Members Event | Exploring Recent Acquisitions in the Art of the Ancient Americas

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Members Event | Exploring Recent Acquisitions in the Art of the Ancient Americas

Tuesday, May 18, 2021 @ 5:30 pm

Although working mostly from home, the Art Museum’s curators continue to find striking new acquisitions as they plan for installations in the new Museum building. Join curator Bryan R. Just to learn about a selection of recently acquired works from the ancient Americas, including a glistening Olmec jade, shimmering Mochica metal ornaments, and a rare Maya necklace of carved jaguar teeth.

Please note that registration is required to attend this virtual event, open exclusively to members. If you are not currently a member, set up your free membership.

Free registration for the members event via Zoom here. (when prompted, click to sign in as “attendee”)

This event will include live closed captions in both English and Spanish. English captions are available directly in the Zoom toolbar by clicking the "CC" icon. To access Spanish-language captioning, open Streamtext, where you can select “Spanish” to see the live captioning.

Para acceder a los subtítulos en varios idiomas, ingrese al seminario web de Zoom durante un evento en vivo, luego abra un navegador web separado para visitar esta página donde puede seleccionar "español" o el idioma de su elección.

Olmec, Middle Formative, Head, 1000-500 B.C. [reworked at some later time in antiquity]. Blue-green jadeite, h. 3.5 cm. Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund (2021-36). Photo: Ed Parrinello