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• THIS SATURDAY, ARTLAB
• LIVE PERFORMANCE
• JEFFERSON PRESENTS
• NO MEMBERS BRUNCH FOR AUGUST
• LOUNGE IN UNEXPECTED PLACES

 

ART LAB
First and Third Saturdays of Every Month

THIS SATURDAY!
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Ongoing in the lobby
Free with suggested museum admission:
$8 Adults, $5 Students/Seniors, FREE for members and children under 12
All ages welcome

Experiment with installation art at the Mattress Factory's ART LAB. Visitors of all ages are invited to participate in art-making projects that illuminate the creative process of in-residence artists from around the world. Explore multi-sensory works of art and choose from an array of mixed media projects that explore a range of themes and highlight the museum's special exhibitions and permanent collection.

 

LIVE PERFORMANCE

Saturday, August 23
4 PM
MF Lower Level

Gia Cacalano (movement)
Lenny Young (oboe & percussion)
Eden McNutt (voice)

also featuring solo by Ben Opie (reeds)
and quartet improvisation

 

JEFFERSON PRESENTS: Stan Brakhage

Saturday, August 23
8 PM, Total program length is approximately 120 minutes.
Cost: FREE
All films projected in silent 8mm film, in color and black and white.
 

Local experimental film exhibitors Jefferson Presents collaborates with the Mattress Factory in assembling a very special outdoor free screening of 8mm films by recently departed film legend Stan Brakhage (1933-2003). Considered the most influential American experimental filmmaker, Brakhage redefined celluloid film as a poetic artist's medium, about as far removed from conventional Hollywood cinema as is possible. This program will be projected in the original 8mm home movie format and will feature many films from the SONGS cycle created in the mid-late 1960's. Each of Brakhage's SONGS are miniature virtuoso cinema spectacles that contain layered, exploding images of the filmmaker's family, friends and landscape around his remote Colorado home and serve to construct a personal mythology of the filmmaker's life.

 

MEMBERS BRUNCH
AT THE MF

Due to the holiday the museum will not host the member's brunch for August. Members please join us for the FREE brunch on September 28 from 11 AM to 1 PM

 

The Dwell De LA Espada Library
September 5 through November 3

As part of a new program to bring furniture out of the showroom, and into the world, De La Espada has teamed up with Dwell Magazine and the Mattress Factory.

De La Espada has an affinity for solid wood and an ability to create furniture that is at once modern and traditional, breathing warmth into sleek, modern environments. By placing the furniture at the Mattress Factory, it provides a place where visitors can rest their feet, learn more about the exhibits, catch up on the latest issue of Dwell or just have a chat with a friend. It is a way of bringing the comfort of home to the grandeur of a culturally rich museum.

Please visit the museum's lobby September 5, through November 3 to experience the De La Espada furniture first hand.

http://www.delaespada.com/library/


 

 

 

 

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