Event Series Curator Conversations

Curator Conversations: What Is Installation Art?

Join Curator Theresa Bembnister for an in-depth look at AMFA's site-specific installations, Anne Lindberg: passage and Natasha Bowdoin: Spring Song. Following the tour, you are welcome to extend your visit by exploring the galleries on your own or taking in the views of MacArthur Park over lunch at Park Grill. Anne Lindberg: passage is presented […]

Event Series Creative Saturdays

Creative Saturdays

Get creative with your weekends and spend Saturday mornings at AMFA! Kids, adults, and families of all ages can discover something fun to see and do: Spark your creativity with […]

Event Series Whitfield Lovell

Opening Weekend for “Whitfield Lovell: Passages”

Whitfield Lovell: Passages, on view through January 14, 2024, focuses on African American history and raises questions about identity, memory, and our country’s heritage. Lovell (b. 1959, Bronx, New York) makes drawings inspired by photographs of unidentified African Americans taken between the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and […]

Glassblowing Demonstration with Ben Dombey

Drop into the Windgate Art School to watch UCA artist-in-residence Ben Dombey demonstrate the art of glassblowing. Ben and his wife Allyson operate Dombey Design, a collaborative New Orleans glassblowing, metalworking, woodwork, costume, 3D-printing, and CNC machining multimedia design team. They specialize in creating fine art glass and metal sculptures, custom glass barware for patrons […]

Undivided: Wangechi Mutu / Firelei Báez

Wangechi Mutu and Firelei Báez, two internationally recognized artists, will sit down for a once-in-a-lifetime conversation as they delve deep into unexplored territories within their artistic practices. AMFA’s Undivided series redefines the traditional conventions of an Artist Talk by pairing contemporary artists together to interview each other, creating nothing less than an unforgettable dialogue. Mutu […]

Artist Talk: Natasha Bowdoin

Hear artist Natasha Bowdoin share how she responded to the architecture of AMFA to create her site-specific installation Spring Song in the Art Perch during this exciting Artist Talk. Bowdoin, who pulls from a range of artists’ and authors’ work on botanical life and ecology, creates playful and dynamic installations that challenge our relationship to […]

Event Series Creative Saturdays

Community Created Saturday

Join us for a very special edition of Creative Saturdays with artist Natasha Bowdoin! Natasha Bowdoin’s site-specific art installation Spring Song was the inspiration for this year’s Community Created, an annual project built for educators, educational partners, and students. AMFA is committed to offering arts programming to every community across the state. AMFA provides free […]