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“The Anatomy of Grandeur: Women in Sculpture” is a public panel organized and moderated by 2020-2021 A.I.R. Gallery Fellow Bat-Ami Rivlin, with the participation of artists Tamar Ettun, Dana Davenport, and Clare Koury. The three women sculptors are invited to discuss their relationship to the medium and canon of sculpture. Large-scale sculpture is often the realm of the ‘Strong Male Material Artist’, both in representation and theory. Its forms are often understood as an expression of erectness, dominance, and material…

On the recent publication of Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network 1990-2001 anthology detailing the trailblazing Asian artists collective, editor Howie Chen and curator and 2019 Van Lier Fellow Simon Wu discuss possibilities for post-visibility politics in contemporary art today. Godzilla: Asian American Art Network was formed in 1990 to support the production of critical discourse around Asian American art and increase the visibility of Asian American artists, curators, and writers, who were negotiating a historically exclusionary society and art world.…

Join the Asian American Arts Alliance for their November Town Hall, highlighting visual arts practitioners! Learn about the diverse and exciting creative arts projects and opportunities coming out of the Asian American visual arts community during Town Hall’s rapid-fire line-up of 60-second pitches, and meet featured presenters Shihui Zhou, founder of Latitude Gallery and artist/curator duo Vidisha-Fadescha and Shaunak Mahbubani of After Party Collective! Sign up to pitch and share an upcoming project or exhibition, promote an event, ask for…

For the first of two events to accompany Rowan Renee’s exhibition at Smack Mellon, Airport Beach, Renee will host a virtual conversation with scholar Stacy Braukman about her research into the Johns Committee—an investigation committee established by the Florida legislature in 1956 to investigate the “subversive” activities of the civil rights movement, homosexuality and communist political groups. Together, they will discuss Braukmans’s work linking the McCarthy Era to the present through the still-unfolding conservative political agenda that has grouped Southern…

For the second event accompanying Sara Jimenez’s exhibition Roots Burrow Through Stones and Hard Facts, the artist will lead a virtual panel discussion to elaborate on the themes presented in the work on display. The panel will feature the voices of multidisciplinary artist Crystal Z Campbell; writer, editor, and art historian Re’al Christian; and educator, curator, and community organizer PJ Policarpio. Each participant will speak about their current research and curiosities in relation to colonial displacement and the fragmentation of…

Artist Gabriela Vainsencher discusses the process and concepts behind her multi-disciplinary practice, through an informal conversation with artist and Triangle Arts board member Alun Williams. This conversation takes place in tandem with Vainsencher's participation in Bronx Calling, the fifth Bronx Museum AIM Biennial, on view from November 10, 2021, to March 20, 2022. Co-curated by Ian Cofre (Director, PS 122 Gallery) and Eva Mayhabal Davis (Co-Director, Transmitter), the fifth edition of Bronx Calling considers the multiple crises of health, grief, the…