Tickets and season passes are now on sale for SIX x ATE. Grab them now!
Naomi Beckwith, final speaker for the PGH Photo Fair Speaker Series
Join us Wednesday April 25th at the Ace Hotel Ballroom for the final discussion of the PGH Photo Fair Speaker Series. Naomi Beckwith, Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, will discuss how her current exhibition and book projects focus on the impact of identity and multi-disciplinary practices for shaping contemporary art. Doors will open at 6pm, and the lecture will begin at 6:30pm.
The event is free and we invite you to stay after the lecture for drinks at the hotel bar.
Naomi Beckwith is the Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where her exhibition and book projects focus on the impact of identity and multi-disciplinary practices for shaping contemporary art. Prior to the MCA, Beckwith held positions at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Her numerous exhibitions include The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now and 30 Seconds off an Inch, both considering the persistent resonance of black cultural practices across contemporary art internationally.
Seeking volunteers for Gallery Crawl
We are seeking volunteers for the Gallery Crawl event on Friday, April 27th 5:30-10pm for the Terracotta CoLab exhibit. Volunteering is a great way to see what it's like to manage and organize art events and openings. We are currently trying to fill two time slots, 4-7pm and 7-10:30pm.
If you are interested in volunteering, please email eriko@caseydroege.com and let her know if you'd like to participate or if you have any questions.
A Special Photo Fair Event with Dayanita Singh
Carnegie International and PGH Photo Fair present Dayanita Singh in conversation with Dan Leers, Curator of Photography, Carnegie Museum of Art about her award-winning publication Museum Bhavan (Steidl, 2007), a museum in the form of a photography book. The event will take place on Wednesday, April 11th from 6pm-8pm at Silver Eye Center for Photography, 4808 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15224. The event is free, but registration is required.
Winner of the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation 2017 Photo Book of the Year Award and the 2018 ICP Book Award, Dayanita Singh is a participant in the 2018 Carnegie International. Come hear the New Delhi-based artist speak about how her exhibitions of photography take many forms, including a jacket she will wear. This garment will inspire a short sketching session to design our own pocket museums. Snacks will follow.
Tam O'Shanter Drawing Session: Zines with Mimi Cherono Ng'ok
We're thrilled to partner with the Carnegie International to host a Tam O'Shanter Drawing Session on Saturday, April 14th from 12pm-2pm. This drawing session will be led by Mimi Cherono Ng'ok. She will lead a zine-making session and invite us into her creative process inspired by travels, reading, and listening. Mimi Cherono Ng'ok is a Nairobi-based artist participating in this year's Carnegie International.
Tam O'Shanter Drawing Sessions are for those who draw and for those who don't. Come explore contemporary art through improvised forms of drawing with artists and organizers of the Carnegie International. Sketching, doodling, cartooning, mapping, writing, and marking are among the many modes that will bring us together.
Named after the original art classes for young people that Carnegie Museum of Art has been holding since 1929; the tam o'shanter, or tam, is a Scottish beret—oft adorned by a pompom.
SIX x ATE: Thickets
Johanna was recently in Fresno, CA for SIX x ATE: Thickets at the Art Space Gallery at Fresno City College. It was a huge success, and the event was at capacity. We enjoyed food by Adrianna Alejo Sorondo and presentations by Leslie Batty, Caleb Duarte, Teresa Flores, Ronda Kelley , Adrianna Alejo Sorondo, and Tracy Teran.
Thank you to the Art Space Gallery, Fresno City College, and Friends of the Arts at Fresno City College for making this event possible.