Smart Museum: Part II - Drawing Workshop

Smart Museum of Art

Smart Museum: Part II - Drawing Workshop

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Add to Calendar 2021-04-29 12:00:00 2021-04-29 13:30:00 Smart Museum: Part II - Drawing Workshop This lunchtime series with the Poetry Foundation and Smart Museum of Art takes us into the wild world of human relationships in ancient Rome and Renaissance Europe that is both strange and oddly familiar. Together, we’ll investigate themes of trauma, transformation, and love during our current Pandemic epoch through the lens of Ovid’s poetry. In Part 2 on April 29th at high noon, Erik Peterson will lead a session that includes live readings from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a drawing workshop, and a hands-on art project that celebrates the transformations of Spring. Please click here to register for the workshop. Image: Master of the Apollo and Daphne Legend, Daphne Fleeing from Apollo (detail), c. 1500, Oil, formerly on panel, transferred to canvas. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1973.45. Zoom Department of Art History drupal@seastar.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public
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This lunchtime series with the Poetry Foundation and Smart Museum of Art takes us into the wild world of human relationships in ancient Rome and Renaissance Europe that is both strange and oddly familiar. Together, we’ll investigate themes of trauma, transformation, and love during our current Pandemic epoch through the lens of Ovid’s poetry.

In Part 2 on April 29th at high noon, Erik Peterson will lead a session that includes live readings from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a drawing workshop, and a hands-on art project that celebrates the transformations of Spring.

Please click here to register for the workshop.

Image: Master of the Apollo and Daphne Legend, Daphne Fleeing from Apollo (detail), c. 1500, Oil, formerly on panel, transferred to canvas. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1973.45.