Program Calendar
Any person needing a disability-related accommodation in order to participate in a museum program should contact the Education Coordinator (museumaccess@smu.edu) at least one week prior to the program to arrange for the accommodation. For more information and to view a list of accommodations, please visit our accessibility page.
PLEASE NOTE: Many different organizations use our public spaces for their programs; this calendar lists only museum programming. If the event you seek is not listed here, please visit the web site of the sponsoring organization for more information.
EXHIBITION: Masterpiece in Residence: Velázquez’s King Philip IV of Spain from The Frick Collection
Meadows Museum 5900 Bishop Blvd., Dallas, TXRecently the Meadows Museum launched its Masterpiece in Residence loan program, which brings singular, exemplary works of Spanish art within American collections to the Meadows for deep examination within the context its […]
EXHIBITION: Picturing Holy Women in the Spanish Empire, 1620–1800
Meadows Museum 5900 Bishop Blvd., Dallas, TXWhat is female piety? How did women, with all the restrictions placed on them by both the Catholic Church and the Spanish monarchy, play a role in shaping spirituality? In Picturing […]
LUIS MARTÍN LECTURE SERIES IN THE HUMANITIES | Picturing Holy Women in the Spanish Empire, 1620–1800
Kelly Donahue-Wallace, professor of art history, University of North Texas; Miranda Saylor, 2021–23 Center for Spain in America (CSA) Curatorial Fellow, Meadows MuseumThis four-part lecture series will take a deeper […]
FURTHER AFIELD | Why El Greco to Goya?
Online 5900 Bishop Blvd., Dallas, TXEdward Payne, assistant professor in art history at Aarhus University, DenmarkFurther Afield virtual talks provides broader social, political, economic, and historical context for works of art at the museum. This […]
Re-Connections
This informal, one-session program is designed for individuals with early-stage dementia, their care partners, and family members. Participants explore the galleries through interactive activities and discover works of art through […]
Dalí/Vermeer: A Dialogue
Virginia Meadows GalleriesThe Meadows Museum brings together Johannes Vermeer’s Woman Reading a Letter (c. 1663) and Salvador Dalí’s interpretation thereof, The Image Disappears (1938), in this unprecedented, focused exhibition, which brings these […]
Imitation or Innovation? Dalí’s Rendition of Vermeer’s Woman Reading a Letter
Virginia Meadows GalleriesMeadows Museum gallery talks feature art research and perspectives from local guest speakers. Today's presenter is Shelley DeMaria, art historian and curator.
Drawing from the Masters
Ian O’Brien, artistEnjoy afternoons of informal drawing instruction as artist Ian O’Brien leads you through the Meadows Museum’s galleries. Each session will provide an opportunity to explore a variety of […]
Meadows Museum Trick-or-Treat
The Meadows Museum celebrates the creation of new families through foster care, kinship care, and adoption. Join other foster families, kinship families, adoptive families, and birth families for an afternoon […]
Children’s Drawing from the Masters
Ian O’Brien, artistEnjoy afternoons of informal drawing instruction with artist and elementary art teacher Ian O’Brien. Each session provides children ages 5-12 with the opportunity to explore a variety of […]
Velázquez: Painting and the King
Giles Knox, Associate Professor of Art History, Indiana University Bloomington From his mid-twenties until his death at age 61, Velázquez worked as court painter to King Philip IV of Spain. […]
Drawing from the Masters
Ian O’Brien, artistEnjoy afternoons of informal drawing instruction as artist Ian O’Brien leads you through the Meadows Museum’s galleries. Each session will provide an opportunity to explore a variety of […]
Children’s Drawing from the Masters
Ian O’Brien, artistEnjoy afternoons of informal drawing instruction with artist and elementary art teacher Ian O’Brien. Each session provides children ages 5-12 with the opportunity to explore a variety of […]
Connections
This informal, three-session program is designed for individuals with early-stage dementia, their care partners, and family members. Participants explore the galleries through interactive activities; experiment with different materials to create […]
MOVIES WITH THE MEADOWS | Vermeer, Beyond Time (TV-PG, 2017), directed by Guillaume Cottet and Jean-Pierre Cottet
Movies with the Meadows pairs scholar and screen; these in-person film screenings are followed by a short talk in the museum’s auditorium. Narrated by actor Steve Martin, Vermeer, Beyond Time […]
FURTHER AFIELD | Revisiting the Spanish Collection at the Museo de Arte de Ponce: Acquisitions, Discoveries, and Attributions
Online 5900 Bishop Blvd., Dallas, TXIraida Rodríguez-Negrón, curator, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto RicoFurther Afield virtual talks provides broader social, political, economic, and historical context for works of art at the museum. This fall […]
Prints and Printmaking in the 17th &18th Centuries
Jake and Nancy Hamon GalleriesMeadows Museum gallery talks feature art research and perspectives from local guest speakers. Today's presenters are Miranda Saylor, 2021–2023 Center for Spain in America (CSA) Curatorial Fellow, Meadows Museum, and […]
National Adoption Day: Picturing You!
The Meadows Museum celebrates the creation of new families through foster care, kinship care, and adoption. Join other foster families, kinship families, adoptive families, and birth families for an afternoon […]
Drawing from the Masters
Ian O’Brien, artistEnjoy afternoons of informal drawing instruction as artist Ian O’Brien leads you through the Meadows Museum’s galleries. Each session will provide an opportunity to explore a variety of […]
Children’s Drawing from the Masters
Ian O’Brien, artistEnjoy afternoons of informal drawing instruction with artist and elementary art teacher Ian O’Brien. Each session provides children ages 5-12 with the opportunity to explore a variety of […]
Dalí & the Pursuit of Vermeer
Esmée Quodbach, independent art historian, Princeton, New Jersey; Danielle M. Johnson, director of curatorial affairs, Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University. Panel discussion moderated by Amanda W. Dotseth, director […]
MOVIES WITH THE MEADOWS | Salvador Dalí: In Search of Immortality (NR, 2018), directed by David Pujol
Movies with the Meadows pairs scholar and screen; these in-person film screenings are followed by a short talk in the museum’s auditorium. This new documentary takes viewers on a journey […]
FURTHER AFIELD | Networks of Pigments and Patronage in Early Modern Spain
Online 5900 Bishop Blvd., Dallas, TXAlexandra Letvin, Duane Wilder, Class of 1951, Associate Curator of European Art at the Princeton University Art MuseumFurther Afield virtual talks provides broader social, political, economic, and historical context for […]
Re-Connections
This informal, one-session program is designed for individuals with early-stage dementia, their care partners, and family members. Participants explore the galleries through interactive activities and discover works of art through […]
Drawing from the Masters
Ian O’Brien, artistEnjoy afternoons of informal drawing instruction as artist Ian O’Brien leads you through the Meadows Museum’s galleries. Each session will provide an opportunity to explore a variety of […]
Children’s Drawing from the Masters
Ian O’Brien, artistEnjoy afternoons of informal drawing instruction with artist and elementary art teacher Ian O’Brien. Each session provides children ages 5-12 with the opportunity to explore a variety of […]
