"Panel discussion: Reclaiming Munio Makuuchi, an American artist"
Panelists will explore why Makuuchi wasn't more recognized during his lifetime, and the relevance of his poetry and prints 20 years after his death. Speakers include Curator Aprile Gallant, Professor Floyd Cheung, Printer Andrew Balkin and art historian Margo Machida.
Artist Lorraine O’Grady will be joined in conversation with Stephanie Sparling Williams, Associate Curator at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum. O'Grady is an artist and critic whose installations, performances and texts address issues of diaspora, hybridity and black female subjectivity.
This program is presented in association with the exhibition, Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem.
This program has been postponed until further notice. New dates will be announced as soon as possible.
Emily Hall Tremaine Symposium, March 27–28, 2020
Working in Museums celebrates the legacy of dedicated Smithies who have made their mark on museums throughout the past century. Over two days, a diverse group of current alums will speak candidly about their personal motivations and professional goals to move museums forward.
Based in Chicago, Amanda Williams is a distinguished visual artist whose creative practice employs color as a way to draw attention to the political complexities of race, place and value in cities. Her installations, paintings and works on paper seek to inspire new ways of looking at the familiar and in the process, raise questions about the state of urban space and citizenship in America. Williams launched SCMA’s Artist-in-Residence Program in summer 2019.