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In collaboration with local experts, talks with the Taft reveal the Queen City's culture from new perspectives.
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Lunch & Learn
Last Friday of the Month
12–1 p.m.
Explore Cincinnati’s past, present, and future during our Lunch & Learn events! In collaboration with local experts, these lunch hour talks reveal the Queen City’s culture from new perspectives.
April 25 | The Power of Voice: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Legacy
May 30 | American Sign Museum
June 27 | Queer Kentucky
July 25 | Outside the Ordinary: Contemporary Art in Glass, Wood, and Ceramics from the Wolf Collection
August 29 | Under One Roof: The African American Experience in Music Hall
September 26 | Cincinnati Parks Foundation: Parks Through the Age
These are free events. Optional box lunch: $10 for Taft members; $15 for non-members. Museum admission sold separately. Registration is required one week in advance for boxed lunches.
This program is ASL interpreted by Ghostlight Artistic Interpreting.
Questions? Contact education@taftmuseum.org.
Signature Talk | The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick
Thursday, July 24
5:30–6:30 p.m.
Speaker: Emily Zilber, Director of Curatorial Affairs & Strategic Partnerships at the Wharton Esherick Museum
While Wharton Esherick is best known as the father of the studio furniture movement, his legacy is as one of the most creative and interdisciplinary figures of 20th-century American art, craft, and design. Join Emily Zilber, curator of the exhibition and editor of its accompanying catalog, for an in-depth look at Esherick‘s life and work through the lens of his handcrafted, unconventional home and studio, open to the public for over fifty years as the Wharton Esherick Museum.
Free for Taft members; $5 for non-members. Event admission includes the opportunity for attendees to view the special exhibition before the talk.
Supported by the Stanley and Frances D. Cohen Lecture Series
Questions? Contact education@taftmuseum.org.
Curator Talk | A New Look at the Longworths
Sunday, September 21
2–3 p.m.
Speaker: Angela Fuller, Tamera Lenz Muente, and Laura Stewart
Join curators Angela Fuller and Tamera Lenz Muente and registrar and collections manager Laura Stewart to discuss new gifts to the Taft collection: portraits of Nicholas, Susan, and Catherine Longworth. Trace the portraits’ history within the Longworth family, learn about their conservation, and follow the quest to identify the artist who made them.
Free for Taft members; $5 for non-members. Event admission includes the opportunity for attendees to view the special exhibition before the talk.
Supported by the Stanley and Frances D. Cohen Lecture Series
Questions? Contact education@taftmuseum.org.