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Agnes Martin, installation at Dia:Beacon, Beacon, New York. Dia Art Foundation. Photo: Bill Jacobson.
Residents of counties Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester are invited to Dia:Beacon on select Saturdays free of charge. Programs are held throughout the day and often include collection tours, workshops for children and families, and gallery talks, among other activities.
Event Information
Saturday, Oct 13, 2012
Community Free Day
Dia:Beacon
3 Beekman Street
Beacon, NY
Please bring a driver's license or other government-issued ID for entry to the museum.
Schedule of Education Programs
11:00 am
Exploring LeWitt’s Lines
Children ages five and older and their families join John Hogan, senior draftsperson at the LeWitt Studio, and Dia educators for a tour of the Sol LeWitt galleries and interactive workshop where participants will collaboratively create an example of a LeWitt wall drawing. (1.5 hrs)
Limited space; reservations recommended.
11:30 am
"The Art of Seeing Takes an Effort"
During this program presented in collaboration with the Garrison Institute, Roger Lipsey, PhD, will lead visitors through an ideas session and tour of Richard Serra, Agnes Martin, and Sol LeWitt, exploring the spiritual in art and the way of the connoisseur. (1.5 hrs)
Limited space; reservations recommended.
12:30 pm
Lost and Found: Exploring the Internal Cartography of Experience
Join installation artist Daniel Oates-Kuhn for a tour investigating the geographic and chronological characteristics of Dia:Beacon’s collection using our body and perceptions as units of measurement. (1 hr)
2 pm
Gallery Talk on Sol LeWitt, led by Veronica Roberts
Veronica Roberts, director of research for the Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings catalogue raisonné and adjunct associate curator of contemporary art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, will give a focused talk on Sol LeWitt’s drawing series. (1 hr)
3 pm
Exploring LeWitt’s Lines
Following the Gallery Talk, teens and adults join John Hogan, senior draftsperson at the LeWitt Studio, for a discussion of the techniques employed in creating Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings, and a workshop where participants will collaboratively create an example of a LeWitt wall drawing. (1.5 hours)
Limited space; reservations recommended.
4 pm
Community reception (1 hr)
Exploring LeWitt’s Lines
Children ages five and older and their families join John Hogan, senior draftsperson at the LeWitt Studio, and Dia educators for a tour of the Sol LeWitt galleries and interactive workshop where participants will collaboratively create an example of a LeWitt wall drawing. (1.5 hrs)
Limited space; reservations recommended.
11:30 am
"The Art of Seeing Takes an Effort"
During this program presented in collaboration with the Garrison Institute, Roger Lipsey, PhD, will lead visitors through an ideas session and tour of Richard Serra, Agnes Martin, and Sol LeWitt, exploring the spiritual in art and the way of the connoisseur. (1.5 hrs)
Limited space; reservations recommended.
12:30 pm
Lost and Found: Exploring the Internal Cartography of Experience
Join installation artist Daniel Oates-Kuhn for a tour investigating the geographic and chronological characteristics of Dia:Beacon’s collection using our body and perceptions as units of measurement. (1 hr)
2 pm
Gallery Talk on Sol LeWitt, led by Veronica Roberts
Veronica Roberts, director of research for the Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings catalogue raisonné and adjunct associate curator of contemporary art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, will give a focused talk on Sol LeWitt’s drawing series. (1 hr)
3 pm
Exploring LeWitt’s Lines
Following the Gallery Talk, teens and adults join John Hogan, senior draftsperson at the LeWitt Studio, for a discussion of the techniques employed in creating Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings, and a workshop where participants will collaboratively create an example of a LeWitt wall drawing. (1.5 hours)
Limited space; reservations recommended.
4 pm
Community reception (1 hr)
Funding
Community Free Day is made possible in part by the Dyson Foundation.
