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What’s inside the Block? It depends on how you look.
The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University is an engine that drives questioning, experimentation, and collaboration across fields of study, with visual arts at the center. We do this by activating art’s power as a form of insight, research, and knowledge creation that makes human experience visible and material. Fueled by diverse perspectives and ways of knowing, we create shared encounters with art and with one another to deepen understandings of the world and our place within it.
Through exhibitions, classes, programs, screenings, and initiatives, The Block convenes bold conversations that explore the relevance of art to our lives and that deepen our thinking. We are as committed to exploring what art can do as we are to studying what art is.
Always free and open to all.
Image: Block Museum Student Associates tour The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto, 2023
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Made during a time of political and social upheaval in Mali, these portraits reflect enduring cultural resilience. Each image depicts a marabout seated with the tools of his practice—books, Qur’an boards, amulets, and prayer beads—framed by the architecture and atmosphere of Djenné. The consistent format underscores their collective identity, while individual poses and captions highlight personal roles and neighborhoods.
Traoré’s work will be shown alongside mid-20th-century black-and-white portraits of marabouts by Malian photographers Mamadou Cissé, Abdourahmane Sakaly, and Tijani Sitou. Drawn from the Archive of Malian Photography, these earlier images share visual parallels and deepen the historical context. Together, these images illuminate evolving perspectives on spiritual authority, identity, and visual representation in Mali.
This exhibition is developed in collaboration with the artist and professor Candace Keller, co-founder of the Archive of Malian Photography.
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Marking the ten-year anniversary of the disaster, The Block Museum of Art partners with Montoya to revisit this journey. Tó Łitso (Yellow Water) explores the enduring consequences of the Gold King Mine spill through photography, sound recordings, water samples, and cartographic data.
Combining documentary photographs with scientific data and poetic reflection, Tó Łitso invites viewers to consider water not only as a life-sustaining resource but also as a conduit for histories, stories, and harm. In doing so, the exhibition challenges extractive frameworks of land use, centering Indigenous knowledge and resilience. Through Montoya’s interdisciplinary practice, Tó Łitso (Yellow Water) offers a powerful meditation on environmental and cultural justice in the Southwest and beyond.
\"The 2015 spill had discharged more than three million gallons of acidic mine waste fluid into Cement Creek before joining the Animas River and eventually into the San Juan River, which flows directly across the Navajo Nation. Through my photographic journey, I make explicit the enduring presence of toxicity across multiple landscapes and territories. Sometimes it appears beautiful, other times haunting. The images highlight the relationships that various communities sustain through water/tó despite the occurrence of repeated and enduring contamination from upstream locales. The Gold King Mine Spill shows us this, even in that, which cannot be readily seen.\" – Teresa Montoya
Teresa Montoya’s Tó Łitso (Yellow Water): Ten Years after the Gold King Mine Spill was curated by Kathleen Bickford Berzock, Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Marisa Cruz Branco (Isleta Pueblo/Portuguese), Terra Foundation Fellow, in collaboration with the artist. It was supported in part by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council. Ahéhee' (thank you) to Janene Yazzie, John Hosteen, Wade Campbell, and Andrew Curley for Diné language and curatorial guidance.
Image: Teresa Montoya (Diné, born 1984), Tó Łitso #22 (Yellow Water #22), from the series Tó Łitso (Yellow Water), 2016, Inkjet print. Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Block Board of Advisors Endowment Fund purchase. Image courtesy of the artist
An exhibition exploring how images of luxury obscure the labor and extraction behind consumer culture.
Sammy Baloji’s monumental diptych Raccord #1: Cite de Kawama stages a sharp visual contrast between a Congolese temporary mining settlement and an advertisement for an idealized resort. The advertising image is not merely decorative, but is part of an economic system that manufactures longing, offering miners and their families a fantasy of leisure and mobility even as they remain excluded from the wealth it fuels.
Building from Baloji’s photograph, recently acquired by The Block Museum of Art, this exhibition reminds us that beneath the surfaces of leisure, consumption, and profit lie histories of exploitation and environmental damage. Beneath the Surface brings together artworks and advertising from The Block collection and the Herskovits Library of African Studies to make us think about how extractive industries rely on visual strategies to promote consumption, obscure labor, and elevate luxury. By presenting these works side by side, the exhibition invites viewers to consider how our own desires, shaped by photographs and advertisements, are linked to hidden processes of extraction, exploitation, and environmental harm.
Beneath the Surface is presented in conversation with Teresa Montoya’s Tó Łitso (Yellow Water): Ten Years after the Gold King Mine Spill, on view in the main gallery. Together, the projects underscore how the impacts of extraction link distant communities.
The exhibition is curated by Uche Okpa-Iroha, 2025‒2026 Art History Graduate Fellow, in consultation with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator. It is generously supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency and The Graduate School (TGS), Northwestern University. Additional in-kind support is provided by Northwestern University Libraries. Image: Sammy Beloji, Raccord #1, Cité de Kawama, 2011. Digital inkjet print on Baryta paper. Copyright of the artist.
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This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice and the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Gallery Endowment.
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\r\n\r\nJen Bervin is an interdisciplinary artist and poet whose works weaves together art, writing, science, and her own life. Bervin will discuss her project Silk Poems, poems written in nanoscale in the form of a silk biosensor. Consulting nanotechnology and biomedical labs, she fabricated a silk film with poems written in a six-character chain that corresponds to human DNA.
\r\n\r\nPresented in partnership with the McCormick School of Engineering.
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\r\n\r\nKader Attia grew up moving between Algeria and the suburbs of Paris, and uses this experience of living as a part of two cultures as a starting point to develop a dynamic practice that confronts cultural differences. His debut solo exhibition was held in 1996 in the Republic of Congo, and since then his artistic career has gained major international recognition, with inclusion in exhibitions such as the 50th Venice Biennale (2003), dOCUMENTA13 (2012), the 8th Lyon Biennial (2015), the 5th Marrakech Biennial (2016), and Dak'Art 2016. Attia has recently exhibited in major shows at the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Tate Modern, and the Guggenheim Museum. In 2016 he was awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize, among France’s most prestigious arts award, and his solo exhibition Sacrifice and Harmony, at the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, was named German exhibition of the year by the International Association of Art Critics (AICA).
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\r\nFriday, February 3, 7pm - WR: Mysteries of the Organism
\r\nFriday, February 10, 7pm - It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives
\r\nFriday, February 24, 7pm - Egymásra Nézve [Another Way]
\r\nFriday, March 3, 7pm - The Raspberry Reich
In an East Berlin gay bar in 1989, an old man explains his commitment to the communist party’s project of equality after World War II: “We stopped mankind’s exploitation by mankind. Now it does not matter if the person you work with is a Jew or whatever. Except gays. They were forgotten somehow.” The only official film from the German Democratic Republic dealing with homosexuality, Coming Out, by Heiner Carow, ends with these lines. This film series asks how the ideologies of communism, socialism, and capitalism address sexual minorities. Including work from both sides of the Iron Curtain, "The Gay Left" brings multiple perspectives and historical moments into conversation in order to fight against forgetting.
\r\n\r\nFor more information visit: http://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/view/cinema/TheGayLeft.html
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\r\n\r\nDrop in for a first look at the exhibition and to join artist Marie Watt in a participatory sewing circle.
\r\n\r\nArtist Conversation 2:00pm
\r\n\r\nThe contemporary artists in the exhibition use poetic strategies to address issues of war, racism, and xenophobia in American history. Exhibition curator Janet Dees and artists Kristine Aono, Samantha Hill, Dario Robleto, and Marie Watt will take part in a presentation and panel discussion on the show’s crucial themes.
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\r\n\r\n2017 marks two milestones that connect to works in this exhibition. February 19th is the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066 which ordered the war-time internment of over 120,000 Japanese-American citizens and residents living on the west coast of the United States. June 12th is the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision of the case Loving v. Virginia, which found laws prohibiting interracial marriage— then in effect in sixteen states—unconstitutional. Touchstones for other works include a class photograph of students at Pennsylvania’s Carlisle Indian Industrial School (operational 1879-1918), documents from a Chicago family archive relating to the early history of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, a photograph of an early 20th century Potlatch off Vancouver Island, and the love letters of soldiers who served in various wars in which the United States was involved. If You Remember, I’ll Remember juxtaposes themes and histories that are rarely considered in relationship to each other. Together these works pose questions about the purposes and processes of remembering and the responsibilities of those who remember.
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\r\n\r\nPartners include Northwestern’s Native American and Indigenous Peoples Steering Group, NAISA, CINAS, Multicultural Student Affairs, and the office of Neighborhood and Community Relations.
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\r\n\r\nFriday, February 17, 5:00pm & 7:00pm
\r\n\r\nPresented as a cinematic complement to the Art Institute of Chicago’s contemporaneous exhibition, Provoke: Photography in Japan between Protest and Performance, 1960–1975, these three screenings provide an opportunity to explore the historical intersection of experimental filmmaking with documentary cinema traditions in a period of radical social and political change. Scholar and curator Hirasawa Gō, and director Masanori Oe, will be present for a discussion moderated by Professor Patrick Noonan.
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\r\n\r\nHosting partners include Multicultural Student Affairs and the Japanese American Service Committee, Chicago Japanese American Historical Society, Japanese American Citizens League - Chicago, Japanese Mutual Aid Society, and the Chicago Japanese American Council
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\r\n\r\nPresented in partnership with the Department of Art History, the Program in Middle East and North African Studies, and with the generous support of The Buffett Institute for Global Studies.
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\r\n\r\nThis event is free and open to the public.
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\r\n\r\nSee blockmuseum.northwestern.edu for event partners.
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\r\n\r\nThe scope of Northwestern’s renowned Herskovits library is as wide and diverse as the continent of Africa itself. Join its curator, Esmeralda Kale for a look at objects in the collection that inspired Kader Attia’s research. Members of AfriSem, a consortium of graduate students focused on African Studies, will also explore intertwined areas of Attia’s research—architecture, psychopathology, and prosthetics—taking materials from the Library as a point of departure.
\r\n\r\nFor more information about Kader Attia's exhibition, visit: http://www.chicagogallerynews.com/calendar/kader-attia-reflecting-memory
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\r\n\r\nThis program is organized by Northwestern University Press.
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\r\nBisi Silva, Director
\r\nCentre for Contemporary Art, Lagos
\r\nWednesday, April 5, 6PM
The Visual Vanguard series presents conversations with a new generation of innovative arts leaders working internationally and transforming how we experience art today. Bisi Silva will discuss her work as artistic director for the 10th Bamako Photography Biennial and as the founder and director of CCA, Lagos, and its Asiko Arts School.
\r\nSilva’s presentation will be followed by a conversation with Block Museum curator, Kathleen Bickford Berzock.
This winter, community members from Northwestern, Evanston, and beyond joined together with artist Marie Watt to lend their hands to sewing circles, embroidering words of equity, maternity, and empowerment. These stitches and conversations have become part of a new work for the exhibition If You Remember, I’ll Remember. Join us for the unveiling of this project and to speak with Watt about her community-based and participatory practice.
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\r\nFriday, April 21, 10AM – 2PM
The Block Museum throws open its doors to artists, scholars, practitioners, and advocates of socially engaged art from around
\r\nthe world visiting for the free Open Engagement national conference. Join us as curator Janet Dees introduces If You Remember, I’ll Remember, artist Samantha Hill shares her work on the American South, curator Susy Bielak describes the partnerships involved in community-based practice, and professor Rebecca Zorach goes behind-the-scenes with the exhibition We Are Revolutionaries.
Free lunch with RSVP.
\r\n\r\nThe program is presented in conjunction with the conference Open Engagement 2017 – JUSTICE.
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\r\n\r\nCopresented by the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities and made possible in part by the support of the Harris Lecture Fund.
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\r\nSaturday, April 29 9:30AM
In 1967, the Organization of Black American Culture painted a huge mural “guerrilla-style” on the wall of a decaying building on the South Side of Chicago. They called it the Wall of Respect. On the 50th anniversary of the project, scholars, artists, and participants will convene to commemorate and mark the legacy of this act, which inspired a community mural movement
\r\nthat continues to resonate to this day.
Presented in partnership with the Department of Art History
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\r\n\r\nOpening reception: Thursday, May 4, 6-9pm
\r\n\r\nThis exhibition presents work by Lama Altakruri, Kentaro Kumanomido, Sara Milkes, Craig Neeson, and Titus Wonsey in the culmination of their master of fine arts (MFA) studies in the Department of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University.
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\r\n\r\nPresented in partnership with the McCormick School of Engineering
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\r\n\r\nPresented in partnership with the McCormick School of Engineering
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\r\nChicago's Picasso At 50: A Celebration of Public Sculpture
\r\nWednesday, July 12, 5:30pm
The Block Leadership Circle will host a lively evening celebrating public sculpture and the 50th Anniversary of Chicago's iconic Picasso. Please join us for Chicago-centric treats, followed by a conversation with Patricia Stratton, NU Alumna and author of The Chicago Picasso: A Point of Departure. The evening will conclude with a walking tour of the Block Museum's newly renovated sculpture garden.
\r\n\r\nAbout the Book
\r\nThe Chicago Picasso made its debut in downtown Chicago in August 1967 and was immediately recognized as a supreme achievement in monumental sculpture and civic art. The capstone to Picasso's long and fabled career as a sculptor and modernist, the sculpture has defined the city of Chicago for generations and stands as a peerless example of the union of modern art and civic architecture.
\r\nArt historian Patricia Stratton tells the inside story of the sculpture for the first time in The Chicago Picasso A Point of Departure, published to coincide with the 50th anniversary celebration of the famous unveiling. Relying on exclusive archival interviews and extensive research, all the controversial possibilities of the sculpture's inspiration are explored. Stratton tells the full story of monumental achievement in all of its historical and artistic glory.
A practicing artist since 1978, Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953) often creates works that blur the lines between fiction and documentary to explore universal human experiences through the black subject. Over the years Weems’ photographic practice has expanded to include video, performance, and multi-media installations. Ritual and Revolution (1998) is an immersive, gallery-sized installation that marks one of the artist’s earliest forays into three dimensions. Composed of 18 diaphanous printed cloth banners organized in a semi-architectural formation and a poetic audio track, Ritual and Revolution explores the historic human struggle for equality and justice, including references to the Middle Passage, the French Revolution and World War II.
\r\n\r\nImage: Carrie Mae Weems, Ritual and Revolution, 1998, installation view at P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery.
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William Blake and the Age of Aquarius will consider parallels between Blake’s time and mid-twentieth-century America, touching on such issues as political repression, social transformation, and struggles for civil rights. Blake’s protests against the conventions of his day were inspirational for many young Americans disillusioned by perceived cultural tendencies of social uniformity, materialism and consumerism, racial and gender discrimination, and environmental degradation. This generation sought in Blake a model of independence, imagination, and resistance to authority. The exhibition will feature American artists for whom Blake was an important inspiration and will include more than 130 paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, films, and posters, as well as original Blake prints and illuminated books from collections throughout the United States.
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William Blake, Ancient of Days, frontispiece for Europe a prophecy, 1794, relief etching. The Rosenbach, Philadelphia. Photographer: Jonathan Donovan
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\r\n\r\nImage: Purvis Young, Landscape with Figures, ca. 1990, Painting on found board. Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art Northwestern University, gift of Selig D. Sacks Family Collection; 2013.6.7.
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\r\nPlease join Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Grace Deveney, Curatorial Assistant, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and Northwestern Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, for a conversation about this important work on view at the Block Museum throughDecember 10, 2017.
Jean-Louis Cohen is the Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU. In conjunction with the Chicago Architectural Biennial he will consider the paradoxical transfer between American and Russian architecture and culture throughout the 20th century.
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Exhibition curator and Northwestern University Art History Professor Stephen F. Eisenman and Brendan Fernandes, printmaker and Visiting Artist in Art, Theory and Practice will lead a gallery talk focusing the social and political use of the print medium and Blake’s visionary combination of writing and drawing that inspired generations of political art.
\r\n\r\nFREE,
\r\n\r\nRSVP here.
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\r\n\r\nFREE,
\r\n\r\nRSVP here.
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\r\nWednesday, November 29, 2017 - 4:30PM, FREE
Join the Block Museum for a conversation with four contemporary Native artists exploring collaborative practices that unite artists, community and audience. From participatory dance and collective narratives, to asynchronous poetry and public interventions each artist’s work upends the notion of art as a singular and finite product. Panelists include Rosy Simas (Seneca, choreographer and performer), Heid Erdrich (Turtle Mountain Chippewa, poet, writer and filmmaker),Andrea Carlson (Anishinaabe, visual artist), and Debra Yepa-Pappan (Jemez, digital multimedia). The artists will be joined in conversation by Kelly Wisecup, associate professor in the Department of English and Bethany Hughes (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), co-founder of the Colloquium on Indigeneity and Native American Studies.
\r\n\r\nThe discussion will be preceded by a 4PM reception with the artists.
\r\n\r\nRSVP Here
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\r\n\r\nSpace is limited and registration is required. RSVP HERE
\r\n\r\nPresented in partnership with the Poetry Foundation
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\r\n\r\nConversation 6PM
\r\n\r\nReception and viewing 4PM-6PM
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\r\n\r\nAward winning director and editor Chris Brown’s The Other Kids combines documentary and fiction (he calls it a “fictumentary”) to explore the lives of a group of high school students in Sonora, California. Brown worked with the students to shape fictional situations based on their real lives and experiences, allowing for an intimacy and authenticity that avoids the clichés of many teenage dramas. Through the film’s improvisatory process and documentary-style shooting, Brown and his young collaborators capture “small, revelatory, human moments” that pierce the fiction and connect the characters’ lives, worries, and simple joys to our own. "Honest and compelling."—San Francisco Chronicle
\r\n\r\nIn Person: director Chris Brown
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\r\n\r\nJeanette Kohl is an Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art at University of California-Riverside.
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\r\n\r\n7-9PM: Sewing Circle at Segal Visitors Center
\r\n\r\nWilliam Blake recognized artmaking as a powerful tool to address the pressing social issues of his time. In this spirit, we invite you to experience his art and join Melissa Blount,Evanston-based artist and activist and creator of the Black Lives Matter Witness Quilt, to produce a new collaborative work of art. No sewing experience is required.
\r\n\r\nRead More: Block Exhibit inspires Black Lives Matter Quilt
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\r\n\r\nFilmmaker Penny Lane describes her documentary on the early 20th century huckster and self-promotion wiz Dr. John Romulus Brinkley as “mostly true.” Fittingly, the film is both the story of Brinkley, who rose to prominence by selling goat-testicle transplants as a cure for impotence, and a playful deconstruction of the unreliability of the documentary form. Lane uses animated re-enactments, interviews, and archival footage to document Brinkley’s exploits, and then reveals where and how she’s not been telling the whole truth. It’s a show-and-tell of how media can be used to influence the public, or outright lie, but done so through the tale of a captivating eccentric, a charlatan who promised miracles and built an unrivaled marketing machine for himself. “As illuminating as it is immensely entertaining.”—Rolling Stone
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\r\n\r\nEllis Island: A Commune (1969, 37 min.)
\r\nThe Piano Player (1969, 10 min.)
\r\nBlacktop (1970, 7 min.)
\r\nSalamander Syncope (1971, 24 min.)
Over nearly 50 years, German documentary filmmaker and essayist Harun Farocki (1944-2014) created more than 100 bold, playful, and cerebral films, videos, and installations. His astute and brilliant observations of the contradictions of German society, politics, and economics, and how these national issues are situated in a global context, quickly distinguished him as a unique and passionate critical voice in world cinema. The first program of the series, Europe is Burning, features several of Farocki’s earliest films, made at a time when his work was at its most overtly political.
\r\n\r\nThe Words of the Chairman (1967) is an agit-prop “commercial” that demonstrates how words can be weapons as it skewers the Shah of Iran and his wife, who are presented as cartoonish figures. Their Newspapers (1968) grew out of the student protests against the Springer press group, whose newspapers were being criticized for their bias. White Christmas (1968) uses the iconic Bing Crosby song in a denunciation of the Vietnam War. One of Farocki’s most celebrated films and a masterpiece of essay filmmaking, Inextinguishable Fire (1969) concerns the manufacture of napalm, issues of labor and accountability, and the social, political, and corporate structures that normalize the horrors of war.
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\r\n\r\nBervin’s visit marks the first artist-in-residence collaboration between the Block and Kaplan and is part of the museum’s commitment to fostering public practice projects with artists—art that is collaborative, process-based, participatory, and often involves people as the medium or material of the work.
\r\n\r\nBervin’s campus engagement activities will include a rich array of programs and learning opportunities. Her residency will culminate in Read with the Spine: Experiences & Experiments in Northwestern Libraries Collections, an interdisciplinary writing workshop for faculty and students using the Library’s collections. The workshop is being developed and led by Bervin; the Block Museum’s Susy Bielak, the Susan and Stephen Wilson Associate Director of Engagement/Curator of Public Practice; Martin Antonetti, the Library’s Director of Distinctive Collections; and a team of the Libraries’ curators and conservators.
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RSVP & further information HERE
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The work of multimedia artist and writer Işıl Eğrikavuk finds its core in social and political realities that blend with fiction. In her regular newspaper column, mock TV shows and other works, Eğrikavuk creates absurd situations that highlight the manipulative power of the media. She primarily works with stories with a fantastical or absurd element that challenge the viewer’s ability to believe them. For example, A dinner performance called Pluto’s Kitchen (2017) compared Pluto’s planetary demotion both to the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union and a personal breakup story. For this artist talk, Eğrikavuk will share examples of recent projects and a framework of how current politics can be read through the lens of art.
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Join the Block Museum's docents for a deeper look into the ideas and themes at play in the current exhibitions. These free, informal tours kick off in the museum lobby at 3PM Sundays and can be tailored to the questions and interests of those attending.
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\r\n\r\nWinner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival but then falling into near obscurity, Wendell B. Harris’s Chameleon Street is now considered a classic of 1980s African-American independent filmmaking. Harris wrote, directed, and starred in the film, which is based on a real-life con-man imposter, who successfully passed himself off as reporters, doctors, lawyers, and more. The film touches very directly on themes of race, class, and economics—it’s a work of biting social critique—but Harris also doesn’t lose sight of the absurdity and humor of the material. Badly distributed when it was finally released in 1991, Chameleon Street has been undergoing a re-evaluation over the last decade.
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\r\nIn Person: filmmaker Jamie Melzter and activist Christopher Scott
Praised by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, the founders and directors of the Innocence Project, Jamie Meltzer’s award-winning documentary explores the U.S. criminal justice system from a unique perspective. Christopher Scott, Johnnie Lindsey, and Steven Phillips had collectively spent 60 years in prison before being exonerated. After their releases, the trio formed a Dallas, Texas-based detective agency, focused on assisting others they believe to be wrongfully convicted of crimes. Meltzer chronicles the endless, mundane tasks necessary to unearth new leads; the wrenching, maybe-true-maybe-not stories of prisoners looking for help; and some unexpected moments of drama, as the three men, led by Scott, work to free others who were caught up in a system that too-often settles for resolution rather than justice. A “surprising and profound experience”—Meredith Alloway, Filmmaker Magazine [Add to Calendar]
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\r\nPresented as part of the Block Cinema series Watching the Detectives
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\r\n\r\nBoth of the films in this program focus on historical examples of police surveillance, but in radically different ways. Red Squad was produced by Pacific Street Film Collective, formed by long-time friends Fischler and Sucher three years earlier, and the four filmmakers were all recent NYU film school grads. The film’s subject is the New York City Police Department’s Bureau of Special Services, known as the Red Squad, and the surveillance activities they undertake against perceived radicals (African-Americans, leftists, students, activists, and others). The filmmakers become part of their own story when the Red Squad and the FBI begin to target them as well. Filmmaker and artist William E. Jones’s film Tearoom is an act of appropriation and recontextualization. He takes a film shot by the Mansfield, Ohio, police department in 1962, and presents it unaltered (excepting one small intervention). The film, shot in a public restroom through a one-way mirror, was used as evidence to prosecute men engaging in anonymous sexual acts. Jones’ reclamation of this footage, and his ironic retitling of it, recasts it from an official record of “deviancy” to a bittersweet look at gay desire.
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\r\nAn eye-opening experience.—Dexter Filkins, "Do Not Resist and the Crisis of Police Militarization," The New Yorker (2016)
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\r\nPresented as part of the Block Cinema series Watching the Detectives
Museums are full of stories. Join us for a read-aloud storytime, plus family-friendly activities to look closer and think deeper about the art at the Block. Geared for children ages 3-8 but all are welcome. Space is limited and registration is required.
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\r\n\r\nTop Image: Paul Chan, detail from Happiness (finally) after 35,000 years of civilization, courtesy of the artist and Greene Naftali Gallery.
