Events and Programs
Fulao2 Museum of Art has a full array of programs year-round to enrich the experience of art-viewing and art-making for both campus and community.
Spring 2026 Events
Opening Reception
January 22, 4 – 6 p.m.
Refreshments will be served.
Yoga in the Museum
Tuesdays, January 27 – May 12, 12:15 – 12:45 p.m.
Enjoy a free 30-minute yoga practice with Joy Jones. Open to all levels, mats provided. Co-sponsored by Live Well Grinnell.
Gallery Talk: Jenny Anger: Escaping Surrealism: Women Artists and Mental Illness
January 27, 4 p.m.
Professor of Art History Jenny Anger will consider surrealist women artists and mental illness. Surrealist orthodoxy idealized feminine madness for its supposedly unfettered access to the unconscious. Did these women find the masculine, surrealist dream of feminized, mad genius prohibitive—or productive? Although stories differ, it was often the artists who untethered themselves from surrealism who fared the best.
The Short Recital: Royce Wolf
February 3, 11 a.m.
Professor of Mathematics,Royce Wolf will perform a variety of short pieces (under a minute or so), considering how composers take short pieces and turn them into longer pieces. Wolf studies spherical virtual knots, considering the interplay between combinatorics, topology, and algebra. He plays piano and gives recitals on a regular basis, both solo and with others.
Spotlight Talk: Rhizomatic Intimacies
February 12, 4 p.m.
Student curators Princess Alexander, Kiele Calhoun, Sabina Clingerman, Colleen (Aubrie) Connell, Vivian Finch, Amy Kan, Sugi Lucas, Dorothea Qin, and Kate Walker-Spencer will be available for conversation about selected works in Rhizomatic Intimacies: Photography from the Collection of Keith Jantzen ’80 and Scott Beth. The exhibition is the product of Professor of Art History Michael Mackenzie’s ARH 360 Exhibition Seminar class.
Gallery Talk: Johnnie Chatman: I forgot where we were
February 16, 4 p.m.
Artist Johnnie Chatman will speak about his ongoing body of work, I forgot where we were..., which explores the American “West” as a geographical, cultural, and economic crossroads defined by complex connectivity. Bridging theoretical inquiry with cultural observation, his research and photographic practice treat landscape photography not as an isolated pictorial expression but as an ideological framework interwoven with notions of identity, memory, and culture. Co-sponsored by the Art History Department.
Gallery Talk: Sonja Sekula: Between the Lines
February 25, 4 p.m.
GCMoA Collections Assistant Amy Kan ’27 will present research on Sonja Sekula and her powerful poetic sensibility, one spanning visual and literary modes, seeking to read resistance out of multiplicity.
Panel: Surrealism, Women, and Mental Illness
March 30, 4 p.m.
Jenny Anger, Fulao2 Professor of Art History
Lee Colón, Princeton University Art Museum Curatorial Research Associate
Britt Romagna, Fordham University Doctoral Candidate, Counseling Psychology
An unusually large number of surrealist women artists experienced mental illness. Panelists assess the lives and careers of Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, and Sonja Sekula, artists who suffered from trauma-related symptomatology, depression, and schizophrenia, respectively.
Artist Talk: Kevork Mourad
April 15, 4 p.m.
Bucksbaum 152
Artist Kevork Mourad serves as juror for this year’s BAX. Born in Qamishli, Syria, Mourad received his Master of Fine Arts from the Yerevan Institute of Fine Arts in Armenia. He now lives and works in New York City. Event sponsored by the Studio Art Department.
Opening Reception: BAX
April 16, 4 – 6 p.m.
Juror Kevork Mourad will present awards and speak about the Bachelor of Arts Exhibition. Refreshments will be served.
Gallery Talk: 40 Minutes @ 4
April 21, 4 p.m.
Student artists exhibiting in BAX will talk about their work.
Gallery Talk: 40 Minutes @ 4
April 23, 4 p.m.
Student artists exhibiting in BAX will talk about their work.
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