January Virtual After Hours
Virtual After Hours will be presented LIVE on the Speed's Facebook and YouTube page at 6pm. Registration is not required to watch.
How to Create an Exhibition: Collecting – A Love Story
6 pm
Join Scott Erbes, Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, and guest curator Norwood Viviano for a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the upcoming exhibition, Collecting – A Love Story: Glass from the Adele and Leonard Leight Collection. How did the exhibition concept and content evolve? How were works selected from the over 200 examples in the collection of Leonard and the late Adele Leight, a collection widely regarded as one of the best in the country (and a collection generously promised to the Speed)? What dialogues developed among the works of art? What are the nitty gritty details that bring an exhibition to life?
Make Something New with The Mocktail Project
6:20 pm
Jesse Hawkins, founder of The Mocktail Project, will show us one of his favorite mocktails to make at home in honor of Dry January.
First Look at the Selections from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival at the Speed
6:25 pm
Curator of Film Dean Otto gives a sneak peek at the selection of Sundance Film Festival films that will have premieres and screenings at the Speed Cinema from January 21 – February 1. Tickets for both streaming and in-person screenings are on sale now. LEARN MORE.
Director's Cut with Wolfgang Buttress
6:40 pm
Wolfgang Buttress is a multisensory and multimedia artist whose large-scale public artworks draw inspiration from the natural world, including the effects that humans have had upon it. One of his latest pieces, Blossom, uses sculpture, light, and sound to poetically reveal the life and death cycle of trees, and is now on view at the Speed.