September 4 @ 3:30 PM in Hopkins Hall
"A presentation of objects and artifacts meant to begin and maintain a conversation about gender justice. Tracers is dedicated to enhancing the perception and profile of the modern feminist. Tracers is not humorless. Tracers is cool. Tracers includes everyone from the brides to the bra burners, to the babies, to the bros. The revolution will be LIVE and a total blast."
Alexander Provan — Talk
September 4 @ 4:30 PM in the Wexner Center Film/Video Theater.
"Innovative writer and editor Alexander Provan joins us for this talk organized by Ohio State’s Departments of Art and History of Art as part of their Curatorial Studies Series. Provan is an editor of Triple Canopy, a magazine and editorial collective based in New York, and he is also a contributing editor of Bidoun, a magazine of the arts and culture of the Middle East and its diaspora. His writings on digital culture, aesthetics, literature, and politics have appeared in The Nation, Believer, Bookforum, Artforum, and Frieze, among other publications."
Sue Coe: Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others — Talk
October 9 @ 4:30 PM in the Wexner Center Film/Video Theater.
"One of the foremost political artists working today, Sue Coe is an accomplished printmaker and illustrator who has spent over 35 years documenting the atrocities committed by people against animals and against each other. Her projects and publications (including her award-winning 1996 book Dead Meat) have critically examined the meat processing industry, factory farming, apartheid, AIDS, and war. Coe’s work has been featured in countless periodicals, on the cover of ARTNews, and was the subject of a retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC. "
SculptureX Symposium 2014: The Social Political Object
October 11 from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM @ Columbus College of Art & Design
"SculptureX 2014: The Social Political Object will examine social and cultural activism carried out through the mechanisms of art and culture.
Hosted by Columbus College of Art & Design on Saturday, Oct. 11, The Social Political Object will present artwork and research that explore designation, the object, and the system an object is held within. Artists, academics, community members, and cultural practitioners will come together for discussions intended to illuminate both historical work and current activity.
Keynote speaker Sharon Hayes is an internationally renowned artist whose work looks at gender by demonstrating how historical gender affiliations have embedded themselves in our collective memory and are played out in current political situations. Her work has been shown in museums, galleries, and performance spaces around the world, including the New Museum, the Tate Modern in London, Museum Moderner Kunst in Vienna, and the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin."
Lucy Lippard — Talk
October 23 @ 4:30 PM in the Wexner Center Film/Video Theater.
"Hear from art critic, curator, and activist Lucy Lippard, one of the most influential voices in contemporary art for over 50 years. Her many books include the seminal work Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object (1973), on the then-emerging field of conceptual art; From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women’s Art (1976); Eva Hesse (1976); and The Lure of the Local: Sense of Place in a Multicentered Society (1997). Deeply engaged in progressive art and politics, Lippard helped to found Art Workers’ Coalition; a group that advocated for museum reform; the Heresies Collective, a coalition of feminist artists and thinkers; and, along with Sol LeWitt, Printed Matter, the world’s leading nonprofit organization dedicated to artists’ books and related publications. She speaks this afternoon as part of the Curatorial Studies Series, organized by Ohio State’s Departments of Art and History of Art. "
Kerry James Marshall — Talk
November 7 @ 7:30 PM in the Mershon Auditorium.
"Dynamic Chicago-based artist, MacArthur Fellow, and past Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipient Kerry James Marshall visits to discuss his career and the importance of art education. An internationally renowned painter, master draftsman, photographer, video maker, and sculptor, Marshall carries forward the figurative tradition on view in Transfigurations: Modern Masters from the Wexner Family Collection while drawing our attention to race, representation, and the invisibility of African Americans in Western art history. He shares his thoughts on the influence of the modern masters featured in Transfigurations in a video on view in the galleries’ reading room as part of the exhibition. Marshall’s work has been featured at the center multiple times, including in the solo exhibition Every Beat of My Heart (2008) and last fall as part of Blues for Smoke (2013). This talk also serves as the keynote address for the 2014 Ohio Art Education Association conference."