Target Family Fun Days

Celebrate Mother’s Day at the Carter and see how artists have portrayed motherhood throughout American history. Create a special gift for Mom and listen to stories commemorating Mother’s Day.

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Target Family Fun Days

Strike a pose! Find portraits in the galleries and learn how artists create pictures of other people and themselves. Then, put your best face forward by creating your own self-portrait in different artistic styles.

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Storytime at the Carter

Bring your children to hear a reading of Look! Look! Look! by Nancy Elizabeth and Linda K. Friedlaender, a wonderful book that will inspire your children to see unusual patterns and shapes in works of art. You’ll have fun looking together at the Carter’s beautiful portrait Alice Vanderbilt Shepard (1888) by John Singer Sargent. Fun activities and refreshments follow the story.

Storytime is brought to you in part by a grant from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation.

Lecture

Heather Hole, assistant curator, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Considered one of the great early American modernists, Marsden Hartley (1877–1943) traveled the United States in search of a distinctly American aesthetic. Hole will examine the evolution of Hartley’s depictions of the American West and explore the modernist debates about American art and national identity that they reflect.

Reservations are required; seating is limited. Please call 817.989.5057 by June 11 to register; confirmation will be sent.

Storytime at the Carter

Celebrate creativity and see beauty in the colorful squiggles, shapes, and swirls found in the artworks of Stuart Davis and Georgia O’Keeffe. Young children will discover that all creative efforts deserve to be framed in Badly Drawn Dog by Emma Dodson and Ish by Peter H. Reynolds. Fun activities and refreshments follow the stories.

Storytime is brought to you in part by a grant from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation.

Interactive Tour

Join us for a series of fun, informal tours inspired by the results of Decision 2008, which asked visitors to vote for their favorite painting or sculpture in the museum’s collection. Find out who won the popular vote and discover new and different “dark horse” candidates. Each tour in the series features a new theme inspired by voters’ words and different works of art in the collection.

Polls are still open! Cast your vote for your favorite painting or sculpture in the Carter’s collection to help shape this interactive tour.

Storytime at the Carter

Discover how dots and dashes transform into beautiful impressionist paintings. Hear how the wonderful and rewarding feeling of youthful self-expression comes to life in Ain’t Gonna Paint No More by Karen and David Beaumont and The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. Fun activities and refreshments follow the stories.

Storytime is brought to you in part by a grant from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation.

Gallery Talk

Rebecca Lawton, curator of paintings and sculpture, Amon Carter Museum

Join us in exploring the different ways in which Marsden Hartley and Georgia O’Keeffe painted the New Mexico landscape.

Interactive Tour

Are you in need of mental stimulation and adult conversation? Pack up the baby stroller and join us for a series of tours designed to introduce new parents (with babies in tow) to a variety of artworks at the Carter. These free tours are most appropriate for parents with pre-toddlers, and refreshments will be provided after the program. Parents are invited to attend one or all of the tours in this engaging series.

Tours begin outside the Museum Store. Reservations are not required, but we recommend that parents call 817.989.5031 to receive helpful instructions.

Interactive Tour

Join us for a series of fun, informal tours inspired by the results of Decision 2008, which asked visitors to vote for their favorite painting or sculpture in the museum’s collection. Find out who won the popular vote and discover new and different “dark horse” candidates. Each tour in the series features a new theme inspired by voters’ words and different works of art in the collection.

Polls are still open! Cast your vote for your favorite painting or sculpture in the Carter’s collection to help shape this interactive tour.

Storytime at the Carter

Children will get into the Fourth-of-July spirit as they hear two great stories about our country’s founding fathers: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire by Diane deGroat and John, Paul, George and Ben by Lane Smith. Both books will be read in front of patriotic paintings in the Carter’s collection. Fun activities and refreshments follow the stories.

Storytime is brought to you in part by a grant from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation.

Storytime at the Carter

Hear how a special bear uses his imagination, determination, and resourcefulness to survive several adventures in Henry Climbs a Mountain and Henry Builds a Cabin, both by D. B. Johnson. These two great children’s books will be read in front of The Hunter’s Return (1845) by Thomas Cole. Fun activities and refreshments follow the stories.

Storytime is brought to you in part by a grant from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation.

Interactive Tour

Join us for a series of fun, informal tours inspired by the results of Decision 2008, which asked visitors to vote for their favorite painting or sculpture in the museum’s collection. Find out who won the popular vote and discover new and different “dark horse” candidates. Each tour in the series features a new theme inspired by voters’ words and different works of art in the collection.

