Interactive Tour

This free tour program is designed for adults with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers. Participants discuss artists, themes, and exhibitions and use artworks to connect to past experiences.

Call 817.989.5032 or e-mail access@cartermuseum.org to make reservations.

Target Family Fun Days

Make tracks to the Carter for this fun-filled family day. Explore the “wild” side of the Carter’s collection, then unleash your creativity with art-making activities.

Target Family Fun Days are generously supported by

Film and Dialogue

Jessica May, assistant curator of photographs, Amon Carter Museum

See the classic New Deal film Pare Lorentz’s The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936); prior to the screening, enjoy an introductory lecture that provides historical context for Lorentz’s work and how Mary Lucier’s video installation The Plains of Sweet Regret (2004), currently on view at the Carter, relates to the film.

Reservations are required; seating is limited. Please call 817.989.5057 by January 14 to register; confirmation will be sent.

Interactive Tour

This free tour program is designed for adults with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers. Participants discuss artists, themes, and exhibitions and use artworks to connect to past experiences.

Call 817.989.5032 or e-mail access@cartermuseum.org to make reservations.

Amon Carter Museum Lectures on American Photography

Barbara Crane, artist

There is no perfect moment to create art, no one rule about how or where to make it. It is, instead, a lifelong preoccupation. Renowned photographer Barbara Crane will discuss her work and the rewarding discomfort that is the artistic process—the restlessness of the mind, the discipline of habit, and the tapping into the unconscious.

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

Underwriting provided by the Anne Burnett Tandy Endowment.

Gallery Talk

Dr. Steven Woodworth, professor of history, Texas Christian University, and
Rebecca Lawton, curator of paintings and sculpture, Amon Carter Museum

In celebration of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, visit the Carter for a lively discussion of the Emancipation Proclamation and how it relates to the museum’s landmark sculpture The Freedman (1863) by John Quincy Adams Ward.

Interactive Tour

Interactive tour for new parents (babies and strollers welcome)

Are you in need of mental stimulation and adult conversation? Pack up the baby stroller and join us for a tour designed to introduce new parents (with babies in tow) to a variety of artworks at the Carter. This free tour is most appropriate for parents with pre-toddlers, and refreshments will be provided after the program.

Tour begins outside the Museum Store. Reservations are not required, but we recommend that parents call 817.989.5031 to receive helpful instructions. Parents are encouraged to park in the lot on Lancaster Avenue, south of the museum, and enter the museum through the accessible Lancaster entrance.

Interactive Tour

This free tour program is designed for adults with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers. Participants discuss artists, themes, and exhibitions and use artworks to connect to past experiences.

Call 817.989.5032 or e-mail access@cartermuseum.org to make reservations.

Conservation in Context Gallery Talk

Bart Devolder, assistant conservator, Kimbell Art Museum

Like many other American artists, Stuart Davis was deeply influenced and inspired by the European art on view at the 1913 Armory Show in New York City. Devolder reveals how one painting in particular, a self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh, influenced Davis’ own self-portrait and discusses how the recent conservation treatment of Davis’ painting brought the work closer to the artist’s original intent.

Interactive Tour

Interactive tour for new parents (babies and strollers welcome)

Are you in need of mental stimulation and adult conversation? Pack up the baby stroller and join us for a tour designed to introduce new parents (with babies in tow) to a variety of artworks at the Carter. This free tour is most appropriate for parents with pre-toddlers, and refreshments will be provided after the program.

Tour begins outside the Museum Store. Reservations are not required, but we recommend that parents call 817.989.5031 to receive helpful instructions. Parents are encouraged to park in the lot on Lancaster Avenue, south of the museum, and enter the museum through the accessible Lancaster entrance.

Workshop

Learn to use a nineteenth-century paper negative technique adapted from Gustave Le Gray’s 1851 dry, waxed-paper procedure. Compared with William Fox Talbot’s original calotype process—which required that the paper be exposed in a dampened state immediately after being sensitized—Le Gray’s procedure, among others of the time, was far more convenient and reliable. The negatives could be sensitized several days prior to exposure and developed several days afterward. All steps will be covered during this two-day workshop: whey-making, iodizing, sensitizing, exposure, development, and waxing, with historical contexts also considered. Participants will take home the negatives they produce and are encouraged to bring their own large format camera. The workshop fee is $350 per person and includes lunches and materials. Call 817.989.5090 for additional information or to register. Registrations will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis until March 13. Advance payment is required; no refunds for cancellations made on or after the registration deadline.

Learn more about this upcoming workshop

Lecture

Deborah Davis, author of Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X

Behind John Singer Sargent’s masterpiece Madame X (1884), on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, lies a tale of beauty, infatuation, obsession, and betrayal. Hear author Deborah Davis discuss the life and times of the mysterious woman who posed for one of American art’s most celebrated—and scandalous—portraits.

Reservations are required; seating is limited. Please call 817.989.5057 by March 25 to register; confirmation will be sent.

Interactive Tour

This free tour program is designed for adults with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers. Participants discuss artists, themes, and exhibitions and use artworks to connect to past experiences.

Call 817.989.5032 or e-mail access@cartermuseum.org to make reservations.

Interactive Tour

Interactive tour for new parents (babies and strollers welcome)

Are you in need of mental stimulation and adult conversation? Pack up the baby stroller and join us for a tour designed to introduce new parents (with babies in tow) to a variety of artworks at the Carter. This free tour is most appropriate for parents with pre-toddlers, and refreshments will be provided after the program.

Tour begins outside the Museum Store. Reservations are not required, but we recommend that parents call 817.989.5031 to receive helpful instructions. Parents are encouraged to park in the lot on Lancaster Avenue, south of the museum, and enter the museum through the accessible Lancaster entrance.

Lecture

Dr. Todd M. Kerstetter, associate professor of history, Texas Christian University

Green has been more than just a color for many American artists. This lecture will trace the history of environmental thought and awareness in America from the 1830s to the present as seen in the Carter’s collection.

Reservations are required; seating is limited. Please call 817.989.5057 by April 22 to register; confirmation will be sent.

Interactive Tour

This free tour program is designed for adults with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers. Participants discuss artists, themes, and exhibitions and use artworks to connect to past experiences.

Call 817.989.5032 or e-mail access@cartermuseum.org to make reservations.

Interactive Tour

Interactive tour for new parents (babies and strollers welcome)

Are you in need of mental stimulation and adult conversation? Pack up the baby stroller and join us for a tour designed to introduce new parents (with babies in tow) to a variety of artworks at the Carter. This free tour is most appropriate for parents with pre-toddlers, and refreshments will be provided after the program.

Tour begins outside the Museum Store. Reservations are not required, but we recommend that parents call 817.989.5031 to receive helpful instructions. Parents are encouraged to park in the lot on Lancaster Avenue, south of the museum, and enter the museum through the accessible Lancaster entrance.