4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m: Library & Museum Visits

A delightful tram ride whisks you to the top of the hill, where you can spend time visiting the J. Paul Getty Museum galleries and the Getty Research Library. Or just relax and walk the Getty Center grounds, the Central Garden, and the numerous specialty garden areas, while taking in the spectacular views of Los Angeles from downtown L.A. to the ocean all in one glance! The Getty Center was designed by world-renown architect, Richard Meier, and opened to international acclaim in 1997.

The campus consists of six separate buildings and a Central Garden designed by the artist Robert Irwin. The Museum is the most visible structure, but other primary activities housed in this complex are the Research Institute, which includes the Library; the Conservation Institute; and the Grant Program. The Harold M. Williams Auditorium, and a restaurant/cafeteria structure complete the building program. The hillsides have been planted with 3,000 California live oaks and many other species of trees and plants.

The Getty Research Library contains materials relevant to the history of art and architecture. The Library consists of 800,000 volumes of books, serials, and auction catalogs; approximately 2,000,000 study photographs; and Special Collections comprising rare books, historical photographs, and original archive materials.

The Getty Museum’s five two-story pavilions, designed around an open central courtyard, display changing exhibitions and the expanding permanent collections of pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts, and 19th- and 20th-century American and European photographs. Visitors are free to view works of art chronologically or in random sequence by moving between pavilions and in and out of doors.

Robert Irwin's 134,000-square-foot Central Garden was commissioned by the Getty Trust as a work of art. An inviting, tree-lined walkway traverses a stream and gradually descends to a plaza where bougainvillea arbors provide scale and a sense of intimacy. The stream ends in a cascade of water over a stone waterfall or "chadar," into a pool in which a maze of azaleas floats. Around the pool is a series of specialty gardens, each with a variety of plant material.

From the Museum's terraces and walkways, visitors will encounter breathtaking, unexpected views. Signage on the upper-level South Terrace directs visitors to points of particular interest within the panoramic views.

6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m: Convocation Program

The Convocation program will be held in the Harold M. Williams Auditorium.
DUE TO LIMITED SEATING, PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED. TICKET HOLDERS ONLY TO BE ADMITTED TO THE CONVOCATION PROGRAM.

Welcome: Susan Allen, Chief Librarian, Getty Research LibrarySpeaker TBA

Keynote Speaker: Henry Hopkins, Director, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum and Cultural Center

An active proponent and participant in the postwar California art field for over forty years, Professor Hopkins is currently UCLA Professor, Art History, Theory and Criticism as well as Director of the Armand Hammer Museum and Cultural Center. Prior to assuming his present positions, he was director of UCLA’s Wight Art Gallery, the Fort Worth Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, and also held curatorial positions at the L.A. County Museum of Art and the Wight. He was chair of the Department of Art at UCLA from 1991-95. The author of four books on contemporary artists (California Painters: New Work [1989]; Fifty West Coast Artists [1982]; Clyfford Still [1976]; and California Painting and Sculpture: the Modern Era [1976]), and many journal articles, Hopkins has been a consultant to the museum panel of the National Endowment for the Arts and an administrator for the Sao Paulo Biennial, the Venice Biennale, and the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy. He is the subject of a two-volume oral history produced by the UCLA Oral History Program in 1995.

7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m: Buffet

Reception in the museum rotunda

9:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m: Bus transportation back to the Wilshire Grand Hotel

Last bus leaves at 10 p.m