The Walters Art Museum will host a series of free educational events, gallery talks and walking tours for the entire family, beginning in September.

Drop-in Art Activities: Books! Libros! Livre!

September 1–September 30, 10 a.m. –3 p.m.

Open up a story, discover the many languages and cultures throughout the museum and celebrate National Literacy Month and the start of Hispanic Heritage Month. No registration is required.

Event webpage at: http://thewalters.org/events/eventdetails.aspx?e=3171

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Walk-In Tour: Highlights of the Walters

September 1, 1–2 p.m.

 “Highlights of the Walters” explores painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts from antiquity to the 19th century. No reservations are required.

Event webpage at: http://thewalters.org/events/eventdetails.aspx?e=3149

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ArtKids Preschool Program: My Colors, My World/Mis Colores, Mi Mundo

September 4, 10:30 a.m. –12 p.m.

Use your senses during the 90-minute, hands-on experience that combines a story chosen for its theme, a short tour, and an art activity.

Event webpage at: http://thewalters.org/events/eventdetails.aspx?e=3204

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Gallery Talk: Site Unseen

September 5, 6–7 p.m.

Join artist Gregory Vershbow for a gallery talk in his exhibition, Site Unseen. He navigates spaces such as storage facilities, conservation laboratories and monuments under restoration, to capture large, color photographs of art objects wrapped in plastic or foam, nested in boxes and tucked away in dark corners. Vershbow will discuss his experience of these spaces and the technical aspects of creating the photographs.

Event webpage at: http://thewalters.org/events/eventdetails.aspx?e=3169

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ArtKids Preschool Program: My Colors, My World/Mis Colores, Mi Mundo

September 7, 10:30 a.m. –12 p.m.

Explore the universal language of art! My Colors, My World/Mis Colores, Mi Mundo by Maya Christina Gonzalez. Use your senses during a 90-minute, hands-on experience that combines a story chosen for its theme, a short tour and an art activity.

Event webpage at: http://thewalters.org/events/eventdetails.aspx?e=3205

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Walk-In Tour: The Chamber of Art and Wonders

September 8, 1–2 p.m.

Participate in a free tour of one of the most unique galleries in the museum. The Chamber of Art and Wonders replicates an actual 17th century collection of artworks and natural wonders from around the world.

Event webpage at: http://thewalters.org/events/eventdetails.aspx?e=3152

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ArtKids Preschool Program: My Colors, My World/Mis Colores, Mi Mundo

September 11, 10:30 a.m. –12 p.m.

Explore the universal language of art! My Colors, My World/Mis Colores, Mi Mundo by Maya Christina Gonzalez. Use your senses during a 90-minute, hands-on experience that combines a story chosen for its theme, a short tour and an art activity.

Event webpage at: http://thewalters.org/events/eventdetails.aspx?e=3206

 

Members Tour: The Colors of Autumn in East Asia

September 12, 6–7 p.m.

Learn about the Walters collection of Asian art to explore the colors of autumn in Japan, on a tour led by Robert Mintz, chief curator and curator of Asian art.  

Event webpage at: http://thewalters.org/events/eventdetails.aspx?e=3240

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Jacob Lawrence’s Genesis Series

September 14–December 8, 10 a.m. –5 p.m.

Painter Jacob Lawrence is known for using a series format to render in colorful expressive imagery and text the narrative stories of historical African-American figures like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. Each of the eight works on view in Jacob Lawrence’s Genesis Series (1990) describes a passage from the book of Genesis in the King James version of the Bible.

Event webpage at: http://thewalters.org/events/eventdetails.aspx?e=2737

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ArtKids Preschool Program: My Colors, My World/Mis Colores, Mi Mundo

September 14, 10:30 a.m. –12 p.m.

Explore the universal language of art! My Colors, My World/Mis Colores, Mi Mundo by Maya Christina Gonzalez. Use your senses during a 90-minute, hands-on experience that combines a story chosen for its theme, a short tour, and an art activity.

Event webpage at: http://thewalters.org/events/eventdetails.aspx?e=3207

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Walk-In Tour: Castles and Cathedrals

September 15, 1–2 p.m.

Enjoy a free, docent-led tour examining castles and cathedrals in medieval art. The tour is part of a weekly series of free walk-in tours highlighting different parts of the collection.

Event webpage at: http://thewalters.org/events/eventdetails.aspx?e=3154

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Walk, Wonder & Create Tour: Create & Translate

September 21, 1–2 p.m.

Strengthen your art-reading skills and travel back to the Ancient Near East to explore one of the earliest known systems of writing, cuneiform. Tour is for ages 6-8 and adults.

Event webpage at: http://thewalters.org/events/eventdetails.aspx?e=3184

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Walk, Wonder & Create Tour: Create & Translate

September 21, 11 a.m. –12 p.m.

Strengthen your art-reading skills and travel back to the Ancient Near East to explore one of the earliest known systems of writing, cuneiformTour is for ages 6-8 and adults.

Event webpage at: http://thewalters.org/events/eventdetails.aspx?e=3182

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Walk-In Tour: East Meets West: Asian and Western Art

September 22, 1–2 p.m.

Examine the contrasts between Asian and Western art and the impact that each culture had on the artwork of the other. The tour will visit the Asian Art collection in Hackerman House, with objects to be chosen by the docent.

Event webpage at: http://thewalters.org/events/eventdetails.aspx?e=3156

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ArtTots Toddler Program: Language Learners

September 25, 10–11 a.m.

Each ArtTots class will introduce toddlers to art and the museum through age-appropriate short stories, gallery play activities and an art activity.

Event webpage at: http://thewalters.org/events/eventdetails.aspx?e=3188

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ArtTots Toddler Program: Language Learners

September 26, 10–11 a.m.

Each ArtTots class will introduce toddlers to art and the museum through age-appropriate short stories, gallery play activities and an art activity.

Event webpage at: http://thewalters.org/events/eventdetails.aspx?e=3189

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Walk-In Tour: Highlights of the Walters

September 29, 1–2 p.m.

 “Highlights of the Walters” explores painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts from antiquity to the 19th century. No reservations are required.

Event webpage at: http://thewalters.org/events/eventdetails.aspx?e=3150

 

 
About The Walters Art Museum

The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland is internationally renowned for its collection of art, which was amassed substantially by two men, William and Henry Walters, and eventually bequeathed to the City of Baltimore. The collection presents an overview of world art from pre-dynastic Egypt to 20th-century Europe, and counts among its many treasures Greek sculpture and Roman sarcophagi; medieval ivories and Old Master paintings; Art Deco jewelry and 19th-century European and American masterpieces.

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