Gallery Talks

From the Artist
with Tad Sare

Saturday, April 3, 2021 (10am)
This virtual event is FREE but registration is required. 

Join us for a Gallery Talk where exhibiting artist Tad Sare will lead a discussion about his work and the formulation of his Pipes of Perception exhibition. Tad Sare is an experimental animator and artist who uses the storytelling medium of animation to explore our understanding of perception, interpretation, and juxtaposition of sequential images. He employs hand drawn techniques while collaging/overlapping photographs, live action video, and sound elements digitally. His work borrows ideas, filmic devices and tropes from espionage and thriller literature and cinema to examine the relationship between the perceived and the unknown of visual information. Tad is the Area Coordinator for Animation at Delaware College of Art & Design and continues to instruct family and children programs at Philadelphia Museum of Art and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

From the Curator
with Dorothy Moss

Saturday, June 5, 2021 (10am)
This virtual event is FREE but registration is required. Registrants will receive a Zoom link to join.

Join us for a Virtual Gallery Talk with Dorothy Moss, curator of painting and sculpture at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, and coordinating curator of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, where she will present “Commissioning Presidential and First Lady Official Portraits.” This virtual discussion on portraiture enhances RAL’s Preservation Matters exhibition, which focuses this year on portraits from our organization’s Permanent Collection.

Moss directed the 2013, 2016, and 2019 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competitions. As curator of the Portrait Gallery’s first performance art series, “IDENTIFY: Performance Art as Portraiture,” she has commissioned new performances by multiple artists, including María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Sandy Huckleberry, J. J. McCracken, James Luna, Martha McDonald, Jeffrey Gibson, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Sheldon Scott, and WILMER WILSON IV. She serves as one of the curators of the ongoing “Portraiture Now” series and co-curated “The Face of Battle: Americans at War, 9/11 to Now” (2017), which was part of that series. Her forthcoming exhibition “Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands” will open at the National Portrait Gallery in September 2021 and will be accompanied by a scholarly catalogued published by Yale University Press.

Prior to joining the National Portrait Gallery, Moss served as assistant curator of American art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. She also worked as a researcher and writer for the installation of the Luce Foundation Center for American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues, and her commentaries and articles have appeared in such publications as the Burlington Magazine, American Art, click!: photography changes everything, and Gastronomica. Moss is also an author of The Obama Portraits (Princeton University Press/National Portrait Gallery, 2020).

After graduating from Smith College, Moss earned an MA in art history from Williams College, and a PhD in art history from the University of Delaware.

From the Judge
with Molly Giordano

Saturday, July 24, 2021 (10am)
Corkran Gallery

Join us for a Gallery Talk where awards judge Molly Giordano will be here to answer questions and discuss her choices for this year’s 83rd Annual Member’s Fine Art Exhibition.

Molly Giordano is the Executive Director of the Delaware Art Museum, where she has worked for the past decade. A leader in Delaware’s nonprofit and public service community, Molly currently serves on the board of the Fund for Women, a statewide grantmaking organization, and as Vice President of the Delaware Arts Alliance. She has a BA in political science and journalism from the University of Delaware, an MA in public and nonprofit administration from the University of Delaware, and an MFA in creative writing from Rosemont College. She lives in Wilmington with her husband and two young children and loves visiting her parents in Rehoboth Beach. 

From the Artist
with Michael Krausz

Saturday, October 2, 2021 (10am)
Corkran Gallery

Join us for a Gallery Talk where exhibiting artist Michael Krausz will discuss his retrospective exhibition and his past thirty years as an abstract artist. 

Krausz has been featured in thirty-six solo and duo exhibitions in galleries and museums in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India. As well, he has participated in many group exhibitions. While self-taught, in the 1970’s he studied art at the Haystack School of Crafts and the Philadelphia College of Art. Krausz was Resident Fellow at the Ossabaw Foundation in 1978 and 1980. His artworks have been reproduced in numerous publications including the British arts journal, Leonardo. Twice–in 2009 and 2015–Delaware by Hand awarded Krausz the distinction of “Master.”

Krausz adds, “My art integrates my philosophical and musical concerns as well.”  Krausz is Emeritus and Research Professor of Philosophy at Bryn Mawr College, where he taught for forty-five years. He has also taught courses in Aesthetics and Interpretation at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Krausz is currently an Adjunct Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford University. As regards his musical activities, for nine years (2006 to 2015) Krausz served as music director and conductor of the Great Hall Chamber Orchestra at Bryn Mawr, comprised of 42 conservatory and young professional players. Krausz is a member of The Artists Exchange, Delaware.