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.
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September 2021
EXHIBITION – Canvas & Silk: Historic Fashion from Madrid’s Museo del Traje
For the first time, works in the Meadows collection will be paired with representative examples of the historic dress depicted to shed new light on the relationship between representation and…
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EXHIBITION – Image and Identity: Mexican Fashion in the Modern Period
A focused exhibition in the museum’s first-floor galleries explores Mexican fashion through photographs, prints, books, and gouaches from the 19th and 20th centuries drawn from the collections of the Meadows…
Find out more »Drawing from the Masters
Ian O’Brien, artist. Enjoy 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…
Find out more »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…
Find out more »GALLERY TALK – Image and Identity: Mexican Fashion in the Modern Period
Akemi Luisa Herráez Vossbrink, 2020-21 Center for Spain in America (CSA) Curatorial Fellow, Meadows Museum
Find out more »Digital Drawing from the Masters
Ian O’Brien, artistEnjoy afternoons of informal drawing instruction remotely over Zoom as artist Ian M. O’Brien leads you through a work of art in the Meadows Museum’s collection. Each session…
Find out more »October 2021
VIRTUAL TALK – Further Afield | Incarnating Black Sanctity: Fleshtones and “Lifelikeness” in Baroque Spanish Sculpture
Erin Rowe, associate professor of history, Johns Hopkins UniversityThis talk explores the contrast between representations of Black and White saints in Baroque Spanish polychromed sculpture. The process of painting fleshtones…
Find out more »MOVIES WITH THE MEADOWS | The Disenchantment (El Desencanto) (1976), directed by Jaime Chavarri
Aaron Shulman, authorMovies with the Meadows pairs scholar and screen. Registration includes a link to stream the film at your leisure October 6–8 and a link to a live Zoom…
Find out more »LUIS MARTÍN LECTURE SERIES IN THE HUMANITIES | Scratching the Surface: A History of Paintings Conservation (online/in-person)
Claire Barry, Director of Paintings Conservation Emerita, Kimbell Art Museum. This lecture series will use case studies to illuminate the evolution of conservation practices and theory over time. Five topics…
Find out more »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…
Find out more »Meadows Museum Trick or Treat
Join us for the annual Meadows Museum Trick or Treat! Bring the kids and grandkids in costume to explore the museum with a map that leads to works of art…
Find out more »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…
Find out more »Virtual Connections
Individuals with early stage dementia, their care partners, and family members are invited to attend this relaxed social gathering over Zoom. Attendees reconnect with friends, explore art from the collection,…
Find out more »GALLERY TALK – The Clothes Make the Man: Masculinity and Fashion at the Meadows
Amy Freund, associate professor and Kleinheinz Family Endowed Chair in Art History, SMU. This program is sponsored by the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain.
Find out more »LECTURE – Fashion and Fantasy in Eighteenth-Century France and Spain (online/in-person)
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, fashion historian, curator, and journalist During Spain’s Golden Age, its fashions were admired and imitated across Europe. But the decline of Spanish power and the ascendancy of France…
Find out more »Digital Drawing from the Masters
Ian O’Brien, artist. Enjoy afternoons of informal drawing instruction remotely over Zoom as artist Ian M. O’Brien leads you through a work of art in the Meadows Museum’s collection. Each…
Find out more »November 2021
VIRTUAL GALERY TALK – Further Afield | Captive Objects: Catholic Artifacts Across the Early Modern Mediterranean
Daniel Hershenzon, associate professor, Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, University of ConnecticutCatholic artifacts—rosaries, relics, paintings, and more—circulated in the thousands in the early modern, western Mediterranean, crisscrossing religious boundaries. This mobility…
Find out more »Virtual Connections
Individuals with early stage dementia, their care partners, and family members are invited to attend this relaxed social gathering over Zoom. Attendees reconnect with friends, explore art from the collection,…
Find out more »LECTURE – Making It: Creating Fashion in Early Modern Europe (online/in-person)
Annette Becker, director and curator, UNT CVAD Texas Fashion Collection. Have you ever wondered how delicate, handmade lace is created or how stiff ruffs stayed so crisp and white? And…
Find out more »GALLERY TALK – Nineteenth-Century Art at the Meadows
Clarisse Fava-Piz, 2021-23 Mellon Curatorial Fellow, Meadows Museum
Find out more »Drawing from the Masters
Ian O’Brien, artist. Enjoy 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…
Find out more »Children’s Drawing from the Masters
Ian O’Brien, artist. Enjoy 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…
Find out more »Digital Drawing from the Masters
Ian O’Brien, artist. Enjoy afternoons of informal drawing instruction remotely over Zoom as artist Ian M. O’Brien leads you through a work of art in the Meadows Museum’s collection. Each…
Find out more »December 2021
VIRTUAL TALK – Further Afield | Dressing the Court of Philip IV
Amanda Wunder, associate professor of early modern European history, City University of New York (CUNY)-Lehman CollegeThe court of Philip IV (1621–1665) is best remembered today for the extreme fashions that…
Find out more »Virtual Connections
Individuals with early stage dementia, their care partners, and family members are invited to attend this relaxed social gathering over Zoom. Attendees reconnect with friends, explore art from the collection,…
Find out more »GALLERY TALK – Diversity in Pictures: Prints and Photographs of Mexico from the DeGolyer Library
Anne Peterson, curator of photographs, DeGolyer Library
Find out more »Drawing from the Masters
Ian O’Brien, artist. Enjoy 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…
Find out more »Children’s Drawing from the Masters
Ian O’Brien, artist. Enjoy 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…
Find out more »January 2022
VIRTUAL GALLERY TALK – Further Afield | Mother, Daughter, Widow, and Wife: The Conundrum of Mary in Early Modern Hispanic Art
Charlene Villaseñor Black, professor of art history and Chicana/o studies, UCLAMarian devotion is grounded in a conundrum: Mary is both exemplary and ordinary, superior to all other women and a…
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