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NoCal | Curator-led Tour, Joan Mitchell Retrospective at SFMoMA, with Sarah Roberts
January 13, 2022 | 5:00 pm
5pm PT
Join Sarah Roberts, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Curator and Head of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, for a special tour of the Joan Mitchell exhibition at SFMOMA. Meet up with your fellow Northern California members at the entrance to the exhibition on the fifth floor at 5pm. Stick around afterwards for a no-host get-together nearby!
This program is $15 and open to ArtTable members only. Please note that while museum admission is not included, a limited number of complimentary admissions will be available on a first-come first-served basis. Look for the ArtTable host in the SFMOMA Lobby on the 2nd Floor at 4:45pm.
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Covid-19 Guidelines
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- If you are feeling under the weather, stay home.
- Masks are mandatory for all visitors age 2 and older.
- Maintain social distance. Stay six feet apart from others.
- Keep moving through the museum. Please don’t gather or linger in one area — transmission risk (including asymptomatic transmission) increases with prolonged exposure within an enclosed space.
Any behavior or activity that disrupts the safe or orderly use of the Museum, or that affects the staff’s ability to provide services, is prohibited. Please treat each other and our staff with respect — no profanity and/or engaging in rude, inconsiderate, or abusive behavior. We can all use a little kindness. Visitors not following the COVID-19 Code of Conduct will be asked to leave, as will guests who engage in behavior outlined below under “Grounds For Immediate Ejection From SFMOMA.”
For more information on Covid-19 guidelines at SFMOMA, please visit their website.
Accessibility
The Museum entrance and floors are accessible to visitors using wheeled devices or who have mobility difficulties. Our Accessible Drop-off Entrance allows passengers to be dropped off in close proximity to the entrance at Third Street. The entrance also has electric push-button doors for easy entry.
Admission is free for one person accompanying a visitor with accessibility needs.
Lightweight, portable gallery stools and manual wheelchairs may be checked out free-of-charge. These are available on a first-come, first-serve basis in exchange for an ID card at Coat Check on Floor 1.
The use of personal mobility devices and motorized vehicles (including Segways) is permitted, on the lowest speed setting.
Elevators on Floor 1 (off of Third Street and Howard Street) are available to take visitors up to the Ticketing Desk and galleries on Floor 2. A second elevator, located in the Helen and Charles Schwab Hall on Floor 2, stops at all gallery levels (Floors 2–7).
Please note that headsets are currently unavailable; we encourage you to download the SFMOMA Audio App on a mobile device and bring a pair of headphones.
For more information on accessibility at SFMOMA, please visit their website.
Getting There
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is located at 151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA 94103.
We will meet at exhibition entrance on the museum's 5th floor at 5pm.
ArtTable is a 501.c.3 organization. All programs are non-refundable.
About Sarah Roberts
Sarah Roberts serves as Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Curator and Head of Painting and Sculpture at SFMOMA. She was the primary author and editor of the Rauschenberg Research Project, SFMOMA’s first scholarly digital publication, and she co-organized the museum’s 2017 presentation of the Robert Rauschenberg retrospective. She oversees the Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at SFMOMA, and her recent exhibitions include Joan Mitchell, Carol Bove and John Chamberlain: Converse, and Louise Bourgeois Spiders.
About the exhibition
The painter Joan Mitchell has long been hailed as a formidable creative force. She first attained critical acclaim and success in the male-dominated abstract expressionist circles of 1950s New York, then spent over three decades in France creating distinctive abstract paintings that pulse with energy and color and draw on landscape, memory, poetry, and music.
With its world premiere at SFMOMA and co-organized with the Baltimore Museum of Art, Joan Mitchell is a comprehensive retrospective featuring over eighty distinguished works. This exhibition includes rarely seen early paintings and drawings that established Mitchell’s career. They are showcased along with large-scale multi-panel masterpieces from her later years that demonstrate her mastery of color. Suites of paintings, sketchbooks, and drawings, as well as an illuminating selection of the artist’s letters and photographs, open a new window into the richness, range, and ambition of Mitchell’s deeply influential and barrier-breaking creative practice.
Image: The new SFMOMA, view from Yerba Buena Gardens; photo: Jon McNeal, © Snøhetta
Thank you to ArtTable Member Maren Jones, SFMOMA Curator Sarah Roberts, and SFMOMA for making this program possible.
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