TAILGATE

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August 16 - August 17,2024

From The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth: "WHAT: TAILGATE, a one-day-only exhibition event WHEN: Friday, August 16, 2024 from 10 am-midnight WHERE: The Modern's Parking Lot, 3200 Darnell Street ADMISSION IS FREE Food, beverages, and merchandise are available for purchase. In conjunction with the exhibition Rebecca Manson: Barbecue, which considers the inevitable change of season and rites of renewal, the Modern’s education department hosts sculpture and new media faculty from across Texas for TAILGATE, a one-day-only exhibition presented in the Modern’s parking lot.   Building on the collegiate game-day tradition, TAILGATE explores themes of improvisational adaptability, overlapping fandoms, mobile culinary rituals, community, and the hum of a pre- and post-event situation, welcoming the potential for disruption and play in works installed just outside the Museum’s walls.   Participating Artists Francisco Alvarado, Cody Arnall, Nathan Anthony, Nick Bontrager, Du Chau, Melanie Clemmons, Kristen Cochran, Jonathan Durham, Joshua Goode, Ryan Goolsby, Buster Graybill, Emily Lee, Tina Linville, Zak Loyd, R. Eric McMaster, Chris Powell, Sindhu Thirumalaisamy, Adrianna Touch, Tabatha Trolli, Zeke Williams   EVENT HIGHLIGHTS:

• The special exhibition Rebecca Manson: Barbecue and the Museum galleries are open and FREE to the public from 10 am to 8 pm with tours at noon, 2 pm, 4 pm, and 6 pm.

• From 5 to 9 pm, enjoy a BBQ food truck and beverage coolers featuring your favorite TAILGATE-worthy canned beverages with a special koozie for the first 100 guests.

• Custom TAILGATE t-shirts and collegiate swag available for purchase.

• Parking is available in the Kimbell Art Museum's Darnell St. lot and Casa Manana.

Rebecca Manson: Barbecue On view through August 25, 2024 Rebecca Manson: Barbecue is an immersive exhibition displayed in the Modern’s elliptical gallery on the first floor. Comprised of thousands of individually crafted ceramic leaves, flowers, a barbecue grill, and assorted detritus that swell into piles, Barbecue allows for moments of self-reflection. The mounds, some standing over six feet high, are piled against the walls of the ellipse, creating a path inviting visitors to explore the space. Manson’s visual language derives from nature but elicits the complexities of human experience, evoking universal questions about life, mortality, anxiety, nostalgia, memory, and humanity’s connection to nature. The leaves not only relate to the cyclical nature of a person’s life, changing from one season to another, but also to the internal struggle to either collect and contain one’s emotions or release them."

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 3200 Darnell Street
Fort Worth, TX 76110
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