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Friday Nights at the de Young: 17th Annual Art Student Showcase | GG Park

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Friday, April 19, 2013 - 5:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Cost: FREE*
*Programs are free and open to the public, but does not include admission to the museum's galleries

de Young Museum | 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA

Event Details

Friday Nights at the de Young | Fall 2018

One of San Francisco’s most celebrated after-hours museum events returns for a fall season of 2018.

These nine Friday Nights feature free admission to the main-level galleries highlighted by a reinterpretation of contemporary art in their permanent collection and new acquisitions called Specters of Disruption. In addition, Friday Nights will offer reduced-price tickets of $14 to the exhibition Contemporary Muslim Fashions from 6–8:30 pm.

Through social-media moments and in-person dialogue, visitors can engage and commune with the art and with one another in a warm and welcoming setting. Enjoy specialty drinks and mocktails, coffees, teas, and snacks. Bring your friends. Strike a pose at the selfie wall. Listen to music. Make art. Activities take place from 6–8:30 pm.

Friday, April 19, 2013
17th Annual Art Student Showcase | Friday Nights at the de Young | Fall 2018

College and university students were once again invited by the de Young New Generations Student and Faculty Advisory Committee to submit proposals of visual art, film, music, or performance art inspired by the special exhibitions and the permanent collection at the de Young.

View their work at 17th Annual New Generations Student Showcase at the de Young, only on April 19, 2013.

6-8:45pm: Personal Letters: Expressing Ourselves through a Mixed-Media Dialogue
Kimball Education Gallery

de Young Artist-in-Residence Susan Tonkin Riegel is a mixed-media artist who loves the language of symbols and archetypes. Her spontaneous and intuitive process records glimpses of her personal life and dreams. The studio will be an intimate space for visitors to find their artistic voices by using acrylic paint, pastels, graphite, thread, and paper to create letters expressing personal intentions. The intentions can be wishes, prayers, or anything that calls forth new blessings and directions in life. The letters will then be encapsulated in clear acetate and suspended from the ceiling.

7-8:30pm: Special Lecture | “The Engaging Gaze: Portraiture from Leonardo to Vermeer”
Koret Auditorium

What transforms a painting into a celebrity? Leonardos Mona Lisa and Vermeers Girl with a Pearl Earring each create a dynamic visual relationship that engages the viewer in a series of unanswered questions. Sunnie Evers is a scholar, teacher, visiting lecturer, and fundraiser. She has over 15 years’ experience working in education, teaching at Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Convent of the Sacred Heart High School. She is also involved with the boards of a variety of nonprofit institutions including San Francisco Ballet, Narrative Magazine, and Save Venice. She received her PhD from UC Berkeley in 1995 and has presented papers at scholarly conferences internationally on Veronese and his patrons.

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Cost: FREE*
*Programs are free and open to the public, but does not include admission to the museum's galleries
Categories: **Annual Event**, *Top Pick*, Art & Museums, Lectures & Workshops, Live Music, Movies, San Francisco, Theater & Performance
Address: 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA