Upcoming Events: December 2018

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Gregory Sholette and Social Practice Queens

December 4, 6:30-8:30 PM

School of Visual Arts, Room 101C

133/141 West 21st Street, New York, NY

SVA MFA Fine Arts presents a talk by artist Gregory Sholette who will speak on his personal art practice, followed by an introduction to Social Practice Queens. This event is free and open to the public.

http://www.sva.edu/events/events-exhibitions/gregory-sholette-and-social-practice-queens-2018

 GULF activists inside Guggenheim Museum. NYC protesting labor conditions in Abu Dhabi.

The Book of Everyday Instruction Monograph Launch Party

December 11th, 6:30 – 8 PM

CUE Art Foundation, 137 W. 25th Street, New York, NY

A book launch party for Chloë Bass’ new monograph, The Book of Everyday Instruction. This event is co-hosted by CUE Art Foundation, and publisher The Operating System.

For more information visit the CUE Art Foundation website or the Facebook event.

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Opening Reception for Conversations with Harriet and Frederick: Stories Told, Journeys Unfold

December 13, 5-7pm

Walls-Ortiz Gallery and Center

2230 Frederick Douglass Blvd, New York, NY 11026

The WOGC presents a group show centered around Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass’s legacies of caring and advocating for the thriving of all people in community. Current SPQ student Naomi Kuo will be showing her recent work Common Thread,  project made in collaboration with Queens Memory and Flushing community members. The exhibition runs December 13 – February 28.

RSVP on the Facebook event or Eventbrite

 

Have We Met: Dialogues on Memory and Desire

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A recent exhibit on socially engaged art was on view at Stamps Gallery in the University of Michigan Stamps School of Art and Design (Sept 21-Nov 18 2018). Gregory Sholette was included as one of the artists.

Have We Met: Dialogues on Memory and Desire draws inspiration from Ann Arbor’s legacy of social movements (Anti-War Movement, Civil RightsMovements) and experimental art practices (The Once Group) from the late-1950s to the 1970s as its point of departure. It brings together archival materials and reproductions from the Labadie Collection and the Bentley Library in conjunction with radical artworks by diverse, multi-generational artists and designers whose works are deeply influenced by the ideas of freedom and self-determination, re-writing the canonical accounts of history, building contemporary culture, and solidarity. Have We Met? Dialogues on Memory and Desireretraces and learns from the models of collectivity and organizing developed by artists, designers, and cultural producers in the past and present as a lens to understand the contemporary moment and explore how can we re-imagine a vibrant and inclusive future.

Read more about it here.