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\r\nThis screening is presented in partnership with Iceberg Projects in conjunction with the exhibition David Wojnarowicz: Flesh of My Flesh. (June 23 – August 4, 2018)
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\r\nFollowing the screening, exhibition curator Dr. Daniel S. Berger will host a conversation with recently retired director of the University Galleries at Illinois State University, Barry Blinderman. Their discussion will include Blinderman’s experience of working with David Wojnarowicz during his lifetime and provide insight into the artist's practice and symbology, which remains starkly relevant today. Works include:
How do images in advertising campaigns perpetuate ideas about race, gender, and class? The exhibition Hank Willis Thomas: Unbranded brings together selections from two bodies of work by renowned American artist Hank Willis Thomas (b.1976): Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America 1968-2008 and Unbranded: A Century of White Women 1915-2015.Thomas removes slogans and product names from historical and contemporary advertisements, asking us to confront the impact of images on the popular imagination.
\r\n\r\nJoin exhibition curator Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, for a lunchtime tour and discussion of the exhibition.
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Museums are full of stories. Join us for a read-aloud storytime, plus family-friendly activities to look closer and think deeper about the art at the Block. Geared for children ages 3-8 but all are welcome. Space is limited and registration is required.
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\r\n\r\nThe Goldsholls attended Chicago’s Institute of Design (ID) and were inspired by ID's founder, the artist and designer László Moholy-Nagy. The curriculum at ID included motion picture production, which Moholy-Nagy viewed as a medium of light and collage. Deeply influenced by Moholy-Nagy’s teachings and Bauhaus approach, with its ethos of aesthetic experimentation and social engagement, Morton and Millie fostered a similar attitude among designers working in their firm. Their work in film grew equally out of the unique moving image and design culture of Chicago. At midcentury, Chicago was known as the “Hollywood” for educational film production, churning out thousands of educational and promotional films each year. Filmmakers worked expansively—producing slide shows, short films, and spectacular industry installations, in addition to print advertising and other ephemera. The creative work these artists pursued often influenced their commercial productions and vice versa.
\r\n\r\nFeaturing films, television ads, and other kinds of moving images alongside designed objects, print advertisements, trademarks, photographs, and drawings, Up is Down will be the first exhibition to illuminate the distinctive brand of motion pictures that Chicago became known for in mid-century and the ways the city served as an influential testing ground for ideas connecting art, industry, design, and film. The exhibition, its related publication, and public programs will provide context for understanding Chicago as a unique site for ideas connecting art, design, and film that eventually gained international currency.
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\r\nIn the 1950s, Chicago-based design firm Goldsholl and Associates made a name for itself with innovative "designs-in-film." Headed by Morton and Millie Goldsholl, the studio produced television spots, films, trademarks, corporate identities, and print advertisements for international corporations like Kimberly-Clark, Motorola, and 7-Up. Although they were compared to some of the most celebrated design firms of the day, the Goldsholls and their designers are relatively unknown today. Opening in September 2018, the Block Museum’s exhibition Up is Down: Mid-Century Experimentation in Advertising and Film at the Goldsholl Studio will reexamine the innovative work of Goldsholl and Associates and its national impact.
The Goldsholls attended Chicago’s Institute of Design (ID) and were inspired by ID's founder, the artist and designer László Moholy-Nagy. The curriculum at ID included motion picture production, which Moholy-Nagy viewed as a medium of light and collage. Deeply influenced by Moholy-Nagy’s teachings and Bauhaus approach, with its ethos of aesthetic experimentation and social engagement, Morton and Millie fostered a similar attitude among designers working in their firm. Their work in film grew equally out of the unique moving image and design culture of Chicago. At midcentury, Chicago was known as the “Hollywood” for educational film production, churning out thousands of educational and promotional films each year. Filmmakers worked expansively—producing slide shows, short films, and spectacular industry installations, in addition to print advertising and other ephemera. The creative work these artists pursued often influenced their commercial productions and vice versa.
\r\n\r\nFeaturing films, television ads, and other kinds of moving images alongside designed objects, print advertisements, trademarks, photographs, and drawings, Up is Down will be the first exhibition to illuminate the distinctive brand of motion pictures that Chicago became known for in mid-century and the ways the city served as an influential testing ground for ideas connecting art, industry, design, and film. The exhibition, its related publication, and public programs will provide context for understanding Chicago as a unique site for ideas connecting art, design, and film that eventually gained international currency.
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\r\nThis exhibition is presented in conjunction with Art Design Chicago, a wide-ranging initiative to explore the breadth of Chicago’s role as a catalyst and incubator for innovations in art and design. Art Design Chicago is a spirited celebration of the unique and vital role Chicago plays as America’s crossroads of creativity and commerce. Led by the Terra Foundation for American Art with presenting partner The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, this citywide partnership of cultural organizations explores Chicago’s art and design legacy with more than 25 exhibitions and hundreds of events in 2018.
Top image: Goldsholl Design Associates, 7Up exploratory logotype for “See the Light” Campaign, c. 1975. Courtesy of Dr. Pepper Snapple Group
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Less is known of his almost 30 years teaching art and artists at Northwestern University. This show celebrates his legacy as an educator with artworks by Paschke alongside his teaching material from the Northwestern University Archives and generous loans from Marc and Sharon Paschke.
\r\n\r\nTop image: Ed Paschke, Ponderosa [detail], 1991, Color lithograph on paper, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 1995.5.
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\r\nMain Gallery
This this exhibition will examine the innovative Chicago-based design firm, Goldsholl Design Associates, its principals Morton and Millie Goldsholl and the associates affiliated with their firm, and these practitioners’ extensive impact on design and film nationally from the 1950s through the 1970s. The Goldsholls trained at the Chicago-based School of Design where László Moholy-Nagy, a Hungarian émigré from the German Bauhaus school faculty, famously fostered a curriculum of aesthetic experimentation and social engagement. Moholy-Nagy’s emphasis on film in the school’s design curriculum made Chicago distinct from other American institutions. The innovative approaches that emerged from the Goldsholls’ experiences at the School of Design placed their firm at the forefront of their peers in design and the wider community of filmmakers. The Goldsholls worked at the cross-section of art, design, advertising, and visual culture. Their innovative motion pictures, which they called “designs-in-film,” applied techniques of experimental and avant-garde filmmaking to advertisements distributed to a wide audience. Designers in Film will be the first major project to study the Goldsholl firm’s history as a particular outgrowth of Chicago’s social, artistic, and economic climate.
\r\n\r\nDesigners in Film will also examine and illuminate the distinctive vein of industrial film that Chicago became known for from the 1950-70s and these industrial films’ interdependent relationship to avant-garde film experiments produced by the same artists and designers. The Block exhibition will feature moving images alongside materials related to their creation, including designed objects, drawings, print advertisements, logos, photographs, and other ephemera. Together, the exhibition, its related publication, and public programs will provide context for understanding Chicago as a testing ground for ideas connecting art, design, and film that eventually gained international currency and as a producer of influential synthesizers of these ideas.
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\r\n\r\n"Improvisation, experimentation, social justice: all these things form the spine of what comes out of Chicago” – Thomas Dyja
\r\n\r\nIn the 1950s, Chicago-based design firm Goldsholl and Associates made a name for itself with innovative "designs-in-film." Headed by Morton and Millie Goldsholl, the studio produced artistically-inspired television spots, films, trademarks, and print advertisements for international corporations like Kimberly-Clark, Motorola, and 7-Up. Combining Bauhaus-influenced aesthetics with commercial advertising success, the firm exemplified the way in which Chicago served as the nation’s design capital and a crucial testing ground for ideas connecting art, industry, design, and film.
\r\n\r\nThomas Dyja, third-generation Chicagoan and author of the award-winning Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream, will discuss why Chicago was fertile ground for the Goldsholls’ work— and explore the mid-century circumstances that united culture and industry across the city. In conversation with Dyja, exhibition co-curators Amy Beste and Corinne Granof will share insight into the groundbreaking work of the Goldsholl Associates, tracing its artistic influences, including those of artist and designer László Moholy-Nagy, as well as the Firms’ lasting design legacy.
\r\n\r\nTop image: Millie Goldsholl, Morton Goldsholl, Wayne Boyer, Larry Janiak, and Dick Marx, still from Kimberly-Clark Corporation Faces and Fortunes, 1959, 16mm film, 12:48 minutes. Mort and Millie Goldsholl Collection, 1942–1980, Chicago Film Archives.
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\r\n\r\nJoin us to celebrate the opening of the exhibition Break a Rule: Ed Paschke’s Art and Teaching (September 18 - December 9, 2018). Explore Paschke’s art and teaching through the lenses of his former colleagues and students— including insights into Paschke’s work, his circle (the Hairy Who and Chicago Imagists), his reputation in Chicago and beyond. Artists Zach Buchner, William Conger, Antonia Controand Anna Kunz will discuss their personal experiences with Paschke as an innovative educator in a conversation moderated by Block Museum Fellow and exhibition curator Beth Derderian, a doctoral candidate in anthropology.
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\r\n\r\nIn Hayao Miyazaki’s beloved animated film, the world has turned into a toxic wasteland in the fallout of global war. Princess Nausicaä’s home, the Valley of the Wind, is one of the few places remaining green and untouched, but becomes threatened by the mutated and destructive creatures of the post-apocalyptic world as well as the dangerous ambitions of rivaling empires of humans. Even in this, his second film, Miyazaki’s trademark style and themes are well established, combining his imaginative vision with environmental concerns. Subtitled 35mm print!
\r\n\r\nPlease note that seating for this popular event is first-come, first-served.
\r\n\r\nPresented as part of the film series Women at the End of the World, Inspired by Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the novel selected for Northwestern’s yearly campus-wide One Book One Northwestern
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\r\n\r\nThis event kicks off the annual Imagining America gathering on art and justice Transformative Imaginations: Decarceration and Liberatory Futures, taking place in Chicago October 19 -21.
\r\n\r\nThis event is part of the 2018-19 SECURITY Dialogues, a year-long conversation about struggles over security from humanistic perspectives, co-presented by the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities in partnership with multiple Northwestern departments and programs.
\r\n\r\nImage: Dread Scott,Wanted, 2017. Community-based project: Wanted posters, community, participants, public fora, forensic sketch session, HD video documentation, pigment prints. Courtesy of the artist.
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The mid-century love affair between advertising, design, and modernism united the Goldsholls with peers in the vanguard of film and television from coast to coast. This film program gathers together dazzling experimental and commissioned films by such celebrated figures as Charles and Ray Eames, Jim Henson, and Saul Bass, along with rarely-screened gems by innovators Fred Mogubgub and Francis Thompson. Lynn Spigel, Northwestern Professor of Screen Cultures, will introduce the program, situating the Goldsholls within the history explored in her book TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television.
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Free
\r\n\r\nChallenging and creative films like 1969’s Up Is Down put director Millie Goldsholl at the vanguard of animation during a period of renewal and discovery in the form. This program surveys some of her influences and peers, showcasing styles that vary from Norman McLaren’s visionary experiments in direct-to-film animation and pixilation to Faith and John Hubley’s beautifully-crafted and humanistic narrative shorts. Award-winning animator and Associate Professor of Radio, Television, and Film, Eric Patrick will be present to share his insights into these bold, inventive works.
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Inspired by the exhibition Up Is Down, Ellen Lupton, Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City and director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), will address the evolving relationship between artistic experimentation and commercial design. In the 1950s and '60s, the Goldsholl design firm’s creative experiments with light and media found their ways to lucrative commercials and patents. Lupton will consider this history of design innovation, and the state of experimentation and design today; focusing on the commercials and projects that artists create for the ubiquitous digital screens around us. Thinking about how rapid digital culture blurs the boundaries of art and commerce this program considers our new era of design experimentation and addresses how current designers shape not only what, but how we see.
\r\n\r\nCo-sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art and The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation. Presented by The Block Museum of Art in conjunction with Art Design Chicago and in partnership with the Segal Design Institute and Medill Integrated Marketing and Communications.
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In 2002, artist Paul Chan worked as a member of the Iraq Peace Team, formed by the Chicago-based activist group Voices in the Wilderness (now Voices for Creative Nonviolence), which was on the ground in Baghdad to protest the US aggression against Iraq. Chan captures the calm before the storm in this “ambient video essay” through a focus on the routine work and leisure of the Iraqi people. Among the details that are exotic to western eyes, he reveals a shared humanity, one that is under threat of destruction. With Joe Proulx of Voices for Creative Nonviolence in person.
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\r\n\r\nThe Goldsholls studied at Chicago’s School of Design in the 1940s under renowned artist and educator László Moholy-Nagy, who brought the methods and principles of the German Bauhaus to the US. Known for architecture and design, faculty at the Bauhaus also explored the kinetic possibilities of projected light and film, a legacy that deeply influenced School of Design students in Chicago. Laura Frahm, Assistant Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University, will present her ongoing research on film at the Bauhaus, followed by a screening of key films by Moholy, Hans Richter, and others, and an excerpt from an upcoming documentary about the New Bauhaus with filmmaker Alysa Nahmias in person.
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Free Lecture
Rachel Haidu, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester, will discuss the relationship between painterly shape--often relegated to a mere compositional device--and current conceptions of selfhood.
Reception to follow.
Northwestern University Department of Art History presents the Warnock Lecture Series. Image: Philip Guston, Head and Bottle, 1975
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Lynn Littman’s Testament offers a personal, devastating and subversively feminist account of societal collapse. Narrating the ordeals of a suburban Bay Area family in the weeks after a large-scale nuclear attack,Testament measures the deepening crisis through the resilience of mother Carol (Jane Alexander) as she watches traditional figures of patriarchal authority crumble around her. Avoiding graphic violence, Littman instead explores the emotional toll of catastrophe through strong performances and brilliant editing.
Part of the film series Women at the End of the World, inspired by Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the novel selected for Northwestern’s yearly campus-wide One Book One
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\"[An] unruly, unclassifiable film — perhaps the sole entry in the hybrid genre of radical-lesbian-feminist sci-fi vérité.\" -The Village Voice
Set in an alternate-reality, socialist democratic United States, Lizzie Borden’s speculative fictionBorn in Flamesfinds the country plagued by social injustice. This feminist classic is a low-budget, grassroots production, a reflection of a long-gone grungy yet vibrant downtown New York City. Made at the height of the Reagan years, it tackles sexism, racism, and homophobia in its intertwining narratives about two rival pirate radio stations run by women, a trio of female investigative reporters, and a government threatened by difference. Showing in a newly restored 35mm print.
The event will be introduced by Lauren Herold, Ph.D. candidate in Screen Cultures, and will feature a post-film Q&A with Lizzie Borden and Nick Davis, Professor of English and Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with restoration funding from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and The Film Foundation. Presented by the Block Museum and the Northwestern Women's Center. Part of the film series Women at the End of the World, inspired by Margaret Atwood’sThe Handmaid’s Tale, the novel selected for Northwestern’s yearly campus-wide One Book One
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“[A] refined fusion of politics, history, and stunningly lush aesthetics.” – Artforum
Isaac Julien’s renowned 2007 video installation, The Leopard (Western Union: Small Boats), presents a lyrical and visceral meditation on histories of African migration. Combining exquisite cinematography with elements of documentary, dance, and musical performance, The Leopard (Western Union: Small Boats) juxtaposes all-too-familiar images of Mediterranean passage— bodies crowded in rafts, laid out in reflective blankets on Italian shores, drowning in tempestuous waters—with the tranquil spaces of European tourism and luxury.
Born in London in 1960 to Caribbean immigrant parents, Julien has crafted a singular and expansive body of work that moves effortlessly between experimental film and narrative cinema, theatrical exhibition and video installation. With characteristic formal beauty and critical depth, The Leopard (Western Union: Small Boats) synthesizes Julien’s longstanding examination of diasporic and postcolonial experience in a moving and humanistic 20-minute work.
Presented in conjunction with The Block’s Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time, a groundbreaking exhibition on medieval African trade routes, The Leopard (Western Union: Small Boats) will be exhibited for the first time in Chicago. This cinematic masterpiece challenges viewers to contemplate the inequities of globalization and the cycles of displacement and violence that have bound Europe and Africa for centuries.
RELATED PROGRAM
Cinema: Young Soul Rebels (Isaac Julien, 1991, UK, 35mm), Friday, March 15, 7 PM
Image: Western Union Series No. 8 (Sculpture for the New Millennium), 2007. Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York © Isaac Julien
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قوافل من ذهب، شذرات من التاريخ: فن، ثقافة، وتبادل عبر الصحراء الكبرى خلال القرون الوسطى
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time challenges the widely held bias of a timeless Africa that is cut off from the dynamics of world history. This will be the first major exhibition to take stock of the material culture of early trans-Saharan trade and to offer strong evidence of the central but little-recognized role Africa played in medieval history. Among the diverse materials on view in the exhibition will be sculptures, jewelry, household and luxury objects, manuscripts, and architectural remnants. What unites these materials is their connections to routes of exchange across the Sahara Desert during the medieval period (eighth through 16th centuries).
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time addresses the shared history of West Africa, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe during the critical epoch of the eighth through 16th centuries, when West African gold fueled a global economy and was the impetus for the movement of things, people and ideas across the Sahara Desert to Europe, the Middle East and beyond. Because of the scarcity of surviving intact works from before the 16th century, the early history and material culture of Africa have rarely been the focus of major exhibitions.
More than 100 assembled artworks and archeological fragments will help audiences discover the far-reaching impact of historic trans-Saharan exchange and the overlooked role of West Africa at the forefront of these developments. Using objects as points of entry and inquiry, Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time will interweave the art history, archaeology, history and comparative literature of trans-Saharan trade, situating it within a broad geographical and historical context.
Caravans and Crossroads: Art, Music, and Stories
January 26, Open house throughout The Block, 10:30 AM – 1 PM
Drop by the Block for an all-ages celebration inspired by Caravans of Gold and be among the first to explore the exhibition. Join Chicago artist Rhonda Wheatley in a hands-on activity exploring the powerful stories that objects tell. Experience live West African music and DJ sets throughout the museum featuring special guest, seventh-generation Jeli (griot) Morikeba Kouyate. A master of the kora, Kouyate translates the oral history and legends from medieval West Africa to the present day.
Opening Conversation: Caravans of Gold
January 26, Pick Stager Concert Hall, 2 PM
Pick Staiger Concert Hall, 2 PM
“Africa is forcing those who will listen to reconsider the continent.” - Gus Casely-Hayford
Renowned speakers include Chris Abani, Nigerian-born novelist, poet, and essayist and winner of 2009 Guggenheim Award; Gus Casely-Hayford, Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C, and host of the BBC’s Lost Kingdoms of Africa. They will be joined by Caravans of Gold curator Kathleen Bickford Berzock, the Block’s Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs and former curator of African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Taking up themes from the exhibition, this panel will consider the relationships between history, power, and imagination, and ask what trans-Saharan exchange from the distant past can tell us about movement and migration today. Jonathan Holloway, Provost of Northwestern University and Professor of History and African American Studies, and Annelise Riles, Executive Director of the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Studies and Associate Provost for Global Affairs will provide welcoming remarks.
Select Tuesdays, 12 PM
Take part in a walk-through of the Caravans of Gold exhibition led by a member of the curatorial team and learn more about the creation of this groundbreaking exhibition. These free tours kick off in the museum lobby. Tours typically last 45 min.
January 29
February 5
February 12
February 19
February 26
March 5
March 12
March 19
March 26
Image: Seated Figure, Possibly Ife, Tada Nigeria, Late 13th -14th century, Copper with traces of arsenic, lead, and tin,
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Presented by the Litowitz Creative Writing Graduate Program.
Image: Tyehimba Jess, Courtesy of the author
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February 10
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Image: A selection of medieval excavated finds from Essouk-Tadmekka, including fragments of glazed ceramics, stone beads and semi- precious stones, Mali. Photograph by Sam Nixon, 2017.
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This two-night event includes the Wednesday, February 6 film screening of Diawara’s An Opera of the World (2017) 7PM.
Presented by The Block Museum in partnership with the Program of African Studies
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Internationally acclaimed artist and Art, Theory, and Practice faculty member Michael Rakowitz explores culture as it is embodied in artifacts. In projects ranging from a recreation of the Ishtar Gate of ancient Babylon to selling dates in an NYC storefront, he has used both food and material fragments to recreate and reimagine cultural and personal histories, particularly related to his Iraqi-Jewish cultural heritage. Drawing upon his own artistic practice and the exhibition Caravans of Gold, Rakowitz will consider cultural loss and removal as well as counter-histories and narratives in artistic practice. He will be joined in conversation by Kiersten Neumann, Curator at the Oriental Institute and Ann Gunter, Bertha and Max Dressler Professor in the Humanities, whose work addresses the visual and material culture of the ancient Near East and its Eastern Mediterranean neighbors.
Presented by The Block Museum in partnership with the Departments of Art History and Art, Theory, and Practice, and the Oriental Institute.
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Let us know you’re coming! RSVP at http://bit.ly/BlockRSVP
Image: Young artists take part in a hands-on animation activity at The Block Museum, Photo Sean Su.
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This program is copresented by The Block Museum, the Program of African Studies, and Refugee Knowledge Hub, a community-based partnership providing leadership, knowledge, and support for refugees and asylees in our community.
Image: West African migrants returning from Libya sit in Agadez, Niger, 2015. Photo by Issouf Sanogo/AFP/ Getty Images.
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Sarah Estrella is a third-year PhD student in the Department of Art History specializing in modern and contemporary art. She focuses on art made in Portugal and Lusophone Africa during the 1960s and 1970s, and is currently researching how artists negotiated and articulated their visions for the future before, during and after the anti-colonial liberation struggles.
Dela Kuma is a third-year PhD student in the Department of Anthropology. Her research investigates the relationship between domestic economies and global market economies in South-Eastern Ghana, Amedeka with the transition to the Legitimate Trade in the 19th century.
Mariam Taher is a second-year PhD student in the Department of Anthropology. She is currently learning Siwi, the Amazigh language spoken in Siwa, in Egypt's Western Desert, where she is researching how gender, language, and space effect people's everyday experiences.
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Saturday, February 16, 11 AM Saturday, March 9, 12 PM
Museums are full of stories. Join us for read-aloud story zones and interactive activities designed to help you look closer and think deeper about the art on view at the museum. Come discover the stories hidden beneath the surface of the art at The Block and invent your own. Geared for children ages 3–8 but all are welcome. Space is limited and registration is required.
Let us know you’re coming! RSVP at http://bit.ly/BlockRSVP
Image: Young artists take part in a hands-on animation activity at The Block Museum, Photo Sean Su.
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Presented by The Block Museum in partnership with The Poetry Foundation.
Image: Page from the “Blue” Qur’an, 9th-10th century. Ink, gold, and silver (now oxidized) on blue-dyed parchment
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Hamilton Poe (b.1986) studied Chinese and Visual Art at Bennington College. Poe’s art questions aesthetic structures based on claims of ‘genius’ that are commonplace in the reception of art by engaging with the quotidian ephemera of daily life: the materials and experiences that are not recognized as a part of artistic practice. He has shown work at Cranbrook Art Museum, The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
Jessica Frances Martin’s painting practice is figurative, focused on women and the environments they exist in. How as they merge with their environment they have more power over their image and the world they inhabit. With a particular focus on narratives of fantasy, interiority, girl culture, and processes of transformation. Martin received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011.
Hyun Jung Jun (b.1989 Seoul, South Korea) currently lives and works in Chicago, IL where she received her BFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014. Through various mediums including installation, sculpture, photography, drawing and performance, Jun’s work explores the relationship between body and landscape (culture, society, and nature) in everyday life. Jun’s work has been included in various exhibitions across Chicago and has participated in the Alchemy residency in Ontario, Canada and the Vermont Studio Center residency in Johnson, VT.
shai-lee horodiwas born in 1993. She received her name in 2016. Her works are not about - and this text is not about them. Her native language offers no good translation for the word about.
This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art Theory and Practice and the Block Museum at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment.
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All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop in conversation with the Block Museum of Art exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time. Together, we will read and discuss poetry of migration, fragmentation, and translation. In response to the exhibitions, participants will compose original poems exploring the experience of migration and the legacies various migrations have left behind. Maggie Queeney of The Poetry Foundation will lead the session. Space is limited. Registration is required.
Presented by The Block Museum in partnership with The Poetry Foundation.
Image: Page from the “Blue” Qur’an, 9th-10th century. Ink, gold, and silver (now oxidized) on blue-dyed parchment, 11 3/16 x 15 in. (28.4 x 38.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Beatrice Riese, 1995.51a-b (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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Open to the Public
Arthur MacCaig spent thirty years documenting the Troubles in Northern Ireland, leaving behind an archive of searing footage. In The Image You Missed, his estranged son, filmmaker Donal Foreman, recovers this material to reflect on the personal and political conflicts that came between them, and the commitment to filmmaking that brings them together after his death. Foreman’s poignant, brilliantly edited essay film raises difficult questions about the nature of family, representation, and activism both then and now.
Due to unforeseen conflicts, Donal Foreman will not be able to appear for this event.
74 min
Donal Foreman, 2018, France/Ireland/USA/UK, DCP
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Open to the Public
An act of racialized police brutality against attendees of a dance club near Brasília in 1986, an artist in a post-apocalyptic world, and a time-traveling detective who arrives in a modified shipping container on a mission to determine the causes of the inequity–these three elements make up Branco Sai, Preto Fica, a hybrid film using many genres and forms to interrogate the politics of Brazil. The tropes of dystopian science fiction are used to portray the real-life disparity between those who build the cities and those who get to live in them.
