LOWEdown HAPPY HOUR

Pregame Party at the Lowe!

Start your weekend of tailgating at the LoweDown's pregame party! Enjoy a cold Heineken with tasty nibbles courtesy of Cabot cheese and beverages by PAMA and Barefoot Wine & Bubbly. Music by WVUM's DJ BunnyFuzz!

$10 Admission; Free for Lowe Members

EXHIBITION PREVIEW

Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection

Reception with cocktails provided by Bacardi.

$10 for non-members; complimentary admission for Lowe members and guests of exhibition sponsors

Artist Lecture

Presented by Michael Lucero
The preeminent sculptor, best known for his provocative ceramic work, often incorporates specific stylistic references to one culture or another into his work, creating complex, hybrid forms.

Lecture: 7-8 PM
Lowe Art Museum, Beaux Arts Gallery

Reception: 8-9 PM
Light fare courtesy of Pizza Rustica
Space is limited, please arrive early.
Lecture organized by UM Department of Art and Art History and sponsored by Friends of Art.

Event is free and open to the public

FAMILY DAY

Latin American Folktales
Reading and book signing by children’s author, Lucia Gonzalez (Author of The Bossy Gallito, Señor Cat's Romance, and other favorite stories from Latin American folktales).
Families can create their own print for their favorite valentine!

Lowe members free; non-members $10

For more information about the author, please visit: www.luciagonzalezbooks.com

An evening with Sandy Skoglund

Join us for a lecture with artist Sandy Skoglund as we celebrate the installation of Breathing Glass.

Lecture: 7 PM Storer Auditorium
Presented by Sandy Skoglund

Reception: 8-9 PM Lowe Art Museum

$10 Admission; Free for Lowe Members and guests of HSBC.

RSVP: 305.284.5960

Event sponsored by HSBC. Installation sponsored by Francien Ruwitch

The book Sandy Skoglund The Artificial Mirror will be available pre-signed at the Lowe Museum Store while supplies last.

About the Artist:
Sandy Skoglund was born in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1946. Skoglund studied studio art and art history at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts from 1964-68. She went on to graduate school at the University of Iowa in 1969 where she studied filmmaking, intaglio printmaking, and multimedia art, receiving her M.A. in 1971 and her M.F.A. in painting in 1972.
Skoglund moved to New York City in 1972, where she started working as a conceptual artist, dealing with repetitive, process-oriented art production through the techniques of mark-making and photocopying. In the late seventies Skoglund’s desire to document conceptual ideas led her to teach herself photography. This developing interest in photographic technique became fused with her interest in popular culture and commercial picture making strategies, resulting in the directorial tableau work she is known for today. Skoglund currently lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.

For more information about the artist, please visit: www.sandyskoglund.com

Tribal Arts Society Lecture

7:30 PM
Indigenous Writing in the Americas: Recording History, Rituals, Myths, and Maps
Presented by Arthur Dunkelman, Curator, Jay I. Kislak Foundation

LOWEdown HAPPY HOUR

Contemporary Cuban Art at the Lowe!

Featuring a tour of the exhibition, Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection. Enjoy some savory and sweet Cuban pastries and beverages by PAMA and Barefoot Wine & Bubbly.

$10 Admission; Free for Lowe Members

Artist Symposium

Cuba Avant-Garde

Featuring artists from the exhibition Cuba Avant-Garde, including Gustavo Acosta, Carlos Estevez, Rueben Torres Llorca, and Glexis Novoa. Moderated by Helen Ferre of Channel 2 and El Diario.

Sponsored by HSBC Private Bank

Spring Into Art

Friends of Art Auction

This year's theme is Flowers

Curator Lecture

Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection

Presented by Kerry Oliver-Smith, Curator of Contemporary Art, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida

Lowe members free; non-members $10

About the Lecture:
Kerry Oliver-Smith will discuss the innovative work the avant-garde of artists represented in Cuba Avant-Garde. She will address their aesthetic and political strategies and how Cuban artists have exerted a remarkable and worldwide influence on the emerging shape of contemporary art.

About the Lecturer:
Kerry Oliver-Smith oversees the contemporary collection and exhibitions of international art at the Harn Museum of Art’s 7,500 square-foot Mary Ann Harn Cofrin Pavilion and adjacent Robert and Nancy Magoon Garden. Oliver-Smith has curated over twenty-seven exhibitions in addition to the museum's experimental RISK Cinema series. Select exhibitions include Allan Sekula: TITANIC's wake,German Legacies: The Photography of Max Becher and Andrea Robbins, Sergio Vega: Modernismo Tropical, Insistent Memory: The Architecture of Time in Video Installation and Modern Czech Photography. She is currently working on an exhibition, Project Europa: Imagining the (Im)Possible, that has garnered major support from the Andy Warhol Foundation. Prior to her appointment, she served as the Curator of Education at the Harn. She holds a master's degree in Film and Media Studies from the University of Florida, where she is currently pursuing her Ph.D.