Author: Abimbola Elizabeth Eminowa

Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Artist Sisters: Issues of Identity
Barbara Buhler Lynes, Ph.D.
Thursday, March 28, 3:30 pm
Free for members; $10 non-members

In the mid-1930s, Georgia O’Keeffe asked her artist sisters, Ida and Catherine, to abandon making art and their burgeoning careers despite her earlier strong support of their work. Catherine quit, but Ida did not. Barbara Buhler Lynes’s fascinating lecture will demonstrate how Georgia’s request was motivated by her and her husband’s (photographer Alfred Stieglitz’s) fears of Georgia losing her identity as an important American modernist and that her request had more to do with Catherine’s art than Ida’s.

Barbara Buhler Lynes is the Museum’s Sunny Kaufman Senior Curator. She is the preeminent scholar on the life and work of Georgia O’Keeffe and was formerly the founding curator, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, and the founding director of its research center. She is the author of numerous books on the artist and her contemporaries, including Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné.

Join Miami performer Queef Latina as she discusses her introduction to drag, her journey into self-branding, and the triumphs and tribulations of becoming a businesswoman. Queef Latina is a drag performer and sewing instructor based in Miami, Florida. She owns Queef Enterprises, a community sewing studio in downtown Miami where she holds monthly workshops and private classes.

Queef’s sewing classes were recently featured nationally on Telemundo in an episode of Al Rojo Vivo, and locally on NBC 6. Queef Latina’s drag vita includes entertaining at museums, performing at drag festivals such as Bushwig in Brooklyn, working alongside nightlife socialite Susanne Bartsch, pop-star Charli XCX, designer Patricia Field, and celebrity performer Amanda Lepore. Queef is also the creator and co-owner of South Florida’s largest queer festival Wigwood, an annual event featuring queer performances, acts, bands, DJs, and vendors.

LIMITED SPACE. RSVP is required. Please call (954) 262-0258 or email moareservations@moafl.org

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Lively discussions on every second Thursday of the month feature books relating to Museum exhibitions, collections or other topical themes. This month’s selection is In Full Flight by John Heminway, which tells the remarkable story of a woman’s search for a new life in Africa in the wake of World War II, a life that sparked a heroic career, but also hid a secret past.

Meet in the Museum Café.
Date: March 14     Time: 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Book may be purchased at the Museum Store $27.95, members $25
Free admission
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or call: 954-262-0258

The comedic drama The Samuel Project is about a teenager (Ryan Ochoa) who gets to know his grandfather Samuel (Hal Linden) for the first time when he makes him the subject of a senior year animated art project. With dreams of becoming a professional artist, the teen discovers that his grandpa, a Jewish dry cleaner, was heroically saved from Nazi capture in Germany by a young woman when he was a boy. After hesitating, Samuel agrees to tell his story for the project—a story he hasn’t told in over 75 years.

In the end Eli’s project makes the finals in a countywide art showcase where he unveils his animated ‘Samuel Project’ with the help of his unlikely friend Kasim, an electric guitar wielding school misfit. And after decades, three generations of Eli’s family finally connect with one another.

Museum and café open at noon. Enjoy a docent led highlight tour of Remember to React with a focus on Contemporary Women Artists at 1:30 and the film at 2:30.

Film cost: $9 for JCC or Museum members; $11 non-members

Film and tour: $18 for JCC or Museum member; $22 non-members

RSVP for the film and tour at the JCC website https://www.dpjcc.org/secondsunday.

Program note: The JCC page updates as the screening date approaches.

Frida Kahlo – An Anguished Brush

Presented by Armando Droulers

As a preview to Florida Grand Opera’s March performances of Frida,an opera by Robert Xavier Rodriguez, art historian Armando Droulers will present the lecture, Frida Kahlo – An Anguished Brush.

Iconic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo suffered from agonizing physical pain through much of her life, and her stormy marriage to Diego Rivera was an additional source of psychological trauma. Despite these hardships, Frida Kahlo produced an extraordinary body of work, including 55 self-portraits.

Following the lecture, guests are invited to view the exhibition Remember to React which includes works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera from NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale’s Pearl and Stanley Goodman Collection of Latin American Art.

This lecture is sponsored by The Opera Society.

This event is free and open to the public as part of FREE First Thursdays Starry Nights.

Please call 954-262-0258 to RSVP or register online:

https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/10372259