Lectures Year of Saturday, July 27, 2024-Saturday, July 26, 2025
Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery October 19, 2024–January 12, 2025
This traveling exhibition highlights Pueblo voices and aesthetics, offering an understanding of Pueblo pots as vessels of community-based knowledge and personal experience.
19 Jan Sun / 2025
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Nicholas Thomas
Lecture | Gauguin and Polynesia: A New Perspective
2 p.m.—3 p.m.Anthropologist Nicholas Thomas will discuss the works of Paul Gauguin and Oceania. Thomas is the author of Gauguin and Polynesia which offers a fresh view on the artist, not from the perspective of European art history, but from the contemporary vantage point of the region – Oceania.
25 Jan Sat / 2025
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Behind-the-Scenes Experience for Benefactor & Leadership Circle Members
11:30 a.m.—12:30 p.m.MFAH members at the Benefactor level, and members of the Leadership Circle, are invited to this presentation about Museum's photography collection by curator Lisa Volpe.
26 Jan Sun / 2025
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Miriama Bono
Lecture | Gauguin’s Tahitian Legacy
2 p.m.—3 p.m.Architect, cultural consultant, and artist Miriama Bono will present the contemporary works of international artists Kanaky and Yuki Kihara, how their work draws inspiration from Gauguin, and the impact of the painter's legacy in Tahiti.
