Transcript of Curator Talk with Mary Frances Ivey discussing Elizabeth Layton (PDF)
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AnticKS & MOdels + My theater to your eyes: Kahlil Robert Irving opens next week!
Some references about the artist’s work:
https://www.kahlilirving.com/ (link opens in new tab)
Projects: Kahlil Robert Irving | Studio Museum in Harlem (link opens in new tab)
Part of the installation includes a pot by David Drake:
Elizabeth Layton: Drawing as Discourse now open!
What a wonderful way to open the exhibition Elizabeth Layton: Drawing as Discourse here at the Nerman Museum yesterday! Guest curator Mary Frances Ivey gave an insightful gallery talk and joining the dialogue in the audience two of Layton’s granddaughters, Judy and Carla, and also by the artist’s close friend and dedicated advocate Don Lambert. They added such wonderful personal anecdotes and memories to the discussion. We were able to record the talk and will hope to have it available soon for those who couldn’t make it to the talk in-person.
Elizabeth Layton: Drawing as Discourse | Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Happy New Year! More resources for Charlotte Street Fellows exhibition
Happy New Year! As we begin 2024 there is a lot in transition in the museum’s galleries. Installation work for our two upcoming exhibitions will mean that all of the first-floor galleries will be closed for a few weeks. It may seem a little quiet, but there is a LOT going on behind the scenes.
This is a good time to take a deeper dive into the Charlotte Street Fellows 2023 exhibition, which is open through April 14!
A review of the exhibition here has some additional information that you may find helpful: Review: Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award Exhibition – Sixty Inches From Center
Also, we were able to interview Stuart Hinds, Curator of Special Collections and Archives at the University Libraries at UMKC about Ruben Castillo’s research of the Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America. A transcript of that conversation is here: Interview with Stuart Hinds UMKC Libraries Special Collections GLAMA (PDF)
And if you would like to know more about Drew Shafer, there is a great article on KCUR about the importance of his activism (and it has more info from Stuart): Meet Drew Shafer, a Kansas City man behind the Midwest’s gay rights movement | KCUR – Kansas City news and NPR
Charlotte Street Fellows 2023 Artists Talks Online
Artists talks by Ruben Castillo, Sean Nash and SunYoung Park are now available to watch:
Sean Nash, Poring Over Weird Beings (Ammonite),
2023, composite resin, burlap, muslin, and acrylic paint on panel, 57 x 60.5 x 4”, photo: T. Maxwell Wagner
Charlotte Street Fellows 2023 exhibition resources
Sean Nash and SunYoung Park installations from the exhibition Charlotte Street Fellows · 2023, Nov. 17, 2023 – Apr. 14, 2024, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College. Photo: EG Schempf
The Charlotte Street Fellows 2023 exhibition is now open and looks amazing!
Additional resources for Sean Nash:
- Sean’s artist website with many essays and images – https://senash.com/
- A SoundCloud that artist Paula Sjunneson made in collaboration with Sean Nash to accompany viewing the work in the exhibition: https://soundcloud.com/user-822517680/fathoming-effervescence
- Honors: Sean Nash – KC STUDIO
- Sean Nash In Effervescence essay (PDF)
- A discussion of the use of the asterisk in trans* – TSQ- Keywords copy asterisk def (PDF)
- A more extensive discussion of language and terms, including “trans*” – Hayward-Weinstein_tranimalities (PDF)
Additional resources for Ruben Castillo:
- Ruben’s artist website – https://rubenbcastillo.com/
- Ruben Castillo interview from All Modes are Open to Us at KCLibrary (PDF)
- More information, including searchable resources, from the GLAMA archive at UMKC – https://libweb.umkc.edu/
Additional resources for SunYoung Park:
- An article about SunYoung that features quotes:
Tom Jones, Ho-Chunk Artist
There’s just a little more than a month left to see These Colors Will Not Run, an exhibition that highlights works by Indigenous artists, including Tom Jones (not the musical artist!)
There are many articles about Tom Jones’s work – first, his website: Photography | Tom Jones Ho-chunk. There is also another article in Hyperallergic: Tom Jones Zeroes in on Ho-Chunk Visibility.
Thinking about Veterans Day tomorrow, Nov. 11, 2023, it seems appropriate to focus on Jones’s work in the exhibition which was the source of inspiration for exhibition’s title, and which highlights Native peoples’ involvement in the U.S. Military: Watch this video about Tom Jones’ work
Learn more about Martine Gutierrez
We are so thrilled to be able to highlight the PhotograpHER exhibition (on view through Nov 21 – see it before Thanksgiving) in recent tours, including focusing on works by Cara Romero, Wendy Red Star, and the inimitable Martine Gutierrez. Interested in learning more about Martine’s work? I found several resources about her work:
Demons and Deities: Martine Gutierrez’s Indigenous Inspired Iconography – Art21 Magazine
A Shape-Shifting Woman Plays All the Parts – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Adding this excellent scholarship by Reid Mansur on the Demons series here too:
Dyani White Hawk awarded MacArthur Fellowship
Dyani White Hawk recently spoke at the Nerman Museum as a visiting artist in September. We were so thrilled to have her speak with JCCC, Haskell and KU students at this program, which happened right before she was awarded the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship!
Watch her full talk at the Nerman Museum here:
See a short video about the artist from the MacArthur Foundation:
Raven Chacon, Jerome Nerman Visiting Lecturer 2022, wins MacArthur Fellowship
Raven Chacon, composer and sound artist, winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in music, and Nerman Museum Jerome Nerman Visiting Lecturer of 2022, was just announced as one of the 2023 MacArthur Fellows. Watch a video of his inspiring talk.