One Night Stand via Zoom, Free

One Night Stand: Chris Vance’s Big Top via Zoom, Free

May 20, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Join Executive Director Sean Ulmer as he explores a work of art on view in our current exhibition, Beyond the Prairie: Midwestern Art from the Collection.  The subject of this month’s discussion is Chris Vance’s Big Top (2017).   Acquired the same year it was made, this playful and energetic piece is typical of only one aspect of this Iowa-based artist’s career.  This brief zoom will look more closely at Big Top and discuss where it fits in Vance’s oeuvre, as well as touch on some of the other ideas and themes he explores.

ONE NIGHT STAND WITH THE CRMA One work of art.  By one artist.  For one night. One Night Stand with the CRMA is a free series of art talks on Zoom led by CRMA staff, local artists, or art scholars.  By focusing each 20-minute program on one artwork, the audience engages in a conversation about the artist and how the selected work of art relates to their larger body of work.

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