Join educator Holly Hepp-Galvan in the Museum’s indoor-outdoor gallery for an extended conversation focused on Isamu Noguchi’s Mountain Breaking Theater (1984).

Join educator Mariko Aoyagi in the Museum’s indoor-outdoor gallery for an extended conversation focused on Isamu Noguchi’s Mountain Breaking Theater, (1984). Free with Museum admission.

Join educator Mariko Aoyagi in the Museum’s garden for an extended conversation focused on Isamu Noguchi’s The Well (Variation on a Tsukubai), 1982. Free with Museum admission.

Join educator Holly Hepp-Galvan in the Museum’s garden for an extended conversation focused on Isamu Noguchi’s The Well (Variation on a Tsukubai), 1982.

Join educator Mariko Aoyagi in the Museum’s Area 1 for an extended conversation focused on Isamu Noguchi’s basalt sculpture Brilliance, 1982.

Join educator Holly Hepp-Galvan in the Museum’s Area 1 for an extended conversation focused on Isamu Noguchi’s basalt sculpture Brilliance (1982).

James Yang, author and illustrator of the children’s book A Boy Named Isamu: A Story of Isamu Noguchi (Viking Books, 2021) joins Justin Raul Baez, Media Coordinator, on Instagram Live to discuss the making of the book, its themes of wonder, creativity, and individuality, Asian American representation, and more.

Astrology is a language that works through folding—astrology is not loyal to its origins but is remembered associatively. Reading Isamu Noguchi, Olivia Khoo, and Gilles Deleuze, author Alice Sparkly Kat presents ideas from their book Postcolonial Astrology (North Atlantic Books, 2021).

Liesl Olson, Director of Chicago Studies at Newberry Library, will present a talk exploring the mutually inspiring relationship between Isamu Noguchi, dancer and choreographer Ruth Page, and their creative orbits in the city of Chicago in the early 1930s.

Alex Ross, Managing Editor, The Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné, will lead a talk on recent research into Isamu Noguchi’s designs for the New York World’s Fair of 1939.