Gallery Opening: Avant Garde

The Tampa Museum of Art invites you to join us in celebrating the opening of Avant Garde: Remarkable Women in the Permanent Collection, featuring recent additions to the Tampa Museum of Art’s permanent collection.

This special event includes a Curator’s Chat with Joanna Robotham, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, in conversation with three artists currently on view. Guests will enjoy delicious heavy hors d’oeuvres from local favorites, a cash bar, and gallery access.

The Tampa Museum of Art’s permanent collection of art continues to grow at a feverish pace. Many recent acquisitions highlight art made by women who are celebrated both nationally and locally for their creative achievements. The exhibition Avant Garde: Remarkable Women in the Permanent Collection features recent additions to the collection with works by Selina Román, Ya La’ford, Nneka Jones, Wendy Babcox, and Lorraine Genovar—all artists with roots in the Tampa Bay area. Avant Garde also features artists new to the museum’s holdings including Tao Lewis, Mika Rottenberg, Hannah van Bart, Kirsten Hassenfeld, and Quisqueya Henriquez alongside artists such as Alma Thomas, Niki de Saint Phalle, Marisol, Mernet Larsen, and Elisabeth Condon. Viewed together, Avant Garde: Remarkable Women in Permanent Collection will highlight the artists’ explorations of home, self, history, and womanhood through figuration and abstraction.

Your participation in this celebration directly supports the Avant Garde: Influential Women in the Permanent Collection exhibition and the associated educational programs at the Tampa Museum of Art, helping to foster a vibrant art community.