ART, THEORY, PRACTICE, at Northwestern University is pleased to announce the 2020 thesis exhibition showcasing five members of its MFA degree program. The exhibition, “While We’re At It,” is hosted by 6018North, Chicago’s home for experimental arts and culture.
To schedule a temporally and spatially distanced viewing of the exhibition at 6018North, February 27 - April 25, please RSVP via Eventbrite on their website.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Saturday, February 27, 1:00pmat 6018NORTH
6018 N KENMORE AVE
CHICAGO, IL 60660
ZOOMISSAGE
ZOOMISSAGE is a virtual celebration for a virtual exhibition showcasing the work of ATP Senior Majors.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Thursday, May 28, 4:00pmat ZOOM
Throughout her more than two-decade career, artist Sonya Clark has explored the meaning embedded in commonplace objects and materials such as textiles, hair, combs, and currency, to reflect on the complex issues of race, American history, and black cultural production. Her recent work presents challenging questions about nationhood and memorialization through the investigation, reconstruction, and dismantling of flags as symbols. Clark’s 2019 project Monumental Cloth, the Flag We Should Know, explores the symbolic legacy of the Confederate Battle Flag by invoking its lesser-known historical counterpart, the Confederate Flag of Truce. Clark will discuss this work in the context of her larger oeuvre and will be joined in conversation by Janet Dees, the Block’s Steven and Lisa Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.
Sonya Clark is Professor of Art at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Previously, she was a Distinguished Research Fellow in the School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University where from 2006 until 2017 she served as chair for the Craft/ Material Studies Department. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards including a United States Artist Fellowship, a Pollock Krasner award, an 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art, an Anonymous Was a Woman Award, a Red Gate Residency in China, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency in Italy, and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, among many others. Her work has been exhibited in over 350 museums and galleries in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia.
This discussion is presented in conjunction with the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Dialogue 2019-2020 Memorializing, a year-long conversation about commemorating, contesting, and claiming from humanistic perspectives.
Co-presented by The Block Museum of Art, Department of Art Theory and Practice, and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Wednesday, February 5, 6:00pmat BLOCK MUSEUM OF ART
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
40 ARTS CIRCLE DRIVE
EVANSTON, IL 60208
February 18, 2020 marks posthumously the 86th birthday of Audre Lorde and the 89th birthday of Toni Morrison (the first since her death in August 2019). M. Carmen Lane and Michael Rakowitz will engage in a public talk on ancestry, place, dispossession, and the steadfastness of survival. Using textual prompts from both Lorde and Morrison, the artists continue a dialogue between each other that began half a decade ago and which has impacted both of their practices—involving grief as both a material and a process that resists disconnection.
M. Carmen Lane is the February 2020 Artist in Residence of the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. This talk is co-presented by the Block Museum of Art as part of the Kaplan Institute's 2019-2020 Memorializing Dialogue, a year-long public conversation about commemorating, contesting, and claiming from humanistic perspectives.
About the Artists
M. Carmen Lane is a two:spirit African-American and Haudenosaunee (Mohawk/Tuscarora) artist, writer, and facilitator living in Cleveland.
https://mcarmenlane.com/
Michael Rakowitz is an Iraqi-American conceptual artist living and working in Chicago, and Professor in Northwestern's Department of Art Theory and Practice.
http://www.michaelrakowitz.com/
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Tuesday, February 18, 5:00pmat BLOCK MUSEUM OF ART
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
40 ARTS CIRCLE DRIVE
EVANSTON, IL 60208
Jean-Ulrick Désert is a visual-artist born in Haiti. Désert's artworks vary in forms such as public billboards, actions, paintings, site-specific sculptures, video and objects and emerges from a tradition of conceptually engaged practices. Well known for his “Negerhosen2000” performances and his “Burqa Project” as a response to 9-11, his practice may be characterized as visualizing “conspicuous invisibility”. He has exhibited widely at such venues as The Brooklyn Museum, Walker Art Center, Studio Museum of Harlem, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Bueno Yerba in USA and internationally at the Havana, Martinique, Dakar Biennales, and galleries Savvy Contemporary, Kunstverein-Wolfsburg. He was selected as the solo-artist to represent the Haiti Pavilion in the 2019 Venice Biennale and is currently developing a permanent artwork at Humboldt University Berlin to commemorate the American scholar W.E.B. DuBois.
He is the recipient of awards including Berlin’s Art-senate Research Grant, Villa Waldberta-Munich, Kulturstiftung der Länder, Warhol Foundation via Small Axe Journal, LMCC. His work has been featured in academic books, most recently “Queer!? Visual Arts in Europe” 2019, and journals such as “NKA” established by the late Okwui Enwezor as well as lifestyle magazines such as Harpers Bazaar. Désert is an alumnus of The Cooper Union and Columbia University where he studied architecture. He advises for Trans Arts Institute, a MFA program in Berlin. After a number of years in New York and Paris, Désert established his Berlin studio-practice in 2002.
Image courtesy Jean-Ulrick Désert.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Thursday, February 27, 5:00pmat KRESGE HALL
ROOM 1515
1880 CAMPUS DRIVE
EVANSTON, IL 60208
Join the department in showcasing the work of our undergraduate students!
Wednesday, November 13, 5-8 pm, ground floor of Kresge Hall.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Wednesday, November 13, 5:00pmat KRESGE HALL (GROUND FLOOR)
Art, Theory, Practice at Northwestern University
1880 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
