Second Sundays: Betye Saar

Name: Second Sundays: Betye Saar | The Huntington
Start: Sun, Mar 9 2025
Location: The Huntington

Event

Explore the artwork of Betye Saar in the exhibition “Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight” through artmaking, musical performances, and in-gallery talks at this event for visitors of all ages.

Gallery Tours

Join Huntington teen volunteers for short talks detailing the intricacies of Betye Saar’s new work.

Hands-On Artmaking

Create your own Betye Saar–inspired art box that draws from her artistic legacy of assemblage using found objects.

Musical Performance

Enjoy an eclectic selection of Jazz & R&B from the Room 7 Collective, a group born from the Southern California Music Immersion Experience (MIE) program, to celebrate the lasting legacy of Saar's work.

People stand in a gallery with blue walls, looking at a sculpture made from found objects, including a canoe, chairs, and cages.

A wood canoe sits on top of a bed of dry branches in a blue room.

An adult and a child sit at an outdoor table and work on a craft.

Visitors experience the exhibition “Drifting Toward Twilight” by Betye Saar. Photo by Linnea Stephan.

| The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.

The Betye Saar Art Box is a collaboration among the Autry Museum, the California African American Museum, the Hammer Museum, The Huntington, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Photo by Linnea Stephan.

| The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.

Visitors participate in free hands-on crafts outside of the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art. Photo by Linnea Stephan.

| The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.

Second Sundays: Betye Saar

Gallery Tours

Hands-On Artmaking

Musical Performance

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Second Sundays: Betye Saar

Gallery Tours

Hands-On Artmaking

Musical Performance

Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight

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