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 or pick up something from The Palette Café.
Art à la Carte | Craft in America Messages
Wednesday, April 24
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
Craft in America Messages
Craft in America promotes and advances original handcrafted work. Messages looks at the ways many craft artists go beyond skill to personal and political expression. They use craft to tell a story, prove a point, or bring attention to issues.
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Wednesday Tours
Wednesday, April 24
1:30pm
Location: Lobby
Learn more about the FIA’s collection by taking part in FREE Guided Learning Experience (GLEX) tours, happening on the 4th Wednesday of the month after Art a la Carte.
Tours will start at 1:30p and last approximately 45 minutes. Guests interested in participating should meet in the FIA lobby between...
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Art à la Carte | Finding Vivian Maier
Wednesday, May 1
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
Finding Vivian Maier
This documentarv shuttles from New York to France to Chicago as it traces the life story of the late Vivian Maier, a career nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs has earned her a reputation as one of America's most accomplished and insightful street photographers.
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Art à la Carte | Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning
Wednesday, May 8
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
American Masters: Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning
Known for her powerful images from the Great Depression, including the haunting "Migrant Mother," Dorothea Lange bore witness as young America matured into a world power. For more than five decades of the 20th century, her lens brought subjects alive, transmitting raw...
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Art à la Carte | Art 21 - Boarderlands
Wednesday, May 15
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
Art 21 | Boarderlands
The borderland between the United States and Mexico has long been a site of not only political conflict and social struggle but also intense creative ferment. Art21 connects and juxtaposes a group of acclaimed artists as they work along the U.S.-Mexico border.
56 min
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Art à la Carte | Artbound Fallujah: Art, Healing, and PTSD
Wednesday, May 22
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
Artbound Fallujah: Art, Healing, and PTSD
USMC Sergeant Christian Ellis was a machine gunner in Iraq, whose platoon was ambushed, leaving him with a broken back and only one of a few survivors. Ellis returned home to join millions of Americans who struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder. Ellis inspired the first...
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Wednesday Tours
Wednesday, May 22
1:30pm
Location: Lobby
Learn more about the FIA’s collection by taking part in FREE Guided Learning Experience (GLEX) tours, happening on the 4th Wednesday of the month after Art a la Carte.
Tours will start at 1:30p and last approximately 45 minutes. Guests interested in participating should meet in the FIA lobby between...
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FIA Closed – Memorial Day
Monday, May 27
12:00am
FIA closed in observance of Memorial Day.
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Art à la Carte | Craft in America Service
Wednesday, May 29
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
Craft in America Service
From the origins of the Army Arts & Crafts Program and the G.I. Bill to contemporary soldiers and veterans, SERVICE documents the power of the handmade to inspire, motivate and heal. Featured artists include Ehren Tool, Peter Voulkos, Judas Recendez, women veterans working at Shotwell Paper...
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Art à la Carte | No Straight Lines
Wednesday, June 5
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
No Straight Lines
When Alison Bechdel received a coveted MacArthur Award for her best-selling graphic memoir Fun Home, it heralded the acceptance of LGBTQ+ comics in American culture. From DIY underground comix scene to mainstream acceptance, meet five smart and funny queer comic book artists whose uncensored commentary left no...
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Art à la Carte | The Creative Indians
Wednesday, June 12
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
The Creative Indians
The Creative Indians is a docu-series showcasing, de-mystifying and de-constructing the lives, journeys and processes of the most impactful creative professionals and proiects of India across industries like Cinema, Art, Design, Music, Fashion, Dance, Photography, Advertising and more.
56 min
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Art à la Carte | I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO
Wednesday, June 19
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO
I Am Not Your Negro envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, a radical narration about race in America, using the writer's original words, as read by actor Samuel L Jackson. Alongside a flood of rich archival material, the film draws upon Baldwin's notes on the...
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Art à la Carte | Art + Medicine: Healthy Living
Wednesday, June 26
12:15pm
Location: Isabel Hall
Art + Medicine: Healthy Aging
Exploring heathy aging with Drs. Jon Hallberg and Tseganesh Selameab through the 4M's framework of Mobility, Mentation (more commonly thought of as mood and memory), Medication and What Matters to older adults, all with an artistic lens. This is a co-production with the Center for...
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Wednesday Tours
Wednesday, June 26
1:30pm
Location: Lobby
Learn more about the FIA’s collection by taking part in FREE Guided Learning Experience (GLEX) tours, happening on the 4th Wednesday of the month after Art a la Carte.
Tours will start at 1:30p and last approximately 45 minutes. Guests interested in participating should meet in the FIA lobby between...
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