eyeminded living and writing contemporary art

The faculty adviser for the lecture series is Lauren Petersen.Founded in 1986, Contemporary QuiltArt Association (CQA) is an all-volunteer, 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization comprising more than 100 artists in Washington state who are bound by their relationship to fiber art. The Department of Art History’s 2014-15 Graduate Student Lecture Series is organized by Michele Frederick and Jeff Richmond-Moll (co-chairs), Kiernan Acquisto-Axeloons, Caitlin Hutchison, Margarita Karasoulas, Galina Olmsted, Emily Shartrand, and Spencer Wigmore. Parking will be available in the Trabant University Center garage. Registration is not required but is recommended, and can be completed at this website.

The talk is also the second of this year’s Art History Graduate Student Lecture Series. Craven was among the pioneer scholars of his generation and helped establish the field of American art as a legitimate subject of scholarly investigation. This lecture honors Wayne Craven, Henry Francis du Pont Professor Emeritus of Art History. Her exhibition, “Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980,” at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, was named one of the best exhibitions of 20 by Artforum, and best thematic show nationally by the International Association of Art Critics (AICA).Ĭurrently, she is the co-curator of “Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the 1960s,” now on view at the Hood Museum of Art.

Jones has also worked extensively as a curator for over three decades. In 2013, Jones was awarded a Creative Capital Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and a term as scholar-in-residence at the Terra Foundation for American Art in Europe in Giverny, France. Her 2011 book, Eyeminded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art, was named one of the top art books of 2011 by Publishers Weekly. The talk is part of a current book project, Taming the Freeway and Other Acts of Urban HIP-notism: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 19070s, forthcoming from the MIT Press. It considers art’s conversations with the dislocation and cultural reinvention of migration, its materials of loss and of possibility, as well as the inscription of the new in style and practice.” In Jones’ words, “The talk elucidates how artists translate such experiences into form, how they transform what they find in this world into what they would like it to be. In her lecture, “Crisscrossing the World: Los Angeles Artists and the Global Imagination,” Jones will discuss the role of African American migration in addition to multimedia work and performance by the African American artists David Hammons, John Outterbridge, Noah Purifoy, Senga Nengudi and Charles White, who lived and worked in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. Her research interests include African American and African Diaspora artists, Latino/a and Latin American artists, and issues in contemporary art and museum theory.

Eyeminded living and writing contemporary art