Arts & Culture

Insights Tour: For the Future

When
Fri, Oct 23
Where
UMFASalt Lake City
Price
Free
Listed by
Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Insights Tour: For the Future When: Thursday, January 1, 1970, 12 am Registration Required Want to experience works of art through the unique lens of the people who see them every day? Insights Tours at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts provide you with the perspectives of those who know these works of art in unique ways! These lunch-hour tours are a perfect midday break, and you can even stop by the Museum Café for a bite to eat! Explore the special exhibition For the Future: Collecting at the UMFA 2001-2026 through the eyes of Museum staff members. This 45-minute tour will provide insights into the works of art on view, their unique histories, and the ways the Museum stewards them. This free tour will be led by Alisa McCusker, senior curator at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts! American art encompasses an extraordinary range of creative expression, including Indigenous practices dating back thousands of years, traditional modes of painting and sculpting of European origin, as well as modern and contemporary forms engaged on the global stage. Alisa McCusker, Curator of European and American Art, leads a tour of some of the UMFA’s most noteworthy art acquisitions in the past 25 years that have broadened and deepened the Museum’s representation of the richness of American history, culture, and life. Related Exhibition For the Future …dream about what’s next. You May Also Like Collecting for the Future Watch a recording of “Collecting For the Future” a curator talk with Luke Kelly, Emily Lawhead, Alisa McCusker… Learn More Installation view of For the Future: Collecting at the UMFA 2001–2026, at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 2026. Alisa McCusker, PhD, is Senior Curator and Curator of European and American Art at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. She is a specialist in Renaissance art and works on paper and has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions on a range of topics, including on medieval and early modern book illustration, Japanese woodblock prints, American Regionalism, and contemporary art in the American West. Previously she served as Curator of European and American Art at the Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Missouri. She holds a doctorate in art history from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Arts in art history and museum studies from the joint program between Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art. She received a Fulbright full-year fellowship to Germany for her dissertation research. Explore more Insights Tours on the For the Future event calendar! Browse all For the Future events

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