Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection
October 27, 2024–April 20, 2025
Making Their Mark brings together more than seventy artworks by women artists from the Shah Garg Collection, illuminating transgenerational affinities, influences, and methodologies among pathbreaking artists from the postwar era to the present.
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Installation view: Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, October 27, 2024–April 20, 2025
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Installation view: Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, October 27, 2024–April 20, 2025
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Installation view: Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, October 27, 2024–April 20, 2025
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Installation view: Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, October 27, 2024–April 20, 2025
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Installation view: Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, October 27, 2024–April 20, 2025
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Installation view: Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, October 27, 2024–April 20, 2025
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Films - Past
Films - Past
Events
Upcoming Events
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Elizabeth Murray Special Edition Print Mailing
Occasioned by the presentation of Elizabeth Murray’s monumental work Joanne in the Canyon (1991) in the exhibition Making Their Mark, BAMPFA’s Art Lab collaborates with the Estate of Elizabeth Murray to create a special edition risograph print mailing. Sign up online to receive a copy of this limited edition print while supplies last!
Sign up by February 1, 2025, to receive a copy of the print mailing (limited edition; first come, first served)
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Selected Wednesdays, 12:15 PM; Thursdays, 1:15 PM; Sundays, 2:00 PMExhibition Tour: Making Their Mark
UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.
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Saturday, February 8, 11:30 AM–1:00 PMGallery+Studio / Macramé for Architecture
Inspired by Françoise Grossen’s large-scale textile work and spaces in BAMPFA’s building, use macramé techniques to model a sculpture that responds to a space that interests you.
For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)
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Sunday, February 23, 1:00 PMShaped Papermaking with Julia Goodman
Local artist Julia Goodman shares a step-by-step process to make unique pieces of handmade paper. Taking inspiration from artworks on view in the exhibition Making Their Mark, participants explore techniques for making shaped paper.
Space is limited; RSVP required
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Saturday, March 8, 11:30 AM–1:00 PMGallery+Studio / Create Your Own Shield!
Inspired by Elizabeth Talford Scott’s mixed-media artwork Save the Babies, work with paper, fabric, beads, and other materials to make a shield that embraces your own ideas of healing and strength.
For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)
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Saturday, March 15, 3:00 PMArtists’ Conversation: Crafting the Self
Featuring artists Melissa Cody and Tau Lewis, the discussion will consider the ways their works express identity, power, lineage, and the self through materials, making, portraiture, and abstraction.
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Sunday, April 6, 1:00 PMWearable Workshop with Lisa Rybovich Crallé
Join us for an afternoon of knotting, coiling, folding, bending, braiding, and bundling materials to make your own wearable art inspired by the exhibition Making Their Mark.
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Saturday, April 12, 11:30 AM–1:00 PMGallery+Studio / Make Your Mark
Learn about abstract and figurative work, and explore a range of mark making techniques as you try your hand at these approaches to making art.
For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)
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Thursday, April 17, 6:30 PMArtists' Conversation: Disobedient Bodies
This program presents Suzanne Jackson, whose work is featured in Making Their Mark. She joins writer, curator, and UC Berkeley teaching professor Hilton Als to discuss her lively and unconventional approach to abstraction.
Past Events
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Saturday, January 25, 2:00 PMArtist's Conversation / Jamillah James, Barbara Kasten, and Gloria Sutton: Painting and Technology
Featuring artist Barbara Kasten whose work is included in Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, this discussion explores the innovative ways artists have transformed the language of painting as technologies evolve. Barbara Kasten will be joined in conversation by Jamillah James, Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Gloria Sutton, Associate professor of Contemporary Art History and New Media at Northeastern University and catalogue contributor for Making Their Mark.
This conversation will be followed by a tour of the exhibition at 3:30 PM.
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Saturday, January 11, 11:30 AM–1:00 PMGallery+Studio / Dots and Circles
Make your own version of a Howardena Pindell mixed media painting after an up-close-and-personal look at her example in the gallery.
For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)
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Thursday, November 14, 6:30 PMArtists' Conversation: Mary Weatherford and Aria Dean: Gut Punch—Reenvisioning Gestural Abstraction
Two artists whose work is included in Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection—Aria Dean and Mary Weatherford—discuss the ways they approach and reenvision the genre of gestural abstraction.
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Wednesday, November 13, 12:15 PMCurator’s Tour: Margot Norton on Making Their Mark
Chief Curator Margot Norton, who organized BAMPFA’s presentation of the exhibition, discusses the themes of Making Their Mark and offers insights and observations about selected artworks.
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Selected Wednesdays, 12:15 PM; Thursdays, 1:15 PM; Sundays, 2:00 PMExhibition Tour: Making Their Mark
UC Berkeley graduate students in the Departments of Gender & Women's Studies, History of Art, and Film & Media Studies offer tours of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.
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Sunday, October 27, 11 AM–7 PMFree Community Day: Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection
Celebrate the opening of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection with free gallery admission to the public on Sunday, October 27, from 11 AM to 7 PM.
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Sunday, October 27, 4:00 PMKomal Shah and Cecilia Alemani with Margot Norton on Making Their Mark
To mark the opening day of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, art collector and philanthropist Komal Shah and Cecilia Alemani, Director and Chief Curator of High Line Art in New York, sit down with BAMPFA Chief Curator Margot Norton to discuss their journey organizing the exhibition.
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Saturday, October 26, 1–7 PMPreview Day: Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection
BAMPFA members enjoy exclusive preview access to Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection on Saturday, October 26, 1–7 PM.
For BAMPFA members and UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff.
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