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Enjoy a docent-led tour of Art and Identity. Support provided by Art Bridges.

Renaldo Barnette, fashion designer and adjunct professor at Fashion Institute of Technology, leads a workshop in creative fashion design adapted to living conditions on the moon. Illustrate your fashionable response to the atmosphere, climate, and geology of the moon. Space is limited; RSVP recommended.

Enjoy an exhibition tour of The Color of the Moon: Lunar Painting in American Art with commentary in English and Spanish in honor of Cinco de Mayo!

Look closely at the four works on view in Art and Identity, and discuss how the artists discreetly but boldly inspire and invoke change. This installment of Artful Impact will surely appeal to the activist within you as we discuss art and agency. Support provided by Art Bridges.

Ned Potter, Emmy Award-winning science correspondent for ABC News who has covered space for more than 20 years, and Chad Anderson, Explorers Club Fellow and CEO of Space Angels, the leading source of capital for investment in space startups, explore the past, present, and future of entrepreneurial space ventures. A fitting topic for this special

Artist Natalya Khorover Aikens teaches participants how to turn fabric scraps, shiny beads, and other materials into a hanging moon.

Join folk singer Caroline Doctorow for an uplifting concert celebrating the 100th anniversary of Pete Seeger’s birth. Seeger (1919–2014) was a legendary musician, environmentalist, peace advocate, and founder of the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, a non-profit that preserves and protects the Hudson River. Doctorow and her acoustic ensemble perform Seeger’s best-loved songs and folk classics

Stella Paul, art historian, museum educator, and author of Chromaphilia: The Story of Color in Art, discusses the ways in which artists find and use color in art. Followed by a book signing. Stella Paul, a graduate of Harvard University, was formerly the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Educator-in-Charge of Exhibitions and Communications, where she fostered

Create a flower painting inspired by the floral motifs of Glenview in a workshop led by Teaching-Artist-in-Residence Seongmin Ahn, who will teach participants the basic techniques of traditional Korean folk painting. Asian color paintings are well known through Japanese screen paintings, Korean Buddhist paintings, and Chinese Gongbi paintings. Minhwa, nineteenth-century Korean folk painting, is unique

Explore the more than 60 nocturnes on view in The Color of the Moon: Lunar Painting in American Art with a docent-led tour.