Fwd: Get ready for this summer's last Uptown Friday!

The Studio Museum in Harlem Newsletter | August 20, 2014 View this email in your browser Exhibitions Target Free Sundays Calendar Shop Become a member Uptown Fridays! | August 22, 2014, 7–10pm   Join us for this summer's final Uptown Fridays! at The Studio Museum in Harlem! This summer series transforms our courtyard and galleries into a vibrant social hub. Dance to the sounds of Libation's DJ Ian Friday with Manchildblack and Afro Mosaic Soul and enjoy signature cocktails and drink specials. Guests are also invited to join free guided tours of our current exhibitions and browse our Museum Store’s incredible selection of books, jewelry, t-shirts and gifts. Bring a friend or come solo and make a few during a festive evening of art and culture! Uptown Fridays! is free with Museum admission and open to the public. Members receive free admission to all Uptown Fridays! Join as a new member by clicking here. Material Histories: Artists in Residence 2013–14 brochure now available online!   Material Histories is the most recent in a series of exhibitions featuring work by Kevin Beasley (b. 1985), Bethany Collins (b. 1984) and Abigail DeVille (b. 1981), three emerging artists who have been awarded eleven-month residencies at the Studio Museum. This exhibition maintains the Museum's commitment to highlighting new artistic talent and voices, and features artwork created by the 2013–14 artists in residence since they began their residence in October 2013.    Click the cover to view! MZ Wallace x Glenn Ligon Tote   We are thrilled to announce an exciting new collaboration with the New York-based handbag designer MZ Wallace! MZ Wallace has partnered with artist Glenn Ligon on a limited run of the brand’s iconic Metro Tote. Each tote is printed with Ligons’s Untitled (I Am Somebody), and all proceeds from the sale of the tote will benefit The Studio Museum in Harlem’s art education programs. Learn more here. The tote is priced at $225 and will be available in the Museum Store in November 2014, but a limited number are available, so pre-order yours now!   gainesgridwork.tumblr.com   Can't get enough of Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974–1989? Explore our tumblr! It features Gaines’s work, ephemera from throughout his career, other artists inspired by the grid and crowd-sourced exhibition documentation tagged #gainesgridwork.                              Join us for Target Free Sundays! Target Free Sundays at the Studio Museum ensures that the Museum is accessible to all. Thanks to the generous support of Target, Museum admission is free every Sunday.  In addition to free Museum admission on Sundays, the Education and Public Programs departments organize free programs and events geared to our different audiences. From hands-on family workshops to theater performances, visitors of all ages and interests will find something to love at Target Free Sundays.  Be sure to check out these upcoming Target Free Sunday Events: ALL AGES Gallery Tour: Charles Gaines: Gridwork: 1974–1989 August 24, 2014, 1–2pm KIDS AND FAMILY PROGRAMS Hands On: Abstract Mosaics August 24, 2014, 2–4pm ALL AGES Gallery Tour: Material Histories: Artists in Residence 2013–2014 August 31, 2014, 1–2pm KIDS AND FAMILY PROGRAMS Hands On: Definition Composition August 31, 2014, 2–4pm Things We Love This Week a/wake in the water: Meditations on Disaster at MoCADA, an exhibition exploring the ways Black bodies experience environmental hazards and natural disaster Artist-in-residence Abigail DeVille's instagram documenting her 10-day road trip from DC to Florida Curatorial Assistant Hallie Ringle's exhibition In and Out of Context at Lower East Side Printshop Xu Bing's installation Phoenix (2008–10) at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine  Film screening of Thomas Allen Harris's film Through a Lens Darkly, the first documentary to explore the American family photo album through the eyes of black photographers, at the Film Forum from Aug. 27th–Sept. 9th Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties, August 30–December 14 at Dartmouth's Hood Museum of Art The Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974–1989 catalogue Images (top to bottom): Uptown Fridays! illustrated with photo by Henry Murphy; Charles Gaines, Faces, Set #11: Mary Ann Aloojian, 1978, Courtesy the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer; Target Free Sundays illustrated with photo by Elan Ferguson Copyright © 2014 The Studio Museum in Harlem, All rights reserved. You've expressed an interest in The Studio Museum in Harlem. Our mailing address is: The Studio Museum in Harlem 144 West 125th Street New York, NY 10027 Add us to your address book