Events
Lecture with Amy Adams: Sacred Histories: Why Russian Leaders Tell Icon Tales
The Icon Museum and Study CenterMembers Free, Not-yet-members $15. Limited to 80 seats, tickets at door if available This talk uses the icon of the Mother of God of Kazan as a case study to highlight how Russia's political leaders invoke the notion of "sacred" history as political discourse. Drawing on hundreds of years of icon tales (skazaniia) linked to […]
Film: Exploring Mount Athos in Two Films and a Q&A with Julia Gearhart
The Icon Museum and Study CenterMembers $20, Not-yet-members $30 Limited to 80 seats; tickets at the door if available Explore the majesty of Mount Athos through film, starting with amateur filmographer Argyris Liapis's documentary: Athos, the World’s Brightest Peak, winner of the Astron Award (Audience Favorite) at the 18th San Francisco Greek Film Festival in 2021. Three monks from Mount […]
Hybrid Contemporary Russian Literature Book Group
VirtualFree. New members always welcome. This month, you can join in person or via Zoom. This month's book is The Winter Queen (Azazel) by Boris Akunin. Moscow, May 1876. What would cause a talented student from a wealthy family to shoot himself in front of a promenading public? Decadence and boredom, it is presumed. But […]
Gallery Talk – Sacred Presence: Virgin of Kazan
The Icon Museum and Study CenterFree with admission. No registration required. Explore our special exhibition with guest curator, Dennis Sardella, who will discuss reflections on the icon of the Mother of God Kazanskaya, its iconography, form, spiritual journey, allure, and beauty, as well as its cooption by political and religious actors up to our modern times. Dennis will be available […]
Annual Kent dur Russell Lecture with Dr Wendy Salmond
The Icon Museum and Study CenterTo Honor and Adorn: Icons and their Covers in late Imperial Russia Free. Registration required. The practice of adorning icons with metal covers is today one of the least understood aspects of the icon's history and function. As older icons came to be seen as works of art in the early twentieth century, their covers […]
Closed for the 4th of July
The Icon Museum and Study CenterThe Museum will be closed on Thursday, July 4, for the Independence Day holiday. We will reopen to the public on Friday, July 5, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Free Family Thursdays: Written in Color
The Icon Museum and Study CenterFree. No registration required. Guided Tour - 1:00 pm Drop-in Activity - all-day The Icon Museum and Study Center is excited to offer free admission and family-friendly programs on Thursdays […]
Lecture with Mihaela Leonida: The Secret World of Medieval Iconographers
The Icon Museum and Study CenterFree. Register below. Examine the materials and techniques used by medieval icon painters. Learn about their recipes and secrets for painting icons and manuscripts that were handed down through generations, from master to apprentices. What were the religious practices to celebrate the graduation of apprentices in the closed circle of icon painters? Presenter Mihaela Leonida, […]
Gallery Talk – Sacred Presence: Virgin of Kazan
The Icon Museum and Study CenterFree with admission. No registration required. Explore our special exhibition with guest curator, Dennis Sardella, who will discuss reflections on the icon of the Mother of God Kazanskaya, its iconography, form, spiritual journey, allure, and beauty, as well as its cooption by political and religious actors up to our modern times. Dennis will be available […]
Talk with Erin Piñon: Eighteenth-Century Vernacular Images and the Making of an Armenian Icon
The Icon Museum and Study CenterThursday, September 12, 12:30 pm Free Join us in welcoming Erin Piñon, Postdoctoral Fellow, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz. Erin is a specialist in early modern Armenian book arts and visual and material culture spanning Istanbul to Isfahan. She will discuss her current work, which aims to define the aesthetics of the diasporic condition between the […]