/news-archive/tag/windgate-distinguished-lecture-series/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Mon, 12 Dec 2022 13:34:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2022/12/12/kukuli-velarde/ Mon, 12 Dec 2022 13:34:07 +0000 /news/?p=83968 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock to Host Artist Kukuli Velarde as Windgate Distinguished Lecturer]]> 鈥淲e are genuinely excited for the opportunity to host Kukuli Velarde and her CORPUS exhibit at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock,鈥� said Nathan Larson, interim art gallery director at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock. 鈥淭his exhibition offers an insight into how our contemporary culture is the product of decades and centuries of assimilation and overlapping of cultures from across the globe.鈥� The Windgate Distinguished Lecture Series, which began in 2020, is a lecture series that brings nationally known scholars, artists, makers, and art and craft influencers to 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock on an annual basis. The series is funded by a grant from the Windgate Foundation. Based in Philadelphia, Velarde is a multi-talented artist working in ceramic, painting, drawing, and installation. Much of her work draws on pre-Columbian traditional forms and iconographies, highlighting colonized and syncretic identities and aesthetic systems. Her latest exhibit, 鈥淜ukuli Velarde: CORPUS,鈥� will be on display from Monday, Jan. 9, to Friday, March 3, 2023, in the Brad Cushman Gallery in the Windgate Center of Art and Design. The Windgate Distinguished Lecture, 鈥淎 Voice of My Own,鈥� will begin at 6 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 24, 2023, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Building. The lecture will be followed by a reception from 7-8:30 p.m. in the second-floor lobby of the Windgate Center. During her visit, Velarde will also visit classes and review artwork with 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock students. CORPUS is comprised of ceramic and fabric works that encourage reflection on the meaning of survival in the face of colonialism. Fifteen ceramic sculptures, each with matching tapestries, will be presented in a symbolic representation of the annual Corpus Christi festival in Cusco, Per煤. The sculptures reference indigenous pre-Columbian forms and iconographies in a visual representation of syncretic aesthetic, cultural, and religious traditions. 鈥淜ukuli blends the imagery and ceramic forms of Pre-Columbian Peruvian cultures with the Catholic imagery brought by the colonizing conquistadors to create a visual voice uniquely her own,鈥� Nathan Larson, interim art gallery director at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock. 鈥淏ut this voice is deeply rooted in the culture of assimilation; the culture she grew up in and the culture she now re-represents for us.鈥� Velarde received a BFA from Hunter College in New York City. She is the recipient of such awards as the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2015), Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2012), and Joan Mitchell Foundation grant (1997). Her work can be found in the collections of Museo de Arte Contempor谩neo de Lima, Per煤; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, among many others. The 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Art Gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Saturday, and 2-5 p.m. Sunday. For more information, contact 501-916-5104 or email Larson at nglarson@ualr.edu.]]> /news-archive/2020/01/15/adamson-windgate-distinguished-lecture-series/ Wed, 15 Jan 2020 17:09:09 +0000 /news/?p=76008 ... Adamson to serve as inaugural speaker of Windgate Distinguished Lecture Series]]> Renowned art historian and curator Glenn Adamson, senior scholar at the Yale Center for British Art, will serve as the inaugural speaker of the Windgate Distinguished Lecture Series at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 30, in the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Windgate Center of Art and Design 101.听 The Windgate Distinguished Lecture Series is a new lecture series that will bring nationally known scholars, artists, makers, and art and craft influencers to 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock on an annual basis. The series is funded by a grant from the Windgate Foundation. Adamson will give context to 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 art exhibit, 鈥淐ontemporary British Studio Ceramics from the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection,鈥� which is on display from Jan. 16 through March 7 in the Brad Cushman Gallery in the Windgate Center. Drawn from the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection, this exhibit contains examples of 20th century studio ceramics. The majority of these works were gifts from Diane and Sanford Besser and range from functional wares, including bowls and teapots, to purely sculptural forms. In his lecture, 鈥淭o the Moon and Beyond,鈥� Adamson will speak about the exhibition, 鈥淭hings of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery,鈥� which he co-curated at the Yale Center for British Art in 2017. Surveying a century of creativity in the ceramic field, the exhibition rotated particularly around the encounter between tradition and modernity. Beginning from the famous Korean 鈥淢oon Jar,鈥� a white porcelain jar that serves as an icon for potters, Adamson will trace this opposition and the way it shaped the discipline. A follow-up community panel discussion, 鈥淐ommunity in the Making: Expanding the Craft Field,鈥� will take place at 10 a.m. Friday, Jan. 31, in Windgate Center 101. The panelists include Adamson, Jan Padgett, assistant curator at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, and Marilyn Zapf, assistant director of the Center for Craft in Asheville, North Carolina.听 The panel will explore the roles of different institutions in advocating for the craft field, supporting artists, and expanding audiences. The panelists will also talk about how craft is used in the region and in Arkansas, including a discussion of a major craft exhibition opening at Crystal Bridges in October being co-curated by Adamson and Padgett. Adamson is a curator, writer, and historian who works at the intersection of craft, design, and contemporary art. He is the senior scholar at the Yale Center for British Art. Adamson has previously served as the director of the Museum of Arts and Design; head of research at the V&A; and curator at the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee.听 His publications include 鈥淭hinking Through Craft鈥� (2007), 鈥淭he Craft Reader鈥� (2010), 鈥淧ostmodernism: Style and Subversion鈥� (2011), 鈥淭he Invention of Craft鈥� (2013), and 鈥淎rt in the Making (2016). His latest book, 鈥淔ewer Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects,鈥� was published by Bloomsbury in 2018. ]]>