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Game On! Get in the Game Exhibition Opening Celebration

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Museum-wide
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Mosaic artwork of swimmers in red swimwear, diving, swimming, and sitting poolside with umbrellas.
Derek Fordjour, Open Swim, 2021. Acrylic, charcoal, cardboard, oil pastel, and oil on newspaper mounted on canvas. 70 in. x 108 in. Courtesy Rennie Collection, Vancouver. Photo: Daniel Greer, courtesy David Kordansky Gallery.

It’s game time for our latest exhibition, Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture!

Celebrate the opening of the exhibition with a day of interactive activities with athletes and community partners, friendly competitions between friends and family, tailgate-style food, and themed artmaking.

Let the games begin on this day of fun!

Free, no tickets required. 

 

Event Schedule

Garrison Lobby

12 – 1 PM
NWA Naturals Mascot: Strike the Sasquatch

11 AM – 1 PM
Spirit Squad

Lower Lobby

10 AM – 3 PM
Facepainting with Art of Fun

Ra-Ve Cultural Foundation

Great Hall

11:30 AM – 12:15 PM & 1:30 – 2:15 PM
Sidney Moncrief Meet & Greet

10 AM – 3 PM
Design a Sports Trading Card with Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame

Razorback Memorabilia with the University of Arkansas Museum

 

South Temporary Exhibition Gallery

10 AM – 6 PM
Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture

1 PM
Drop-in Tour

South Lawn

10 AM – 3 PM
Sports Demos with Bentonville Parks & Recreation

Club América

Twin Bridges

10 AM – 3 PM
Food Vendors: Secondhand Smoke, Mo’ Tacos and Churros, & Sugar Apple Baking Co.

Roller Skating with AR Roller Skate Crew

 

Walker Landing

10 AM – 3 PM
Catch/Release Fishing with Arkansas Game and Fish Commission

Cricket Demo with Natural State Cricket Council

Rugby Demo with Fayetteville Phoenix Women’s Rugby Club & Arkansas Gryphons Rugby Club

Fly Fishing Lure Tying Demo with Beaver Lake Fly Fishing and Off the Rocks Fly Fishing

 

Albers Studio

10 AM – 3 PM
Low Sensory Space

Bellows & Cassatt Studios

10 AM – 3 PM
Artmaking: Design Your Own Pennants

Durand & Estes Studios

10 AM – 3 PM
Artmaking: Sneaker Remix with Sneaker Chicks
– (Bring your own sneakers to remix!)

The Studio

10 AM – 3 PM
Ping Pond

Campus Parking Plaza

10 AM
Bike Ride with Bentonville Moves Coalition, Ozark Adaptive Sports Association, and Women of OZ

10 AM – 3 PM
NWA Rolling Video Games
Bank of America Mobile Golf Simulator
Food Vendor: MarShae’s Sweet Escape

 

Exhibition Sponsors & Credits

Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture is organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

The exhibition is curated by Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design SFMOMA; Seph Rodney, independent curator and writer; and Katy Siegel, former Curator-at-Large, Research & Special Program Initiatives, SFMOMA.

The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art presentation is curated by Austen Barron Bailly, Chief Curator, and Laura Pratt, Manager, Curatorial
Affairs.

List of sponsors including Bank of America as National Tour Sponsor and various individuals and companies.