Location
OnlineDate and time
-31st October 2024
PST 9am / EST 12pm (Amsterdam 5pm / London 4pm / Gweru 6pm / Seoul 1am / Mexico City 10am / LA 9am)
Art history historically has had many blind spots, often reflected in mainstream institutions collecting practices. The result is an incomplete, sometimes skewed view of art history, with essential contributions overlooked. Artists not included in the mainstream artworld have often developed their own support networks and alternative ecosystems. These narratives are in danger of being erased further if they are not documented while still possible. This panel highlights initiatives that use interviews and oral histories to build a more inclusive and accurate view of Art History and to bring narratives that have been hitherto kept on the margins to the center.
As conservation embarks on its own scrutiny of our practices and tries to open our field and its canon, what can we learn from existing projects in allied fields? What are the challenges, complexities, pitfalls, sensitivities, and rewards of this work?
Panelists
Kristin Juarez, Oral Histories and Artist-Centered Research at the Getty Research Institute
Kristin Juarez is the senior research specialist for the African American Art History Initiative (AAAHI) at the Getty Research Institute. In this role, she leads AAAHI’s oral history program, dedicated to augmenting art historical narratives by including the voices of African American artists and arts professionals. Her research relies on oral histories to consider histories of collaboration and multidisciplinary experimentation at the intersection of visual art, performance, and the moving image. Juarez is currently working on the collaborative research project Samella Lewis: World Building in African American Art History, which brings critical focus to the contributions of Dr. Lewis to the field of African American art history and Black Los Angeles.
Erica Wall, A vehicle for transformational change: Building the Lunder Institute Audio Archive
Erica Wall is a creative and collaborative educator, curator, and arts leader with extensive community-building experience. Wall is the current Director of the Lunder Institute for American Art, at Colby College in Maine. As the Director of an institute dedicated to American art, she oversees a nationally recognized fellowship program, consisting of an artist-in-residency and a remote and visiting-artist program. As part of this research initiative, dedicated to reshaping the contours of American art, Wall established an annual, large scale 10-week summer think tank, an audio archive database of conversations between Lunder fellows across disciplines and a national museum partnership program that responds to the question, What is the state of American art? Erica Wall has done extensive work within art institutions, the commercial art world, and academia. Before joining the Lunder Institute, she served as Executive Director of MCLA Arts and Culture at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, founded a combined gallery and artist residency for emerging artists and has held related positions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the J. Paul Getty Center, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento.
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