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“Talent Within: The Dalí Staff Art Show” celebrates the creative work of the Dalí Museum staff.

In the spirit of inclusion at The Dalí, we want to provide a space where staff can share their creative endeavors with each other, the community and beyond—it’s an opportunity to showcase multiple artistic expressions and perspectives.

Like many of those who live and work in our community, The Dalí staff are inspired by the Museum’s world-class collection. Many of our staff are practicing, talented artists reflecting a diversity of approaches, techniques and mediums, including drawing, mixed media, painting, photography, pottery, printmaking, crocheting, sculpture, and more.

This exhibit will be held in the Raymond James Community Room and is free for all guests.

https://thedali.org/exhibit/talent-within-the-dali-staff-art-show/

In this program, children ages 6-11 can discover the creative world of Salvador Dalí through live arts & crafts activities inspired by the Museum’s permanent collection and speak exhibits. 🎨🧒Participants will explore artistic processes and learn about the exceptional art of Salvador Dalí.

Location: Stavros Education Classroom

This event is held on the ground floor of the Museum (gallery access not included). Access to the Museum’s ground floor is free and open to the public. Those with a General Admission Museum ticket during this time period are also welcome to attend.

Explore this new special exhibition at The Dalí Museum from September 9, 2023 – January 7, 2024.

“Leonora Carrington: Writer, Painter, Visionary” is an introduction to the remarkable life of Leonora Carrington, a Surrealist artist, sculptor and writer. During her lifetime, Carrington produced more than 2,000 paintings and authored several notable written works, earning the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement award in 1986. The exhibition will highlight Carrington’s personal life, her time as a painter and her written work.

Celebrated for her mystical, fantastical and often dark work, Carrington (1917-2011) was raised in a strict household in England and expelled from two Catholic schools before attending art school. As a young woman, she found herself surrounded by prominent surrealist figures, including André Breton and Max Ernst — the latter from whom she was inseparable from for several years. During her time with Ernst, she began developing her signature dreamlike style and writing short stories.

Carrington’s remarkable life, marked by adversity, profoundly shaped her artistic endeavors. Born into a wealthy conservative English family, she rebelled early on, finding solace as the lover and partner of Surrealist Max Ernst. WWII ruptured their bond when Ernst was arrested by the French police and later the Gestapo. This separation triggered Carrington’s collapse, propelling her to leave France. In Madrid, another mental breakdown led her to being institutionalized in a Spanish asylum. She orchestrated an escape by a marriage of convenience with Mexican Ambassador Renato Leduc, which facilitated her flight to New York. She eventually settled in Mexico, where she thrived creatively, forming connections with expatriate artists and marrying photographer Emerico “Chiki” Weisz. Most of her work emerged in Mexico, where she resided until her death in 2011 at the age of 94.

Carrington’s most notable writings include “Down Below,” the 1943 memoir of her experiences in the asylum; “The House of Fear,” a collection of fantastical short stories; and her novel “The Hearing Trumpet,” an eco-feminist fairytale. In addition to excerpts from her acclaimed works, the exhibition will include a display of the artist’s books, photographs, digital versions of her paintings and a suite of etchings, which were produced in Tampa, Florida for Graphicstudio – USF Institute for Research in Art, where she worked with The Dalí’s director Hank Hine in 1998.

Curated by The Dalí’s curator of education, Peter Tush, Leonora Carrington: Writer, Painter, Visionary is part of the annual series of fall exhibitions focused on writers associated with Surrealism.

This exhibit will be held in the Raymond James Community Room and is free for all guests.

More at thedali.org/carrington

Join us to journey inward through art and meditation at The Dalí. Our monthly meditation practice is based on the idea of looking at examples of skills to achieve a dynamic stillness of the mind. Each session will examine an artwork from a current exhibition to make us think, refocus, slow down, and go deeper into our minds to permit body connection and awareness.

After a short introduction to the artwork, we will consider what is in its narrative and formal qualities that could serve us to quiet our minds. Guided meditation instruction and suggestions will lead us to a place of calmness and equilibrium. Each session will introduce and utilize different sets of tools from various spiritual traditions to assist in staying in the comfortable meditative mode for about twenty minutes. However, anyone having a prior meditation practice is welcome to utilize it and join us for the collective peaceful energy building.

Tibetan sing bowl sound will accompany us with an occasional bell throughout the practice and to signal the end of the meditation session. Afterward, we will welcome questions and comments about the training, the artwork, and the experience in general.

