October 1, 2016
5 PM

Program

Alan Shields Poetry Readings

Untitled poem by Alan Shields, 1973. Courtesy Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston.

Celebrate the closing weekend of the exhibition of Alan Shields’s Protracted Simplicity (1966–1985) with an in-gallery reading of selected poems also created by the artist. Presented in collaboration with the Aspen Poets’ Society, local poets will perform Shields’s original poetry among his paintings and sculptures.

 

AAM exhibitions are made possible by the Marx Exhibition Fund.

Alan Shields’s Protracted Simplicity (1966–1985) is funded in part by the AAM National Council.

AAM education programs are made possible by the Questrom Education Fund.

Related Exhibitions & Programs

Past

June 24–October 2, 2016

Exhibition

Alan Shields:
Protracted Simplicity (1966–1985)