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Third Thursday: Full STEAM Ahead

5–8 PM
$5 after 5 PM (free to members)

Students, parents, teachers, administrators, artists, executives, funders, and other local partners: you help SJMA put the “A” in “STEAM.” Join us to celebrate the national STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, math) movement.

The family-friendly evening will include hands-on artmaking projects, a display of art made by kids in SJMA’s school programs, open galleries, and music while we highlight the students of the museum’s integrated visual arts school residency program, Sowing Creativity.

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Postdate: Photography and Inherited History in India

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Two generations after the exultation of Independence and the concurrent horrors of Partition, contemporary Indian photographers reclaim and reappraise the history of colonialism in their country. These artists look closely and critically at historical Indian photography and draw on diverse sources of inspiration. They take matters of history into their own hands, redefining the iconic historical images of India and investigating the complex relationship between traditions of representation and contemporary image-making.

José Clemente Orozco: Figure Studies

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One of the esteemed Los Tres Grandes Mexican muralists, José Clemente Orozco (1881 – 1949) is best known for monumental fresco cycles that present dramatic, epic narratives. Yet throughout his life, Orozco was also an avid draftsman who had a masterful understanding of the musculature and the inherent expressiveness of the human body. This exhibition includes more than twenty figure studies generously loaned by the Michael Wornick Collection. Many of them have never been exhibited before. 

Beta Space: Diana Thater

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Long interested in the mysteries of the night sky and the natural world, internationally-recognized artist Diana Thater is fascinated by the dung beetle and its relationship to our galaxy. Inspired by a recent scientific study that revealed how the jewellike beetle uses the Milky Way for nocturnal orientation, Thater developed an entirely new kind of film and video installation to ponder the vastness of the universe and to convey aesthetically the sublime aspects of the cosmic imagination

Koret Family Gallery: Maker Space

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The act of making (whether it be artistic or scientific) with the goal of producing a more beautiful and better world is part of the human impulse. Makers demonstrate an “I can do it” attitude. They use materials in new ways, upcycle discarded objects, challenge familiar ways of doing things and invent new ones. Sometimes creativity, a force inherent in all of us, just needs a little inspiration. In this spirit, we invite you to the Koret Family Gallery: view artworks made of new materials in new ways, take a maker challenge, and rekindle your creative spark.