Join us for a free private workshop to talk through and feel the tension of being within a museum—a colonial institution associated with practices of archiving sacred items and controlling stories. Guided by fabian romero’s poetry scholarship practice, this workshop for Indigenous peoples and people of color will offer the opportunity to write in conversation with Donna Huanca and ektor garcia’s multidisciplinary arts practices. Themes that may be explored include the coloniality of gender and sexuality, and the racialized violence within hidden histories.

Every year, hundreds of whales and other marine mammals strand on the shores of the North Pacific. These ocean-dwelling animals are mostly hidden from humans during their lifetimes, but in a stranding death, they reveal themselves to us, and call on us to care. What might this care look like? What can these deaths teach us about the lives of these animals and the entangled futures of humans and oceans? Join us for an evening of reading, listening, and reflecting on these questions together.

Join us for an evening with composer and artist Lyra Pramuk, the first in a series of performances held within the immersive installation Donna Huanca: MAGMA SLIT. Lyra’s set will take place on an auxiliary stage that Huanca designed for other artists to share their ideas on transcendence, meditation, and transformation. Lyra’s presence extends the long-term collaborative relationship and dialogue between the two artists.

How do materials exemplify different socio-cultural meanings and values? How are our cultures and identities expressed through pattern and self-styling? Inspired by the textile works of Derrick Adams in Packaged Black: Derrick Adams and Barbara Earl Thomas, designers Corinn Bleck and Jáiz Boyd will guide ArtVentures participants to create visual narratives of identity through the use of pattern and different combinations of textiles. Jaiz and Corinn will engage participants in hands-on activities, sewing tutorials, and discussions on the history of sewing and sustainable textile practices.

Childhood is idyllic and brutal; it passes quickly but can feel never-ending. Experiences of childhood vary significantly according to one’s family situation and culture, and expectations of children and their formative years have changed significantly over time. Join us to see how some of the artists in the Henry’s collection have represented children and childhood. Re/frame is a recurring program that delves into the Henry's extensive collection, highlighting a different group of objects each month. Join us for group discussions and the opportunity to see art rarely on public view.

ONE OF THREE EVENTS MARKING THE CLOSE OF EL SUEÑO: THE FLOWERS THAT BLOOM ON APR 9. In conjunction with the closing weekend of EL SUEÑO: THE FLOWERS THAT BLOOM, we hope you will join us for EL SUEÑO Healing Day. Imagined and developed by EL SUEÑO, a dance company that uses ancestral and familial ties as the driving force for their work, this series of programs features the work and knowledge of four Mexican-American artists and healing practitioners.

In conjunction with the closing weekend of EL SUEÑO: THE FLOWERS THAT BLOOM, we hope you will join us for EL SUEÑO Healing Day. Imagined and developed by EL SUEÑO, a dance company that uses ancestral and familial ties as the driving force for their work, this series of programs features the work and knowledge of four Mexican-American artists and healing practitioners.

In conjunction with the closing weekend of EL SUEÑO: THE FLOWERS THAT BLOOM, we hope you will join us for EL SUEÑO Healing Day. Imagined and developed by EL SUEÑO, a dance company that uses ancestral and familial ties as the driving force for their work, this series of programs features the work and knowledge of four Mexican-American artists and healing practitioners.

How can our bodies help us understand or imagine how liberation looks and feels? Join dance artist Cheryl Delostrinos for this intergenerational movement workshop in conversation with Donna Huanca: Magma Slit. Huanca’s installation is a complete sensory experience, evoking slippages of space and time that invite participants to both find and lose themselves, thus creating the conditions for liberatory meditation. Pausing within these slippages, Delostrinos will guide participants to celebrate the beautiful shapes, woven complexities, and hardworking vessels of our bodies.

Join us for a conversation between ektor garcia and Henry Curator Nina Bozicnik in conjunction with the opening of ektor garcia: matéria prima. Together they will discuss the development of the exhibition, the traditions that inspire garcia’s materials and methods, and how questions of labor and metamorphosis guide his creative vision. ektor garcia earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a MFA from Columbia University.