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Sadie Barnette Artist Talk

Name: Sadie Barnette Artist Talk
Start: 2026-07-30T18:00:00.000Z
End: 2026-07-30T19:00:00.000Z
Location: The Joslyn Art Museum

Thu Jul 30, 6PM–7PM

Pre-program: 5 pm, early access to Sadie Barnette, on view in the CAP Gallery; drinks will be available for purchase in Cafe Durham.

General Public: $10; Joslyn Members: Free; registration required at joslyn.org; walk-ins accepted as space allows. Register here.

Join us for a conversation with artist Sadie Barnette and Karin Campbell, Phil Willson Curator of Contemporary Art. Beginning at 5 pm, Museum visitors will have a chance to preview Barnette’s Riley CAP Gallery exhibition (Aug 1, 2026–Jan 3, 2027). Working across media, Sadie Barnette mines both personal narratives and collective histories, exploring how the two continually intersect and diverge. Her exhibition in the CAP Gallery considers how seemingly unremarkable moments from everyday life may be seen as profound.

Artist Bio

Raised in Oakland, California, Sadie Barnette (American, born 1984) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, and her Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, San Diego. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Studio Museum in Harlem, and Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, among many others. Barnette is a 2026 recipient of a prestigious Creative Capital Award, which provides grants to artists working across disciplines.

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