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.
Craft in America: Landscape
Wednesday, September 25
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
This program examines the interdependent relationship of craft artists to their media and the natural world. 60 min.
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Craft in America: Borders
Wednesday, October 2
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
This program explores the relationships and influences that Mexican and American craft artists have on each other and our cultures. 60 min.
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Craft in America: Neighbors
Wednesday, October 9
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
This program explores the people, history, and traditions of U.S. and Mexican crafts, noting how aesthetics cross over and back again in a living and ongoing cultural exchange. 60 min.
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First Face of America
Wednesday, October 16
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
Experience a risky underwater expedition to recover the bones of a 13,000-year-old, slightly built teenager and explore one of science’s most controversial riddles: the origins of the First Americans. 60 min.
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Documenting the Face of America
Wednesday, October 23
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
The Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information photographic archive chronicled the heartbreak of the Dust Bowl era through the forced relocation of Japanese-Americans at the outset of WWII. This vast collection of photographs remains hauntingly relevant to our lives today. 60 min.
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Ken Burns’ America: Thomas Hart Benton
Wednesday, October 30
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
Thomas Hart Benton was one of America’s best-known, least-understood painters. Ken Burns traces the pioneering artist’s turbulent career in this bittersweet portrait, highlighting the fierce controversy over his work. 85 min.
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First Peoples: America
Wednesday, November 6
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
This program is a global detective story, featuring the latest archaeological discoveries and genetic research. 60 min.
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Independent Lens: What Was Ours
Wednesday, November 13
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
Weaving past and present, reality and myth, What Was Ours captures the sparks of an awakening as Northern Arapaho youth search for ways to recover what’s been lost. 80 min.
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Chautauqua: An American Narrative
Wednesday, November 20
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
This documentary looks at the contemporary aspects of Chautauqua, the utopian community that is in Chautauqua, New York. 60 min.
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The Circus, Part 1
Wednesday, November 27
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
The Circus tells the story of one of the most popular and influential forms of entertainment in American history. It reveals the circus was a uniquely American entertainment created by a rapidly expanding and industrializing nation, embraced and made possible by Western imperialism. 60 min.
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