Lectures, Talks & Tours

We want you to start a conversation.

SVMoA invites contemporary artists, thinkers, and experts from diverse fields to share their knowledge on wide-ranging topics with our community and stimulate conversation in our homes, in the classroom, and throughout the Wood River Valley.

Rob Reynolds

Museum Passport

Museum Passport is SVMoA’s lecture series offering a window into exhibitions and museums around the world. Featuring curators, artists, scholars, and museum professionals, each program takes a closer look at a major exhibition, collection, or artistic movement and the ideas shaping it. Consider it your passport to exhibitions around the world, bringing new perspectives, places, and works of art to our community.

Explore the Museum Passport lecture series in our online archive.


 

Lectures, Panels, and Artist Talks

SVMoA offers lectures, panel discussions, and artist talks featuring artists, curators, scholars, and other leading voices in the arts. These programs offer deeper insight into SVMoA's exhibitions, artistic practices, and ideas shaping contemporary art.

Explore Lectures, Panels, and Artist Talks in our online archive.


 

Upcoming Museum Passports, Lectures & Tours

Tue, September 08

Lectures & Talks
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Chris Santa Maria

Gemini G.E.L.: Innovation, Collaboration, and the Rise of Contemporary Multiples

A Conversation with Chris Santa Maria, Director of Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl

5:30 PM

The Museum

Thu, September 17

Lectures & Talks
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Doors

Henry Diltz: Legends Through the Lens

An Evening with the Legendary Music Photographer

5:30 PM

Sun Valley Opera House

Tue, September 22

Lectures & Talks
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Buzz Spector

The Art of Ideas: Buzz Spector on Language, Print and Circa 1971

A Conversation with Buzz Spector, Artist, Writer, Critic, and Emeritus Professor of Art at Washington University in St. Louis

5:30 PM

The Museum

Thu, September 24

Exhibition Tours & Events, Lectures & Talks
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Circa 1971

Evening Exhibition Tour: Circa 1971: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation

5:30 PM

The Museum

Tue, September 29

Lectures & Talks
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Fountain by Marcel Duchamp

MUSEUM PASSPORT: Marcel Duchamp with Courtney Gilbert

5:30 PM

The Museum

Thu, October 08

Lectures & Talks
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Detention at the Border of Language

ARTIST TALK: Enrique Chagoya in Conversation with Paul Mullowney

5:30 PM

The Museum

Thu, October 15

Lectures & Talks
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Child's Bath

MUSEUM PASSPORT: Mary Cassatt: After Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago

With Annelise K. Madsen, Gilda and Henry Buchbinder Curator, Arts of the Americas, Art Institute of Chicago

5:30 PM

The Museum