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Please join us as we hear from the twelve artists featured in Figuring Space about what making full scale figurative sculpture means to their art practice. The co-curators Dr. Kelli Morgan and Jennifer Zwilling, will share their ideas about figurative sculpture in this moment of contemporary art with a lens of social activism, as well as across the timeline of American Art History. Leslie Grigsby, Curator of Ceramics and Glass at Winterthur Museum & Gardens will present the museum's recently acquired Anna Pottery Liberty Memorial of 1873.
Symposium Schedule
9:30 - Coffee and Sign in
10:00 - Weclome
10:15 - Talks by 3 exhibiting artists
10:45 - Dr. Kelli Morgan - Keynote
11:15 - Talks by 3 exhibiting artists
12:00 Lunch - Bring your own/Purchase a Lunch
1:30 - Leslie Grigsby, Curator of Ceramics and Glass, Winterthur Museum & Library
1:45 - Talks by 3 Artists
2:15 - Break
2:30 - Talks by 3 Artists
3:00-3:15 - Concluding Remarks
In-Person Registration is Full: Join us on zoom!
If you are joining us by zoom the program will be from 10-12:00 and from 1:30-3:30.
The link is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88393543796
Find out more about our new exhibition Figuring Space
The group of powerful, full-scale representations of human figures will serve as a body of evidence to lay bare the issues that permeate American art and social culture. Each of the artists chosen uses the figure to usurp the painful history of bodies on display in American history. They assert their autonomy and subjectivity by presenting cultural critiques through lenses of their own choosing: race, gender, class, and anti-war ideas. Roberto Lugo, Kensuke Yamada, Cristina Cordova, Chris Rodgers, Sergei Isupov, Christina West, Tip Toland, Jonathan Christensen Caballero, George Rodriguez, Roxanne Swentzell, and Kyungmin Park are among the invited artists.
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