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Members' Preview: For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability
Join us for an evening of contemporary art celebrating MCASD’s presentation of the special exhibition For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability.
Hear directly from museum educators while enjoying a cash bar, music, and tours of the exhibition before it opens to the public.
Please RSVP by September 9.
Schedule
4PM: Preview of For Dear Life opens
4:15PM: Educator-led tour
5PM: Members’ Celebration with bar, music, and remarks from curators
About For Dear Life
For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability is the first exhibition to survey themes of illness and impairment in American art from the 1960s up to the COVID-19 era. For Dear Life narrates the history of recent art through the lens of disability—a term used inclusively—recognizing the vulnerable body to be a crucial throughline for art in the United States amid the upheavals and transformations of past decades.
About PST Art
Southern California’s landmark arts event, PST ART, returns in September 2024 with more than 60 exhibitions from museums and other institutions across the region, all exploring the intersections of art and science, both past and present. Dozens of cultural, scientific, and community organizations will join the latest edition, PST ART: Art & Science Collide, with exhibitions on subjects ranging from ancient cosmologies to Indigenous sci-fi, and from environmental justice to artificial intelligence. Art & Science Collide will share groundbreaking research, create indelible experiences for the public, and generate new ways of understanding our complex world. PST ART is presented by Getty. For more information about PST ART: Art & Science Collide, please visit pst.art
Funders
For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability is organized by MCASD Senior Curator Jill Dawsey, PhD, and former Associate Curator Isabel Casso.
For Dear Life is among more than 60 exhibitions and programs presented as part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide, presented by Getty. Major funding for this exhibition is provided by the Getty Foundation and The Henry Luce Foundation. Individual support for the exhibition is provided by Brook Hartzell and Tad Freese.
Financial support is also provided by the City of San Diego through the Commission for Arts and Culture.
Related Exhibitions
Top: Carolyn Lazard, "Support System (for Tina, Park and Bob)," 2016. Courtesy of the artist.