Art á la Carte | Free Video Series
Join us every Wednesday at 12:15p for a series of informative programs focusing on the arts. Participants are encouraged to bring lunch of pick up something from The Palette café. Coffee, tea, and cookies are provided. All programs are held in the FIA’s Isabel Hall.
Anna & Vincent
Wednesday, June 28
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
The story of Anna, an unrealized artist, and her relationship to one of the most famous artists of all time, is told in this charming film that juxtaposes her life in grey, industrial Belgium, with that of Van Gogh’s in sunny, Southern France. Anna was the first person to ever...
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Behind the Scenes with Penn & Teller
Wednesday, July 5
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
Double Feature
Nancy
Graves:
Balance30 min
Balance doesn’t always mean symmetry.
FIA
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Behind the Scenes with Penn & Teller
Wednesday, July 5
12:30pm
Location: Isabel Hall
Double Features
Robert
Gil
de
Montes:
Color30 min
Robert Gil de Montes creates mood and feeling with colors that evoke memories of his childhood in Mexico.
FIA
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Behind the Scenes with Penn & Teller
Wednesday, July 12
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
Double Feature
Wayne
Thiebaud:
Line30 min
When is a line not a line? When it’s volume, shape, and movement. At first simple looking, Wayne Thiebaud’s drawings gradually reveal complex linear structures.
FIA
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Behind the Scenes with Penn & Teller
Wednesday, July 12
12:30pm
Location: Isabel Hall
Double Feature
David
Hockney:
The
Illusion
of
Depth30 min
Penn and Teller along with artist David Hockney help you learn ways artists create the illusion of depth in art.
FIA
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Art 21: Change
Wednesday, July 19
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
Art 21: Change55 min
Contemporary art reflects the ideas of our time, and artists are the creative role models grappling with today's most timely questions. What is the nature of reality? How do we respond to a world in flux? Why some historical events do shapes the way we think...
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Art 21: Balance
Wednesday, July 26
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
Art 21: Balance
In what ways can art convey equilibrium or disequilibrium? What is reality? How do artists perceive and express it? This episode features artists whose works explore the distinctions between balance and imbalance, and demonstrate that the smallest change in a line, a formal element, or a...
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La Belle Epoque (1890-1914)
Wednesday, September 20
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
La Belle Epoque (1890-1914)60 min
Featuring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Diana Vreeland, this program evokes “the beautiful era” (1890-1914), a time in which the wealthy upper classes of the western world gave themselves over to a life of elegance and pleasure, their eyes closed to the increasing social and political...
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