Artist Lecture – Radical Softness: The Responsive Art of Janet Echelman
2026-04-24 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | 120 W Gasparilla Plaza, Tampa, FL 33602 US
Radical Softness: The Responsive Art of Janet Echelman
Join us for a lecture with Janet Echelman, an artist featured in the exhibition Avant Garde: Remarkable Women in the Permanent Collection. Echelman creates experiential sculpture at the scale of buildings that transform with wind and light. The art shifts from being an object you look at, to something you can get lost in. Her work defies categorization as it intersects disciplinary boundaries, from Sculpture, Architecture, and Urban Design to Material Science, Computer Science, Engineering, and Performance. Using unlikely materials from knotted fiber and atomized water particles to choreographed dancers, Echelman combines ancient craft with original computational design software to create artworks that have become focal points for urban life on five continents.

Sponsored by Carey Forward Foundation
Lectures are offered free with the cost of daily admission:

Art+ Museum Members: Free
Not-Yet-Members: $25
College Students: Free