90 min
Adirley Queirós, 2014, Brazil, DCP
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Open to the Public
The film 9 to 5 remains a classic for many reasons: its top-tier cast, catchy theme, and the powerful way it blends comedy with a rallying cry for working women. Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton’s characters fight against the patriarchy to enact progressive ideas—their platform is equal pay for equal work, ending discriminatory hiring and office sexual harassment, and instituting social programs, including workplace child care. Nearly forty years later, these issues are still being grappled with as a new battle for equal rights is waged by the most diverse Congress ever elected.
109 min
Colin Higgins, 1980, USA, DCP
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Open to the Public
Set in a Mauritanian coastal town at the edge of the Sahara Desert, Waiting for Happiness elliptically explores the gateways between Africa and Europe, tradition and modernity, childhood and adulthood. The cast of characters radiates around Abdallah, a 17-year-old intellectual distanced from the language and culture of his hometown; while he waits to emigrate to France, he struggles to communicate with the inhabitants and migrants around him. Abderrahmane Sissako weaves together disparate yet invariably intoxicating sights and sounds, teasing out the systems of exchange and translation that exist even when life seems at a standstill.
96 min
Abderrahmane Sissako, 2002, Mauritania/France, 35mm
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Open to the Public
Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind. As he struggles to reconnect with his family and reconstruct the community he longs for, his hopes blind him to the reality of his situation.
A wistful odyssey populated by skaters, squatters, street preachers, playwrights, and other locals on the margins, The Last Black Man in San Francisco is a poignant and sweeping story of hometowns and how they’re made—and kept alive—by the people who love them.
In person: writer/director Joe Talbot and Jimmie Fails will participate in a post-screening Q&A.
Advance Screening
Joe Talbot, 2019, 120 min
Rated R
\"A heartfelt tribute to both a city and friendship.\"
-Benjamin Lee, The Guardian
\"It moved my audience to audible tears.\"
-Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
\"Heart-skippingly gorgeous and exultant.\"
-Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
Presented in partnership with A24 Films
Image: Jonathan Majors, Jimmie Fails. Photo by Peter Prato, Courtesy of A24
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Open to the Public
Four emerging filmmakers search for the meaning of conservation and tradition in a rapidly changing society. Feast on the delicacy of whipped bread, a Chilean dining staple. Explore Wisconsin wildlife through the legacy of a local legend. Feel the reason for the season with a unique take on Christmas traditions. Finish the night dancing to the rhythm of Cuban rumba. These films celebrate the past through retrospectives of diverse people, places and cultures. #NUDOCS2019
Post Q&A moderated by Nevo Shinaar.
FILMS
Daily Bread (Dir. Agustin Donoso, 16m)
A documentary about a family and community brought together by a Chilean staple produced at a historic bakery which whips out the best bread in town.
Camelot North (Dir. Molly Wagener, 20m)
A filmmaker searches for the first documentaries she ever saw, created by her grandfather’s late friend and conservationist filmmaker Martin Hanson, leading her to discover not only the quirks of a woodsman, but also the deeper meanings of why we keep the things we keep.
Christmas (Dir. Jung Ah Kim, 13m)
The wonderland of Christmas in the U.S. is not for everyone.
Buena Vida (Dir. Benjamin Buxton, 20m)
Live! From Cuba, the talents of Los Matanzeros, an extended family band, display the fervor of their musical folklore legacy through public performance and intimate individual portraits.
Each night of NU Docs features a selection of new short documentaries, with the opportunity to engage with the makers and celebrate their accomplishments. Discover a new generation who are making exciting films that tackle a wide range of topics. Previous thesis films have gone on to play such prestigious festivals as Locarno, Slamdance, New Directors/New Films, AFI Docs, IDFA, et al.
Doors open at 6:15pm, light refreshments served during pre-screening reception.
Sponsored in part by Northwestern’s School of Communication, The Department of Radio-TV-Film, Jane Steiner Hoffman and Michael Hoffman, and The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art.
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Multiple assemblages of time and space inform this collection of short films highlighting diverse women filmmakers and documentary forms. Themes such as cultural survival and resilience, race and trauma, history and historiography, women’s empowerment, and environmental violence speak to the indeterminacies and possibilities of our contemporary moment. #NUDOCS2019
Post Q&A moderated by Calum Walter.
Films:
The Women and the Sea (Dir. Cami Guarda, 15 min)
Two women navigate life and death at sea in a remote Chilean fishing village.
Redacted (Dir. Naeema Jamilah Torres, 18 min)
A Black filmmaker reflects on present-day struggles of marginalized people on a tour devoted to challenging conventional historical narratives through the legacy of a slave revolt.
In the Wake (Dir. Natasha Nair, 13 min)
A meditation on the lives of handloom weavers in Kerala, India and their resilience against the pressures of contemporary society and the forces of nature.
The Reversal (Dir Jennifer Boles)
The past speaks back to the present in this experimental archival-based film immersing viewers in the largely forgotten reversal of the Chicago River and its many ghostly entanglements.
Each night of NU Docs features a selection of new short documentaries, with the opportunity to engage with the makers and celebrate their accomplishments. Discover a new generation who are making exciting films that tackle a wide range of topics. Previous thesis films have gone on to play such prestigious festivals as Locarno, Slamdance, New Directors/New Films, AFI Docs, IDFA, et al.
Doors open at 6:15pm, light refreshments served during pre-screening reception.
Sponsored in part by Northwestern’s School of Communication, The Department of Radio-TV-Film, Jane Steiner Hoffman and Michael Hoffman, and The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art.
Moderator Calum Walter is an artist working in sound and moving image and teaches in the Department of Radio, Television, and Film Program at Northwestern. His films have screened at the Berlinale, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, FIC Valdivia, Vienna Independent Shorts, Images Festival, Slamdance and the Hong Kong Arts Centre. He is the recipient of a Harpo Award and a 2018 MacDowell Fellowship. His work has been covered by Filmmaker Magazine, Fandor, Reverse Shot, and Cinema Scope Magazine.
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NU Docs 3: STRUCTURES
A night of boundary-pushing films that interrogate the repercussions of large-scale oppression and loss of agency in various parts of the world. These traumas range from repression by religious institutions, to systemic racial violence, to crimes against spiritual freedom, to all-out war. Each work, diverse in both form and filmmaker, provides insight into the darkest side of humanity, while suggesting paths toward freedom to believe, to question, and to rise up. #NUDOCS2019
Post Q&A moderated by TBA.
FILMS
Children of the Moon (Dir. Will Klein, 17m)
Growing up in America (in a cult).
I Dream of Vietnam (Dir. Jiayu Yang, 16m)
A Chinese filmmaker embarks on a journey to the Sino-Vietnamese border where she confronts her own liminality through the country’s long legacy of intrusion.
Nineteen Ninety-Nine (1999) (Dir. Ziyi Yang, 12m)
Victimized by the brutal consequences of China’s systemic crackdown on spiritual freedom, two women retell their undocumented memories of torture and mental surveillance, in search of compassionate survival.
The Color of Skin (Dir. Jessica Scott, 20m)
The short documentary The Color of Skin explores and highlights the hatred, bigotry, discrimination and injustices against African-Americans committed by white men.
Each night of NU Docs features a selection of new short documentaries, with the opportunity to engage with the makers and celebrate their accomplishments. Discover a new generation who are making exciting films that tackle a wide range of topics. Previous thesis films have gone on to play such prestigious festivals as Locarno, Slamdance, New Directors/New Films, AFI Docs, IDFA, et al.
Doors open at 6:15pm, light refreshments served during pre-screening reception.
Sponsored in part by Northwestern’s School of Communication, The Department of Radio-TV-Film, Jane Steiner Hoffman and Michael Hoffman, and The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art.
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Take part in a 45-60 minute lunchtime walk-through our Caravans of Gold exhibition, led by a member of the curatorial team, and learn more about the creation of this groundbreaking exhibition! Travel with us along routes crossing the Sahara Desert to a time when West African gold fueled expansive trade and drove the movement of people, culture, and religious beliefs.
Tours are free and open to the public. No RSVP is required.
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Tours are free and open to the public. No RSVP is required.
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Tours are free and open to the public. No RSVP is required.
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Main Gallery & Alsdorf Gallery
Pop América, 1965–1975 challenges and reframes familiar notions of Pop Art by bringing together artists from North, Central, and South America, as well as the United States and the Caribbean. Pop América is the first exhibition to unify Latin American expressions of Pop and explore how its bold and colorful imagery, references to mass culture, and representations of everyday objects, signs, and symbols were embraced by artists working across the hemisphere. The exhibitionmakes a timely and critical contribution to a deeper understanding of this period and the impulses behind Pop Art from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s.
Pop América features nearly 100 artworks by artists working in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and the United States, sparking an expansion and reconsideration of Pop as a U.S. and British phenomenon. The exhibition reshapes debates over Pop’s perceived political neutrality and aesthetic innovations. The artists in the exhibition create vital dialogues that cross national borders and include Antonio Dias, Rubens Gerchman, Roy Lichtenstein, Marisol, Cildo Mereiles, Marta Minujín, Hugo Rivera-Scott, and Andy Warhol, among others. United by their use of Pop’s visual strategies, these artists have made bold contributions to conceptualism, performance, and new-media art, as well as social protest, justice movements, and debates about freedom.
Pop América opened in October 2018 at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas, and will be on view at the Nasher Museum at Duke University until July 2019 before traveling to the Block Museum at Northwestern University.
Image: Detail of Hugo Rivera-Scott, Pop América, 1968
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Free & Open to the Public
Organized by Full Spectrum Features, a nonprofit committed to producing, exhibiting, and supporting the work of women, LGBTQ, and minority filmmakers, this annual showcase of local work includes a dynamic selection of recent experimental, narrative, documentary, and performance-based short films. These selections creatively engage with the home-movie format, archival material, family dynamics, the Internet, climate and landscape, the Great Migration, and the history of a town in Columbia. Curated by Raul Benitez (Full Spectrum Features/Comfort Film), Melika Bass (independent filmmaker/SAIC professor), and Emily Eddy (Nightingale Cinema/Onion City Film Festival/Video Data Bank), the program includes work by graduates of NU’s MFA in Documentary Media program.
I Miss Jamie When She’s Gone
(Ashley Thompson, 2019, 16 min)
Smart Nightmares
(Marisa Tolomeo, 2018, 5 min)
Hall of Fishes
(Jennifer Boles, 2018, 9 min)
Sheebop! Shebopp! Sheebopp!
(Jiayi Chen and Cameron Worden, 2018, 3 min; 35mm)
Scaling Quelccaya
(Meredith Leich, 2017, 8 min)
Exodus: Sounds of the Great Migration
(Lonnie Edwards, 2017, 12 min)
Palenque
(Sebastián Pinzón Silva, 2018, 25 min)
In person: selected curators and filmmakers
Image: Palenque (Sebastián Pinzón Silva, 2018, 25 min)
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Félicité
(Alain Gomis, 2017, France/Belgium/Senegal/Germany/Lebanon, DCP, 123 min)
The award-winning drama Félicité stars Congolese musician Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu as a nightclub singer who learns that her teenage son has been gravely injured in a motorcycle accident. As she races across Kinshasa to gather money for her son’s operation, director Alain Gomis juxtaposes Félicité’s dreamlike journey with her music, performed by Mputu with her ensemble, the Kasai Allstars. Gomis will appear in person for a discussion with a panel of Northwestern students and scholars.
In person: filmmaker Alain Gomis
Co-sponsored by Block Cinema and the Northwestern Program in African Studies
Image: Félicité (2017)
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Open to the Public
Join us for an all-ages, open house to celebrate the opening of Pop América, 1965–1975, an exhibition that brings together artists from North, Central, and South America, and the Caribbean to reframe our understanding of Pop Art. Pop América is the first exhibition to unify Latin American and Latinx expressions of Pop and explore how its bold, colorful imagery and political potential was embraced by artists working across the hemisphere.
Pop by for activities happening throughout the afternoon:
12 PM - 4 PM • Ink Up
Roll up your sleeves alongside Instituto Gráfico de Chicago (IGC) and participate in printmaking activities for all ages. Run a print through IGC’s printing press or create your own original artwork using designs inspired by Pop América.
12 PM - 2 PM • Tune In
Watch and tune in to a radio broadcast, recorded on-site at the museum by members of Pop Up Youth Radio (PUYR), a project of Yollocalli Arts Reach, the youth initiative of the National Museum of Mexican Art.
1 PM & 3 PM • Get Down
Hear live music sets by Chicago-based ensemble Trío Calavera, playing son jarocho—Mexican folk music that fuses African, Spanish-Arabic, and Indigenous music and poetry.
2 PM • Pop Around
Take a tour of exhibition highlights with Block Museum curator Corinne Granof.
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Open to the Public
The ground-breaking exhibition Pop América draws attention to Latin American and US Latino/a artists who turned the “Pop” of Pop art into a verb by using familiar images of modern life—including mass media, fashion, food, and advertising—to make forceful interventions into art and society. Audience members will have a chance to hear directly from Esther Gabara, curator of Pop América, about the politics of Pop as well as the artists from across the hemisphere who shared dreams and struggles over the idea of a singular América.
Gabara is E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of Romance Studies and Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University. She will be joined in conversation by Alejandra Uslenghi, Northwestern Associate Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and Comparative Literary Studies, and Daniel Quiles, Assistant Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
This program is presented in partnership with the Northwestern University Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Image: Felipe Ehrenberg, Caja no. 25495 (Box no. 25495), 1968. Acrylic on wooden box with marbles, 39.37 x 31.49 x 4.33 inches (100 x 80 x 11 cm). Collection of the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City. Courtesy of Reina María de Lourdes Hernández Fuentes
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Dialogues with Che: Appropriations of a Revolutionary Figure
(Various Artists, 1968-1997, Various Countries, digital and 16mm, 96 min total)
Images of Ernesto \"Che\" Guevara are the most contested and reproduced in Latin America, and this program explores ways this iconic figure has been represented in experimental films. Dialogue with Che, by legendary queer Nuyorican artist José Rodriguez Soltero, parodies Hollywood portrayals of the revolutionary hero. Photographic representations of Che are the subject of both Pedro Chaskel’s A Photograph Travels the World, which analyzes an iconic still taken by Alberto Korda at a political rally in 1960, and Leandro Katz’s El día que me quieras, which retraces the story behind the last photographs of Che Guevara as he lay dead, surrounded by his captors, taken by Freddy Alborta in 1967.
Una foto recorre el mundo (A Photograph Travels the World)
(Pedro Chaskel, 1981, Cuba, digital, 13 min)
Diálogo con el Che (Dialogue with Che)
(José Rodriguez Soltero, 1968, USA, double system 16mm, 53 min)
El día que me quieras (The Day You’ll Love Me)
(Leandro Katz, 1997, Argentina, digital, 30 min)
Image: El día que me quieras (The Day You’ll Love Me) (1997)
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My First Film
(Zia Anger, 2019, USA, digital with live performance, 75 min)
My First Film is a feature-length multimedia performance in which filmmaker Zia Anger interacts with media on screen and with the audience, using real-time text, spontaneous Google searches, audience directives, and AirDrops. Through the performance, Anger probes and dissects her “abandoned” works to re-imagine the relationship between the audience, the filmmaker, the movie theater, and cinema, and erases the line between a filmmaker’s corporeal body and their body of work. A vital, singular, innovative performance that explores what it means to be a woman and an artist, the project showcases Anger’s sensibilities and pushes the boundaries of cinematic experience. “A cathartic collective experiment in what it might mean to challenge failure, recalibrate it, and reclaim it anew.”—Sight and Sound
In person: filmmaker Zia Anger
Image: My First Film (2019)
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The Elephant Man
(David Lynch, 1980, USA/UK, 35mm, 124 min)
In a career of defying expectations, David Lynch’s second feature remains an anomaly: a period biography in which the director’s hallmark strangeness comes from historical fact rather than his own imagination. It’s the story of John Merrick—the genetically disfigured “Elephant Man”—who is rescued from a life as an exploited side-show attraction by a doctor who sees the humanity behind the deformities. Although noted for its evocative black and white cinematography and for John Hurt’s sensitive and powerful performance as Merrick, the film’s emotional landscape derives, as in all of Lynch’s works, from its rich, atmospheric use of sound. Print courtesy of Lowell Peterson, ASC, and the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
In person: seven time-Academy Award-winning sound designer Gary Rydstrom (Saving Private Ryan, Titanic, Finding Nemo) will introduce the film.
Co-presented by Block Cinema with the MA in Sound Arts and Industries
Image: The Elephant Man (1980)
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Dreams of Suitcases and a Blue Lobster
(Various Artists, 1933-1998, Various Countries, digital, 70 min total)
A program of short films that explore cinema’s oneiric, disturbing, and irrational potential. Filmed in 1954 in a Colombian fishing town, The Blue Lobster anticipates Magical Realism with a tale of a foreign secret agent who is investigating radioactive lobsters. Lost for decades in Chilean archive, La maleta, the first film by celebrated auteur Raúl Ruiz, offers a surreal mix of suitcases and somnambulists. Mariana Botey’s El dedal de rosas, in collaboration with the actor-director-artist Juan José Gurrola, represents an intersection between two generations of Mexico’s avant-garde.
In person: Ism, Ism, Ism co-curator Jesse Lerner
Traum (Sueño)
(Horacio Coppola,1933, Argentina, digital, 2 min)
Las ventanas de Salcedo
(Luís Ernesto Arocha, 1966, Columbia, digital, 6 min)
La langosta azul (The Blue Lobster)
(Álvaro Cepeda Zamudio and Gabriel García Márquez, 1954, Columbia, digital, 29 min)
La maleta (The Suitcase)
(Raúl Ruiz, 1963-2008, Chile, digital, 20 min)
El dedal de rosas
(Mariana Botey, 1998, Mexico, digital, 13 min)
Ism, Ism, Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America
Image: El dedal de rosas (Mariana Botey, 1998, Mexico, digital, 13 min)
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Free and Open to the Public
Mi casa es su casa. The popular Spanish saying regarding Mexican hospitality is as familiar to US tourists as it is in towns across Mexico. The saying implies the ideas of extended families and of home. Join Cesáreo Moreno, Visual Arts Director and Curator for the National Museum of Mexican Art, to examine select works in Pop Américacreated by Mexicans on both sides of the border and uncover similarities among them. Like primos hermanos (first cousins), many of the works of art, and the artists who created them share a creative lineage, a culture without borders.
Presented by The Block Museum in partnership with the National Museum of Mexican Art
Image: Cesareo Moreno, chief curator of the National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago Tribune)
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Sisters in Cinema: An Evening with Yvonne Welbon
(Yvonne Welbon, 2003, USA, digital, 62 min)
To inaugurate a year of programming around the One Book One Northwestern 2019-2020 selection, Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space, Block Cinema welcomes Chicago-based filmmaker (and Northwestern Film Studies PhD) Yvonne Welbon to present her 2003 documentary Sisters in Cinema. In the film, Welbon explores the history of African American women feature film directors from the 1920s onward, including Cheryl Dunye, Zeinabu irene Davis, Julie Dash, and others. An accomplished filmmaker herself, Welbon will discuss her own experiences as a working artist, scholar, and advocate, including her current project, a new Sisters in Cinema brick-and-mortar resource center on Chicago’s southside.
In person: filmmaker Yvonne Welbon
Co-presented by Block Cinema with One Book One Northwestern and the Black Arts Initiative.
Image: An Evening with Yvonne Welbon
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Nostalgia for the Light
(Patricio Guzmán, 2010, France/German/Chile/Spain, 35mm, 90 min)
35 years after his landmark 1975 film The Battle of Chile vividly captured the chaos surrounding the overthrow of the Allende government, documentarian Patricio Guzmán returns to the painful memories of the Pinochet years in Nostalgia for the Light. This moving film explores Chile’s Atacama desert, home to one of the world’s most powerful observatories—and to the bones of hundreds of political prisoners abducted and murdered by the military regime. Guzmán artfully juxtaposes our universal search for answers with the quest for justice carried on by the nation’s survivors.
Lily Frusciante, doctoral candidate in Northwestern’s Department of Spanish & Portuguese, will introduce the film
Image: Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
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Countercultures and Undergrounds
(Various Artists, 1967-1979, Various Countries, digital and 16mm, 77 min total)
This program explores countercultural and underground practices across a range of local and global movements. Several films document performances, ephemeral actions, or public interventions, as in Narcisa Hirsch’s Marabunta, which documents her interaction with an audience coming out of a screening of Antonioni's Blow Up. Manuel Delanda’s Ismism captures the filmmaker’s own interventions on Manhattan billboards, rendered across the city with an X-Acto knife. Films by Sérgio Péo and Rolando Peña disrupt urban spaces, while Alfredo Gurrola’s Segunda Primera Matriz uses poetry to in the service of radical, alternative culture.
Juventud, rebeldía, revolución
(Enrique Pineda Barnet, 1969, Cuba, digital, 30 min)
Ismism
(Manuel DeLanda, 1979, Mexico/USA, 16mm, 6 min)
Marabunta
(Narcisa Hirsch, 1967, Argentina, digital, 8 min)
Esplendor do martírio
(Sergio Peo, 1974, Brazil, digital, 10 min)
Cotorra 2
(Rolando Peña, 1976, Venezuela, digital, 10 min)
Segunda Primera Matriz
(Alfredo Gurrola, 1972, Mexico, digital, 13 min)
Image: Ismism (Manuel DeLanda, 1979, Mexico/USA, 16mm, 6 min)
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Museums are full of stories. Join us for read-aloud stories and interactive activities designed to help you look closer and think deeper about the art on view at the museum. Come discover the stories hidden beneath the surface of the art at The Block and invent your own. Geared for children ages 3-8 but all are welcome. Space is limited and registration is required.
Image: Young Visitors to Tales of Art at The Block. Photo by Sean Su.
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Jerónimo Duarte-Riascos and Alejandra Uslenghi, Northwestern Professors in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, will lead a gallery tour highlighting female artists’ involvement in the Pop movement, engaging artworks that bring the language of new media and conceptualism in dialogue with emancipatory movements. The talk will then consider the politics of “soups and sodas” and the ways in which artists used everyday consumer objects to present and embody critiques of the status quo in Latin America and the US.
Presented by The Block Museum in partnership with the Northwestern University Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Image: Antonio Caro, Colombia Coca-Cola, 1976. Enamel on sheet metal, edition 11/ 25, 19.5 x 27.5 inches. Collection of the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Purchased with funds from the Alan May Endowment. Image courtesy of the artist and Casas Riegner, Bogotá, Colombia. © Antonio Caro
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One Way or Another
(Sara Gómez, 1974/1977, Cuba, 16mm, 78 min)
In more ways than one, Afro-Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez (1942-1974) was a trailblazer—the first woman director at the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC), she pioneered a hybrid documentary-narrative form with her only feature, De Cierta Manera (One Way or Another). The film uses a fictional love story between a man and woman from vastly different backgrounds to study the complexity of post-revolutionary Cuban society, frankly addressing questions of class, machismo, Afro-Cuban traditions, and the unequal educational opportunities for men and women. Completed after Gómez’s sudden death at age 31, One Way or Another stands today as a major milestone in both Latin American and Black women’s cinema. Print courtesy of the MCM Archives at Brown University.
Co-presented by Block Cinema and One Book One Northwestern
Image: One Way or Another (1974/1977)
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The Red Light Bandit
(Rogério Sganzerla, 1968, Brazil, DCP, 92 min)
This delirious “Third World western” offers a subversive, New Wave-inspired spin through the trash heap of Brazilian pop culture. With The Red Light Bandit, a farcical account of a real-life serial criminal made larger-than-life by the news media, 21-year-old director Rogério Sganzerla delivered the signature work of Brazil’s Cinema Marginal, a radical film movement dedicated to the rejection of good taste. “I will never deliver clear ideas, eloquent speeches, or classically beautiful images when confronted with garbage,” Sganzerla declared; “I will only reveal, through free sound and funereal rhythm, our own condition as ill-behaved, colonized people. Within the garbage can, one must be radical.”
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Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
(Xavier Burgin, 2019, USA, DCP, 83 min)
Block Cinema welcomes scholar, author, and University of Michigan professor Robin R. Means Coleman to introduce and discuss the new documentary Horror Noire, based on her field-changing 2011 book Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to the Present. Both the book and the film examine the alternately problematic and affirming history of Black Americans in the horror genre, in front of and behind the camera. The documentary pairs filmmakers, actors, and scholars (including Coleman, who is also an executive producer on the film) in lively discussions, and features a wealth of clips of iconic films from the past and present.
In person: media historian Robin R. Means Coleman
Co-presented by Block Cinema with Humanities On the MAP, sponsored by the School of Communication
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Join us for an in-depth conversation with three Chicago artists facilitated by Sarita Hernández of the National Museum of Mexican Art. The panel will discuss how their practices are rooted in issues of identity and community, and how ideas and approaches from Pop América remain relevant in our contemporary moment. The panel will be preceded by a 5:30 PM reception.
