It took a minute but we finally have the video of Katherine and Jeremy from the exhibition opening available online!
Enjoy!
Category Archives: Visiting Artists Talks
Wendy Red Star Announced as 2024 MacArthur Fellow
Wendy Red Star was recently announced as one of the 2024 MacArthur Fellows, sometimes also referred to as the “genius grant.” The Nerman Museum owns several of her works:
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- Wendy Red Star, Winter (from the series Four Seasons) , 2006, archival pigment print on Museo silver rag on Dibond, 35 1/2 x 40 in. Collection Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
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- Wendy Red Star, Spring (from the series Four Seasons), 2006, archival pigment print on Museo silver rag on Dibond, 35 1/2 x 40 in. Collection Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
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- Wendy Red Star, Indian Summer (from the series Four Seasons), 2006, archival pigment print on Museo silver rag on Dibond, 35 1/2 x 40 in. Collection Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
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- Wendy Red Star, Fall (from the series Four Seasons), 2006, archival pigment print on Museo silver rag on Dibond, 35 1/2 x 37 in. Collection Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
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- Wendy Red Star, Medicine Rock Child, 2011, pigment print, 28 x 31 in. Collection Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS, Gift of Dr. Loren Lipson
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- Wendy Red Star, Untitled (silver), 2011, fabric and tin jingles, 34 x 32 x 12 in. Collection Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS. Photo: EG Schempf
Red Star has also been featured in a some of our exhibitions!
- Contemporary American Indian Art · The Nerman Museum Collection (2014)
- Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly (2019)
- Adorned (2022-2023)
- PhotograpHER (2023)
Wendy Red Star also gave an artist talk at the Museum:
Learn more about her MacArthur Fellow award:
Joel Daniel Phillips’s work in Kansas Focus Gallery
We were so pleased to have Joel Daniel Phillips come speak at the museum on Aug 9th, and video of his talk is now available:
In his talk he mentions the book that is associated with his Killing the Negative series, a book he worked on in collaboration with another artist, poet Quraysh Ali Lansana. I have a copy of this book available in our Education Library now, volunteers may check it out!
Artist Website: JOEL DANIEL PHILLIPS
“Killing the Negative: A Conversation in Art & Verse” – this is the book in our library
Preston Singletary video online
We were lucky enough to have artist Preston Singletary visit the museum to speak at the Kansas Art Education Association conference in 2019 (and to perform with his band Khu.eex!) we were able to sit down with him and ask some questions specifically about the piece in our collection:
Dyani White Hawk video online
When Dyani White Hawk visited fall 2023 (just before she won the MacArther Genius grant!) we were able to sit down and chat about her work in the museum’s collection. A video of her speaking specifically about Untitled (All the Colors), and the transcript, are now available online:
Video of dialogue between artist Ruben Castillo and curator Stuart Hinds now available!
If you missed the dialogue between artist Ruben Castillo (exhibiting in the Charlotte Street Fellows 2023 exhibition) and Stuart Hinds (curator of special collections at UMKC, including GLAMA) on March 7th, it’s now available!
the Charlotte Street Fellows exhibition closes April 14 so make sure to see the exhibition one more time before it closes!
Video from Kahlil Irving talk with curator Jordan Carter now available!
If you missed the in-person/livestreaming talk between artist Kahlil Irving and curator Jordan Carter on March 21st, you can check out the video online now.
If you are interested in reading the transcript (with timestamps for each section) click on the description below the video and click “show transcript”.
Enjoy!
Video of Guest Curator Talk, Mary Frances Ivey discusses Elizabeth Layton: Drawing as Discourse
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
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: