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Stop by the Sensory Cart in the galleries to explore art through the multiple senses. Visitors are invited to feel a variety of materials, experience specific scents, and listen to recordings that evoke a work of art. Each month, the cart will highlight a different work on view. This month it’s Luis Jiménez Aranda’s “Lady at the Paris Exposition.”

The program is free with regular museum admission: $12 for adults, $10 for seniors 65 and over, $4 for non-SMU students, free for members, free for youth under 18*
*Free museum admission for youth 18 and under is made possible by a grant from Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee.

Enjoy afternoons of informal drawing instruction with artist Ian O’Brien. Each session provides an opportunity to explore a variety of techniques and improve drawing skills. Designed for adults and students ages 15 and older, and open to all abilities and experience levels. Drawing materials will be available, but participants are encouraged to bring their own sketchpads and pencils. Space is limited and advance registration is required.

The program is free with regular museum admission: $12 for adults, $10 for seniors 65 and over, $4 for non-SMU students, free for members, free for youth under 18*
*Free museum admission for youth 18 and under is made possible by a grant from Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee.

Enjoy afternoons of informal drawing instruction with artist Ian O’Brien. Each session provides an opportunity to explore a variety of techniques and improve drawing skills. Designed for adults and students ages 15 and older, and open to all abilities and experience levels. Drawing materials will be available, but participants are encouraged to bring their own sketchpads and pencils. Space is limited and advance registration is required.

The program is free with regular museum admission: $12 for adults, $10 for seniors 65 and over, $4 for non-SMU students, free for members, free for youth under 18*
*Free museum admission for youth 18 and under is made possible by a grant from Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee.

Stop by the Sensory Cart in the galleries to explore art through the multiple senses. Visitors are invited to feel a variety of materials, experience specific scents, and listen to recordings that evoke a work of art. Each month, the cart will highlight a different work on view. This month it’s Luis Jiménez Aranda’s “Lady at the Paris Exposition.”

The program is free with regular museum admission: $12 for adults, $10 for seniors 65 and over, $4 for non-SMU students, free for members, free for youth under 18*
*Free museum admission for youth 18 and under is made possible by a grant from Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee.

Enjoy afternoons of informal drawing instruction with artist Ian O’Brien. Each session provides an opportunity to explore a variety of techniques and improve drawing skills. Designed for adults and students ages 15 and older, and open to all abilities and experience levels. Drawing materials will be available, but participants are encouraged to bring their own sketchpads and pencils. Space is limited and advance registration is required.

The program is free with regular museum admission: $12 for adults, $10 for seniors 65 and over, $4 for non-SMU students, free for members, free for youth under 18*
*Free museum admission for youth 18 and under is made possible by a grant from Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee.

Enjoy afternoons of informal drawing instruction with artist Ian O’Brien. Each session provides an opportunity to explore a variety of techniques and improve drawing skills. Designed for adults and students ages 15 and older, and open to all abilities and experience levels. Drawing materials will be available, but participants are encouraged to bring their own sketchpads and pencils. Space is limited and advance registration is required.

The program is free with regular museum admission: $12 for adults, $10 for seniors 65 and over, $4 for non-SMU students, free for members, free for youth under 18*
*Free museum admission for youth 18 and under is made possible by a grant from Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee.

Enjoy a candlelight concert by Spanish pianist Rosalía Gómez Lasheras while surrounded by the Meadows Museum’s seventeenth-century paintings. Born in Santiago de Compostela in 1994, Gómez Lasheras began her piano studies at age five. After winning the 2013 Young Pianist Foundation Competition in Amsterdam, she debuted as a soloist in halls across Europe and beyond, including the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht, Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Cairo Opera House, Konzerthaus Dortmund, and Herkulessaal in Munich. She has lectured on nineteenth-century performance practices at several European universities and was a guest professor at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, where she taught historically informed performance. In 2015, at the age of twenty, she was named Galician of the Year by the newspaper El Correo Gallego in recognition of her outstanding career and artistic maturity. Since 2021 she has been Assistant Professor of Chamber Music at the Hochschule für Musik Basel.

This program is offered in collaboration with the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain in Washington, DC, and the Department of Piano Studies in the Meadows School of the Arts.

$10; free for Meadows Museum members and SMU faculty/staff/students

View the program.

Stop by the Sensory Cart in the galleries to explore art through the multiple senses. Visitors are invited to feel a variety of materials, experience specific scents, and listen to recordings that evoke a work of art. Each month, the cart will highlight a different work on view. Free; does not include admission to the upstairs galleries.

Stop by the Sensory Cart in the galleries to explore art through the multiple senses. Visitors are invited to feel a variety of materials, experience specific scents, and listen to recordings that evoke a work of art. Each month, the cart will highlight a different work on view. Free; does not include admission to the upstairs galleries.

View the total solar eclipse from our Sculpture Plaza, where artworks and landscaping will offer lots of interesting viewing shadow effects! A limited quantity of viewing glasses will be available for free, first-come, first-served.

Meadows Museum gallery talks feature art research and perspectives from local guest speakers. Today’s presenter is Kyla Crawford, artist and Adjunct Instructor, University of North Texas and Dallas College.

The program is free with regular museum admission: $12 for adults, $10 for seniors 65 and over, $4 for non-SMU students, free for members, free for youth under 18*
*Free museum admission for youth 18 and under is made possible by a grant from Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee.

Cinema has played a central role in Spain’s national identity since the country’s first film screening in 1895. In this lecture series over four consecutive Friday mornings (April 5, 12, 19 & 26) Constantin Icleanu, Senior Lecturer of Spanish and Coordinator of the First-Year Spanish Language Courses at SMU, explores how Spanish history has been understood and reimagined through its cinematic production, from the silent film era to the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) to the contemporary moment. Key themes will include avantgarde experimentations with the medium, the use of film as propaganda, and how cinema has served to highlight social concerns. The series will highlight such influential directors as Segundo de Chomón (1871–1929), Luis Buñuel (1900–1983), Victor Erice (b. 1940), and Pedro Almodóvar (b. 1949), and will conclude by considering the future of Spanish cinema.

$60 for the four-week series; free for Meadows Museum members and SMU faculty/staff/students

In collaboration with SMU’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program and SMU Libraries, the Meadows Museum presents this Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to teach people how to update and add articles on Wikipedia, in order to enhance available knowledge about female artists and art world figures, and to encourage greater female editorship on Wikipedia. All are welcome, regardless of experience, gender, or background. Event is drop in, and one-on-one training will be available. Does not include admission to the upper galleries.

Enjoy afternoons of informal drawing instruction with artist Ian O’Brien. Each session provides an opportunity to explore a variety of techniques and improve drawing skills. Designed for adults and students ages 15 and older, and open to all abilities and experience levels. Drawing materials will be available, but participants are encouraged to bring their own sketchpads and pencils. Space is limited and advance registration is required.

The program is free with regular museum admission: $12 for adults, $10 for seniors 65 and over, $4 for non-SMU students, free for members, free for youth under 18*
*Free museum admission for youth 18 and under is made possible by a grant from Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee.