Public Opening Day of “Las Vegas Ikebana: Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi”

July 19, 2025
2:00–8:00 PM

Location: Columbus Museum of Art at The Pizzuti


Be among the first to celebrate the reopening of Columbus Museum of Art at The Pizzuti, CMA’s campus in the Short North Arts District that advances the museum’s commitment to contemporary art through exhibitions, performances, and public programs.

Las Vegas Ikebana is the first museum survey of Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi’s five-decade creative partnership. Developed in close conversation with the artists, the exhibition traces their expansive, cross-disciplinary practice through performance, sculpture, mail art, and multimedia works.

2:00 PM
See-See Riders, choreographed by Senga Nengudi and performed by keyon gaskin and sidony o’neal

3:00 PM
Artist Talk, Don’t Be Scared: A Talk on the Art of Collaboration, with Hassinger, Nengudi, curator Allie Tepper, and filmmaker Linda Goode Bryant

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Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi performing Alive (1980), California State University, Los Angeles, July 16, 1980. Courtesy Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, LA.
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