kaleidoscreen Restoration Conversation – Friday, September 15 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM

View the restoration-in-progress of Herbert Bayer’s functional sculpture, kaleidoscreen, while Mike Carpenter, EverGreene Architectural Arts Project Manager, and Andrew Travers, Bayer Center’s Penner Manager of Educational Programs, discuss the restoration process and importance of conservation projects on the Aspen Institute campus and beyond. The event will be held outside the Walter Isaacson Reception Center of the Aspen Meadows at 845 Meadows Rd, Aspen, CO 81611.

Registration is not required.

PAST EVENTS

Bayer Center Open House – Monday, July 24, 2023 | 3:00 – 5:00 PM

View the newest exhibition, Concept of a Visualist: Herbert Bayer’s World Geo-Graphic Atlas, at the Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies and meet its curators, Bernard Jazzar, Bayer expert and curator of the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Collection, and Benjamin Benus, Associate Professor of Art and Design History at Loyola University New Orleans. Remarks by Aspen Institute President and CEO Dan Porterfield and Lissa Ballinger, Acting Director of the Bayer Center, at 4:00 pm.

Herbert Bayer’s World Geo-Graphic Atlas Exhibitions: A Conversation with the Curators – Monday, July 24, 2023 | 6:00 – 7:00 PM

Featuring Bernard Jazzar, Herbert Bayer expert and curator of the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Collection; Benjamin Benus, Associate Professor of Art and Design History at Loyola University New Orleans; and Andrew Travers, Penner Manager of Educational Programs at the Bayer Center; in conversation with Aspen Institute President and CEO Dan Porterfield. They will discuss the campus-wide exhibition that explores Herbert Bayer’s 1953 World Geo-Graphic Atlas, a landmark work of visual education and modernist design. Marking the 70th anniversary of the atlas’s publication, this is the first exhibition devoted to this groundbreaking and influential work.