2023-2024
NEXT EVENT
Great Women writers
Great Women Writers is an evening of bilingual lightning readings of women’s writing from across the globe. Texts that speak to the theme of translation and mother tongue will be read by students and faculty in English, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian & Turkish.
March 21, 2024
6:15 - 8:15 P.M.
de la Cruz Art Gallery
Upcoming
2024 Senior art majors exhibition opening reception
April 18, 2023
5:00 - 7:00 P.M.
Join us for the opening of the 2024 Senior Art Majors Exhibition, celebrating this year’s graduating class of studio art majors. Refreshments will be provided.
Past
KARA WALKER EXHIBITIONS CLOSING RECEPTION
December 3, 2023
4:00-6:00 pm
De la Cruz Art & Spagnuolo Art Galleries
Join us for live performances to commemorate the last day of the Kara Walker exhibitions. Presented in partnership with the Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies and the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice. Refreshments provided.
Kara Walker, Tar pit, 2021. Graphite, watercolor, gouache, and sumi-e ink on paper. 22 1/2 x 30 inches. Private collection
Day With(out) Art 2023: Everyone I Know Is Sick
December 1, 2023
Virtual streaming
The Georgetown University Art Galleries are proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2023 by presenting Everyone I Know Is Sick, a program of five videos generating connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability.
Hiura Fernandes and Lili Nascimento, Aquela criança com AID$ (That Child with AID$), 2023. Commissioned by Visual AIDS for Everyone I Know Is Sick
KARA WALKER EXHIBITIONS OPENING RECEPTION
September 21, 2023
6:00 - 8:00 P.M.
De la Cruz & Spagnuolo Art Galleries
Join us to celebrate the opening of our Fall exhibitions, Kara Walker: Back of Hand and Kara Walker: Prince McVeigh and the Turner Blasphemies. Refreshments will be provided.
Pictured: Kara Walker, Needs Hardly to Lift a Finger, 2021. Graphite, watercolor, gouache, and sumi-e ink on paper. 30 x 22 1/2 inches. Exhibition organized by Katie Geha for the Athenaeum, the University of Georgia. Image courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York; Sprüth Magers, Berlin.
COOKIES WITH THE CURATOR
September 22, 2023
2:00 - 3:00 P.M.
Maria and Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery
Experience a curator-led tour of the Kara Walker exhibitions by Dr. Katie Geha! Cookies from Milk Bar will be provided.
Exhibition organized by Dr. Katie Geha for the Athenaeum, the University of Georgia.
Link to watch the complete Curator-Led Tour of "Kara Walker: Back of Hand" by Dr. Katie Geha.
Pictured: Dr. Katie Geha by Jason Thrasher
Identity, Trauma, and Reconciliation: A Conversation with Descendants. Presented by Tudor Place Historic House and Garden, in partnership with Georgetown’s Art and Museum Studies Masters Program and the Center for the study of slavery and its legacies
October 10, 2023
6:30 P.M.
Maria & Alberto de La Cruz Art Gallery and virtual live-stream
Join documentary filmmaker and founder of History Before Us, Frederick Murphy, for a conversation with descendants of enslaved individuals associated with Tudor Place and nearby sites.
Register to attend in-person or virtually here.
Pictured: Frederick Murphy
GEORGETOWN ART ALL NIGHT
September 29, 2023
6:00 - 9:00 P.M.
De la Cruz & Spagnuolo Art Galleries
Experience a late night in the Galleries and visit other Georgetown studios and galleries open after dark! Presented in conjunction with Georgetown Main Street.
Insurgent Black Ecologies: Woods, Water, and Rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp
November 8, 2023
5:30pm
De la Cruz Art Gallery
Join Dr. Kathryn Benjamin Golden in conversation with Dr. Melanie White. Presented in partnership with the “Creative Placemaking, Black Restorative Ecologies, and Black Spatial Futures” Mellon Sawyer Seminar. More information available here.
Pictured: Kathryn Benjamin Golden, Ph.D (left) & Melanie White, Ph.D (right)