Join Jackie DeLise, master certified meditation and mindfulness teacher and stress management expert, for a guided meditation class in the tranquil Bellarmine Hall Galleries. Jackie will share ancient wisdom for your modern lifestyle, and will guide you in becoming your true self.
No prior experience necessary – learn how to cultivate inner calm, clarity, peace and harmony in your life. All are welcome!
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Join us as we discuss some of the works on view in For Which It Stands… in an informal setting, led by Curator of Education and Academic Engagement Michelle DiMarzo!
February 12: Childe Hassam (1859-1935), Italian Day, May 1918, 1918, oil on canvas, 36 x 26 in. Art Bridges. Bellarmine Hall Galleries
About the exhibition: This exhibition examines depictions of the American flag through 70+ works by a diverse group of artists, beginning during WWI with Childe Hassam’s Italian Day, May 1918 and continuing to the present day, including a textile sculpture commissioned for the show from Maria de Los Angeles. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media by artists including Jasper Johns, Faith Ringgold, Robert Rauschenberg, Shepard Fairey, and Julie Mehretu, and challenges viewers to consider who the American flag truly represents and whether justice is available to all.
For Which It Stands… forms part of America250: The Promise and Paradox, an initiative through which Fairfield University Explores 250 Years of the American Experiment.
Join us as we discuss some of the works on view in For Which It Stands… in an informal virtual setting, led by Curator of Education and Academic Engagement Michelle DiMarzo!
February 12: Childe Hassam (1859-1935), Italian Day, May 1918, 1918, oil on canvas, 36 x 26 in. Art Bridges.
About the exhibition: This exhibition examines depictions of the American flag through 70+ works by a diverse group of artists, beginning during WWI with Childe Hassam’s Italian Day, May 1918 and continuing to the present day, including a textile sculpture commissioned for the show from Maria de Los Angeles. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media by artists including Jasper Johns, Faith Ringgold, Robert Rauschenberg, Shepard Fairey, and Julie Mehretu, and challenges viewers to consider who the American flag truly represents and whether justice is available to all.
For Which It Stands… forms part of America250: The Promise and Paradox, an initiative through which Fairfield University Explores 250 Years of the American Experiment.
Sarah Churchill, PhD, is adjunct professor of Visual & Performing Arts at Fairfield University. On February 12 at 5:30, join an intimate crowd in the Wien Experimental Theater for an exploration of the role photography has played in Black politics, identity, and civil rights. Her talk is being presented in conjunction with the exhibition For Which It Stands… (January 23-July 25, 2026).
Her talk will also be livestreamed.
About the Exhibition: This exhibition examines depictions of the American flag through 70+ works by a diverse group of artists, beginning during WWI with Childe Hassam’s Italian Day, May 1918 and continuing to the present day, including a textile sculpture commissioned for the show from Maria de Los Angeles. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media by artists including Jasper Johns, Faith Ringgold, Robert Rauschenberg, Shepard Fairey, and Julie Mehretu, and challenges viewers to consider who the American flag truly represents and whether justice is available to all.
For Which it Stands… forms part of America250: The Promise and Paradox, an initiative through which Fairfield University Explores 250 Years of the American Experiment.
Image: Dread Scott, Emancipation Proclamation, 2020, pigment print. Courtesy of the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York
Sarah Churchill, PhD, is adjunct professor of Visual & Performing Arts at Fairfield University. On February 12 at 5:30, join an intimate crowd in the Wien Experimental Theater for an exploration of the role photography has played in Black politics, identity, and civil rights. Her talk is being presented in conjunction with the exhibition For Which It Stands… (January 23-July 25, 2026).
About the Exhibition: This exhibition examines depictions of the American flag through 70+ works by a diverse group of artists, beginning during WWI with Childe Hassam’s Italian Day, May 1918 and continuing to the present day, including a textile sculpture commissioned for the show from Maria de Los Angeles. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media by artists including Jasper Johns, Faith Ringgold, Robert Rauschenberg, Shepard Fairey, and Julie Mehretu, and challenges viewers to consider who the American flag truly represents and whether justice is available to all.
For Which it Stands… forms part of America250: The Promise and Paradox, an initiative through which Fairfield University Explores 250 Years of the American Experiment.