• Vicko Alvarez Vega is a comic artist, organizer, and educator whose work involves themes of growing up Latinx, queerness, and processing the fear of deportation.
• Nicole Marroquin is a teacher, educator, and artist whose work explores belonging and spatial justice. She has been researching student uprisings in Chicago Public Schools that occurred from 1967 to 1974.
• Diana Solís is a visual artist and art educator who has taught for over 30 years at organizations that include Urban Gateways, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Gallery 37, and ElevArte Community Studio.
Presented by The Block Museum in partnership with the National Museum of Mexican Art. Reception and marketing support courtesy of The Alumnae of Northwestern University. Presented in conjunction with One Book One Northwestern and Northwestern: 150 Years of Women.
Image: Comic of Vicko Alvarez Vega - Art by Alan López for Remezcla
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I Walked with a Zombie
(Jacques Tourneur, 1943, USA, 35mm, 69 min)
The collaboration between RKO producer Val Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur is one of the most celebrated in the history of horror, and I Walked with a Zombie may be the pair’s masterpiece. This subtle and unnerving supernatural tale, inspired by Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, unfolds on a West Indies sugar plantation, where a voodoo curse seems to possess the soul of the plantation owner’s wife. The film’s mesmerizing low-key cinematography conjures an atmosphere of exotic dread and uncertainty, but the darkest shadow cast in this Gothic melodrama is the one cast by the island’s ugly history of slavery and colonialism. Print courtesy of the Library of Congress.
James J. Hodge, Associate Professor of English and the Humanities, and Ashley R. Smith, doctoral candidate in Screen Cultures, will introduce the film
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Ism, Ism Ism: Recycled Cinema
(Various Artists, 1958-2012, Various Countries, digital, 61 min total)
This evening offers two programs exploring alternative strategies of appropriation: found footage and camp. “Recycled Cinema” presents acts of decolonization and critique through collages of appropriated images and audio, challenging dominant modes of representation. In 1958’s ‘Cowboy’ and ‘Indian’ Film, Nuyoriquen artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz hacked the reels of an American western to pieces with a tomahawk “to release their evil,” while a more recent work, Artemio’s Apoohcalypse Now, is a mash-up of Disney’s Winnie the Pooh and Apocalypse Now. The filmmakers in “Estrellas de Ayer” borrow an alternative reading of Hollywood stars, emphasizing queer nostalgia and excess. Films such as Teo Hernandez's Estrellas de ayer and José Rodriguez Soltero’s Lupe pay homage to Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, and Lupe Vélez with performative extravagance.
No D.R.
(Alfredo Salomón, 2002, Mexico, digital, 1 min)
Newsreel 49
(Institúto Cubano de Artes e Industrias Cinematográficas, 1960, Cuba, digital, 1 min)
Cowboy and ‘Indian’ Film
(Raphael Montañez Ortiz, 1958, USA, digital, 2 min)
Desde la Havana ¡1969! Recordar
(Nicolás Guillén Landrián, 1969, Cuba, digital, 17 min)
The Bombing of Washington
(Luis Ospina, 1972, Columbia/USA, digital, 1 min)
The Big Wack
(Ricardo Nicolayevsky, 2002, Mexico, digital, 3 min)
Prayer for Marilyn Monroe
(Marisol Trujillo, Miriam Talavera, and Pepín Rodriguez, 1983, Cuba, digital, 8 min)
Apoohcalypse Now
(Artemio, 2002, Mexico, digital, 8 min)
Pinochet’s Women
(Eduardo Menz, 2004, Canada/Chile, digital, 12 min)
The Ruins of Bahía Blanca
(Nicolas Testoni, 2012, Argentina, digital, 6 min)
Pobre del cantor
(Taller Independiente de Cine Experimental, 1978, Mexico, digital, 2 min)
Sloppy Work
(Enrique Colina, 1987, Cuba, digital, 11 min)
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Estrellas de Ayer: Latin Camp
(Various Artists, 1959-1975, Various Countries, digital and 16mm, 73 min total)
This evening offers two programs exploring alternative strategies of appropriation: found footage and camp. “Recycled Cinema” presents acts of decolonization and critique through collages of appropriated images and audio, challenging dominant modes of representation. In 1958’s ‘Cowboy’ and ‘Indian’ Film, Nuyoriquen artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz hacked the reels of an American western to pieces with a tomahawk “to release their evil,” while a more recent work, Artemio’s Apoohcalypse Now, is a mash-up of Disney’s Winnie the Pooh and Apocalypse Now. The filmmakers in “Estrellas de Ayer” borrow an alternative reading of Hollywood stars, emphasizing queer nostalgia and excess. Films such as Teo Hernandez's Estrellas de ayer and José Rodriguez Soltero’s Lupe pay homage to Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, and Lupe Vélez with performative extravagance.
Estrellas de ayer
(Teo Hernandez, 1969, Mexico/France, digital, 9 min)
Encuentros Imposibles
(Eduardo Solá Franco, 1959, Ecuador/Spain, digital, 8 min)
A Olga
(Horacio Vallereggio, 1975, Argentina, digital, 7 min)
Lupe
(José Rodriguez Soltero, 1966, USA, 16mm, 49 min)
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2019 Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation
Now in its tenth year (and its fifth year at Block), the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation is a thoughtfully-curated showcase of abstract animation and unconventional character animation that features brand-new work, recent discoveries, and tantalizing retrospective selections. Founded and programmed by filmmakers and artists Alexander Stewart and Lilli Carré, this year’s presentation at Block will include short works by Janie Geiser, Barbara Hammer, Allison Schulnik, Kevin Eskew, Sebastian Buerkner, and many more, in two different programs.
\"Eyeworks fuses the finest boundary-obliterating animations from past masters and contemporary virtuosos. An annual mind-melding cinematic spectacle not to be missed.”—John Klacsmann, Anthology Film Archives
In person: festival curators Alexander Stewart and Lilli Carré
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The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
(Brett Story, 2016, USA, DCP, 87 min)
The Block welcomes Toronto-based filmmaker Brett Story for two nights of her acclaimed documentary films. The Prison in Twelve Landscapes explores the criminal justice system and mass incarceration in the U.S. from a number of oblique vantage points, rather than focusing on prisons themselves. Story looks at female prisoners used as labor to fight California wildfires, a Bronx, New York warehouse for prisoner care packages, a rural coal town anticipating jobs at a new prison, and Ferguson, Missouri, where Michael Brown was killed. Throughout, Story connects the ways that the prison-industrial complex reverberates through communities around the country, offering micro-portraits that illuminate the reach of the prison system beyond penitentiary walls.
In person: filmmaker Brett Story
Co-presented by Block Cinema with the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities and the MFA in Documentary Media
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The Hottest August
(Brett Story, 2019, USA, DCP, 94 min)
Brett Story’s newest film is billed as “a film about climate change, disguised as a portrait of collective anxiety.” The Hottest August offers snapshot of the state of the country in August 2017 as viewed by residents of New York City. What are people worried about (rising rents, a still-new president, wildfires on the west coast, hurricanes on the east coast) and what do they see for the future? As the city swelters, Story weaves the people and places of NYC and its boroughs into a larger picture of a society buffeted from one crisis to the next, capped by the persistent threats brought on by climate change.
In person: filmmaker Brett Story
Co-presented by Block Cinemawith Humanities On the MAP, sponsored by the School of Communication and the MFA in Documentary Media
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Museums are full of stories. Join us for read-aloud stories and interactive activities designed to help you look closer and think deeper about the art on view at the museum. Come discover
the stories hidden beneath the surface of the art at The Block and invent your own. Geared for children ages 3-8 but all are welcome. Space is limited and registration is required.
Image: Young Visitors to Tales of Art at The Block. Photo by Sean Su.
This screening celebrates Northwestern student filmmakers with a showcase of recent work produced under the auspices of three campus associations: the Multicultural Filmmakers Collective, which supports student filmmakers and films that present minority concerns and experiences; the Northwestern University Women Filmmakers Alliance, which seeks to unify, educate, and promote filmmakers who identify as women, trans, and/or gender-nonconforming; and the student-run production company Studio 22, which produces ambitious, high-quality student films. Presenting a mix of dramatic and comedic shorts, this program demonstrates the collective vitality and diversity of undergraduate filmmaking at Northwestern. After the screening, filmmakers and representatives from each organization will discuss the opportunities for creative support and collaboration on campus.
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Whose Streets?
(Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis, 2017, USA, DCP, 100 min)
To commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Ferguson Uprising, Block Cinema partners with Northwestern’s Black Arts Initiative and the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities to present Whose Streets?, a searing, up-close and personal document of the resistance movement that emerged in the wake of the killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown by Missouri police. Filmmaker and activist Sabaah Folayan will appear in person to discuss the film, which offers both a chilling record of militarized police repression, and a stirring wake-up call to a new generation of civil rights activists.
In person: filmmaker Sabaah Folayan
Co-presented by Block Cinema with the Black Arts Initiative at Northwestern and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
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In the ’60s and ’70s many Latin American artists seized opportunities to reinvigorate the arts through the aesthetics of urban popular culture, impoverished materials, recycling strategies, ephemeral interventions, movable graffiti, and practices of dematerialization. Colombian artist Beatriz González is one such artist who forged radical new aesthetics that call attention to urban consumerism as well as appropriation, recycling, and reproduction. Ana María Reyes, Assistant Professor in Latin American Art History, Boston University will discuss her forthcoming book, The Politics of Taste: Beatriz González and Cold War Aesthetics (2019) which examines González’s essential legacy in Latin American art history.
Presented by The Block Museum in partnership with the Northwestern University Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
Image: Beatriz González. Los papagayos, 1987. Oil on paper. 29 1/2 x 78 inches. Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, gift of Jorge M. Pérez. Photo: Oriol Tarridas
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Amazements: Videos by Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby
For 25 years, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby have been producing one of the most singular and exciting bodies of work in experimental cinema. Their videos combine animation, wry humor, and custom-written songs into interwoven vignettes that explore the perplexities, heartaches, and fleeting wonders of the contemporary world. This program features a selection of Duke and Battersby’s earlier work, as well as their most recent video, You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born, which tells the story of a fictional woman, from her birth in the 1970s to her death in the 2040s—a life, the artists write, that is “characterized by damage and loss, but in which she finds humor, love, and joy.”
In person: artists Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby
Works Screening:
Being F***ed Up
(2000, digital, 10 min.)
“Episodic video about doing drugs, being young and feeling inadequate. Despite this youthful nihilism, it's engaging, humble and ultimately optimistic.” (International Film Festival Rotterdam)
Beauty Plus Pity
(2009, digital, 15 min.)
Beauty Plus Pity sets a colorful single-channel video within a lush viewing environment populated by costumed taxidermic animals. Presented in seven parts, the video considers the potential for goodness amidst the troubled relations between God, humanity, animals, parents, and children. While an animated cast of animal “spirit guides” quote Philip Larkin’s poem, This Be the Verse, and implore us to “get out as early as you can” from life and our parents’ grasp, a hunter dreams of a zoo where he might lie next to tranquilized animals calmed of their savagery. A senile and unstable God stumbles, forgets to take his medication, and turns frost into diamonds. Beauty Plus Pity contemplates the shame and beauty of existence; it is part apologia, part call to arms.
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The Life of Juanita Castro
(Andy Warhol, 1965, USA, 16mm, 66 min)
Camp, historical topicality, New York’s underground theater scene, and Warhol’s disarming and energizing anti-cinema approach to filmmaking all combine in this loosely-scripted, irreverent portrait of Fidel Castro and his family (some members of which are played by experimental filmmaker Marie Menken and Warhol superstar Ultra Violet). “Theatre of the Ridiculous” playwright and director Ronald Tavel scripted the film and appears as an on-screen director, putting the performers through a series of nonsensical actions.
Bruce Jenkins, SAIC professor and co-author of the forthcoming The Andy Warhol Film Catalogue Raisonné, will introduce the screening
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All are welcome to a poetry discussion and creative writing workshop in conversation with Pop América, 1965–1975. Together, we will read and discuss Pop poems from a wide range of North, Central, and South American poets. After engaging with the exhibition, we will compose original poems in dialogue with the works on view, including themes related to the concept of “America,” nationality, borders, and migration. Maggie Queeney of The Poetry Foundation will lead the session. Space is limited and registration is required.
Presented by The Block Museum in partnership with The Poetry Foundation.
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Community members are invited to recognize and celebrate all those who help make Evanston a vibrant and creative community at the annual “A Bright Night for the Arts” celebration.
The event, hosted by Mayor Stephen Hagerty and the Evanston Arts Council, along with community partners, The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, the Evanston Chamber of Commerce, and Family Focus, will be held on Thursday, December 5, 6 p.m. to 8:15 p.m., at The Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle Dr.
Making this year’s event even brighter, admission is free and open to all. Registration is required by visiting cityofevanston.org/BrightNight2019.
Mayor Hagerty will present the Mayor's Awards for the Arts to honorees selected by the Evanston community and the Evanston Arts Council. An individual and an organization will be honored.
“Bright Spots” on view for this event include a performance by Identity Dance,featuring students from Family Focus. Evanston Made will provide a slideshow highlighting work created by Evanston artists, and Evanston's Terrain Biennial will showcase the outdoor art installations for this year’s citywide exhibition.
The free celebration will include treats and soft drinks, as well as a stroll through the Block Museum’s current exhibition, Pop América, 1965–1975, which challenges and reframes familiar notions of pop art by bringing together artists from North and South America, as well as the Caribbean. Pop América is the first exhibition to unify Latin American and Latinx expressions of pop and explore how artists working across the hemisphere embraced its bold and colorful imagery, references to mass culture, and representations of everyday objects, signs and symbols.
Free parking is available for this event. For more information, please call/text 847-448-4311 or dial 3-1-1 in Evanston.
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Special Event
Friday, December 6, 7 PM
FREE
When the Earth Trembled, or The Strength of Love
(Barry O’Neil, 1913, USA, 35mm, 48 min)
The first long film by the Lubin Manufacturing Company, an early cinema rival to Thomas Edison, When the Earth Trembled is both a family melodrama—about a father who interferes in his son’s marriage—and an early spectacle, with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake as a central focus. The film incorporates some of Lubin’s own newsreel footage of the quake’s aftermath, and features specially-built break-away sets. Many of Lubin’s films were destroyed in a vault fire a few years later; Trembled will be accompanied by a selection of related films that survive purely by chance or only as fragments. Restored print courtesy of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
Preceded by:
[San Francisco After the Earthquake]
(Miles Brothers, 1906, USA, 35mm, 9 min)
A composite of three short films, recently found in a California flea market, documenting the devastation of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Restored print courtesy of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
[Unidentified silent shorts. Paper prints. Vitagraph films. No. 5]
(Various/Unidentified Directors, 1908, USA, 35mm, 10 min)
A reel of fragments of Vitagraph Company of America shorts, submitted as paper prints to the Library of Congress for copyright purposes. Restored print courtesy of UCLA Film & Television Archive.
The Sale of a Heart
(Maurice Costello, 1913, USA, 35mm, 15 min)
Produced by the Vitagraph Company of America, this short, directed by and starring noted stage and film actor Maurice Costello, tells the story of an impoverished count who tries to arrange a marriage between his daughter and a wealthy man. Restored print courtesy of UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Live accompaniment by David Drazin
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When the Earth Trembled, or The Strength of Love
(Barry O’Neill, 1913, USA, 35mm, 48 min)
The first long film by the Lubin Manufacturing Company, an early cinema rival to Thomas Edison, When the Earth Trembled is both a family melodrama—about a father who interferes in his son’s marriage—and an early spectacle, with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake as a central focus. The film incorporates some of Lubin’s own newsreel footage of the quake’s aftermath, and features specially-built break-away sets. Many of Lubin’s films were destroyed in a vault fire a few years later; Trembled will be accompanied by a selection of related films that survive purely by chance or only as fragments. Restored print courtesy of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
Preceded by:
[San Francisco After the Earthquake]
(Miles Brothers, 1906, USA, 35mm, 9 min)
A composite of three short films, recently found in a California flea market, documenting the devastation of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Restored print courtesy of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
[Unidentified silent shorts. Paper prints. Vitagraph films. No. 5]
(Various/Unidentified Directors, 1908, USA, 35mm, 10 min)
A reel of fragments of Vitagraph Company of America shorts, submitted as paper prints to the Library of Congress for copyright purposes. Restored print courtesy of UCLA Film & Television Archive.
The Sale of a Heart
(Maurice Costello, 1913, USA, 35mm, 15 min)
Produced by the Vitagraph Company of America, this short, directed by and starring noted stage and film actor Maurice Costello, tells the story of an impoverished count who tries to arrange a marriage between his daughter and a wealthy man. Restored print courtesy of UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Live accompaniment by David Drazin
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Pop América, 1965–1975 challenges and reframes familiar notions of Pop Art by bringing together artists from North, Central, and South America, as well as the United States and the Caribbean. Pop América is the first exhibition to unify Latin American expressions of Pop and explore how its bold and colorful imagery, references to mass culture, and representations of everyday objects, signs, and symbols were embraced by artists working across the hemisphere. The exhibitionmakes a timely and critical contribution to a deeper understanding of this period and the impulses behind Pop Art from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s.
Sunday Docent Tours
Explore Pop América with the Block Museum’s Student Docents. These free informal tours kick off in the museum lobby at 3PM and can be tailored to the questions and interests of those attending. Tours typically last 45-60 minutes, no RSVP necessary.
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Otto Preminger brought Georges Bizet’s beloved opera blazingly to the modern screen in Carmen Jones, famous for its daring, all-Black cast, its astonishing Cinemascope compositions, and above all for the bewitching star turn by Dorothy Dandridge. Playing the titular temptress, a factory worker who ensnares a hapless GI (Harry Belafonte) in a doomed romance, Dandridge established herself as a major talent, rewriting the possibilities of African American femininity on screen. Presented in an imported 35mm print from the British Film Institute.
Image: Still from Carmen Jones, 1954
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From NYU's Abby Grey Collection
Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby Grey Collection surveys art from three nations where unique and vibrant forms of modernism sprang forth in the 1960s and 1970s. Challenging histories of artistic modernism that too often begin and end in the West, “Modernisms” explores an under-recognized flowering of innovation and risk-taking in art beyond Europe and North America.
Influenced by local traditions, cultural exchange and the sights and sounds of modern life, artists in Iran, Turkey and India forged distinctive new modes of expression. From Iranian and Turkish artists who explored calligraphy and ornamentation through avant-garde abstraction, to Indian painters whose expressive canvases drew upon Hindu iconography, the 114 works in Modernisms reflect the lively dialogue between East and West, past and present. Folk dances and weavings inspired Turkish painters Mustafa Esirkuş and Adnan Turani, while Iranian artist Faramarz Pilaram freely translated Islamic architecture into glittering geometric forms. These works testify to both the continuity of culture and the disruption of modernity.
Organized by New York University’s Grey Art Gallery,Modernisms draws from the collection of curator and patron Abby Weed Grey. Grey traveled widely in Asia and the Middle East, searching for art that brought the visual language of modernity into dialogue with non-Western heritages. With a robust collection of some 700 paintings, sculptures and works on paper, she founded the Grey Art Gallery in 1975, stimulating learning through cross-cultural exchange. Through her collection, this exhibition tells a story of “multiple modernities,” reflecting the diversity of formal and cultural responses to the changing world of the 1960s and 1970s.
The exhibition will be on view at Grey Art Gallery at NYU from Sept. 10 to Dec. 7, 2019 before coming to The Block. The exhibition is curated for The Block by Kathleen Bickford Berzock, associate director of curatorial affairs, and Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts.
Image: Faramarz Pilaram, Mosques of Isfahan (B), c. 1962, Detail
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Working in video, sculpture, drawing and photography, New York-based artist Terence Gower (b. British Colombia, 1965) investigates the material and intellectual histories of postwar positivism in art and architecture. The contemporary built environments of 1960s Mexico are the focus of his 2004 video, Ciudad Moderna. A kinetic, six-minute montage of clips drawn from the 1966 Mexican comedy film “Despedida de Casada,” Ciudad Moderna wittily transforms its source material to examine the film’s modernist architectural backdrop.
Throughout much of the 20th century, Mexico City was fertile ground for progressive architects and urban planners seeking development and social reform through design. Using freeze frames, projection drawings and clever digital composites, Gower analyzes some of the most celebrated monuments of this utopian moment in Latin American history, from Mexico City’s famed Museum of Anthropology to the Hotel Presidente in Acapulco. Pop culture and high modernism collide as Gower shifts from depersonalized interiors to swinging musical numbers, presenting architecture as a visual abstraction as well as a space of lived experience.
A limited-edition work, Ciudad Moderna is part of a gift of 68 works of contemporary art donated to the Block Museum in 2016 by art collector, philanthropist and software innovator Peter Norton. The Block gift is one of a series Norton has made to university art museums throughout the country. The gifts recognize and support institutions integrating art into teaching and learning across disciplines, fostering creative museum practices and engaging audiences with diverse forms of contemporary art.
The exhibition is curated by Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts.
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Join us to celebrate the opening of Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby Weed Grey Collection. The opening conversation will spotlight the work of four Northwestern University graduate students—Maryam Athari, Hamed Yousefi, Simran Bhalla, and Özge Karagöz— who are breaking new ground in the study of the “multiple modernities” at play in Iranian, Indian, and Turkish art. These scholars will be joined in discussion by Block curators Kathleen Bickford Berzock and Michael Metzger.
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Join us to celebrate the opening ofModernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby Weed Grey Collection.Modernismssurveys art from three nations where unique and vibrant forms of art-making flourished in the 1960s and 1970s. Challenging histories of artistic modernism that too often begin and end in the West,Modernismsexplores an under-recognized flowering of innovation and risk-taking in art beyond Europe and North America. The opening conversation will spotlight the work of four Northwestern University graduate students —Maryam Athari, Hamed Yousefi, Simran Bhalla, andÖzge Karagöz— who are breaking new ground in the study of the “multiple modernities” at play in Iranian, Indian, and Turkish art. These scholars will be joined in discussion by Block curators Kathleen Bickford Berzock and Michael Metzger.
Maryam Athariis a PhD student researching the dynamics of global contemporary art world in relation to the region broadly called the Middle East. She is focused on visual arts in contemporary Tehran, Iran. She examines the dialectical tensions between relational spaces of exchange within the discourse of the global contemporary. She has held year-long curatorial fellowships at Museum of Fine Arts Houston 2016-2017, Menil Collection 2015-2016, has completed a graduate internship (2016) at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. She worked for a year at the DePaul Art Museum and Field Museum (2014-2015), both in Chicago. In her native Iran, she was for five years a member of the editorial board of the art magazine,Herfeh: Honarmad(Profession: Artist) (2004-2009) which covered different aspects of artistic practice in Iran. She also worked as grant writer and assistant project for the long-term social documentation project on Iran, A Journey Inside, and curated an exhibit of the project at Bridgeport Art Center Chicago November 2015.
Simran Bhalla’s research focuses on development and modernity in state and institutional films from India and Iran. Her research interests include experimental documentary media and global modernisms. Her article \"Video Sensations\" was published in Iran Namag. Simran has curated multiple film series, and is the interdisciplinary graduate fellow at the Block Museum of Art for 2019-2020. Previously, she worked as an editor at Elle magazine (India) and Time Out Delhi, and has contributed writing on arts and culture to various publications. She holds an MA in Screen Cultures from Northwestern and a dual BA in Film & Media Culture and Political Science from Middlebury College.
Özge Karagözis a PhD student researching transnational histories of modern and contemporary art, with a focus on Turkey and the Middle East. Her research interests revolve around the historiography of art and the performativity of canonical art historical narratives in relation to the formation of art historical subjectivities, particularly in contexts outside of Western Europe and North America. She received a B.A. in Visual Arts from Sabancı University in Istanbul and an M.A. in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she wrote a thesis on the genealogy of some major art terms in the Turkish language, tracing their complex semantic histories in relation to the Arabo-Persian, French, German, and Anglophone art discourses as well as Turkey's intellectual history. She is also a Mellon Cluster Fellow in Northwestern’s Middle East and North African Studies.
Hamed Yousefi's research looks at the convergence of three categories; avant-garde art, the global south and the Cold War. He received his MA in Aesthetics and Art Theory from Center for Research in Modern European Philosophy in London. As a filmmaker, he has made numerous documentaries including a series of essay films about the aesthetic history of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the revolution of 1979. Other research interests include third world modernism, decolonization, Marxism, critical theory, contemporary art and politics of globalization. His feature-length documentary,The Fabulous Life and Thought of Ahmad Fardid(with Ali Mirsepassi, 2015) was recently released on DVD by New York University
Image: Prabhakar Barwe, King and Queen of Spades, 1967 Oil and paper on canvas, 39 1/4 x 54 1/8 in. Grey Art Gallery, New York University Art Collection Gift of Abby Weed Grey, G1975.188
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Throughout her more than two-decade career, artist Sonya Clark has explored the meaning embedded in commonplace objects and materials such as textiles, hair, combs, and currency, to reflect on the complex issues of race, American history, and black cultural production. Her recent work presents challenging questions about nationhood and memorialization through the investigation, reconstruction, and dismantling of flags as symbols. Clark’s 2019 project Monumental Cloth, the Flag We Should Know, explores the symbolic legacy of the Confederate Battle Flag by invoking its lesser-known historical counterpart, the Confederate Flag of Truce. Clark will discuss this work in the context of her larger oeuvre and will be joined in conversation by Janet Dees, the Block’s Steven and Lisa Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.
