Lectures, Talks & Tours

We want you to start a conversation.

SVMoA invites contemporary artists, thinkers, and experts from diverse fields to share their knowledge on wide-ranging topics with our community and stimulate conversation in our homes, in the classroom, and throughout the Wood River Valley.

Rob Reynolds

Museum Passport

Museum Passport is SVMoA’s lecture series offering a window into exhibitions and museums around the world. Featuring curators, artists, scholars, and museum professionals, each program takes a closer look at a major exhibition, collection, or artistic movement and the ideas shaping it. Consider it your passport to exhibitions around the world, bringing new perspectives, places, and works of art to our community.

Explore the Museum Passport lecture series in our online archive.

MUSEUM PASSPORT: Man Ray with Metropolitan Museum of Art Curator Stephanie D'Alessandro

MUSEUM PASSPORT: Frida Kahlo with Dr. Elena Shtromberg

MUSEUM PASSPORT: Raphael with Art Historian Elaine French

MUSEUM PASSPORT: Buddhist Art with Dr. Sarah Magnatta

MUSEUM PASSPORT: The Reimagined Museum

MUSEUM PASSPORT: Inside the Department of Drawings & Prints at The Met with Jennifer Farrell

MUSEUM PASSPORT: Mary Cassatt

Lectures, Panels, and Artist Talks

SVMoA offers lectures, panel discussions, and artist talks featuring artists, curators, scholars, and other leading voices in the arts. These programs offer deeper insight into SVMoA's exhibitions, artistic practices, and ideas shaping contemporary art.

Explore Lectures, Panels, and Artist Talks in our online archive.

Kimberly Davis: Circa 1971

Gemini G.E.L.: Innovation, Collaboration, and the Rise of Contemporary Multiples A Conversation with Chris Santa Maria, Director of Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl

Free Admission

We want you to start a conversation.

Museum Passport

Lectures, Panels, and Artist Talks

The Museum

Hailey House & Classroom