Polls are still open! Cast your vote for your favorite painting or sculpture in the Carter’s collection to help shape this interactive tour.

Target Family Fun Days

Join us for a legendary day at the Carter! Listen to heroic tales and amazing legends based on your favorite artworks. Learn about a hero’s qualities and make your own tall tale.

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Storytime at the Carter

Children will love hearing about the adventurous life and wonderful art of Charles M. Russell in Cowboy Charlie, a fun children’s story by Jeanette Winter. They’ll also see action-packed paintings created by Charlie himself. Fun activities and refreshments follow the story.

Storytime is brought to you in part by a grant from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation.

Storytime at the Carter

The museum’s beautiful building by renowned architect Philip Johnson is the perfect location for listening to Nina Laden’s story, Roberto the Insect Architect, about a termite and his fascination with the allure and wonderment of architecture. Fun activities and refreshments follow the story.

Storytime is brought to you in part by a grant from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation.

Gallery Talk

Jane Myers, senior curator of prints and drawings, and Jodie Utter, paper conservator, Amon Carter Museum

Hear about the unique and virtually unknown lithographs by great twentieth-century American sculptor Louise Nevelson that are view on the first floor of the museum. The exhibition is part of the ongoing installation of works from the Carter’s holding of prints created at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop.

Interactive Tour

Are you in need of mental stimulation and adult conversation? Pack up the baby stroller and join us for a series of tours designed to introduce new parents (with babies in tow) to a variety of artworks at the Carter. These free tours are most appropriate for parents with pre-toddlers, and refreshments will be provided after the program. Parents are invited to attend one or all of the tours in this engaging series.

Tours begin outside the Museum Store. Reservations are not required, but we recommend that parents call 817.989.5031 to receive helpful instructions.

Interactive Tour

Join us for a series of fun, informal tours inspired by the results of Decision 2008, which asked visitors to vote for their favorite painting or sculpture in the museum’s collection. Find out who won the popular vote and discover new and different “dark horse” candidates. Each tour in the series features a new theme inspired by voters’ words and different works of art in the collection.

Polls are still open! Cast your vote for your favorite painting or sculpture in the Carter’s collection to help shape this interactive tour.

Storytime at the Carter

Come along and see how two clever bears use art to change their lives. Bear Hunt by Anthony Browne and Drawing Lessons from a Bear by David McPhail will keep children captivated as they look at two great works from the Carter’s collection—a dramatic landscape painting and an endearing sculpture of a bear cub. Fun activities and refreshments follow the stories.

Storytime is brought to you in part by a grant from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation.

Target Family Fun Days

What does your world look like? Tour the galleries and create your own scenic surrounding based on the special exhibition, Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism.

Target Family Fun Days are generously supported by

Interactive Tour

Are you in need of mental stimulation and adult conversation? Pack up the baby stroller and join us for a series of tours designed to introduce new parents (with babies in tow) to a variety of artworks at the Carter. These free tours are most appropriate for parents with pre-toddlers, and refreshments will be provided after the program. Parents are invited to attend one or all of the tours in this engaging series.

Tours begin outside the Museum Store. Reservations are not required, but we recommend that parents call 817.989.5031 to receive helpful instructions.

Target Family Fun Days

Bring your family together to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month! Find families in the Carter’s collection of artworks. Then participate in fun activities, and create your own family portrait.

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Anne Burnett Tandy Distinguished Lectures in American Art, Symposium

This symposium will explore little-known facets of Alfred Jacob Miller’s rich and varied career, from his time among the American Indians and in the Rockies to his life in Baltimore. Miller’s work will be discussed within the broader contexts of American Indian imagery, popular representations of trappers, hunting scenes, western humor, and sentimentalism.

Speakers

• Dr. John Mack Faragher, Arthur Unobskey Professor of American History and Director, Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders, Yale University
• Dr. Jennifer Greenhill, assistant professor of American art, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Dr. Kenneth Haltman, associate professor of art history, University of Oklahoma
• Lisa Strong, independent scholar and guest curator of Sentimental Journey: The Art of Alfred Jacob Miller
• Dr. Ron Tyler, director, Amon Carter Museum

This program is held in conjunction with the exhibition Sentimental Journey: The Art of Alfred Jacob Miller, on view at the Amon Carter Museum from September 20, 2008, to January 11, 2009. Reservations are required; seating is limited. Please call 817.989.5057 by October 1 to register; confirmation will be sent.

Target Family Fun Days

Time travel through art! Create your own travel journal and listen to adventurous tales from the frontier.

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