Sonya Clark is Professor of Art at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Previously, she was a Distinguished Research Fellow in the School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University where from 2006 until 2017 she served as chair for the Craft/ Material Studies Department. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards including a United States Artist Fellowship, a Pollock Krasner award, an 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art, an Anonymous Was a Woman Award, a Red Gate Residency in China, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency in Italy, and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, among many others. Her work has been exhibited in over 350 museums and galleries in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia.
This discussion is presented in conjunction with the Kaplan Institute for Humanities Dialogue 2019-2020 Memorializing, a year-long conversation about commemorating, contesting, and claiming from humanistic perspectives. Co-presented by The Block Museum of Art, Department of Art Theory and Practice, and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
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Join us for modern art with a global perspective!
Seeking to expand Western perspectives of modern art, Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby Weed Grey Collection surveys art from three nations where unique and vibrant forms of modernism sprang forth in the 1960s and 70s. Challenging histories of artistic modernism that too often begin and end in the West, \"Modernisms\" explores an under-recognized flowering of innovation and risk-taking in art beyond Europe and North America.
Take an in-depth look at select works in the Modernisms exhibition during these monthly spotlight gallery talks, led by Northwestern scholars advancing the study of Iranian, Indian, and Turkish art. No RSVP necessary
Vidura Jang Bahadur is a photographer whose interests lie in experimenting with storytelling, form and format. He is currently working on an interdisciplinary project on the Chinese community in India that will culminate in a book and an exhibition.
Hamed Yousefi’s research looks at the convergence of three categories: avant-garde art, the global south, and the Cold War. As a filmmaker, he has made numerous documentaries including a series of essay films about the aesthetic history of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Maryam Athari is a PhD student researching the dynamics of the global contemporary art world in relation to the region broadly called the Middle East. She is focused on visual arts in contemporary Tehran, Iran.
Özge Karagöz is a PhD student in the Department of Art History. Her research concentrates on transnational histories of art, specializing in the circulation of modern art and revolutionary politics on the Turkish-Soviet-French axis in the first half of the twentieth century.
Image: Eren Eyüboğlu (Turkish), Design for Mosaic [detail] , 1957, Gouache and pencil on cardboard, 18 3/4 x 20 in. Grey Art Gallery, New York University Art Collection, Gift of Abby Weed Grey, G1975.246
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February 18, 2020 marks posthumously the 86th birthday of Audre Lorde and the 89th birthday of Toni Morrison (the first since her death on August 15, 2019). M. Carmen LaneandMichael Rakowitzwill engage in a public talk on ancestry, place, dispossession, and the steadfastness of survival. Using textual prompts from both Lorde and Morrison, the artists continue a dialogue between each other that began half a decade ago and which has impacted both of their practices—which involves grief as both a material and a process that resists disconnection.
M. Carmen Lane is the February 2020Artist in Residenceof theDepartment of Art Theory and Practiceand theAlice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. This talk is also part of the Kaplan Institute's 2019-2020Memorializing Dialogue, a year-long public conversation about commemorating, contesting, and claiming from humanistic perspectives.
About the artists
M. Carmen Lane is a two: spirit African-American and Haudenosaunee (Mohawk/Tuscarora) artist, writer, and facilitator living in Cleveland, Ohio.https://mcarmenlane.com/
Michael Rakowitz is a Professor in Northwestern's Department of Art Theory and Practice. Based between Chicago and New York City, Rakowitz is an Iraqi-American conceptual artist who operates within art spaces and beyond them.
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At the center of this engrossing documentary history is Ahmad Fardid, a 20th-century Iranian philosopher who rejected “Westoxification,” or the pernicious effect of Western culture on Iranian society. Directors Hamed Yousefi and Ali Mirsepassi navigate his inscrutable, yet highly influential theories (which reflect the dual influence of Martin Heidegger and political Islam) using scholarly interviews and astonishing archival footage. Whether praised as an intellectual leader or condemned as a charlatan, Fardid’s peculiar example tests the limits of Modernism’s claims to universality. In English and Farsi with English subtitles.
Hamed Yousefi (Co-director and Northwestern University doctoral candidate in Art History), Hannah Feldman (Northwestern Associate Professor of Art History), and W.J.T Mitchell (Professor of English and Art History at University of Chicago and editor of Critical Inquiry) will take part in a post-screening discussion moderated by Danny Postel (Associate Director of International and Area Studies at Northwestern.)
Co-presented by Block Cinema with the Iranian-American Fund for Cultural Programming, the Critical Theory Program, the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Art History, and the Middle East & North African Studies Program at Northwestern.
Image: Still from The Fabulous Life and Thought of Ahmad Fardid, 2015.
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Mariët Westermann: First Art: Gardens of Eden and the Human Condition
Mariët Westermann, former executive Vice President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and current Vice Chancellor and Professor of Arts and Humanities at New York University Abu Dhabi, discusses her research around Renaissance and Early Modern gardens. The author of A Worldly Art: The Dutch Republic 1585–1718 (1996) and Rembrandt – Art and Ideas (2000), she is currently preparing an exhibition and book on the Garden of Eden as an idea with varying resonance in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, with significant implications for garden practices in these cultures.
Presented by the Department of Art History at Northwestern University.
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Join us for modern art with a global perspective!
Seeking to expand Western perspectives of modern art, Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby Weed Grey Collection surveys art from three nations where unique and vibrant forms of modernism sprang forth in the 1960s and 70s. Challenging histories of artistic modernism that too often begin and end in the West, \"Modernisms\" explores an under-recognized flowering of innovation and risk-taking in art beyond Europe and North America.
Take an in-depth look at select works in the Modernisms exhibition during these monthly spotlight gallery talks, led by Northwestern scholars advancing the study of Iranian, Indian, and Turkish art. No RSVP necessary
Vidura Jang Bahadur is a photographer whose interests lie in experimenting with storytelling, form and format. He is currently working on an interdisciplinary project on the Chinese community in India that will culminate in a book and an exhibition.
Hamed Yousefi’s research looks at the convergence of three categories: avant-garde art, the global south, and the Cold War. As a filmmaker, he has made numerous documentaries including a series of essay films about the aesthetic history of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Maryam Athari is a PhD student researching the dynamics of the global contemporary art world in relation to the region broadly called the Middle East. She is focused on visual arts in contemporary Tehran, Iran.
Özge Karagöz is a PhD student in the Department of Art History. Her research concentrates on transnational histories of art, specializing in the circulation of modern art and revolutionary politics on the Turkish-Soviet-French axis in the first half of the twentieth century.
Image: Eren Eyüboğlu (Turkish), Design for Mosaic [detail] , 1957, Gouache and pencil on cardboard, 18 3/4 x 20 in. Grey Art Gallery, New York University Art Collection, Gift of Abby Weed Grey, G1975.246
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Shengze Zhu’s award-winning experimental documentary Present.Perfectsurveys contemporary China through the lives of live-streaming anchors broadcasting their everyday experiences to unseen audiences around the world. From over 800 hours of recorded live-streaming footage, Chicago-based filmmaker Zhu crafts an absorbing, far-ranging cinematic essay on the construction and performance of identity, posing stark questions about the forces that shape our social realities. In Mandarin with English subtitles.
In Person: filmmaker Shengze Zhu
Co-presented by Block Cinema with the MFA in Documentary Media at Northwestern.
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Museums are full of stories. Join us for read-aloud stories and interactive activities designed to help you look closer and think deeper about the art on view at the museum. Come discover the stories hidden beneath the surface of the art at The Block and invent your own. Geared for children ages 3-8 but all are welcome. Space is limited and registration is required.
Image: Young Visitors to Tales of Art at The Block. Photo by Sean Su.
Museums are full of stories. Join us for read-aloud stories and activities designed to help you look closer and think deeper about the art at the museum. Drop-in to discover the stories hidden beneath the surface of the art at The Block and invent your own. Geared for children ages 3-8 but all are welcome.
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Consisting of more than 700 artworks, the Abby Weed Grey Collection of Modern Asian and Middle Eastern Art at New York University comprises the largest institutional holdings of Iranian, Turkish and Indian modern art in any American university museum. This unparalleled historical resource was amassed by Abby Weed Grey (1902-1983), a self-described “dyed-in-the-wool Midwesterner” from St. Paul, Minnesota. In the 1960s and early ’70s, when few other American collectors were attuned to art being made in the Middle East and Asia, Grey traveled extensively in these regions, steadily acquiring works by contemporary local artists. Throughout her life, Grey’s collecting was guided by a belief in the power of art to stimulate intercultural dialogue.
Join Lynn Gumpert, Director of the Grey Art Gallery at NYU and Lisa Corrin, Director of the Block Museum of Art, for a conversation on this intrepid woman collector and the way that her legacy might inform global directions for contemporary collectors.
About Lynn Gumpert:
Since 1997 Lynn Gumpert has served as Director of the Grey Art Gallery at New York University. She is responsible for the development and direction of the Grey Art Gallery's exhibitions and related programs as well as the permanent collection. She has overseen more than 70 exhibitions at the Grey. She previously worked as a writer, consultant, and independent curator, organizing shows in New York, Japan, and France. From 1980 to 1988 she was curator and senior curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. She authored the first major monograph on French artist Christian Boltanski (Flammarion, 1992) and has contributed essays to numerous publications.
About Lisa Corrin:
Lisa Corrin is the Ellen Philips Katz Director of The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. Her previous positions include Director, Williams College Museum of Art, Deputy Director of Art/Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Seattle Art Museum, where she was the artistic lead for its new waterfront Olympic Sculpture Park, Chief Curator at the Serpentine Gallery in London and Assistant Director/Curator of The Contemporary in Baltimore. She has published widely on contemporary art, public art, and critical museology. Most recently she was co-curator of A Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant-Garde, 1960s–1980s.
Image: Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli and Abby Weed Grey at the opening of an exhibition of student sculpture at the University of Tehran, May 14, 1967. Abby Weed Grey Papers, University Archives, New York University
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Join us for modern art with a global perspective!
Seeking to expand Western perspectives of modern art, Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby Weed Grey Collection surveys art from three nations where unique and vibrant forms of modernism sprang forth in the 1960s and 70s. Challenging histories of artistic modernism that too often begin and end in the West, \"Modernisms\" explores an under-recognized flowering of innovation and risk-taking in art beyond Europe and North America.
Take an in-depth look at select works in the Modernisms exhibition during these monthly spotlight gallery talks, led by Northwestern scholars advancing the study of Iranian, Indian, and Turkish art. No RSVP necessary
Vidura Jang Bahadur is a photographer whose interests lie in experimenting with storytelling, form and format. He is currently working on an interdisciplinary project on the Chinese community in India that will culminate in a book and an exhibition.
Hamed Yousefi’s research looks at the convergence of three categories: avant-garde art, the global south, and the Cold War. As a filmmaker, he has made numerous documentaries including a series of essay films about the aesthetic history of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Maryam Athari is a PhD student researching the dynamics of the global contemporary art world in relation to the region broadly called the Middle East. She is focused on visual arts in contemporary Tehran, Iran.
Özge Karagöz is a PhD student in the Department of Art History. Her research concentrates on transnational histories of art, specializing in the circulation of modern art and revolutionary politics on the Turkish-Soviet-French axis in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Join us for modern art with a global perspective!
Seeking to expand Western perspectives of modern art, Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby Weed Grey Collection surveys art from three nations where unique and vibrant forms of modernism sprang forth in the 1960s and 70s. Challenging histories of artistic modernism that too often begin and end in the West, \"Modernisms\" explores an under-recognized flowering of innovation and risk-taking in art beyond Europe and North America.
Take an in-depth look at select works in the Modernisms exhibition during these monthly spotlight gallery talks, led by Northwestern scholars advancing the study of Iranian, Indian, and Turkish art. No RSVP necessary
Vidura Jang Bahadur is a photographer whose interests lie in experimenting with storytelling, form and format. He is currently working on an interdisciplinary project on the Chinese community in India that will culminate in a book and an exhibition.
Hamed Yousefi’s research looks at the convergence of three categories: avant-garde art, the global south, and the Cold War. As a filmmaker, he has made numerous documentaries including a series of essay films about the aesthetic history of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Maryam Athari is a PhD student researching the dynamics of the global contemporary art world in relation to the region broadly called the Middle East. She is focused on visual arts in contemporary Tehran, Iran.
Özge Karagöz is a PhD student in the Department of Art History. Her research concentrates on transnational histories of art, specializing in the circulation of modern art and revolutionary politics on the Turkish-Soviet-French axis in the first half of the twentieth century.
Image: Eren Eyüboğlu (Turkish), Design for Mosaic [detail] , 1957, Gouache and pencil on cardboard, 18 3/4 x 20 in. Grey Art Gallery, New York University Art Collection, Gift of Abby Weed Grey, G1975.246
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Main Gallery
From the 1950s through the 1980s, painters and sculptors throughout the Arab world explored the challenges and possibilities of abstraction in art. “Taking Shape”, an exhibition of works from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE), presents the work of Middle Eastern and North African artists whose creative visions stretched beyond the boundaries of representation. Including artists originating from or working in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia and the UAE, this exhibition, organized by the Grey Art Gallery at NYU, reveals the global reach and regional importance of abstraction in the 20th century.
Ranging from the hard-edged to the dreamlike, the nearly 80 works in “Taking Shape” reveal a variety of formal approaches and cultural sources. Compositions by Omar El Nagdi of Egypt and Hussein Madi of Lebanon take inspiration from Arabic calligraphic forms, while human and animal contours emerge from the canvases of Iraqi painter Dia Azzawi and Kuwaiti mixed-media artist Munira al-Kazi. Elsewhere, the exhibition explores intricate geometries of color and line, as in the silkscreens of Palestinian artist Kamal Boullata. From earthly to celestial, fluid to precise, the works in “Taking Shape” suggest the inexhaustible richness of non-objective approaches to painting, sculpture and printmaking.
Though abstract, these diverse works reflect the larger cultural, intellectual and spiritual negotiations of the Arab world in the 20th century. “Taking Shape” illuminates these broad horizons, introducing visitors to the diverse schools and movements that developed within and across these nations in a time of heightened international dialogue and diaspora.
The exhibition will be on view at Grey Art Gallery at NYU from Jan. 14 to April 4, 2020 before coming to The Block. The exhibition is curated for The Block by Kathleen Bickford Berzock, associate director of curatorial affairs and Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts.
Image: Omar el Nagdi, Untitled, 1970 (detail)
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2020 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates in the Department of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University—present their thesis projects, concluding two years of intensive artistic development.
Imagine for a moment that you are a small mouse running through a room, where at first the walls were distant, and then gradually they become closer and closer. While you’re at it, imagine that this is all part of some occult ritual, full of ecstasy and sulfuric slime and the art of rope tying. The images are coming in through your heart and you have to work them out somehow. They are portraits of all the people you love, so you scrawl them on sticky-notes and tuck them in hard to see places. Because wouldn’t it be a tragedy to off yourself just before winning that designer gown on ebay? While you’re at it, you realize that your monstrosity is actually a radical thing. Instead of one mouse, you are many, and from your shared abjection you cobble together a collective strength. Which is something you’ll definitely need if the sun falls down. And while you’re at it, remember the butterfly.
Work by Alex Bradley Cohen, Anya Smolnikova, Cindy Phenix, Joshua Kent, Jurrell Lewis, Kayla Anderson, and Lauren Wy.
Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer, a two-channel video installation by the artist Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk/Pechanga, born 1984, Ferndale, WA), offers an immersive and elusive reckoning with histories of colonial violence and Indigenous resistance. The thirteen-minute work examines the history of the Castillo de San Marcos, the oldest fort in the continental United States. Finished in 1695, the structure was known as Fort Marion when it held Native Americans captive throughout the Seminole Wars of the 19th century. In the 1870s, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Comanche, Arapaho, and Caddo Indian prisoners were transported to the fort, where prison supervisor Richard Henry Pratt developed educational techniques designed to “Americanize” his captives. The U.S. boarding school system that grew out of these experiments imposed a regime of compulsory assimilation on generations of Indigenous children, a practice of cultural genocide that intentionally divided families and deprived communities of their linguistic and cultural heritage.
Hopinka juxtaposes his own footage of the fort, now a national monument and museum, with images from an archive of prisoners’ ledger drawings, which depict Native life and Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains, Canadian Prairies, Northwest Plateau and Great Basin in ledger books commonly available from the 1860s to the 1920s. Texts also appear on screen and in the video’s accompanying soundtrack. One of the most striking accounts describes a daring prison escape drawn from the recollections of Seminole Chief Coacoochee, whose captivity at the fort in 1837 ended when he and nineteen other Seminole captives fasted for days in order to slip through the bars of their cells. As strands of sound, text, and image intersect across the two screens, Hopinka plays with the friction between them, asking the viewer to absorb narratives that evade the conventions of linear history. These juxtapositions expose the challenge of reconstructing the past from the incomplete fragments left behind in the archives of the colonizer. While pointedly addressing a traumatic legacy, Hopinka also uses the expressive possibilities of the digital image to open up new spaces of historical imagination, where unjust edifices dissolve to expose glimpses of breathtaking beauty and tranquility across an expansive canvas.
About the artist
Sky Hopinka is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and a descendant of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians. In 2019 he was a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and at the Sundance Institute. His work has been featured in festivals and exhibitions at the ImagineNATIVE Media + Arts Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Sundance, LACE, the Whitney Biennial, and the Front Triennial. Hopkina studied and taught chinuk wawa, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin. He received his BA from Portland State Uiversity in Liberal Arts and his MFA in Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres from the University Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He currently serves as the assistant professor in film production at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, B.C.
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BLOCK CINEMA
North by Current (2021) with filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax
Wednesday, December 1, 7PM, Auditorium, Free
Join us for an in-person screening and Q&A with the filmmaker on 12/1
\"...A wildly ambitious diegesis on faith, gender, criminal justice, collective memory, and artistic license, brought about by a journey home in the face of family tragedy, is nothing short of extraordinary.\" -- Jordan King, Cinefile
An unspeakable tragedy both binds and fractures filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax’s family in this moving and formally audacious documentary. Over nearly five years of visits to his hometown of Grayling, Michigan, Minax chronicles his sister’s struggles with motherhood, mourning, and domestic abuse, as well as his own fraught conversations with his Mormon parents around his identity as a trans man. Through probing commentary and footage drawn from decades of home movies, NORTH BY CURRENT confronts the burdens of memory with candor and care, inviting us to bear witness to the power of healing and acceptance. Director Angelo Madsen Minax will appear to introduce and discuss the screening.
Additionally, a selection of short films by Angelo Madsen Minax will be made available for a limited time through our virtual screening platform. Films will be available to watch from 12 pm CST on 11/30 to 12 pm CST on 12/6.
Still from NORTH BY CURRENT, courtesy of Angelo Madsen Minax
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ONLINE CURATOR TOUR
Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts:
Reframing the Past
Thursday, December 2, 12:30 PM, Online, Free
Join exhibition co-curators Essi Rönkkö and Kate Hadley Toftness for an online tour of Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts: Thinking about History with The Block’s Collection. This lunchtime talk will focus on selections from the exhibition's section on Reframing the Past.
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Five years in the planning, the exhibition stakes a claim on the power of the visual to make change.
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100 + year period.
Images of African American suffering and death have constituted an enduring part of the nation’s cultural landscape, and the development of creative counterpoints to these images has been an ongoing concern for American artists. A Site of Struggle takes a new approach to looking at the intersection of race, violence, and art by investigating the varied strategies American artists have used to grapple with anti-Black violence, ranging from representation to abstraction and from literal to metaphorical. The exhibition focuses on works created between the 1890s and 2013—situating contemporary artistic practice within a longer history of American art and visual culture. It foregrounds African Americans as active shapers of visual culture and highlights how art has been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence.
Among the artists included in A Site of Struggle are Laylah Ali (b.1968), George Bellows (1882-1925), Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012), Darryl Cowherd (b. 1940), Ernest Crichlow (1914-2005), Melvin Edwards (b. 1937), Theaster Gates (b. 1973), Ken Gonzales-Day (b. 1964), Norman Lewis (1909-1979), Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955), Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), Howardena Pindelll (b. 1943), Carl and Karen Pope (b. 1961), Paul Rucker (b. 1968), Alison Saar (b. 1956), Lorna Simpson (b. 1960), Dox Thrash (1893-1965), Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953), Pat Ward Williams (b. 1948) and Hale Woodruff (American, 1900-1980).
After its debut at The Block, the exhibition will travel to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Montgomery, Alabama (Aug. 12-Nov. 6, 2022), a city with a deep civil rights history and which currently acts as a national and international forum on racial injustice through the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum, among other institutions.
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How has art been used to protest, process, mourn, and memorialize anti-Black violence within the United States?
Originating at Northwestern University’s Block Museum of Art, A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100+ year period.
Join us for an online conversation to mark the opening of this exhibition.
Opening speakers include Courtney R. Baker, scholar of Black literary and visual cultures and author of Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African-American Suffering and Death; Dino Robinson, founder of Shorefront Legacy Center in Evanston; and Carl and Karen Pope, exhibition artists. They will be joined in conversation by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and curator of A Site of Struggle, to consider how the exhibition explores intersections of race, violence, visual culture, and history, and what the arts can bring to a national conversation about racial justice.
Robin R. Means Coleman, Vice President and Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion; Chief Diversity Officer; Ida B. Wells and Ferdinand Barnett Professor in Communication Studies, and Natasha Trethewey, Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University and former United States Poet Laureate, will provide opening and closing remarks.
While this program is online, The Block Museum will be open from 12-5pm CST for in-person visitation of the exhibition. The planned Opening Performace by Mendi + Keith Obadike has been rescheduled to Spring 2022.
The program will be recorded.
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GALLERY TOUR SERIES (IN-PERSON)
Place and Memory: Art Talks! with Block Student Associates
Saturday, February 5, 12:30 PM, Gallery, Free
Histories related to a place are sometimes invisible and often overlooked. How do people assign meaning to place? How is history etched onto a landscape or erased from it? Join our Block Museum Student Associates in the gallery for a look at works in our collection that reveal complicated layers of personal, generational, and societal histories rooted in the land we share.
Block Museum Student Associates are Northwestern undergraduates representing interdisciplinary fields of study from across the University who lead thought-provoking discussions about art and ideas that are relevant to our lives today.
Free, 30 minute talks take place in the gallery
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ONLINE CONVERSATION
A Site of Struggle: A Northwestern University Panel Discussion
Tuesday, February 8, 6PM, Zoom Webinar, Free
Originating at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art, A Site of Struggle explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a 100+ year period. Join us for a conversation about the exhibition, its context at Northwestern, and how the issues and questions it explores contribute to a national conversation about racial justice.
Speakers include Alvin B. Tillery, Jr., Director of the Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy and Associate Professor of political science at Northwestern University; Charla Wilson, Archivist for the Black Experience at Northwestern University; and exhibition curator Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Conversation moderated by Northwestern Alumni Association president Larry Irving ’76.
Presented by the Block Museum in conjunction with the Northwestern Alumni Association
Event Speakers include:
Larry Irving is the President and CEO of the Irving Group, a consulting firm providing strategic advice and assistance to international telecommunications and information technology companies, foundations and non-profit organizations. From September, 2009 to July, 2011, Mr. Irving served as Vice President or Global Government Affairs for the Hewlett-Packard Company, the world’s largest technology company. Irving is one of the nation’s leading thinkers on technology and innovation, with extensive experience on Capitol Hill and in the executive branch of the US federal government.
Alvin B. Tillery, Jr., is Director of the Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy and Associate Professor of political science at Northwestern University. Tillery is a frequent commentator in the national media on diversity, equity, and inclusion issues. He recently briefed the foreign press on the Black Lives Matter movement on behalf of the Biden-Harris administration. Tillery is also the Head of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Advisory at the C Street Advisory Group, which is a multi-service consulting firm that provides strategic advice to corporations, governments, and non-profits.
Charla Wilson serves as the inaugural Archivist for the Black Experience at Northwestern University. Her primary focus is to document the history of Black students, faculty, staff, alumni, and organizations at Northwestern. She also supports outreach, curatorial services, education, and reference for the McCormick Library of Special Collections & University Archives. She holds a degree in American Studies from Scripps College, graduate degrees in History from California State University San Marcos, and Education from Claremont Graduate University.
Janet Dees is the Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University and holds affiliations with the Department of Art History and the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research. Prior to her appointment at the Block, Dees was curator at SITE Santa Fe, where she worked since 2008. Dees was a part of the curatorial team for Unsettled Landscapes, the inaugural SITElines: New Perspectives on Art of the Americas biennial (2014). She is the recipient of a 2018 Curatorial Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to support the development of A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence (2022).
