Target Family Fun Days

Bring your family together to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month! Find families in the Carter’s collection of artworks. Then participate in fun activities, and create your own family portrait.

Target Family Fun Days are generously supported by

Interactive Tour

Hear great stories, discover new facts, and share your ideas about the collection during this interactive tour led by the Carter’s friendly Gallery Teacher Team

Interactive Tour

Are you in need of mental stimulation and adult conversation? Pack up the baby stroller and join us for a tour designed to introduce new parents (with babies in tow) to a variety of artworks at the Carter. This free tour is most appropriate for parents with pre-toddlers, and refreshments will be provided after the program.

Tour begins outside the Museum Store. Reservations are not required, but we recommend that parents call 817.989.5031 to receive helpful instructions. Parents are encouraged to park in the lot on Lancaster Avenue, south of the museum, and enter the museum through the accessible Lancaster entrance

Family Activities

Join us to celebrate Fort Worth’s amazing arts and cultural organizations by participating in exciting, entertaining activities and performances at each of the Cultural District museums. Families are invited to discover the Carter’s collection and create their own artworks.

Anne Burnett Tandy Distinguished Lectures in American Art, Symposium

This symposium will explore little-known facets of Alfred Jacob Miller’s rich and varied career, from his time among the American Indians and in the Rockies to his life in Baltimore. Miller’s work will be discussed within the broader contexts of American Indian imagery, popular representations of trappers, hunting scenes, western humor, and sentimentalism.

Speakers

• Dr. John Mack Faragher, Arthur Unobskey Professor of American History and Director, Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders, Yale University
• Dr. Jennifer Greenhill, assistant professor of American art, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Dr. Kenneth Haltman, associate professor of art history, University of Oklahoma
• Dr. Lisa Strong, independent scholar and guest curator of Sentimental Journey: The Art of Alfred Jacob Miller
• Dr. Ron Tyler, director, Amon Carter Museum

This program is held in conjunction with the exhibition Sentimental Journey: The Art of Alfred Jacob Miller, on view at the Amon Carter Museum from September 20, 2008, to January 11, 2009. Reservations are required; seating is limited. Please call 817.989.5057 by October 1 to register; confirmation will be sent.

Target Family Fun Days

Time travel through art! Create your own travel journal and listen to adventurous tales from the frontier.

Target Family Fun Days are generously supported by

Lecture

Laura McPhee, artist

Hear this acclaimed photographer describe her recent project River of No Return, which includes the awe-inspiring photograph Understory Flareups, Fourth of July Creek Valley Road Wild Fire, Custer County, Idaho currently on view at the museum in Masterworks of American Photography. A book-signing follows in the Museum Store.

Reservations are required; seating is limited. Please call 817.989.5057 to register; confirmation will be sent.

Interactive Tour

Are you in need of mental stimulation and adult conversation? Pack up the baby stroller and join us for a tour designed to introduce new parents (with babies in tow) to a variety of artworks at the Carter. This free tour is most appropriate for parents with pre-toddlers, and refreshments will be provided after the program.

Tour begins outside the Museum Store. Reservations are not required, but we recommend that parents call 817.989.5031 to receive helpful instructions. Parents are encouraged to park in the lot on Lancaster Avenue, south of the museum, and enter the museum through the accessible Lancaster entrance.

Lecture

Mary Lucier, artist

Internationally acclaimed video artist Mary Lucier will discuss the evolution of her work—from her first experiments with the medium in the 1970s to one of her most recent video installations, The Plains of Sweet Regret, on view at the Carter November 15, 2008 –February 15, 2009. A book signing follows in the Museum Store.

Reservations are required; seating is limited. Please call 817.989.5057 to register; confirmation will be sent.

Conservation in Context Gallery Talk

Claire Barry, chief conservator of paintings, Kimbell Art Museum and Amon Carter Museum

There is more to Miller’s painting than meets the eye. Barry’s talk will take us beneath the surface of what we see and reveal new information about the nineteenth-century artist’s methods.