Watch Past Programs as a Benefit of Membership
Thank you for your interest in watching past educational programming from Kirkland Museum! Access to this page is a benefit of your Kirkland Museum membership. Please refrain from sharing the programs below. We hope you will enjoy learning more our our collection and exhibitions from staff and national experts. Any feedback or questions can be directed to [email protected].
December 13, 2023
Sit Salon | Charlotte Perriand
Hosted by Maya Wright, Director of Interpretation, and Becca Goodrum, Curatorial Associate
On December 13, 2023, Kirkland Museum hosted the third and final salon of the new series: Eat, Drink, Sit. The salon celebrates Kirkland Museum’s celebrated underappreciated female designers from the International Decorative Art Collection as part of the Museum’s 20th Anniversary Celebration. It was a celebration of all five senses. Guests had assigned seats at tables in Kirkland Museum’s Temporary Exhibition Gallery. The evening included time to mingle and converse with fellow design lovers, catered food and spirited sips, an engaging educational presentation on the featured designer (Charlotte Perriand) and the chance to interact with a featured object.
November 8, 2023
Drink Salon | Grete Marks
Hosted by Maya Wright, Director of Interpretation, and Becca Goodrum, Curatorial Associate
On November 8, 2023, Kirkland Museum hosted the second salon of the new series: Eat, Drink, Sit. The salon celebrates Kirkland Museum’s celebrated underappreciated female designers from the International Decorative Art Collection as part of the Museum’s 20th Anniversary Celebration. It was a celebration of all five senses. Guests had assigned seats at tables in Kirkland Museum’s Temporary Exhibition Gallery. The evening included time to mingle and converse with fellow design lovers, catered tea sandwiches and spirited sips, an engaging educational presentation on the featured designer (Grete Marks) and the chance to interact with a featured object.
October 11, 2023
Eat Salon | Mary Wright
Hosted by Maya Wright, Director of Interpretation, and Becca Goodrum, Curatorial Associate
On October 11, 2023, Kirkland Museum hosted the inaugural salon of the new series: Eat, Drink, Sit. The salon celebrates Kirkland Museum’s celebrated underappreciated female designers from the International Decorative Art Collection as part of the Museum’s 20th Anniversary Celebration. It was a celebration of all five senses. Guests had assigned seats at tables in Kirkland Museum’s Temporary Exhibition Gallery. The evening included time to mingle and converse with fellow design lovers, catered light bites and spirited sips, an engaging educational presentation on the featured designer (Mary Wright) and the chance to interact with a featured object.
September 13, 2023
An Evening with Dave Yῡst
An Evening with Dave Yῡst on September 13, 2023. This discussion was part of our year-long 20th anniversary celebration and was presented in conjunction with our exhibition, Dave Yūst—Evidence of Gravity & Other Works.
April 19, 2023
An Evening with the Curators
Planning Vance Kirkland’s Cosmos
Kirkland Museum’s Founding Director & Curator Hugh Grant and Deputy Curator Christopher Herron discuss their curation of Vance Kirkland’s Cosmos, the first focused exhibition of Kirkland’s work in the Museum’s 20-year history. Mr. Grant shared personal recollections of his time working with Vance Kirkland in the 1970s and how his study of Kirkland’s works led to identifying a new series of paintings featured in the exhibition. Both curators shared their planning process and behind-the-scenes insights about assembling the show.
October 13, 2022
Iridescent Light: Lamps and Windows by Frank Lloyd Wright
A Lecture by Julie Sloan
In our final lecture for the Frank Lloyd Wright Inside the Walls exhibition, Julie Sloan, New York-based expert on Frank Lloyd Wright’s stained and architectural glass and published author, lectured on the lamp featured in Kirkland Museum’s exhibition, and Wright’s windows and lamps generally.
