Join us at the Stanley Museum of Art on June 23 at 1:00 pm for Sundays with the Docents tour. Stanley docents create unique tours to share with our audiences on select Sundays throughout the year.

Weird Science will be led by Docent, Mary Blackwood. Formerly a student at the University of California, San Diego, Mary had the incredible fortune to take classes from Faith Ringgold, Manny Farber, Babette Mangolte, Moira Roth, and Louis Hock. Mary’s philosophy of the art world expanded enormously while enrolled at The University of California, and she has carried that philosophy with her ever since. She became a docent at The Stanley in 2023 and enjoys leading tours for museum visitors of all ages and levels of artistic knowledge, passing along that philosophy to a new audience.

In the Weird Science tour, Mary will explore how artists have been influenced by the culture, knowledge, and politics of the societies in which they live and work. Do they incorporate science in their art, whether subconsciously or intentionally? In this tour you will examine where art intersects with science, industrial design, strange world-building, science fiction, and early robots in The Stanley’s collection.

This tour is part of the Sundays with the Docents program. Walk-ins are welcome on the tour, but using the sign up is strongly recommended as tours are capped at 20 participants.