Noontime Talk: "Child's Play: Representations of Adolescence"

Friday
9/22
12:00 pm
For
Public
Talk

Noontime Talk: "Child's Play: Representations of Adolescence"

with Mollie Armstrong

End your week with art! Each Friday at noon, join a curator, educator, scholar, or artist in the galleries

This week, join Mollie Armstrong, Exhibitions Coordinator, for her talk on the exhibition Child's Play: Representations of Adolescence. Explore the ways that 20th century photographers explored the tumultuous, uncertain, and often playful subjects of adolescence and childhood through this exhibition of work from the PMA collection.

Image: Jocelyn Lee (United States, born Italy, born 1962), Untitled (Kara on Easter) (detail), 1997|2013, Inkjet print, 40 x 50 inches. Museum purchase with support from the Irving B. Ellis Fund, and the Contemporary Art Fund, in memory of Bernice McIlhenny Wintersteen, 2013.27a.

Learn More about the Exhibition
Child's Play

Child's Play: Representations of Adolescence will take a close look at childhood and the unsteady terrain of adolescence through a selection of 20th-century photographs. This exhibition reveals artists' awareness that the early years of life are marked by transition and transformation, and the meaning and experience of youth is hardly fixed. Representations of adolescence evoke many phases and moments including self-discovery, growth, nostalgia, playfulness, and sexual awakening. This exhibition explores the complexities of youth from multiple perspectives.

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Free with museum admission