, Yinka Shonibare, and Kiki Smith.
Kimono Couture: The Beauty of Chiso
Ongoing
(Online Only
A virtual exhibition
Experience the world of traditional kimono design and artistry still practiced by Chiso, the 465-year-old, Kyoto-based kimono house in our virtual exhibition, Kimono Couture: The Beauty of Chiso.
Over the course of ten weeks, this interactive virtual exhibition revealed a new kimono theme to explore each week, leading up to the opening of the in-house exhibition, Kimono in Print: 300 Years of Japanese Design. The virtual exhibition includes a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the Worcester Wedding Kimono, the first kimono ever commissioned as a work of art by an art museum.
