Panel Discussion to Open Women, Art & Social Change Exhibit

The New Britain Museum of American Art is hosting a panel discussion to open its, Some Day is Now: Women, Art & Social Change exhibit.

The, “virtual panel discussion featuring women who are recognized as groundbreaking leaders and role models in the arts, to address themes of women, art, and social change,” the Museum says, will launch its exhibit that, “presents iconic American female artists whose work advocates for social empowerment and change.”

Some Day is Now: Women, Art & Social Change is a part of the Museum’s 2020/20+ Women @ NBMAA series celebrating women artists, which, the Museum says, is, “a year-long+ series of seven groundbreaking exhibitions devoted exclusively to the presentation of works by women artists.”

The panel, the Museum says,

will be moderated by scholar, author, and civic leader Dr. Khalilah L. Brown-Dean, and will include Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem; Min Jung Kim, Director & CEO of the New Britain Museum of American Art; Denise Murrell, PhD, Associate Curator of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Professor Katy Siegal, Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Endowed Chair in Modern American Art, Stonybrook University, NY. 

The Museum says that the panelist will discuss, “how participants have succeeded in their efforts to advance diversity and gender equity in the arts; what challenges they have faced in achieving their career or artistic goals; and whether art can be used as a tool for social change.”

The panel discussion is to be held on Thursday, October 1, 2020, from 12:30pm to 2:00pm. The event is to be held on Zoom.

The Museum has a website with information on how to preregister for the event, “to receive a confirmation email containing a Zoom link to access the event the day of.” The Museum says that the event is free for Museum members and students and $15 for non-members.

Tracing its history back to 1835, NBMAA has said that its,

collection has grown to more than 8,300 works of art dating from 1739 to the present. With particular strengths in colonial portraiture, the Hudson River School, American Impressionism, and the Ash Can School, not to mention the important mural series The Arts of Life in America by Thomas Hart Benton, the collection remains a primary source of inspiration for many of the museum’s exhibitions and programming. Exhibitions continue to strike a balance between the historic and the contemporary, reflecting an American narrative comprised of a multiplicity of cultures, races, ethnicities, and perspectives. As one of the first institutions dedicated solely to American art, the New Britain Museum of American Art continues to play a vital role in illuminating our nation’s diverse heritage and artistic advancements.

The Museum announced this summer that it had reopened, with a new schedule and guidelines for visiting because of COVID-19.

The New Britain Museum of American Art is a world class museum located at 56 Lexington Street, adjoining New Britain’s historic and beautiful Walnut Hill Park.