September 21, 2022
EXHIBITING WRIGHT
A Panel Discussion with Kirkland Museum’s Curatorial Team
Hear a first-hand account from Kirkland Museum staff describing how they put together the Frank Lloyd Wright Inside the Walls exhibition. From choosing the theme based on the gift of a new lamp and the collection assembled by Founding Director & Curator Hugh Grant, to finding the historic photographs, researching the objects and designing each vignette, get behind-the-scenes insights from Deputy Curator Christopher Herron, Curatorial Associate Becca Goodrum and Director of Interpretation Maya Wright.
August 3, 2022
A Total Work of Art: Unity in the Work of Frank Lloyd Wright
A Lecture by Stuart Graff
Stuart Graff is President and CEO of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation at Taliesin West in Arizona. Given August 3, 2022 at the Denver Art Museum’s Sharp Auditorium, this was the second of three lectures by renowned Frank Lloyd Wright experts presented as part of Kirkland Museum’s celebration of the genius of American architect and designer Frank Lloyd Wright in 2022. This lecture supported Kirkland Museum’s exhibition, Frank Lloyd Wright Inside The Walls. Working from models found in nature, Frank Lloyd Wright’s design philosophy centered on the ideas of continuity and integration between building and landscape, interior and exterior, form and function, to create a beautiful and even spiritual experience of “being.” In doing so, Wright strived to create a Gesamtkunstwerk— total work of art—in his architecture through unified and simple design, contrasting from contemporary and highly decorative efforts to achieve the same impact found in the Art Nouveau, Jugendstil and Secession movements, among others.
March 23, 2022
Innovative Prints by Viennese Artists
A Lecture by Barbara Thompson
Join Kirkland Museum and scholar Barbara Thompson to learn about Viennese printmakers and their monthly journal, Ver Sacrum, as seen in Kirkland Museum’s 2022 exhibition, Josef Hoffmann’s Vienna. Early 20th century Austrian printmakers created some of the most innovative images of their era. They combined the methods and compositional styles of Japanese printmakers with traditional European art. While less famous than Gustav Klimt’s paintings and the commercial designs of Josef Hoffmann, the prints of these and other Secession artists were equally groundbreaking and influential to the world of printmaking.
March 2022
A Virtual Tour of Josef Hoffmann’s Vienna
Kirkland Museum’s Curatorial Team
Join Kirkland Museum’s curatorial team for a closer look at Josef Hoffmann’s Vienna, an exhibition from Kirkland Museum’s permanent collection, on view January 21–April 3, 2022. Exhibition curator, Deputy Curator Christopher Herron, along with Collections & Research Manager Becca Goodrum and Director of Interpretation Maya Wright, explain how the exhibition was designed and let you in on fun trivia about the objects on view.
March 3, 2022
A Window Into Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie House Vision
A Lecture by Jack Quinan
Given March 3, 2022 at the Denver Art Museum’s Sharp Auditorium, this was the first of three lectures by renowned Frank Lloyd Wright experts presented as part of Kirkland Museum’s celebration of the genius of American architect and designer Frank Lloyd Wright in 2022. This lecture supported our exhibition Returning Wright. Jack Quinan’s lecture, A Window Into Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie House Vision, was envisioned as a presentation in two parts: First a narrative of the events and circumstances by which two art glass windows from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo, New York, found their way to Kirkland Museum in Denver. In the second portion—the heart of the matter—we explore the specific functions of these windows in the Martin House and their larger significance as indicators of Wright’s thinking about what a house could be. Kirkland Museum repatriated the windows to the Martin House in Spring 2022.
December 8, 2021
A Virtual Tour of Truth, Beauty and Power: Christopher Dresser and The Aesthetic Movement
Kirkland Museum’s Curatorial Team
Who was Dr. Christopher Dresser?
What was the Aesthetic Movement?
Why does that chair have 5 legs?
If you’ve got questions like these, join co-curators Becca Goodrum and Maya Wright for a virtual tour of Truth, Beauty and Power: Christopher Dresser and The Aesthetic Movement, on view at Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art August 27, 2021 through January 2, 2022.