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UPCOMING PROGRAMS

 

Work by Dawn Dedeaux shows a light up staircase in a sunset field

EQUINOX

 

  • Wednesday, March 1, 1:00 to 3:00 pm
     
    The multi-sponsored annual EQUINOX Week initiates and unfolds a diverse set of multidisciplinary programs across both KSU campuses in cross-sectoral dialogue with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Fostering cross-pollination, team formation, and action, EQUINOX brings together institutions of higher education, professionals, policymakers, stakeholders, community members, and advocates. Through various disciplinary lenses, EQUINOX focuses on the interconnected UN SDGs to promote innovative research, scholarship, and practices in sustainability from micro to macro scales – for people and the planet. The EQUINOX 2023 program will feature artists Dawn DeDeaux and Tina Freeman in conversation with Cynthia Nourse Thompson.
     
    Image Credit: Dawn DeDeaux, Steps Home: Marfa TX Mesa Installations, Solar-powered illuminated steps. Photo by Studio DeDeaux.


 
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HERstory Month Lecture: Alice Gray Stites

  • Wednesday, March 15, 12:00 pm via Zoom

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    During the month of March, the Zuckerman Museum of Art is proud to present HERstory: Women's Leadership in the Arts. This annual programming in March offers lectures and interaction with prominent women artists, authors, curators, and artistic directors of various creative disciplines to our students and community-at-large. These engaging educational opportunities serve to highlight the crucial role of women in the arts and their notable, and many times ground-breaking, impact on creative fields, humanity, society, and young women's lives—inspiring them to become future leaders and cultural ambassadors of the arts.

    On Wednesday, March 15, Alice Gray Stites, Chief Curator at 21C Museum Hotels, will discuss her career and practice as a curator at 21c Museum Hotels. 21c Museum Hotels are a multi-venue museum founded by collectors Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson, now located in ten cities across the U.S. Stites curates exhibitions, site-specific commissions, and a range of cultural programming at all 21c Museum Hotels. Since opening in Louisville in 2006, 21c has presented over 100 exhibitions. 

Lesley Dill work with imagery of Emily Dickinson and her works on white background

Wilderness: Light Sizzles Around Me Exhibition Reception

  • Thursday, March 16, 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm

    Please join the Zuckerman Museum of Art for the opening reception of Lesley Dill, Wilderness: Light Sizzles Around Me. 

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    Wilderness, Light Sizzles Around Me features a uniquely inspired group of sculptures and two-dimensional works more than a decade in the making. The exhibition represents Dill’s ongoing investigation into the significant voices and personas of America’s past. For Dill, the “American” voice grew from early America’s obsessions with divinity and deviltry, on fears of the wilderness “out there” and the wilderness inside us. The extremes of both shaped history and gave pulse and heat to the words of activists like John Brown, Sojourner Truth, Mother Ann Lee, and Dred Scott. Dill writes, “These personas and their times stir something deep in my own family history and sense of self. I am compelled to this restrictive time-period of limited access to a diversity of written word, and the bravery of these figures’ response.” The book Lesley Dill: Wilderness, Light Sizzles Around Me by Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich is available in conjunction with the exhibition and features essays by Nancy Princenthal, Andrew Wallace and others. This exhibition is organized by the Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa.  
      

    The Visual Voice:  An Artists Books and Broadside Exhibition

    Juried by Lesley Dill, this exhibition will be on view in the Fine Arts Gallery from March 14 to April 8, 2023 

    Image Credit: Lesley Dill, Emily Dickinson and the Voices of Her Time, 2016. Oil paint, hand-cut paper and thread on fabric-backed acrylic painted paper. Courtesy of the Lesley Dill Studio, Brooklyn, NY.

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HERstory Month Lecture: Alexandra Schwartz

  • Wednesday, March 22, 12:00 via Zoom

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    During the month of March, the Zuckerman Museum of Art is proud to present HERstory: Women's Leadership in the Arts. This annual programming in March offers lectures and interaction with prominent women artists, authors, curators, and artistic directors of various creative disciplines to our students and community-at-large.

    Alexandra Schwartz is a New York-based curator and historian of modern and contemporary art. She serves as a Guest Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design NYC, is the author of Garmenting: Costume and Contemporary Art and is also an adjunct professor at FIT. Schwartz will discuss her career and the most recent exhibition she curated for the Museum of Arts and Design, Garmenting: Costume and Contemporary Art.

Photo of Valerie Cassel Oliver in a red dress standing in a galley with a sqaure work on the wall and sculpture behind her

HERstory Month Lecture: Valerie Cassel Oliver

  • Wednesday, March 29, 12:00 pm via Zoom

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    During the month of March, the Zuckerman Museum of Art is proud to present HERstory: Women's Leadership in the Arts. This annual programming in March offers lectures and interaction with prominent women artists, authors, curators, and artistic directors of various creative disciplines to our students and community-at-large

    Please join us on virtually for our final herstory month lecture with Valerie Cassel Oliver, the Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, at The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Valerie Cassel Oliver will discuss her career as a curator of numerous notable exhibitions, including the recent traveling exhibition, The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse. The Dirty South makes visible the roots of Southern hip-hop culture and reveals how the aesthetic traditions of the African American South have shaped visual art and musical expression over the last 100 years.

 
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Expressive Type Workshop

  • Workshop 1 Saturday, April 1, 1:00 – 3:00 pm

    Workshop 2 Saturday, April 29, 1:00 – 3:00 pm

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    In this two-part workshop series, graphic designer and Kennesaw State instructor Valentina Caver will guide participants in exploring different ways to create expressive letters and combine them into a dynamic composition as well as touch on fundamentals of typography. Come prepared to explore typography in an interactive, engaged, and hands on approach. All materials will be provided. No previous knowledge of typography or letter creating is necessary. Sign up for one or both sessions, as they will each be unique.

     

    Valentina Caver is a graphic designer, artist and illustrator currently teaching graphic communication classes at Kennesaw State University. With a Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from Georgia State University, Valentina is pursuing her passion - teaching and sharing knowledge and work experiences with her students. In addition to teaching, Valentina enjoys working on projects in which digital and hand created art can be combined. 

    Valentina has experience working with clients from the US and Germany and speak three languages. Her love and passion for art and design is deeply rooted in the desire to solve problems and see beauty and purpose in all things. The trust in the problem-solving process as a designer and artist gives her confidence in her work. In Valentina's research she is interested in how cultural backgrounds help us interpret the language of design. Within language and culture, typography is one of Valentina's most interesting subjects to explore and study.

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ZMA Spring 2023 After Hours

  • Friday, April 14, 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm

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    The Zuckerman Museum of Art is pleased to offer an after-hours opportunity to connect with the art and ideas on view in the museum's spaces. Please visit the museum from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm and enjoy special programming!

    From 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm, join us for an onsite lecture with the exhibiting artist, Lesley Dill.

    Edgewood String Quartet will perform for one night only, join us for an evening celebrating the arts in collaboration!