| TUESDAY EVENINGS AT THE MODERN LECTURE SERIES Presents Artist Terrell James Tuesday, February 28; 6 pm Live broadcast available This popular series of lectures and presentations by artists, architects, historians, and critics is free and open to the public. Lectures begin at 6 pm in the Modern’s auditorium. Seating is at 5:30 pm. A livestream broadcast of the lecture will be available online. A limited number of tickets (limit two per person) will be available for purchase ($5) from 10 am until 3 pm the day of the lecture online. Free admission tickets (limit two per person) are available at the Modern’s information desk beginning at 4 pm on the day of the lecture. On Tuesday nights during the lecture series, the galleries and shop are open until 6 pm and Café Modern’s bar is open with special artist-inspired signature cocktails (no food service available.) Lectures will not be broadcast into the café this season. Podcasts of these lectures are available at www.themodern.org/podcasts, two weeks after the presentation date. Video recordings of the lectures are available on the Modern’s YouTube channel. |
| Terrell James February 28, 6 pm Terrell James, artist and fourth generation Houstonian, has lived and worked internationally including time spent in Berlin, Germany; different regions throughout Mexico; Beijing, China; Soho, Harlem, and Queens in New York; and Marfa, Texas before landing back in Houston, where she is an active member of the city’s rich artist community. In addition to being a prolific painter with exhibitions spanning the globe, James has worked as a researcher, curator, and a longtime professor of painting at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s Glassell School, where she served as chair of the Painting Department. For Tuesday Evenings at the Modern, James presents her paintings, research, and process in a presentation she has titled Split the Lark ― and you’ll find the Music. Terrell James, whose work is featured in prominent international private and public collections, was awarded the 2016 Texas Artist of the Year Award by Art League Houston. Her work in public collections includes those of the Boston Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Menil Collection, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Portland Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. UPCOMING LECTURES February 21 – Alison Hearst, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth curator February 28 – Terrell James, artist March 7 – Kahlil Irving, artist March 21 – Kristin Lucas, artist and Paul Slocum, artist, musician, and founder of And/Or Gallery March 28 – Lynn Hershman Leeson, artist April 4 – Mendi + Keith Obadike, artists April 8 – Special Program with Morehshin Allahyari and American Artist, artists April 11 – Maria Elena Ortiz, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth curator LOCATION Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth3200 Darnell StreetFort Worth, Texas 76107Telephone 817.738.9215Toll-Free 1.866.824.5566www.themodern.org Museum Gallery HoursTue-Sun 10 am-5 pm (before lectures until 6 pm)Fri 10 am-8 pm |