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The American Sector (2020) with filmmaker Courtney Stephens
Thursday, February 10, 7 PM, Auditorium, Free
Dozens of sections of the iconic wall that separated East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989 are now scattered throughout the United States, at government buildings, college campuses, private collections, and roadside diners. For The American Sector, directors Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez spent 18 months traveling the country, filming these fragments and gathering impressions from the custodians, collectors, and tourists they encountered. At once a landscape essay, history lesson, and collective psychological portrait of the post-Cold War United States, The American Sector asks troubling and timely questions about the shifting relationship between monuments and ideology.
The American Sector and film stills courtesy of Grasshopper Film
Co-director Courtney Stephens will appear in person for a post-film discussion.
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Friday, February 11, 7PM, In-Person, Free | RSVP
In this live documentary-performance hybrid, Courtney Stephens investigates the history of women as travel filmmakers from the 1920s through the 1950s. Drawing entirely on archival materials, Stephens scrutinizes the traces left by these women with a movie camera, asking questions about gender and genre: What common subjects drew their eye? What social roles did they challenge, reproduce, or inhabit? What do these films say about the place of women in the economies of cinema and colonialism? Hearkening to the illustrated lectures of travel societies and 20th-century home movie projections, Stephens uses the live performance mode to reflect on the personal stakes of her inquiry as a traveler and filmmaker. The result is a film essay as moving as it is transporting.
Following the screening, Courtney Stephens will be in conversation with Malia Haines-Stewart, Associate Film Programmer, and Madison Brown, Ph.D. Candidate, Screen Cultures.
\"Terra Femme is Stephens’s magnum opus. It is also a meditation on the unresolved matter of women’s relationship to earthly places. What kind of home is earth, family, society? Where does the body go to live and to die? What does it mean to move through the world with this particular body, raced and gendered, disabled and vulnerable? And perhaps most pressing of all, who gets to describe the world?\"
– Pooja Rangan, \"To Describe The World: A Conversation With Courtney Stephens About ‘Terra Femme’, Another Gaze (July 2021)
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Saturday, February 12, 12:30 PM, In-Person, Free | RSVP
Exhibition Gallery Talks are offered monthly by Block Museum staff, Northwestern faculty and students, or community leaders in Evanston to explore and discuss the questions and ideas raised in A Site of Struggle.Saturday's program is offered by Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and curator of A Site of Struggle.
Program participants are invited to tour the exhibition independently before or after this seated program. The discussion will center respectful participation and shared learning.
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In-Person, Free | RSVP
Oklahoma-based artist, filmmaker, and curator Crystal Z. Campbell confronts the “public secrets” of American life, such as racism, gentrification, and resource extraction, by interrogating layers of history and erasure. In the first of two nights of screenings and talks, Campbell will discuss their recent body of work, Notes from Black Wall Street, a group of paintings, videos, and installations exploring the rebuilding of the Greenwood district following the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. In this cycle of works, Campbell activates diverse materials such paint, archival photography, and fired clay to excavate the tactile histories of Tulsa’s African American community, using techniques of assemblage and abstraction to bring these histories to life in the present.
Presented with support from Art, Theory, Practice at Northwestern University. Image credit: Crystal Z Campbell photographed by Jeremy Charles
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GALLERY TALK
A Site of Struggle
with Leslie Harris and Miriam Petty
Thursday, March 3, 12:30PM, In-Person, Free
Join us for a facilitated discussion of A Site of Struggle offered by Northwestern faculty Leslie Harris, Professor of History, and Miriam Petty, Associate Professor of Associate Professor in the Department of Radio/Television/Film. Exhibition Gallery Talks are offered monthly by Block Museum staff, Northwestern faculty and students, or community leaders in Evanston to explore and discuss the questions and ideas raised in A Site of Struggle. Program participants are invited to tour the exhibition independently before or after the seated program. The discussion will center respectful participation and shared learning. Advance registration is required.
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In-Person, Free | RSVP
Join us for an evening with artists and filmmakers Crystal Z. Campbell and Christopher Harris
Focusing on landscapes of decay and material traces of structural neglect, the films of Crystal Z. Campbell and Christopher Harris challenge our perception of American injustice. Campbell’s films Go-rilla Means War (2017) and A Meditation on Nature in Absence of an Eclipse (2021) use found footage to trace fraught histories, from gentrification in Bed-Stuy to the water crisis in Flint, MI. Christopher Harris’ Still/Here (2001) bracingly documents the derelict architecture of North St. Louis, an open monument to systemic disinvestment in Black communities. Harris and Campbell will appear after the screening to discuss the ways their films offer techniques for visualizing and challenging the “slow violence” of environmental racism.
Presented with support from Art, Theory, Practice and the Climate Crisis and Media Arts Working Group at Northwestern University.
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\"The Block Museum's Flesh to Spirit engages what it means to be a Black body—a joyful body, an oppressed body, an exploited body, a body once bought and sold as goods, a body that’s so much more than its corporeal form—in ways both nimbly tactile and equivocally abstruse as only art can be, specifically vis-à-vis experimental film and video.\"
– Kathleen Sachs \"Black film at Block Cinema\"(Chicago Reader Feb 25, 2022)
Twelve experimental shorts bring the bodies and spirit of Black people to the big screen.
\"Flesh to Spirit\" explores the many ways that film artists have embraced abstract techniques and explored the materiality of film and video to represent Black experience, from the 1960s to the present. Charting connections between several generations of moving-image makers, \"Flesh to Spirit\" will showcase brilliant works in 16mm and 35mm film, analog and digital video. The films in \"Flesh to Spirit\" propose alternative possibilities in film and in life, from Paige Taul’s After DeCarava, which treats photographic abstraction as a form of care, to Ayanna Dozier’s Maman Brigitte, which connects Black women’s bodily autonomy to the texture of analog film.
Following the screening, filmmakers Paige Taul and Christopher Harris will appear for a discussion and Q&A.
Presented with support from the Kaplan Humanities Institute at Northwestern University.
Image: An Ecstatic Experience (2015). Courtesy Ja'Tovia Gary
About the films:
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This conversation focuses on exhibition-making as a form of activism, the presentation of counternarratives, and efforts to incite institutional change.
With La Tanya S. Autry, Cultural Organizer and Independent Curator, Black Liberation Center; Kayleigh Bryant-Greenwell, Associate Director of Outreach and Operations at American University's Antiracist Research and Policy Center; and Krystal Strong, Professor of Education and Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
Moderated by Alisa Swindell, Associate Curator of Photography at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College and former Block Museum Curatorial Research Associate for A Site of Struggle.
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The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete is a coming-of-age story about two boys of color living in poverty in New York City, directed by George Tillman Jr. (The Hate U Give). When Pete’s mother goes missing and Mister’s is arrested, the boys must attempt to survive on their own, evading law enforcement and the threat of social services in an effort to stay together.
Following the screening Miriam Petty (Professor in Screen Cultures, Associate Dean for Academic Programs) and Nick Davis (Professor of English and Gender & Sexuality Studies) will join Golden M. Owens (PhD Candidate in Screen Cultures) for a post-screening discussion about the film, focusing on ideas of care in the narrative.
Co-sponsored by the Kaplan Humanities Institute 2021-22 CARE Dialogue.
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This program brings together four recent short films that celebrate Black life in Chicago while interrogating the historic and contemporary effects of segregation, redlining, and disinvestment in the city. Centering images of joy amidst architectures of adversity, these films use interviews, testimony, lyrics, and intimate conversations to imagine filmmaking as a form of community dialogue.
Following the screening, The Block will welcome filmmakers Domietta Torlasco, Jazmine Harris, and Kristin Reeves for a discussion of their films and the communities they represent.
This screening is supported by the Comparative Literary Studies Program and the Department of French and Italian at Northwestern.
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Join teacher, embodiment coach, writer, and facilitator Prentis Hemphill as they explore strategies toward healing amid the enduring effects of racial trauma. Hemphill will share their work in this space, offering reflections on opportunities to heal and grow, even as ongoing realities challenge and oppose. Followed by a conversation with Melissa Blount, PhD, artist/activist/psychotherapist and member of The Block’s Evanston Community Advisory Group for A Site of Struggle.
Please note: this program will include brief embodied practice exercises, and we invite you to partake in physical activity as comfortable and able.
Prentis Hemphill is a writer, embodiment facilitator, political organizer and therapist. They are the Founder and Director of The Embodiment Institute and The Black Embodiment Initiative, and the host of the acclaimed podcast, Finding Our Way. For the last ten years, Prentis has practiced and taught somatics in social movement organizations and offered embodied practice during moments of social unrest and organizational upheaval. They have taught embodied leadership with Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity and served as the Healing Justice Director of Black Lives Matter Global Network from 2016 to 2019. Their work and writing have appeared in the New York Times, the Huffington Post. They are a contributor to ‘You are Your Best Thing’, edited by Tarana Burke and Brene Brown, ‘Holding Change’ by adrienne maree brown, and ‘The Politics of Trauma’ by Staci Haines.
Melissa Blount, PhD and licensed clinical psychologist, is known for her commitment to creating a beloved community and empathetic connection with dialogue, fabric, and thread. This is a primary motivation in her practice as a psychologist, activist and artist. Her work centers Black and transgender women, exploring themes of white supremacy, and gender, state and economic violence. She creates a sacred space for people to memorialize and celebrate Black women in all of their complicated, intersectional glorious fullness. Her tools of choice are needle, floss and fabric. Notable influences of her work are the women of Gee's Bend Alabama, Marie Watt, Krista Franklin and of course, her partner in life Ben Blount. She lives in Evanston, Illinois but will always claim Detroit
This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence, with generous promotional co-sponsorship from Northwestern’s Offices of Counseling and Psychological Services and Social Justice Education.
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WARNOCK LECTURE | Sarah Lopez:\"Architectural History as Migrant History\"
Architectural History as Migrant History tracks the development over the last fifty years of a binational construction industry that has emerged around the excavation (in Mexico), transportation, distribution, and installation (in the US) of cantera stone. Cantera literally means “quarry,” but the Spanish word is used in Mexico to describe a specific brittle rock used to build colonial churches and civic infrastructure. More recently, a network of Mexican quarrymen, stonemasons, homebuilders, architects, and businessmen have refined a cantera market that caters to a Mexican and Mexican American clientele in the American Southwest. Architectural History as Migrant History recasts Mexican construction-related labor by tracking the development of a meaningful and sophisticated industry that has reshaped design norms and building trades in two countries from the shadows of a formal American economy.
Sarah Lopez, a built environment historian and migration scholar, is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Lopez's book, The Remittance Landscape: The Spaces of Migration in Rural Mexico and Urban USA, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2015 and won the 2017 Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians. Lopez is a faculty affiliate with American Studies, the Amos Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, and the Center for Mexican American Studies. In 2016 Lopez was a Princeton Mellon fellow and she is currently a fellow at Dumbarton Oaks.
Presented by the Department of Art History at Northwestern University.
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CINEMA | Wednesday, May 25, 7 PM, In-Person, Free | RSVP
“To Render the Infinite” connects the work of Kevin Jerome Everson, Paige Taul, and zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal in a visual genealogy, reflecting on the ways that filmmakers have captured and cultivated generational and familial relationships through the camera. Films like Paige Taul’s 7-7-94 For my babe and Kevin Jerome Everson’s Flak-Kaserne Ludwigsburg serve as imaginative and speculative family portraits shot in vivid 16mm. zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal’s to render the infinite offers a found footage driven response to the legacy of Lorraine Hansberry, exploring notions of belonging, intimacy, and Black women’s relationship to the everyday.
Following the screening, Everson, Taul, and o’neal will appear in person to discuss the formal and thematic kinship between their films.
Kevin Jerome Everson was born and raised in Mansfield Ohio. He is currently a Professor of Art at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville Virginia. Everson's films and artwork have been widely shown, at venues including Sundance Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Oberhausen Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Whitechapel Gallery in London, National Gallery in Washington DC and Centre Pompidou in Paris. The work has also been recognized through awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Alpert Award, a Creative Capital Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, NEH Fellowships, Ohio Arts Council Fellowships, and an American Academy in Rome Prize.
Paige Taul is an Oakland, CA native who received her BA in Studio Art with a concentration in Cinematography from the University of Virginia and her MFA in Moving Image from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her work engages with and challenges assumptions of black cultural expression and notions of belonging through experimental cinematography. As a part of her filmmaking practice she tests the boundaries of identity and self-identification through autoethnography to approach notions of racial authenticity in veins such as religion, style, language, and other black community based experiences.
zakkiyyah najeebah dumas-o’neal is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist, arts educator, and independent curator. Najeebah Dumas O’neal’s work is most often initiated by personal and social histories related to family legacy, queerness, community making, intimacy, and interiority. Her practice borrows from visual traditions such as social portraiture, video assemblage, drawing, collage, and found images. najeebah dumas o’neal’s work has been included in numerous group exhibitions. She most recently held the 2019- 20 Jackman Goldwasser Residency at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago. She is also a co-founder of CBIM (Concerned Black Image Makers), a collective driven project that prioritizes shared experiences.
Co-presented with support from the Michael and Jane Hoffman Visiting Artist Series, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities and the MFA in Documentary Media at Northwestern. Co-curated by aeryka hollis o'neil (2021-2022 Block Museum Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow), Emily Martin (Block Curatorial Research Associate), and Malia Haines-Stewart (Block Cinema Associate Film Programmer).
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Thursday, May 26, 7 PM, In-Person, Free, RSVP
Teasers of Empire interweaves a selection of fifteen 35mm trailers from the Academy Film Archive with commentary by guest scholars to examine the connections between the Action-Adventure genre and the history of imperialism. Early sound films can help elucidate how Hollywood filmmaking practices and genre tropes developed in conjunction with dominant colonial narratives and audience tastes. Despite the technical mastery displayed by these films, screening them today presents a challenge given that many of them contain harmful stereotypes about minoritized peoples. Examining 1930s Action-Adventure trailers with this critical lens offers us an opportunity to study how the genre was shaped by borrowed colonial artistic and literary conventions that naturalized discourses of empire, conquest, and modernity, without reactivating the violence of screening the films in their entirety.
Post-screening discussion with: Ariel Rogers, Associate Professor in the Department of Radio/Television/Film, Northwestern Univ.; Rochona Majumdar, Associate Professor in Department of Cinema and Media Studies, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago; and Emily Lyon, PhD Candidate in History, Northwestern Univ.
Curated by Emmanuel Ramos-Barajas a scholar, curator, and research-based image-maker who investigates the possession and consumption of land in US and Mexican art, cinema and visual culture.
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Friday, May 27, 7 PM, In-Person, Free, RSVP
Renowned filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson appears in person to present the Chicagoland debut of his 2013 feature, The Island of St Mattews. A portrait of collective memory, lost family artifacts, and the lived experience of ecological change, Island trains its lens on his parents’ hometown of Westport, a rural community outside of Columbus, Mississippi. Multiple generations of residents recall the history of Tombigbee River flooding in 1973 and 1979, which impacted Everson’s family home and caused the loss of precious family photo albums–catastrophes the artist works to counteract through the creation of Island. The film interweaves different experiences of the river, from a water-skier to a baptism to a dam worker’s slow shifts of water levels, giving careful and patient attention to labor, recreation, and landscape.
Paired with a selection of short home movies from the Alsup-Smith family collection of Chicago’s South Side Home Movie Project, the screening invites viewers to contemplate both “home movies” and experimental film as flexible, capacious modes of preserving community and cultural memory across generations.
Arguably one of the most prolific and important experimental filmmakers working today, Kevin Jerome Everson (b. 1965, Mansfield, OH, lives in Charlottesville VA) has made 11 features and over 200 short films, a body of work providing a vital record that explores contemporary Black experiences in American life.
He holds an MFA from Ohio University, a BFA from the University of Akron, and is a Professor of Art at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Everson’s work has been screened at the Sundance Film Festival, the Athens International Film Festival, London’s International Centre of the Arts, and the South by Southwest Film Festival. He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Ohio Arts Council. His visual art has been exhibited at the Whitney, the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, and throughout Europe.
Co-presented by The Block with support from the Michael and Jane Hoffman Visiting Artist Series, the MFA in Documentary Media at Northwestern, and the Climate Crisis and Media Arts Working Group. Films appear courtesy of South Side Home Movie Projects and Picture Palace Pictures. Co-curated by aeryka hollis o'neil (2021-2022 Block Museum Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow), Emily Martin (Block Curatorial Research Associate), and Malia Haines-Stewart (Block Cinema Associate Film Programmer). Image credit: ©Kevin Jerome Everson, courtesy the artist; trilobite-arts DAC; Picture Palace Pictures\"
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Thursday, June 2, 5:30 PM, In-Person, Free, RSVP
Hamid Naficy, Professor Emeritus of Radio/Television/Film and Middle East and North African Studies at Northwestern University, is a pioneering scholar in the cultural studies of diaspora and exile, postcolonial cinemas and media, and of Iranian and Middle Eastern cinemas and media. His many books include The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles (1993), Home, Exile, Homeland: Film, Media, and the Politics of Place (1999), An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking (2001), and the four-volume masterwork A Social History of Iranian Cinema (2011-12), which has been called “a landmark achievement.”
\"Like Water Through Stone\" is a two-day gathering celebrating Naficy’s career and intellectual legacies, honoring and reflecting on his towering contributions to multiple fields. Opening night includes remarks and screening of Mouth Harp in Minor Key: Hamid Naficy In/On Exile (dir Maryam Sepehri, 2017, 62 min, digital), a documentary exploring the life of this path-breaking scholar.
Co-presented with the Middle East & North African Studies Program, Center for Global Culture and Communication, Department of Radio/Television/Film and the Block Museum of Art
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The Museum is located on the southeastern portion of Northwestern's Evanston campus, near the lake and Sheridan Road. Parking is FREE after 4 PM on weekdays and all day on weekends. The nearest parking garage is located at the Segal Visitor's Center on Campus Drive.
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The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University will present “Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s –1980s,” Sept. 22 to Dec. 4, 2022. The exhibition features mid-20th-century abstract art from North Africa, West Asia and the Arab diaspora work from the renowned Barjeel Art Foundationcollection. The Block Museum is the final stop of a five-city U.S. exhibition tour.
The 90 paintings, sculpture, drawings and prints in “Taking Shape” reflect the wide range of nonfigurative art practices that flourished in the Arab world over four decades and prompt an expansion of the abstract art canon and broadening of conversation to encompass a global view of modernism.
The exhibition highlights several abstract movements that developed in the region and shows how individual artists and collectives grappled with issues of authenticity, identity and the decolonialization of culture.
“‘Taking Shape’ is the newest chapter in The Block’s exploration of global modernisms, and the exhibition aligns with the museum’s commitment to focus on understudied, overlooked and even suppressed art histories,” said Lisa Corrin, Ellen Philip Katz Executive Director.
“These beautiful works capture the spirit of experimentation that made abstract art of the ’50s–’80s so exciting and that make it a touchstone for so many artists working today. We believe it is crucial that art museums continue to question how and by whom art history has been written in the past and to pursue opportunities to expand our understanding about art’s histories. Exhibitions like ‘Taking Shape’ are key to adding depth and broadening our perspective on the ways global visual arts, cultures and politics are intertwined and connect to our contemporary moment,” Corrin said.
About the Exhibition
“Taking Shape” investigates abstraction in the Arab world during a period marked by decolonization, the rise and fall of nationalism, socialism, rapid industrialization, wars and mass migrations, and the region’s oil boom. Rising opposition to Western political and military involvement drove many artists to adopt critical viewpoints of the West and strive to make art relevant to their own locales. New opportunities for international travel and the advent of circulating exhibitions sparked cultural-educational exchanges that exposed artists to multiple modernisms leading them to consider their roles within a global context.
This varied group of Arab, Amazigh (Berber), Armenian, Circassian, Jewish, Persian and Turkish descent artists moved away from figuration to mine the expressive capacities of line, color and texture.
Inspired by Arabian calligraphy, geometry and mathematics, Islamic decorative patterns and spiritual practices, they expanded abstraction’s vocabulary and complicated its origins.
“Though abstract, these diverse works reflect the larger cultural, intellectual and spiritual negotiations of the Arab world in the 20th century,” said exhibition curator Suheyla Takesh of the Barjeel Foundation. ‘Taking Shape’ illuminates these broad horizons, introducing visitors to the diverse schools and movements that developed within and across these nations in a time of heightened international dialogue and diaspora.”
The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University presentation will be the final stop on the exhibition tour. “Taking Shape” debuted at the Grey Art Gallery at New York University Jan. 14 to April 4, 2020. Additional sites included the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College from Feb. 1 to June 13, 2021; Tampa Museum of Art, Sept. 30, 2021, to Jan. 16, 2022; and Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Feb. 12 to June 12, 2022.
Barjeel Art Foundation Founder Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi spoke with Hadara Magazine about the exhibition tour. “This is really a reflection on how forward-thinking and progressive the institutions that are hosting the show are. Also, it’s important to note that we only work with university museums in America for two reasons. The first is that these are medium-sized museums and they’re much more malleable than larger institutions, which need years to put together an exhibition. The other aspect is the educational aspect — every single one of these museums will have symposia, conferences and talks, and they have the students involved, which is really important.”
Exhibition Catalogue
“Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s\" is accompanied by a 256-page publication of essays by scholars and biographies of the featured artists. Co-published by Hirmer Publishers and the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, the book was co-edited by Suheyla Takesh, curator at the Barjeel Art Foundation, and Lynn Gumpert, director of the Grey Art Gallery, New York University. Catalogues are available for purchase at The Block Museum or online.
Exhibition Programs:
At its heart, “Taking Shape” raises fundamental questions: How do we study abstraction across different contexts, and what modes of analysis do we use? This opening dialogue will feature recorded remarks from Barjeel Art Foundation founder Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi and “Taking Shape” curaor Suheyla Takesh, as well as a live panel discussion among Northwestern scholars exploring the exhibition’s core questions and resonances in our context. The panel includes Northwestern art, theory and practice faculty Caroline Kent and Michael Rakowitz, Alice Welsh Skilling professor of art, and Sarah Dwider, doctoral student in art history and a 2021–22 Block Museum graduate fellow. The conversation will be moderated by Hannah Feldman, associate professor of art history.
Learn more and look deeply at selected works in “Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s” during a gallery talk led by Block Museum staff.
Join artist Walid Raad (b. 1967, Chbaniyeh, Lebanon) as he reflects on his work and practice and draws connections to “Taking Shape.” In his installations, performances and videos, Raad’s works engage how violence affects bodies, minds, cities and art.
Join “Taking Shape” artist Samia Halaby for a talk exploring her groundbreaking artistic practice and career. Halaby (b. 1936, Jerusalem) is an artist, activist and scholar living and working in New York and widely recognized as a pioneer of abstract painting.
Image: Etel Adnan
\"Autumn in Yosemite Valley,\" 1963–1964
Collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
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An opening dialogue exploring our expanding view of modernisms.
Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s explores the wide range of nonfigurative art practices that flourished in the Arab world over the course of four decades. Looking critically at narratives of mid-20th-century abstraction, the exhibition rethinks art-historical canons and expands conversations around global modernisms.
This keynote conversation will feature recorded remarks from Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, founder of the Barjeel Art Foundation, and Suheyla Takesh, curator of Taking Shape, and a conversation among Northwestern scholars exploring the exhibition’s core questions and resonances in our context.
Panelists include Rebecca C. Johnson (Northwestern Director of the Middle East and North African Studies Program, Associate Professor of English), Caroline Kent (Visual Artist, Northwestern Assistant Professor of Art, Theory, and Practice), Michael Rakowitz (Visual Artist, Northwestern Alice Welsh Skilling Professor of Art, Theory, and Practice), and Sarah Dwider (Block Museum 2021–22 Graduate Fellow and Northwestern PhD Student, Department of Art History). Conversation moderated by Hannah Feldman (Northwestern Associate Professor of Art History).
Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s is organized by the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, and curated by Suheyla Takesh and Lynn Gumpert. Major support for the exhibition is provided by the Barjeel Art Foundation. Additional generous support is provided by the Charina Endowment Fund; the Violet Jabara Charitable Trust; the Grey’s Director’s Circle, Inter/National Council, and Friends; and the Abby Weed Grey Trust. The Block’s presentation of the exhibition is supported in part by the Myers Foundations and the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
Image: Madiha Umar (Aleppo, Syria, 1908–New York City, 2005), ''Untitled,'' 1978. Watercolor on paper, 12 1/4 x 17 3/8 in. Collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE. No. 83
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Explore works from the Block collection included in the Fall teaching exhibition Looking 101 with Essi Rönkkö, Block Associate Curator of Collections. This program offers a behind-the-scenes look at The Block as a resource for teaching and learning at Northwestern University and will focus on building tools and confidence to observe, analyze, and express ideas about works of art.
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EXHIBITION ON VIEW
LOOKING 101
On through December 4, 2022
The average museum visitor spends less than 30 seconds looking at a work of art.
It usually takes us far less than that to draw conclusions about what we see; the human brain seems to perform this work automatically and instantaneously.
How do we slow down our looking habits to better understand the process of meaning-making?
