First Friday

First Friday’s are back February 7, 2025. Join us from 4pm to 7pm the first Friday of every month for pay-what-you-wish extended hours at the museum.

This First Friday will offer the final after hours opportunity to view Luchita Hurtado: Earth & Sky Interjected up through February 23. Enjoy Luchita’s Sewing Station with Price Valentine and screenings of Joie Estrella Horwitz’ s beautiful film Green Turns Black, a sensory eulogy to the late artist Luchita Hurtado.

Green Turns Brown (2021) | Super 8, color, sound, 6 min

Green Turns Brown is a sensory eulogy to the late artist Luchita Hurtado. Shot several months before the artist’s passing, the Super 8 film explores her oscillation between visibility and invisibility as a female painter mirrored in her observations on mortality and its connection to the duality she found in the natural world.

About Luchita Hurtado

Born in Maiquetía, Venezuela, in 1920, Luchita Hurtado committed almost eighty years of her art practice to the research of universality and transcendence. Expanding her creative vocabulary through a coalescence of abstraction, mysticism, corporality, and landscape, the breadth of her work with unconventional techniques, materials, and styles testifies to the multicultural and experiential environments that molded her life and career. In 1928, Hurtado immigrated to the United States and settled in New York City, where she studied at the Art Students League. She moved to Mexico City in the late 1940s, then to San Francisco Bay in the following decade. She finally settled in Santa Monica, California. Beginning in the 1970s, Hurtado and husband Lee Mullican made frequent trips to Taos, New Mexico on their way to visit Mullican’s family in Oklahoma; and eventually built a second home in the village of Arroyo Seco. The life-changing impact of the artist’s time in New Mexico and persisting devotion to the enchantment of Taos are explored in Luchita Hurtado: Earth & Sky Interjected.

Image: Fall Community Day, “Luchita Hurtado: Earth & Sky Interjected,” July 27, 2024—February23, 2025, Harwood Museum of Art. Photo: Shayla Blatchford Photography