Crafternoon at the Library
Are you interested in finding a new hobby? Ready to explore what you can make with your hands? Looking for things to do outside of playing videogames or using a computer?
Join us on the 4th Wednesday of the month at 3:30pm for an afternoon craft activity, where you can explore a new craft or work on an ongoing project in the Program Room.
For children ages 7-12.
¿Te interesa encontrar un nuevo pasatiempo? ¿Estás listo para explorar lo que puedes hacer con tus manos? ¿Buscas cosas que hacer además de video juegos o usar la computadora?
Acompáñanos el cuarto miércoles de cada mes a las 3:30 p. m. para una tarde de manualidades, en la que podrás explorar una nueva habilidad o trabajar en un proyecto que ya hayas empezado en nuestro salón de actividades.
Para niños de 7-12 años.
You know the folk art, the murals, the angular architecture. But Mexico has produced a stable of outstanding practitioners in that most modern of arts, photography. Like other genres of Mexican art, Mexican photography exhibits a tension between the modern and the Mesoamerican. Street savvy, elegant, surreal, or shocking—or, like Our Lady of the Iguanas, all of the above–Mexican photography shows us Mexico off the beaten track.
Docent Speaker: Avril Angevine
Although Claude Monet visited Venice only once, his paintings of the city are among his most dazzling. Monet and Venice, co-organized with the Brooklyn Museum, is the first dedicated to Monet’s Venetian cityscapes since their debut over a century ago. Featuring more than 100 artworks, the exhibition places Monet’s Venice paintings alongside select works from across his career, including his Water Lilies, as well as Venetian views by artists such as Manet, Renoir, and Canaletto. Unlike the bustling scenes painted by other artists, Monet’s Venice is eerily deserted, its architecture, buildings, and canals dissolving in an encompassing, hazy light he described as the enveloppe. This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to experience Monet’s vision of the famed Italian city.
A breakout work of modernism, an icon at SFMOMA, an inspiration for generations of artists—that’s Henri Matisse’s Femme au Chapeau, a portrait of his wife Amelie in a truly revolutionary hat. It is also the first and most fabulous work of Fauvism. Learn more about the painting’s genesis, the world in which it was created, and the decade that shook the world.
