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with Dana Sherwood, Artist-in-Residence Free with Museum Admission Artist Dana Sherwood uses night vision cameras to film the animals that venture onto her stage sets after dark lured by freshly prepared and beautifully arranged food. She will address her interest in collaborating with animals in her film work in this gallery talk, in connection with...

with Shana Reisig, Assistant Professor of Art History, Kent State University $10 (members 10% discount) Purchase tickets here Watermelons were a rowdy fruit in American art; they were shown leaking juice, vomiting seeds, and sliding across tables in still-life representations. The fruit’s reputation as messy and hard to control no doubt influenced artistic representations as...

with Dana Sherwood, Artist-in-Residence $10 (members 10% discount) Purchase tickets here Over the past decade, Dana Sherwood's art has pioneered an approach to understanding humans’ relationship to wild nature through her experiments with cross-species communication. In this talk the artist will share insights from her artistic journey around the globe, using food as a conduit...

Frames in Film: Presented by The Kate & Florence Griswold Museum $15 (members $13); tickets at katharinehepburntheater.org or call (860) 510-0453 (box office fees apply) Museum members call (860) 434-5542, ext. 111, for discount code The V&A presents Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser, a big-screen experience of the Victoria & Albert’s thought-provoking exhibition” based on Alice...

with Paco Underhill, Market Researcher and Bestselling Author $10 (members 10% discount) Purchase tickets here Join award-winning researcher and author Paco Underhill for an introduction to his newest book, How We Eat, which demonstrates that our food system—how we produce, process, distribute, and consume food—is broken. Underhill offers an upbeat, hopeful, and characteristically witty approach...