Image: Dread Scott, Emancipation Proclamation, 2020, pigment print. Courtesy of the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York
Sardis, capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia (present-day western Türkiye), was famous in antiquity for its luxurious textiles, scented cosmetics, fast horses, and gold-bearing sands of the Paktolos River—the legendary source of the Lydian king Croesus’ wealth. Located on one of the main trade routes from the Aegean coast to inland Anatolia, the city was a place of intense cultural interchange between the Lydians and the ancient Greeks. Pottery, sculpture, and architectural works excavated at Sardis in the early twentieth century now feature prominently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Yet, new research on this material as part of the planning for a major upcoming exhibition at the MET, Across Wine-Dark Seas: Art and Identity Beyond Ancient Greece (December 14, 2026-April 11, 2027), helps us to understand in new important ways the dynamic interactions between Greek traders, craftsmen, settlers, and mercenaries and their Mediterranean neighbors. These stories of cultural interaction, migration, and accommodation help us to learn about our present through engagement with the arts of the past.
Sanctuary of Artemis at Sardis with snow, February 6, 1911. Photo: Howard Crosby Butler Archive, Sardis Collection, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
This lecture is sponsored by the Department of Visual & Performing Arts, and co-sponsored by the Museum.
On February 26, art historian Viviana Bucarelli, PhD, will present a lecture in conjunction with the exhibition For Which It Stands…, exploring the turn from realism to abstraction in American art. This forms part of the Museum’s Lehman Lecture Series, funded by the Robert Lehman Foundation. Her talk will also be livestreamed.
About the Exhibition: This exhibition examines depictions of the American flag through 70+ works by a diverse group of artists, beginning during WWI with Childe Hassam’s Italian Day, May 1918 and continuing to the present day, including a textile sculpture commissioned for the show from Maria de Los Angeles. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media by artists including Jasper Johns, Faith Ringgold, Robert Rauschenberg, Shepard Fairey, and Julie Mehretu, and challenges viewers to consider who the American flag truly represents and whether justice is available to all.
For Which it Stands… forms part of America250: The Promise and Paradox, an initiative through which Fairfield University Explores 250 Years of the American Experiment.
Image: Grant Wood, The Mightnight Ride of Paul Revere (detail), 1931, oil on masonite. © Figge Art Museum, successors to the Estate of Nan Wood Graham/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
On February 26, art historian Viviana Bucarelli, PhD, will present a lecture in conjunction with the exhibition For Which It Stands…, exploring the turn from realism to abstraction in American art. This forms part of the Museum’s Lehman Lecture Series, funded by the Robert Lehman Foundation.
About the Exhibition: This exhibition examines depictions of the American flag through 70+ works by a diverse group of artists, beginning during WWI with Childe Hassam’s Italian Day, May 1918 and continuing to the present day, including a textile sculpture commissioned for the show from Maria de Los Angeles. The exhibition includes work in a variety of media by artists including Jasper Johns, Faith Ringgold, Robert Rauschenberg, Shepard Fairey, and Julie Mehretu, and challenges viewers to consider who the American flag truly represents and whether justice is available to all.
For Which it Stands… forms part of America250: The Promise and Paradox, an initiative through which Fairfield University Explores 250 Years of the American Experiment.
Image: Grant Wood, The Mightnight Ride of Paul Revere (detail), 1931, oil on masonite. © Figge Art Museum, successors to the Estate of Nan Wood Graham/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Each Family Day event includes sessions from 12:30-2 p.m. and 2:30-4 p.m., with engaging arts & crafts activities led by Museum Educator Elizabeth Vienneau.
Please note: the January and March events in this series will take place in the Bellarmine Hall Galleries; the February and April events will take place in the Walsh Gallery. Our Family Day series is inspired by the exhibition For Which It Stands…
Saturday, March 28: Stitching Stories: Design Your Family Flag
Bellarmine Hall, Museum Classroom
Participants and family members will be invited to celebrate the flags of their family background by designing and creating a new flag that expresses their unique identity and heritage!
Each Family Day event includes sessions from 12:30-2 p.m. and 2:30-4 p.m., with engaging arts & crafts activities led by Museum Educator Elizabeth Vienneau.
Please note: the January and March events in this series will take place in the Bellarmine Hall Galleries; the February and April events will take place in the Walsh Gallery. Our Family Day series is inspired by the exhibition For Which It Stands…
Saturday, April 25: Bits & Pieces, Stars & Stripes: Reimagined Flags from Recycled Finds
Regina A. Quick Center Lobby
Participants will be invited to bring their own materials and choose from the broad array of fabrics, single-use plastics, egg cartons, and the like, to create a unique 3D flag assemblage inspired by some of the contemporary artworks in the exhibition that use unconventional materials, from American military gear to native wildflowers.