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.

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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Target Family Fun Days

Get into the holiday spirit with fun art exploration and creative hands-on activities inspired by the Carter’s incredible collection of western art.

Target Family Fun Days are generously supported by

Target Family Fun Days

Take time out to appreciate the many good things in life. Family friendly art-making and exploration activities will connect you to the Carter’s collection and create opportunities for celebrating the joys that each day brings.

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 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.

Conservation in Context Gallery Talk

Bart Devolder, assistant conservator, Kimbell Art Museum

There is more to Miller’s painting than meets the eye. Devolder’s talk will take us beneath the surface of what we see and reveal new information about the nineteenth-century artist’s methods.

Lecture

Mary Lucier, artist

Internationally acclaimed video artist Mary Lucier will discuss the evolution of her work—from her first experiments with the medium in the 1970s to one of her most recent video installations, The Plains of Sweet Regret, on view at the Carter November 15, 2008 –February 15, 2009. A book signing follows in the Museum Store.

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

This program is partially underwritten by the Lone Star International Film Festival.

Lecture

Laura McPhee, artist

Hear this acclaimed photographer describe her recent project River of No Return, which includes the mesmerizing photograph Understory Flareups, Fourth of July Creek Valley Road Wild Fire, Custer County, Idaho, currently on view in the museum. A book-signing follows in the Museum Store.

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

Family Activities

Join us to celebrate Fort Worth’s amazing arts and cultural organizations by participating in exciting, entertaining activities and performances at each of the Cultural District museums. Families are invited to discover the Carter’s collection and create their own artworks.

Interactive Tour

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

Hear great stories, discover new facts, and share your ideas about the collection during this interactive tour led by the Carter’s friendly Gallery Teacher Team

Gallery Talk

Jessica May, assistant curator of photographs, Amon Carter Museum

Learn more about the career of Nell Dorr—one of the six photographers whose archives are housed at the Carter—and discover how her images of family reflect the historical context of Cold War America. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Nell Dorr: From Everlasting to Everlasting on view at the Carter until October 26, 2008.

Target Family Fun Days

Bring your friends and family to this end-of-summer celebration.

• Relax and enjoy free hot dogs and lemonade outdoors under tents on the museum’s plaza.
• Explore the American Southwest through the special exhibition, Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism.
• Be creative and design your own scenic surrounding with hands-on art-making activities.
• Enjoy a blast from the past by watching classic Saturday morning cartoons and discover how featured fun facts and cool songs relate to the Carter’s collection.
• The first 350 children will receive a special Bullseye buddy.

Target Family Fun Days are generously supported by

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
• Dr. 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

Take a trip through time with American artist-explorer Alfred Jacob Miller. Enjoy these and more fun family activities as you explore Miller’s artworks of the American West.

• Interact with a historical re-enactor who will talk about fur-trading on the American frontier.
• Hear campfire stories that were told on the open range.
• Create a sketchbook of your travels and make a souvenir animal chair.
• Get comical with a caricature drawing of you and your family.

Target Family Fun Days are generously supported by