We will conclude with a minute of closing meditation to internally seal the benefits of the practice.

Location: The Dalí Museum’s Will Raymund Theater

Seating for this event is limited. We recommend arriving early to secure seating with your group.

Register to attend in person at the link above. This event is free, with limited capacity. An event ticket is required for entry. Gallery access is not included.

In this program, children ages 6-11 can discover the creative world of Salvador Dalí through live arts & crafts activities inspired by the Museum’s permanent collection and speak exhibits. 🎨🧒Participants will explore artistic processes and learn about the exceptional art of Salvador Dalí.

Location: Stavros Education Classroom

This event is held on the ground floor of the Museum (gallery access not included). Access to the Museum’s ground floor is free and open to the public. Those with a General Admission Museum ticket during this time period are also welcome to attend.

In conjunction with the special exhibition Where Ideas Come From: Dalí’s Drawings, we invite you to a special evening of art and food tastings inspired by beautiful watercolor drawings created by Chef Chuck Bandel of our very own Café Gala. Inspired by Dalí’s assertion that “Beauty should be edible, or not at all,” Chef Chuck will translate his watercolors into a tasting menu guaranteed to delight all the senses.

You’ll begin with an exclusive walk through the special exhibit where you’ll view a large selection of rarely seen works on paper from The Dalí Museum’s permanent collection. Spanning the entire length of Dalí’s creative life, from 1916 through 1974, the exhibition provides insight into the artist’s creative process over a variety of media, including pencil, pen, charcoal, watercolor, gouache and more. Afterwards, we’ll move down to the Raymond James Room to enjoy a selection of delicious bites curated and created by Chef Chuck, accompanied by his watercolor drawings. Our house white and red will be served to compliment the bites.

Location: The Dalí Museum’s Raymond James Community Room
Tickets: $60 for Museum members | $70 for non-members
Gallery access included.

While the act of producing images on a surface with marks seems straightforward, it has a multi-faceted and ever-changing role in the work of an artist—a way to capture an idea, a midpoint on the way to a different medium, a finished product in its own right and many stops in between.

To dig into the complexity of the subject, we will feature three short presentations about the art of drawing, highlighting different points of view on its nature and function. Following the presentations, we will further expand the discussion by opening a dialogue among the panel members and audience.

Location: The Dalí Museum’s Raymond James Room

The Dalí is proud to participate in St. Petersburg’s Arts Alive, offering FREE gallery admission for Pinellas County residents during the Museum’s operating hours on Saturday, September 23, 2023.

Gallery Admission does not include the Dalí Alive 360° experience—this can be purchased for $15. Online reservations are highly recommended as we expect high visitation. Walk-ups will be available as space allows.

Upon arrival, guests will need to show their pre-reserved ticket and Pinellas County ID (driver’s license, voter registration card, utility bill with name/address or campus ID with proof of dorm room address) for entry. Those without proof of residency will be required to pay standard admission prices.

Featured as part of The Dalí Museum’s Hispanic Heritage Month programming: thedali.org/hhm2023

Join us for Surreal Conversations en Español where participants of all language levels get the opportunity to practice and hone their foreign language skills while exploring the world of art. Attendees will learn to express themselves more fluently in the target language through engaging activities and interactive discussions. Surreal Conversations offers a supportive and inclusive environment, fostering meaningful connections while deepening your appreciation for the universal language of art.

Location: The Dalí Museum Raymond James Community Room

Register to attend in person at the link above. This event is free with limited capacity. An event ticket is required for entry. Gallery access is not included.

Featured as part of The Dalí Museum’s Hispanic Heritage Month programming: thedali.org/hhm2023

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we invite you to join us for a special talk on one of the most delectable bites of food history: the Cuban sandwich. The lecture will include a special Cuban Sandwich tasting by Chef Chuck Bandel of our very own Café Gala. 😋

Based on the research for their book, “The Cuban Sandwich: A History in Layers,” Andrew T. Huse, Bárbara C. Cruz, and Jeff Houck will discuss the complex and fascinating history of this dish. 🥪 In addition to exploring the sandwich’s Cuban origins, they will also sort through improbable vintage recipes, sift gossip from Florida old-timers, and wade into the fearsome Tampa vs. Miami sandwich debate (is adding salami necessary or heresy?) to reveal the social history behind how this delicacy became a lunch-counter staple in the U.S. and beyond. 🌎