TAC Talks
Thursday Art and Culture (TAC) Talks bring collegiate level lectures to your museum. Featuring scholars from around the country, the lectures are selected to provide supplemental information on our current exhibits, or highlight the history and heritage of the mountains.
TAC Talks begin at 6:00pm and feature an hour-long lecture with audience question and answer session at the end.
Cost: $8 General Admission. Members are always free. Not yet a member? Join today!
Upcoming TAC Talks
Ever wonder what makes an artist tick? From where do they get their inspirations? How do their life experiences translate into great works of art? And how do they make art with a message that matters?
A lively, humorous and articulate speaker, artist Eric Serritella shares his journey in “Mind Into Matter,” a PowerPoint presentation filled with images that bring his story to life.
Take a moment for tea, for contemplation, for art, and for community. Artist Eric Seritella will perform a traditional Chinese tea ceremony to a soundtrack provided by pipa virtuoso Min Xiao-Fen. Complimentary tea and treats from Happy Persimmon will be provided at the event.
This program is presented free to the public through the generosity of the Bryant and Nancy Hanley Foundation.
Thomas McLamb is an experimental guitarist with a background in punk, hardcore, noise, and ambient sound design. His approach to music, combining both guitars and synthesizers, is inspired by other experimental guitar players like Derek Bailey, Jim O'Rourke, and Thurston Moore, as well as avant-garde composers like Roland Kayn, Morton Subotnick, and Éliane Radigue.
Willard’s Wonderings & Watauga Wanderings is a special program series hosted by BRAHM’s Programs & Outreach Director Willard Watson III. At each session, Willard will be joined by fascinating individuals working in riveting jobs throughout the High Country. Join us for an engrossing conversation about the place we live in & love.
A journey into the fascinating and remarkable life of pioneering Japanese immigrant photographer and conservationist George Masa, by filmmaker and biographer, Paul Bonesteel
In this interactive talk about birches; we will explore identifying characteristics and morphology, uses by humans and animals and importance in the landscape in Appalachia.
This program is presented free to the public through the generosity of the Bryant and Nancy Hanley Foundation.
This lecture will explore how Southern landscape painters captured the terrain of the American South. From the craggy ridgelines of Appalachia to the humid stillness of the Louisiana Swamp, artists rendered the region not merely as scenery, but as mythic space—charged with history, identity, and atmosphere. Special attention will be given to artists who frequently explored and sketched the wilds of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
