Events | Columbia Museum of Art

Tuesday December 11

11:00 am

Focal Points: Architecture in Art

Manager of Education Glenna Barlow focuses on the styles of architecture found in the museum’s collection pieces.

Wednesday December 12

10:00 am

Gladys’ Gang: Two Turtle Doves

Participants (ages 2 – 5) and their adult companions explore art through the introduction of elementary art terms such as color, line, shape, and texture during the Gladys’ Gang series.

Saturday December 15

10:00 am

Candle Making Workshop

Make your own holiday-scented candles! Learn candle-making basics and create two eight-ounce soy candles in tins. Taught by local candlemaker and Soak & Soy founder Melissa McGucken. All materials and supplies included. Ages 15 and up.

Saturday December 15

1:00 pm

Gallery Tour: Midcentury Masters and Jackson Pollock

See work by pioneer artists of the midcentury and beyond in this insightful tour of two exhibitions. Jasper Johns’ Gifts to the CMA includes works by Warhol, Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, and Johns himself. Explore the impact of these artists and learn how Johns was both shaped and influenced by his contemporaries. Then, get an in-depth look at Jackson Pollock: Mural, a work that helped catapult the famous artist’s career.

Sunday December 16

2:00 pm

Gallery Tour: Carolina in the Collection

Discover the rich artistic tapestry of South Carolina. Learn about the Charleston Renaissance, Catawba pottery, and artists right here in Columbia while you explore works by Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Samuel Roberts, Osamu Kobayashi, Georgia O'Keeffe, and more.

Tuesday December 18

11:00 am

Focal Points: The Art of Disability

CMA Docent Bauer Westeren focuses on the depiction of bodies that are in some way disabled. As someone with a disability, he is intrigued by bodies that are not “ideal” within art and what that art might be saying about physical limitations.

Tuesday December 18

1:00 pm

Focal Points: The Art of Disability

CMA Docent Bauer Westeren focuses on the depiction of bodies that are in some way disabled. As someone with a disability, he is intrigued by bodies that are not “ideal” within art and what that art might be saying about physical limitations.

Saturday December 22

1:00 pm

Gallery Tour: Featured Exhibition

See work by pioneer artists of the midcentury and beyond in this insightful tour of two exhibitions. Jasper Johns’ Gifts to the CMA includes works by Warhol, Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, and Johns himself. Explore the impact of these artists and learn how Johns was both shaped and influenced by his contemporaries. Then, get an in-depth look at Jackson Pollock: Mural, a work that helped catapult the famous artist’s career.

Sunday December 23

2:00 pm

Gallery Tour: Behind the Collection

Get a glimpse into the story behind the art: the science to create the materials, the lives that shaped the artists' views, the thinking that leads a museum to acquire a piece, and the care that's required to keep a work of art in excellent condition for thousands of years.

Wednesday December 26

10:00 am

Post-Holidaze Creative Drop-In

Come to the CMA and get creative. Make your own piece of art in this free open studio program for all ages.

Wednesday December 26

1:00 pm

Focal Points: The Art of Disability

CMA Docent Bauer Westeren focuses on the depiction of bodies that are in some way disabled. As someone with a disability, he is intrigued by bodies that are not “ideal” within art and what that art might be saying about physical limitations.

Wednesday December 26

3:00 pm

Focal Points: The Art of Disability

CMA Docent Bauer Westeren focuses on the depiction of bodies that are in some way disabled. As someone with a disability, he is intrigued by bodies that are not “ideal” within art and what that art might be saying about physical limitations.

All Events

Focal Points: Architecture in Art

Gladys’ Gang: Two Turtle Doves

Candle Making Workshop

Gallery Tour: Midcentury Masters and Jackson Pollock

Gallery Tour: Carolina in the Collection

Focal Points: The Art of Disability

Focal Points: The Art of Disability

Gallery Tour: Featured Exhibition

Gallery Tour: Behind the Collection

Post-Holidaze Creative Drop-In

Focal Points: The Art of Disability

Focal Points: The Art of Disability