How do our individual backgrounds and lived experiences affect how and what we see?
We invite you to enter our teaching gallery and engage in a typical classroom activity: an exercise in close looking that can be used to analyze any work of art. We have intentionally excluded contextual and interpretive texts from the walls of this exhibition so you can begin your visit with direct observation of the artworks. Information about each artwork and discussion prompts are available in the brochure holder and on our website. You can do this exercise on your own or in conversation with other visitors.
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Join artist Walid Raad as he reflects on his work and practice, and draws some tangential connections to the exhibition Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s, with introductory remarks from Hannah Feldman, Northwestern Associate Professor of Art History. In his installations, performances, and videos, Raad’s works engage how violence affects bodies, minds, cities, and art.
Walid Raad (b. 1967, Chbaniyeh, Lebanon) works across installation, performance, video, and photography to explore how historical events of physical and psychological violence affect bodies, minds, culture, and narrative. He is well-known for The Atlas Group, a 14-year project about the contemporary history of Lebanon. Raad’s work has been shown in numerous international exhibitions including Documenta 11 and 13, the 14th Istanbul Biennial, the first Vienna Biennale, the Whitney Biennial (2000 and 2002), and the 50th Venice Biennale. He has had one-person exhibitions at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; and Carré d’Art, Nîmes. His 2015 survey exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, traveled to the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston and Museo Jumex in Mexico City. His work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Kunsthaus Zürich; and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, among others.
Presented in partnership with the Department of Art, Theory and Practice. This program is co-sponsored by the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. The Block Museum of Art also acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council Agency. Photography, video, and audio recording strictly prohibited.
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Meet the Block Museum Student Associates in our galleries for a close look at works on view at The Block that spark their curiosity.
Student Associates are Northwestern undergraduates representing interdisciplinary fields of study from across the University who lead thought-provoking discussions about art and ideas that are relevant to our lives today. This Free, 45-minute talk takes place in the gallery and will focus on works in the Taking Shape exhibition.
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What do we owe to the memories of one another's hearts?
For American artist Dario Robleto (b. 1972), artists and scientists share a common aspiration: to increase the sensitivity of their observations. Throughout the history of scientific invention, instruments like the cardiograph and the telescope have extended the reach of perception from the tiniest stirrings of the human body to the farthest reaches of space. In his prints, sculptures, and video and sound installations, Robleto contemplates the emotional significance of these technologies, bringing us closer to the latent traces of life buried in the scientific record.
The Heart’s Knowledge concentrates on the most recent decade of Robleto’s creative practice, a period of deepening engagement with histories of medicine, biomedical engineering, sound recording, and space exploration. The exhibition organizes the artist’s conceptually ambitious, elegantly wrought artworks as a series of multisensory encounters between art and science. Each work seeks to attune viewers to the material traces of life at scales ranging from the intimate to the universal, returning always to the question: Does empathy extend beyond the boundaries of time and space?
In The First Time, the Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913) (2017), Robleto transforms early measurements of heartbeats made by 19th century pioneers of cardiography into exquisite photolithographs executed on paper hand-sooted with candle flames. For the installation The Pulse Armed With a Pen (An Unknown History of the Human Heartbeat) (2014), Robleto collaborates with sound historian Patrick Feaster to digitally resurrect these heartbeats in audio form, giving visitors an intimate pulses of life recorded before the invention of sound playback. Other works in the exhibition gesture towards scientific discoveries yet unmade. Two immersive video installations, The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed (2019) and The Aorta of an Archivist (2020-2021) weave Robleto’s archival inquiries into the first recorded heartbeats with a meditation on the cosmic limits of perception, while intricate sculptures like Small Crafts on Sisyphean Seas (2018) give shape to the speculative search for intelligent life in the universe.
The Heart’s Knowledge marks the culmination of Robleto’s five-year engagement as Artist-at-Large in Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. This exhibition reflects the spirit of that enterprise, expanding conversations around ethics and empathy in scientific fields, and inviting us to look and listen to the life that surrounds us with curiosity and compassion.
Image: \"The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto\" presented by The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University (January 26-July 9, 2023)
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In this opening conversation, Robleto and Roberts will be joined by Lucianne Walkowicz, astronomer and co-founder of the JustSpace Alliance, and Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts and curator of The Heart’s Knowledge, to reflect on these questions. Join us for a discussion that reaches across boundaries to examine the shared pursuit of greater understanding that binds artists and scientists.
Drop by The Block early and join the Block Museum Student Associates in the galleries for a look at the exhibition.
Programs are open to all, on a first-come first-served basis. RSVPs not required, but appreciated.
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How do astronomers and artists translate data into images...and how do these translations shape the meaning of the cosmos in the public imagination?
The breathtaking images produced by the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes are no ordinary snapshots. To produce these sublime cosmic vistas, astronomers filter raw data into colors and configurations that guide the viewer’s understanding, making creative decisions in the service of scientific communication.
In this dialogue on “interstellar aesthetics,” artist Dario Robleto will join Elizabeth Kessler, exhibition catalogue contributor and Lecturer in American Studies, Stanford University, and Shane Larson, Northwestern Research Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Associate Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA)
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Wednesday, March 8, 6 PM CST, Zoom, FREE
Join us for a special online conversation with Ann Druyan, the celebrated Creative Director of NASA's Golden Record.
From her work in the 1970s as the Creative Director for NASA’s Voyager Interstellar Messaging Project to her current role as writer and producer of the beloved television series Cosmos, Ann Druyan has devoted her life to expanding the horizons of human empathy and communication. In insisting that the thresholds of cosmic exploration must be approached with sincerity, humility, and generosity, she has had a deep influence on Dario Robleto’s work throughout his career.
In this online conversation, Druyan and Robleto will be joined in conversation by The Heart’s Knowledge catalogue contributor Jennifer Roberts, Professor of the Humanities at Harvard. Roberts and and Robleto are co-authoring a book about the interstellar journey of the pulse wave recordings that Druyan included on the Voyager Golden Record.
Thursday, March 9, TWO-PART EVENT
5 PM CST, Film screening at The Block, in-person
7 PM CST, Dialogue at the Ethel M. Barber Theater, in-person & livestream
Dean E. Patrick Johnson hosts a special screening and discussion with alumni filmmaker Emily Branham and pop provocateur BeBe Zahara Benet.
BEING BEBE is the story of Marshall Ngwa, a Cameroonian artist whose identity hinges on the complicated success of his drag persona, BeBe Zahara Benet. Grounded by Marshall’s own present-day narration, the film features 15 years of vérité, interviews, and performances. Viewers follow Marshall’s remarkable immigrant journey from the earliest days of his amateur drag performance career in Minneapolis, circa 2006, to becoming the first winner of the now-iconic reality show RuPaul’s Drag Race in 2009. As Marshall fights to maintain the trajectory of his career despite a series of difficult setbacks, the film reveals what it means to celebrate and advance Queer Black Excellence during the 2020s. Alongside Marshall's story, viewers are introduced to LGBTQ+ youth and activists in Cameroon, where Queer identity is criminalized.
Immediately following the in-person film screening of BEING BEBE, Dialogue with the Dean will occur at the Ethel M. Barber Theater, next door to the Block Museum of Art, from 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. CDT with both in person and virtual attendees.
In-Person, FREE | RSVP
Three short films by Mexican/American experimental documentarian Naomi Uman and Colombian/French filmmaker Laura Huertas Millán
The films in “Working, Weaving, Filming” use nonfiction practices expansively to portray people's daily labors. The central films of the program, LECHE (1998) and LA LIBERTAD (2017), situate themselves within the working lives of two different families across Mexico. Shown alongside her short film HAND EYE COORDINATION (2002), which “tells the story of its own making,” the pair advances a manually-processed, hand-crafted vision of artist’s cinema. Laura Huertas Millán’s LA LIBERTAD is a sensorially rich portrait of a community of matriarchal weavers working with pre-Hispanic techniques and seeking economic freedom through practices of craftsmanship near Oaxaca.
Screening followed by a conversation with Cordelia Rizzo (Ph.D. in Performance Studies at Northwestern University) an activist-scholar from Monterrey, Mexico with a background in Human Rights and Philosophy.
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An exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late '60s and early '70s.
The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern is a concise exhibition featuring artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and The Arkestra jazz ensemble, including a painting by the musician and visual artist Ayé Aton. The Arkestra’s practice is put into conversation with photographs of music venues across Chicago by Ted Williams, Mikki Ferrill, and Ronald L. Freeman, as well as images of and by Northwestern University students, reflecting a dynamic network of musicians, artists, listeners, and activists. The students—some of whom would eventually share a stage with Sun Ra himself—took up the mantle of artmaking and activism in response to local and global crises on and beyond their campuses from anti-Black racism to the Vietnam War.
The exhibition traces a history of collective acts by musicians, artists, students, and activists to engage in creativity, community, care, and collaboration during times of social and political crisis.
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In-Person, Free | RSVP
Join us for a conversation on jazz and social justice on campus.
Learn more about The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern during a gallery talk led by Ashleigh Deosaran, 2022–23 Block Curatorial Graduate Fellow and exhibition curator.
Image: Sun Arts Festival Flyer, New York, 1967, Pat Patrick Collection of Sun Ra Materials, Northwestern University Music Library
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RSVP | Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center, 2133 Sheridan Road
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ONLINE ART TALK
Thursday, April 27, 12:30-1PM CT, ZOOM Webinar, Free
Continue the conversation on Clint Smith's How the Word Is Passed with this lunchtime collection talk.
In this online series, Block Museum curatorial staff consider works from the museum collection that reckon with the history of slavery, white supremacy, symbols of nationhood, and social inequity. This program is held in connection with 2022–23 One Book One Northwestern (OBON) selection How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith and presented by the Block Museum in partnership with The Alumnae of Northwestern University.
This collection talk led by Melanie Garcia Sympson, Curatorial Coordinator for Collections Information and Digital Interpretation, will focus on an untitled vernacular photograph of the Lincoln Memorial, ca.1960s.
\"In this personal snapshot circa 1960, two stylish women stand in front of the statue of Lincoln. One looks up at the monument, while the other looks at the camera. Seeing the photograph from the 21st century, the viewer wonders what the visitors might have taken away from their obligatory pilgrimage. In How the Word Is Passed, Clint Smith reminds us that our stories of the history of slavery are often limited and one-dimensional. As Smith explains, Lincoln had a complicated outlook and his 'commitment to ending slavery was not necessarily matched by a commitment to Black equality.' \"
– Melanie Garcia Sympson, Curatorial Coordinator, Collections Information and Digital Interpretation
Presented by in conjunction with One Book One Northwestern, with support of the Alumnae of Northwestern University
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Inspired by Dario Robleto's consideration of the ways that art and science intersect to create new meaning, we invite you to meet a cross-disciplinary match-up of Block Museum Student Associates in our galleries for a close look at works on view in The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto. Students will discuss works that spark their curiosity and consider the ways that the works resonate with their own fields of study. This talk will focus on works in the Heartbeats section of the exhibition.
Free, 45-minute talks take place in the gallery. RSVP
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What does art have to do with the urgencies of energy?
As so many living species lose their lives as well as gain new life due to the complex, contradictory, multiple forces and forms of energy—too much or too little energy—we ask, How can art matter when bodies, in all living forms, are on the line because of the scarcity or abundance of energy? and, finally, Where is energy located, or made relevant, in abstract art and in beauty? We will begin to open these questions through a discussion of “art making” with its processes and intentions for more “livable geographies.” Art lives alongside notions of beauty, making representation and the intermix of energy and beauty compelling work for the artist, especially if that artist is ‘energized’ in their work by creating work that is liberatory.
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Who can claim knowledge of the human heart?
Can poetry, art, and medicine each contribute to our understanding of this historically and biologically complex organ? Inspired by astonishing advances in biomedical engineering, this cross-disciplinary conversation contemplates the possibility of a “future heart” distinct from anything we’ve known before. Artist Dario Robleto joins Doris Taylor, director of regenerative medicine research at The Texas Heart Institute Center for Cardiovascular Care, and Adrian Matejka, poet and editor of Poetry magazine, to speculate on possibilities for the “future heart” across disciplines, and why the literal, poetic, and philosophical heartbeat continues to inspire.
Dario Robleto was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1972 and received his BFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1997. He lives and works in Houston, TX. The artist has had numerous solo exhibitions since 1997, most recently at the Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS (2021); the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (2019); the McNay Museum, San Antonio, TX (2018); Menil Collection, Houston, TX (2014); the Baltimore Museum of Art (2014); the New Orleans Museum of Art (2012); and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (2011). His work has been profiled in numerous publications and media including Radiolab, Krista Tippet's On Being, and the New York Times.
Dr. Doris Taylor has imagined changing the world for people with disease since she lost her father to cancer when she was 6 – in her words, so that “no one else ever had to feel that loss.” Then her family moved to Mississippi, and her mom pointed out how ordinary people were doing extraordinary things to change the world for the better. Watching her single mom stand up for justice for everyone, compounded by bullying of her twin brother even by teachers because he had cerebral palsy, primed her to spend her life speaking up and speaking out to make a difference in the world.
Adrian Matejka was born in Germany as part of a military family. He grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana and is a graduate of Indiana University Bloomington and the MFA program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
He is the author of The Devil’s Garden (Alice James Books, 2003) which won the New York / New England Award and Mixology (Penguin, 2009), a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series. His third collection, The Big Smoke (Penguin, 2013), was awarded the 2014 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.
The Block acknowledges with gratitude its partnership with Northwestern University’s Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, whose leadership support has made possible this exhibition, the associated publication, and the Artist-at-Large residency of Dario Robleto (2018-2023).
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In its foundational years, The Block Museum of Art gained a reputation for presenting groundbreaking exhibitions that considered the unique roles prints and printmaking have played within visual culture. Printmaking stands apart from other artistic media in its capacity for reproduction and dissemination and is an ideal medium for telling stories about human experience to the broadest audiences. The Block began to build its collection around etchings, lithographs, screen prints, and other printed media. While the museum’s mission has evolved over time, prints continue to resonate with its aspiration to present art across time, cultures, and media and to inspire interdisciplinary discussions relevant to our lives today.
On the occasion of The Block’s 40th anniversary, For One and All: Prints from The Block’s Collectioncelebrates prints and printmaking by bringing together a diverse range of artwork from the permanent collection. The exhibition considers print production through various lenses layering complex histories of reproduction, circulation, collecting, and social activism.
For One and All places highlights from The Block’s collection, many of which have not previously been on view, into conversation with one another. The exhibition includes examples of works that have been in the collection since the founding of the Block in 1980, along with recent acquisitions and gifts. From early modern European prints, to Depression-era and social activist prints, and those produced at print workshops throughout the United States, the exhibition surveys the depth and breadth of the Block’s print collection and showcases the vital role that prints serve within the context of academic art museums.
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The Block presents the first Chicago presentation of Rosalie Favell: Facing the Camera. Rosalie Favell (b. 1958) is a photo-based artist who draws inspiration from her Métis heritage and family to create complex self-portraits and portraits. For her series Facing the Camera (2008–18), Favell photographed Indigenous members of arts communities in North America and Australia, producing 500 photographs. This work is a rewriting of history and a living art history—a critical intervention in expanding the visibility of contemporary Indigenous artists and arts professionals.
Facing the Camera strives to present the diversity of arts communities and to push beyond stereotypical and one-dimensional representations of Indigenous peoples. The black and white photographs reference the problematic relationship between Indigenous cultures and the camera, which has historically been used as a tool of domination. With stark white backgrounds that serve as blank canvases, Favell creates individualistic portraits that speak loudly of the broad diversity of people engaged with visual culture and beyond. Viewed as a whole, the series asserts the presence of a contemporary, global, multi-dimensional, and vibrant Indigenous arts community.
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Block gallery talks explore exhibitions by posing multidisciplinary questions and perspectives, led by knowledge sharers across Northwestern and beyond.
The exhibit Rosalie Favell: Indigenous Artists Facing the Camera presents an extensive selection ofportraits that speak loudly of the broad diversity of Indigenous people engaged in the arts and cultural community.
This gallery talk is offered by Facing the Camera portrait subject June Carpenter (Osage/Shawnee), artist and Field Museum Repatriation Specialist. Co-facilitated by Felipe Gutiérrez, 2022–23 Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow, and co-curator of Rosalie Favell: Indigenous Artists Facing the Camera.
Programs are open to all, on a first-come first-served basis. RSVPs are not required, but appreciated, as they help us anticipate attendance numbers.
This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. The project is also generously supported by the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation, the Alumnae of Northwestern University, and the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
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Join Block Museum staff for a talk considering an artwork from the Block’s collection that reflects on the complexities of love, family, identity, and grief—themes central to the 2023–24 One Book One Northwestern selection, Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner.
This talk will be led by Isabella Ko, Engagement Coordinator, who will be taking a close look at Roland L. Freeman's photograph Combing Hair, Amoke Alayoe and Her Children, Silver Spring, Maryland, June 1978.
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Meet the Block Museum Student Associates in our galleries for a close look at newly acquired photographs by artist Derrick Woods-Morrow, currently on view in The Block Collects 2023.
Block Museum Student Associates (BMSAs) are Northwestern undergraduates representing interdisciplinary fields of study from across the university. In the galleries, the BMSAs engage The Block’s visitors in conversations about artworks that spark their curiosity and ideas that are relevant to our lives today.
This talk will introduce the 2022-2023 BMSA Student Acquisition, a selection of four photographs by artist Derrick Woods-Morrow - Her Name was Saartjie | Not Sara (2015), and she was to be ‘seen,’ not watched… (2015), Standing Before Grace (as Grace Jones) (2015) and Frederick on Lake Pontchartrain | after Lincoln Beach (2019).
Programs are open to all, on a first-come first-served basis. RSVPs are not required, but appreciated, as they help us anticipate attendance numbers.
This project is supported by the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
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The works of art in this exhibition have been selected in dialogue with a student-led collecting project undertaken by the 2022-2023 Block Student Associates.
The BMSAs are an interdisciplinary group of Northwestern undergraduate students who serve as tour guides, public facilitators, and peer-to-peer ambassadors for the museum on campus. As in-house student advisors for museum staff, they help shape Block programming and projects. The yearly student-led acquisition provides the BMSA’s an opportunity to learn by doing.
In Academic Year 2023 the BMSAs decided to focus their acquisition process on work by artists whose practices address questions related to gender. Their final proposal included Derrick Woods-Morrow’s photograph Frederick on Lake Pontchartrain | after Lincoln Beach, on view in this exhibition. Morrow’s work is accompanied here by other works from The Block’s collection that offer multiple perspectives on this themes.
This exhibition was also on view from September 20 to December 3, 2023.
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Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology is a traveling exhibition that considers kinship, healing, and restorative interventions as artistic practices and strategies to foster a deeper consciousness of our interconnectedness with the earth.
A recent overlapping of worldwide crises related to ongoing climate change, entrenched social inequity, and renewed concerns over public health has underscored the need for complex approaches. It has become necessary to assume global responsibilities while caring for our local environment; to find new antidotes to oppressive structures of power; to grasp nature, health, and sustainability as intertwined.
For decades, artists have sought greater understanding of this interconnectedness, drawing from multiple disciplines beyond established art practices. Actions for the Earth presents the work of eighteen artists and collectives who foreground reciprocity and exchange in their work by sharing participatory interventions, healing practices, ecology and science, as well as ancient beliefs. The artists create space for honoring ancestors, the significance of Indigenous knowledges, and engage in fantastical speculation through science-fiction and organic, digital, and spiritual network sciences.
Actions for the Earth is a resource for current times, reminding us that we are connected within a constellation of living networks, inseparable from the earth. The exhibition emphasizes learning, care, and intimacy, inviting its publics to participate in instruction-based meditation and deep listening among other actions. During the tour, projects will generate site-specific exchanges between the artists, the environment, and local communities, growing and changing over time.
Artists: Ackroyd and Harvey, Lhola Amira, Arahmaiani, Sayan Chanda, Hylozoic/Desires (Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser), lololol, Ana Mendieta, Zarina Muhammad, Patrina Munuŋgurr, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Eric-Paul Riege, Tabita Rezaire, Cecilia Vicuña, Katie West, and Zheng Bo
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Rhayne Vermette's 16mm portrait of a woman reconnecting with her past.
Rhayne Vermette’s feature debut is a beguiling hybrid of auto-fiction and mythology, landscape film and chamber drama. Playing a young Métis woman returning to her hometown (and her young daughter) after a four-year absence, Vermette leads an ensemble of friends and family members whose intimate conversations and recollections evoke the past and present of Native life in Manitoba. While STE. ANNE borrows a central narrative thread from Wim Wenders’ 1984 classic PARIS, TEXAS, Vermette is more interested in unraveling the conventions of storytelling through improvisation and digression.
Following the screening, Vermette will appear for a conversation with guest curator Inney Prakash, founder of the Prismatic Ground film festival and a contributor to the recent publication, Exovede in the Darkroom: The Films of Rhayne Vermette.
Rhayne Vermette's visit is presented with support from the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern.
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Four films investigate the \"spatial reality of domesticity.\"
Taking its title from a quote by the architect Gio Ponti this program attempts to reveal the spiritual origins and ends of architecture through studies of its material traces. These works together reflect how different kinds of homecomings can bring the weight of a building’s past to bear upon or reinforce its enduring physical dimensions.
Following the screening, guest filmmaker Rhayne Vermette will appear for discussion with curator Inney Prakash and Block Museum Curator of Cinema and Media Arts Michael Metzger.
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Join us for an interdisciplinary opening conversation on art; eco-anxiety and resilience; climate crisis science and impact; and the importance of cross-disciplinary thinking and problem-solving to affect change.
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Spend time with 2022–2023 Block Museum Curatorial Intern Elizabeth Vazquez ('24 Anthropology and History), who will share her research and reflections on photographer Laura Aguilar and recent acquisitions from the artist’s Motionseries.
Block gallery talks explore exhibitions by posing multidisciplinary questions and perspectives, led by knowledge sharers across Northwestern and beyond.
Laura Aguilar's work appears in The Block Collects, an exhibition of new acquisitions to the museum's collection.
Image: Laura Aguilar, Motion #68, 1999, gelatin silver print, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, gift of the Laura Aguilar Trust of 2016, 2023.3.2
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Block gallery talks explore exhibitions by posing multidisciplinary questions and perspectives, led by knowledge sharers across Northwestern and beyond.
Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology is a traveling exhibition that considers kinship, healing, and restorative interventions as artistic practices and strategies to foster a deeper consciousness of our interconnectedness with the earth.
Space at this program is limited to 25 and advance registration required.
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Programs are open to all, on a first-come first-served basis. RSVPs not required, but appreciated.
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Drawing from The Block’s collection, this intimate exhibition weaves together personal snapshots and work by artists who have integrated family photography into their visual language. By incorporating family photographs into their artwork in various ways, these artists make visible some of the memories, realities, and complexities that might lie beneath the facades of family photography.
This exhibition asks us to deepen our own looking practices to better understand the role of photographs in familial memory: What is the relationship between what we see in a photograph and what we know or don’t know? How are memories shaped by what cannot be represented visually? And what is the relationship between private family photographs and broader cultural histories? In our digital age, where photo filters and editing are so prevalent, this exhibition provides a space to reflect on the power of what we cannot, and in some cases, do not want to see.
Curated by 2023–24 Block Interdisciplinary Fellow Madison Brown with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator
The Block is proud to support the Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative (CAICC) as they present the 8th Annual Urban Native Education Conference on March 22-23, 2024. This conference is free and open to the public.
Chicago-Land (Checagou) has many connections to fire, from the Council of the Three Fires to the Great Chicago Fire and the Chicago Fire television show. This connection is reflected in our theme for the 8th Annual Urban Native Education Conference: Many Fires: Kindling the Future.
Our conference theme asks us to consider the numerous fires that are collectively burning pathways toward a future that provides nourishment for our elders, warmth for our communities, and fuel for our youth and the generations yet to come. The theme also recognizes the diversity of original teachings we carry, passed down through generations and unrestricted by borders, that positively impact the world around all of us. Lastly, it recognizes the many ways Native Americans, urban and rural, are finding new ways to teach and engage with these teachings as we fan the flames of Indigenous knowledge.
This conference invites Native American and Indigenous community leaders, knowledge keepers and scholars, students, educators, youth, administrators, helpers and staff of educational programs, organizations and institutions, from Chicago-land (Checagou) and beyond to share their experiences and wisdom in creating educational opportunities to prepare future generations to inherit a world full of possibility for Indigenous communities.
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Programs are open to all, on a first-come first-served basis. RSVPs not required, but appreciated.
ABOUT MADISON BROWN
Madison Brown is a PhD Candidate in Screen Cultures at Northwestern University. Her research explores the politics of amateur media cultures through theories of affect, domesticity, and everyday life.
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Programs are open to all, on a first-come first-served basis. RSVPs not required, but appreciated.
Image: Cecilia Vicuña, Semiya (Seed Song), 2015, color, sound, HD video, 07:43, Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.
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Join Maddie Brucker, PhD candidate in Computer Science and Learning Sciences, for a talk on art, learning, and interconnection.
Block gallery talks explore exhibitions by posing multidisciplinary questions and perspectives, led by faculty, staff, students, and community members across Northwestern. In this talk, Maddie Brucker will discuss how encounters with art are sites of learning that are often deeply intertwined with endeavors of social changemaking.
Maddie Brucker is a multidisciplinary artist and PhD candidate in Computer Science and Learning Sciences at Northwestern. Her research aims to locate learning and critical possibility in the relational endeavors of artistic production and artists’ community-making. She uses ethnographic methods to study how artists learn and develop new tools and techniques while simultaneously building community structures that exist outside of, and often in opposition to, formal institutions.
This event is presented by the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science in conjunction with Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology.
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Maximiliano Cervantes, Tarik Dobbs, Morisha Moodley, Jonathan Rosemond — 2024 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University.
This exhibition and associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice and the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Endowment.
Image: Jonathon Rosemond, untitled, 2020, photocopy, (Source: Maxwell Tomlinson)
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Block Museum Student Associates (BMSAs) are Northwestern undergraduates representing interdisciplinary fields of study from across the university. In the galleries, the BMSAs engage The Block’s visitors in conversations about artworks that spark their curiosity and ideas that are relevant to our lives today.
Programs are open to all, on a first-come first-served basis. RSVPs not required, but appreciated.
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The McCormick School of Engineering hosts a conversation on sustainability practices in object conservation.
The Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts is a collaboration between the Art Institute of Chicago and materials science-related departments at Northwestern University to pursue objects-based and objects-inspired scientific research. Materials research benefits ongoing work in conservation, archaeology, art history, and curatorial scholarship.
Learn how the Center uses materials research to care for art objects in sustainable, innovative ways with Maria Kokkori, Senior Scientist in the Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts. She will be in conversation with Corey Byrnes, Northwestern Associate Professor of Chinese Culture and co-founder/co-director of the Environmental Humanities Workshop in Kaplan Humanities Center.
This event is presented by the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science in conjunction with the exhibition Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology.
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Join Michael Metzger for a conversation within the exhibition Actions for the Earth.
Northwestern's Climate Crisis + Media Arts Working Group aims to influence cultural and political discourse on the climate emergency by creating new ways of depicting what it means to live and die within a changing climate, right now. Michael Metzger, co-lead of the Working Group and The Block's Pick-Laudati Academic Curator for Cinema and Media Arts, will host a gallery discussion of Actions for the Earth and CCMA’s work.
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Join Risa Puleo, PhD candidate in Art History at Northwestern, for an art talk focusing on Eric-Paul Riege and his works blanket 4 epr [2] draped upon Shádiááh to keep him warm and epr blanket [2] within Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology.
Programs are open to all, on a first-come first-served basis. RSVPs not required, but appreciated.
Image: Eric-Paul Riege, blanket 4 epr [2] draped upon Shádiááh to keep him warm, installation view
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The Block’s plantings will be selected in partnership with Eli Suzukovich III, Assistant Professor of Instruction in Northwestern’s Environmental Policy and Culture program and faculty affiliate of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research Institute. As an extension of his ongoing work on Northwestern’s campus, these native flowers will be carefully replanted at the conclusion of Actions for the Earth to help stabilize, nourish, and sustain Northwestern’s campus lakefill.
Join Eli Suzukovich for a discussion of the Block’s installation of Memory of Nature, followed by a walk and continued conversation to learn more about how we care for the land on which our campus sits.
Please note that this program will take place outside. Participants will be invited on a 30-minute walk that will begin and end at the Block Museum. A rain date has been scheduled for Saturday, June 22.
Block gallery talks explore exhibitions by posing multidisciplinary questions and perspectives, led by faculty, staff, students, and community members across Northwestern and beyond.
Programs are open to all, on a first-come first-served basis. RSVPs not required, but appreciated. Image: Arahmaiani, Memory of Nature, 2013, Singapore, Courtesy the artist
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The perception of something as humorous or amusing often depends on context, prompting questions: Who is in on the joke? Is the joke at somebody’s expense? When, why, and how is a work understood to be humorous, and when is it not?
The Block Museum Student Associates (BMSA), an interdisciplinary group of Northwestern undergraduates, chose humor as the theme for their 2024 art acquisition. After six weeks of discussion and research, the Student Associates recommended the purchase of two works by photographer Cara Romero that poke fun at the many ways Indigenous communities have been misrepresented and stereotyped in American culture. In this installation, we present the BMSA acquisition alongside other works from the museum’s collection related to the theme.
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Featuring a cast of time-traveling world leaders with a feverish madness for power, Solmi’s animation turns a frenzied, fun-house mirror to grandstanding historical figures. The Great Farce presents a sprawling send-up of empire-building as an enterprise, and a scathing commentary on our contemporary culture where spectacle and celebrity may be distractions from more sinister machinations, and where the speed of things contributes to the blurring of myth and truth.
Originally commissioned for the 2017 B3 Biennial of the Moving Image, Frankfurt, Germany, The Great Farce is one of Solmi’s most ambitious works in terms of technical complexity, physical scale and scope of content. The work can be presented as an immersive gallery installation with nine projections, or a sculptural “portable theater” with embedded video that represents the content, spirit and aesthetic of the larger installation.
The Great Farce was first exhibited on the façade of the Schauspiel Opera Theater in Frankfurt Germany, and later adapted into a gallery installation for Open Spaces Kansas City (2018). American Circus, a work adapted from The Great Farce, was displayed across multiple electronic billboards in New York’s Times Square in July 2019 as a project of Times Square Arts.
The limited-edition work is part of The Block Museum's permanent collection, gifted by the artist’s studio in recognition of the museum’s 40th anniversary in 2020
About the Artist
Federico Solmi was born in Bologna, Italy in 1973. Since 1999 he has lived and worked in New York.
Solmi’s work utilizes bright colors and a satirical aesthetic to portray a dystopian vision of our present-day society. His exhibitions often feature articulate installations composed of a variety of media including virtual reality experiences, video installation, painting, drawing, and sculpture. Solmi uses his art as a vehicle to stimulate a robust conversation with his audience, highlighting the contradictions and fallibilities that characterize our time. Through his work, Solmi examines unconscious human impulses and desires in order to critique Western society’s obsession with individual success and display contemporary relationships between nationalism, colonialism, religion, consumerism. By re-configuring historical narratives across eras, he creates social and political commentary works which disrupt the mythologies that define American society. By merging his paintings with game engine aesthetics, Solmi’s videos confront the audience with his own absurd rewriting of past and present, merging dark humor and sense of the grotesque with new technologies. He creates a carnivalesque virtual reality where our leaders become puppets, animated by computer script and motion capture performance rather than string.
In 2009, Solmi was awarded by the Guggenheim Foundation of New York with the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in the category of Video & Audio. Solmi’s work was included in the 100-year anniversary exhibition of The Phillips Collection, Seeing Differently, and in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s traveling exhibition, Outwin 2019: ‘American Portraiture Today,’ as well as the inaugural exhibition of the Ocean Flower Museum Island in Hainan Province, Danzhou, China.
Past solo museum surveys include ‘Joie de Vivre’ (September 2022 - February 2023) at the Morris Museum in Morristown New Jersey, ‘The Grand Masquerade’ (2019) at theTarble Art Center in Charleston Illinois, and ‘American Circus’ (2016) at the Haifa Museum of Art in Israel.
His work has been included in several international Biennials, including Open Spaces: A Kansas City Arts Experience (2018), the Beijing Media Art Biennale (2016), Frankfurt B3 Biennial of the Moving image (2017- 2015), the First Shenzhen Animation Biennial in China (2013) the 54th Venice Biennial (2011) and the SITE Santa Fe Biennial in New Mexico (2010).
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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Grant participated in and photographed left wing and radical protests in and around New York City. She was a member of the group New York Radical Women and documented events associated with the group, as well as the Moratorium on the Vietnam War and other anti-war protests, pro-abortion rallies, and the Miss America Pageant protest. Grant captured rallies, demonstrations, and such community events as the Black Panther Party Free Breakfast, and her work presents a view of events reflecting broad political engagement and social justice demonstrations that defined the late 1960s and 70s in the US. The exhibition will consider the period that Grant photographed and present new acquisitions by Grant, alongside related works in the collection from the era.
Curated by 2023–24 Block Art History Graduate Fellow Ruslana Lichtzier with Corinne Granof, Academic Curator
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Class is in session. Learn to look through art.
The average museum visitor spends fewer than thirty seconds looking at a work of art. It usually takes us far less time than that to draw conclusions about what we see; the human brain seems to perform this work automatically and instantaneously.
How does slowing down our looking habits help us understand their connections to meaning-making?
How do our individual backgrounds and experiences affect how we perceive what we see?
We invite you to enter our teaching gallery and engage in a typical classroom activity: an exercise in close looking that can be used to analyze any work of art. Works on view are selected from The Block’s collection to relate to themes in courses across campus this term.
Meet the Block Museum Student Associates in the galleries for a close look at works on view in The Block Collects and their 2023-2024 Student Acquisition, TV Indians (2017) and Amber Morningstar(2022) by Cara Romero.
Block Museum Student Associates (BMSAs) are Northwestern undergraduates representing interdisciplinary fields of study from across the university. In the galleries, BMSAs extend welcome to our exhibitions and collection, and engage visitors in conversations about artworks that spark their curiosity.
Participation level – medium; participants are encouraged to respectfully share their own perspectives, thoughts, and questions throughout the Art Talk.
Programs are open to all, on a first-come first-served basis. RSVPs are not required, but are appreciated.
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Join us in celebrating the exhibition Dissident Sisters: Bev Grant and Feminist Activism, 1968-72 and the stories it shares of civil rights and social justice movements in the United States. Artist Bev Grant will be in conversation with co-curator Ruslana Lichtzier, 2023-24 Block Museum Art History Graduate Fellow, to discuss Grant’s artistic practice documenting and participating in radical political movements in the late 1960s and 70s. Sarah Brown, Director of the Women’s Center at Northwestern University, will provide an introduction to the history of this groundbreaking intersectional feminist activism and its legacies in the ongoing work of the Women’s Center at Northwestern today. The conversation will be followed by an audience Q&A.
Co-presented with the Northwestern Women's Center
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Block Cinema welcomes Bev Grant for a screening of three short films that showcase the range of her artistic and political practices. As an early member of the iconic Newsreel Collective founded in New York City in 1967 and known as the “propaganda arm of the New Left,” Bev Grant contributed to key radical documentary films that chronicled the wave-making social movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Following the screening Bev Grant joins us in person for a conversation with Michael Anthony Turcios (Radio/Television/Film) about activism-focused filmmaking.
Image: El Pueblo se Levanta (Newsreel #63), Newsreel,1971
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Groundbreaking multimedia artist Federico Solmi will be in conversation with Özge Samanci, Associate Professor in the School of Communication, Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program Faculty Board at Northwestern University, to discuss the technical and conceptual aspects of his work, which uses satire to explore history and mythmaking. Their conversation will be moderated by exhibition curator Janet Dees.
Federico Solmi was born in Bologna, Italy, in 1973. Since 1999, he has lived and worked in New York. Most recently, his work was the subject of a major exhibition, Federico Solmi: Ship Of Fools, at the Venice Biennale (Palazzo Dona’ Dalle Rose).
His groundbreaking work was recognized with a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 2009. Solo museum surveys include American Circus at the Haifa Museum of Art in Haifa, Israel, in 2016; The Grand Masquerade at the Tarble Art Center in Charleston, Illinois, in 2019; and Joie de Vivre at the Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey, in 2022–23.
His work was included in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s traveling exhibition The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today. In 2021, he was featured in the Phillips Collection’s centennial exhibition Seeing Differently. He has participated in several international biennial exhibitions, including the SITE Santa Fe Biennial in New Mexico in 2010; Venice Biennale in 2011.
From 2016 to 2019, Solmi was Visiting Professor at Yale University School of Art and Yale School of Drama, New Haven, Connecticut. He was appointed Guest Critic at the Yale University School of Art for 2022.
BLOCK CINEMA
In-Person, Free, RSVP
Film scholar and curator Erika Balsom joins us for our ongoing series Films By Women/Chicago '74
The work of rediscovering, recirculating, and recontextualizing women’s cinema is never done. Perhaps no recent undertaking has proved this point so dramatically as No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image, an expansive exhibition and screening series organized by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg and exhibited at Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt in the summer of 2022. This program brings together three exemplary works that collectively attest to the diversity and depth of the exhibition as a whole.
Image: Han Ok-hee, Untitled 77-A, 1977. Presented as part of the Gene Siskel Film Center and Northwestern University’s Block Cinema's Films by Women/Chicago ’74 series. Screening series at both venues will revisit some of the 1974 festival’s most original and daring films and filmmakers while reflecting on the event’s enduring legacies.
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Meet the Block Museum Student Associates in the galleries for a close look at select works on view in Dissident Sisters: Bev Grant and Feminist Activism, 1968–72.
Block Museum Student Associates (BMSAs) are Northwestern undergraduates representing interdisciplinary fields of study from across the university. In the galleries, BMSAs extend welcome to our exhibitions and collection, and engage visitors in conversations about artworks that spark their curiosity.
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Join us at The Block to celebrate the Block Museum Student Associates 2023-2024 acquisition of Cara Romero’s photographs, TV Indians (2017) and Amber Morningstar (2020). Artist Cara Romero will discuss her practice and these new acquisitions to the museum’s collection, following an extended introduction by members of the Block Museum Student Associates program. Romero will be joined in conversation by Aaron Golding, Co-Chair of the Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative Education Committee and Sr. Program Administrator in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University.
Each year, the Block Museum Student Associates learn about museum collecting practices and recommend acquisition of works of art centered around a theme. Their 2023–2024 acquisition focused on the use of humor as an artistic strategy. Romero’s nuanced works explore themes of identity and tradition, and poke fun at the many ways Indigenous communities have been misrepresented and stereotyped in American culture. Read more about the 2023-2024 BMSA Student Acquisition and hear our students’ reflections on their selection.
TV Indians is on view in Looking 101 and Amber Morningstar is on view in The Block Collects. Block Museum Student Associates will be available in the galleries before and after the program to discuss their acquisition. The galleries will remain open after the program until 8pm.
Participation level – light, participants can choose to participate by submitting questions via Social Q&A or requesting the microphone to ask a question.
Programs are open to all, on a first-come first-served basis. RSVPs are not required, but are appreciated.
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The exhibition’s title, It takes a long time to stay here, comes from the poem \"spinning air\" by m.s. RedCherries (Northern Cheyenne), and evokes ideas of grounding and reflection. The exhibition invites a deep exploration of the seven paintings, shown together for the first time, highlighting the introspective quality of Craig’s work. As one spends extended time with each painting, its meaning is shaped by the interplay of Craig’s enigmatic and playful titles, her intricate compositions, and the perspectives of each viewer.
Exhibition Keynote: Jordan Ann Craig in conversation with m.s. RedCherries
Wednesday, February 26, 6PM
It takes a long time to stay here: Paintings by Jordan Ann Craig is curated by Kathleen Bickford Berzock, Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs, Janet Dees, former Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Jacqueline Lopez, 2024–25 Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow, at The Block Museum of Art.
This exhibition is partially supported by the Alsdorf Gallery Endowment and a grant from the Illinois Arts Council. Additional generous support is provided by the Alumnae of Northwestern University. Support for this publication has been provided by Hales Gallery, New York.
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Galvin Recital Hall, 70 Arts Circle Dr Evanston, IL 60208Through the perspectives of four artists with connections to Zhegagoynak, the exhibition Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland (January 25-July 13, 2025) explores confluences that continue to shape Indigenous creative practices in the region and beyond.
Join us for a day of celebration honoring the artists and Chicagoland's Indigenous art histories and vibrant futures.
12:00-1:30pm – Open Galleries and Activities
Drop by the Block Museum in the early afternoon to explore the galleries, enjoy children's hands-on activities, and visit our Community Room.
2:00-3:30pm – Keynote Talk, Galvin Recital Hall
The opening keynote will celebrate the contributions of collaborating exhibition artists. Kelly Church (Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Tribe of Pottawatomi/Ottawa), Nora Moore Lloyd (Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe), and Jason Wesaw (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi) will be in in dialogue with Jordan Poorman Cocker (Kiowa), Woven Being Terra Foundation Guest Co-Curator. Seating is first-come, first-served. (RSVP)
4:00-6:00pm – Public Reception, Norris Student Center
Following the keynote, join us next door in the Louis Room of the Norris University Center (1999 Campus Drive, 2nd floor) for light refreshments and conversation. The museum will remain open until 6 PM.
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Through the collaboration of four artists with connections to Zhegagoynak—Andrea Carlson (Grand Portage Ojibwe/European descent), Kelly Church(Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Tribe of Pottawatomi/Ottawa), Nora Moore Lloyd (Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe), and Jason Wesaw (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi) —Woven Being explores confluences that continue to shape Indigenous creative practices in the region and beyond.
Chicagoland is the traditional homeland of the people of the Council of Three Fires— the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa—as well as the Menominee, Miami, Ho-Chunk, Sac, Fox, Kickapoo, and Illinois nations. It has been a longstanding cultural and economic hub for Indigenous peoples and continues to be today. People from many Indigenous nations call the region home, and the city of Chicago has the third-largest urban Indigenous population in the United States. The richness of Indigenous experiences and contributions are often excluded from Chicago’s art histories. Woven Being counters this by centering the ideas, choices, and voices of Indigenous artists.
\"How does our understanding of Chicago change when seen through Indigenous perspectives? This exhibition helps shift views about the place Chicagoans call home by revealing Indigenous stories that have been erased or omitted from mainstream narratives.\"
– Jordan Poorman Cocker (Kiowa, Terra Foundation Guest Co-Curator
The exhibition presents more than 80 artworks by 33 artists active from the mid-20th century to today and includes multiple newly commissioned works. “Just as a black ash basket is given form through the interweaving of many splints, Woven Being was developed through an in-depth collaboration with and between these artists and The Block’s project team,” says Poorman Cocker.
This artist-centered approach has resulted in a distinctive exhibition where the artists have shaped a context for their work amid works by other artists of their choosing. Together, the artworks highlight the shared aesthetics, materials, values, communities, and relations of the interconnected artists. The themes of land and waterways, kinship with plants and animals, and Indigenous concepts of time likewise connect the exhibition’s artworks and stories.
“These perspectives are central to understanding Chicago’s specific cultural landscape. While our focus is on Indigenous artists of this place, we are also recognizing how they are interconnected with art and artists across the entirety of North America. Woven Being is just one of many stories that could be told about Indigenous art in the Chicagoland region. We want people to walk away recognizing that there’s a lot more to experience and many ways to do that,” added Kathleen Bickford Berzock, exhibition co-curator and Block Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs.
\"The assignment for us, the organizing artists, was to choose art and artists who've inspired our own works. The resulting exhibition locates our chosen artists and artworks as a network of influence that happens to culminate in and around Chicago. Woven Being has tangents, unexpected artists who aren't even Native, and diverse materiality and forms because artists cast a wide net when it comes to where we draw inspiration.\"
– Andrea Carlson, collaborating artist
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Block Gallery Talks offer a close look at select works on view centering the interdisciplinary questions, perspectives and expertise of faculty, staff, students, and community members across Northwestern and beyond.
Programs are open to all, on a first-come first-served basis. Registration is not required, but is appreciated.
Marisa Cruz Branco (she/her, Isleta Pueblo/Portuguese) is the Terra Foundation Curatorial Fellow for Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland at the Block Museum. Her curatorial practice is guided by subjectivity, empathy, and curiosity. Marisa has a BA in Art History from Pitzer College, where she focused on surrealism and post-humanist philosophy. While at Pitzer, she received a Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and spent a year working under the curator of South and Southeast Asian Art. Since moving to Chicago, Marisa has continued to work in the arts, engaging with Indigenous artists and learning from the city’s Native community. In her free time, she likes to draw comics, read, write, and cook.
Image: Virgil Ortiz (Cochiti Pueblo), Tracker, 2012. Clay and slip. 22 x 15 x 9 in. Denver Art Museum: Gift from Vicki and Kent Logan to the Collection of the Denver Art Museum, 2016.117A-D ©Virgil Ortiz.
Wednesday, February 26 6PM, In-Person, FREE
Jordan Ann Craig will be joined by poet m.s. RedCherries, a friend and collaborator of the artist, whose poem “spinning air” has inspired the title of the exhibition. Their conversation will be moderated by Jordan Poorman Cocker, 2021–2025 Terra Foundation Guest Co-Curator of Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak/Chicagoland and the Curator of Indigenous Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
Free with registration. Register
The Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago and the Block Cinema present a screening of the movie Io Capitano by Matteo Garrone (2023). The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with with Professors Domietta Torlasco and Massimiliano Delfino of Northwestern University, and Professor Federico Faloppa of the University of Reading.
In this acclaimed film which won top directing and acting prizes at the Venice Film Festival, writer-director Garrone presents a “reverse shot” of the immigration experience while unfurling an epic, cinematographically magnificent odyssey from West Africa to Italy. The story is told through the mind’s eye and experiences of two Senegalese teenagers living in Dakar who yearn for a brighter future in Europe. Yet between their dreams and reality lies a treacherous journey through a labyrinth of checkpoints, the scorched Saharan desert, a fetid North African prison and the vast waters of the Mediterranean where thousands have died packed inside vessels barely fit for passage.
“A grand, honestly felt emotional sweep… Garrone’s most robust, purely satisfying filmmaking since his international breakthrough with Gomorrah 15 years ago'” -Variety
Community Day: Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum & Block Museum
Saturday, April 26, 12-5PM, FREE, All ages welcome
Celebrate Indigenous art and culture with a day of storytelling, talks, and activities at both Evanston museums.
Join us for a festive day exploring The Block Museum of Art and the Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum in celebration of exhibitions Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak / Chicagoland and Living Stories: Contemporary Woodland Native American Art. Enjoy open galleries, storytelling, coloring/scavenger hunt activities, and more. A gallery talk with exhibition artist Nora Moore Lloyd will take place at The Block, and there will be a talk from muralist Sergio Ceron at the Gichigamiin on the new ceiling mural in their library. The Aloha Center, located next door to the Gichigamiin, will also offer family programming, with ukelele, hula dance, and craft workshops in the afternoon.
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Celebrate the culminating thesis projects of 2025 MFA candidates at Northwestern's Department of Art, Theory, and Practice.
Daniel Dobrow, bree gant, Breanna Robinson, Renee Royale, José Taymani — 2025 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University.
This exhibition and the associated events are co-organized by the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice and the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; the Myers Foundations; the Jerrold Loebl Fund for the Arts; and the Alsdorf Gallery Endowment.Exhibition Opening Celebration
May 8, 2025, 5PM – 8PM, RSVP
The Block Museum of Art and the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice celebrate the 2025 MFA thesis exhibition, A NEW STATE OF MATTER. Join us for an opening reception in the lobby of the museum and experience the work of artists Daniel Dobrow, bree gant, Breanna Robinson, Renee Royale, and José Taymani. Open to all; we appreciate an RSVP!
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Join us for an evening of poetry and dialogue that celebrates Indigenous writers in Chicagoland. Featured poets River Kerstetter (Oneida), Mark LaRoque(White Earth Ojibwe), Elise Paschen (Osage), and Mark Turcotte (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe) will share their work, followed by a panel discussion reflecting on poetry as a form of resistance, memory, and cultural expression.
The event will be moderated by Kelly Wisecup, Arthur E. Andersen Teaching and Research Professor at Northwestern University. Both LaRoque and Turcotte are contributors to the forthcoming exhibition catalog for Woven Being: Art for Zhegagoynak / Chicagoland.
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2025 Student Acquisition
The Block Museum of Art’s collection supports learning across disciplines through exhibitions, research, and class and co-curricular visits. One of the ways we grow this resource is through an annual student-led collecting initiative undertaken by the Block Museum Student Associates (BMSAs), an interdisciplinary group of Northwestern undergraduates. Throughout the academic year, they learn about museum interpretation, gallery teaching, and collecting practices, culminating in their recommending the purchase of one or more works of art that invite sustained looking and multiple avenues of inquiry.
The 2024–2025 BMSAs recommended the purchase of three works by artist Chitra Ganesh inspired by images from the comic book series Amar Chitra Katha, which popularizes Indian epics and folklore. These comics seek to educate children in India and across its diaspora on South Asian history, culture, religions, and mythologies. Like many stories written for children, Amar Chitra Katha reinforces conventional models of gender relations and sexuality as well as citizenship, nationalism, religious expression, and public behavior. Ganesh subverts these narrative traditions and their embedded patriarchal norms by constructing alternative worlds where women, girls, and other marginalized communities are empowered. Ganesh has cited canonical and contemporary feminist and queer scholarship as sources of inspiration for her work.
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The exhibition centers on the pioneering print practice of Helen Frankenthaler(American, 1928–2011). Known for her signature “soak-stain” technique in painting, Frankenthaler brought a similar sensibility to printmaking, embracing fluidity, chance, and the variable interaction of materials in her works on paper. Her lithographs, etchings, and woodcuts reflect a dynamic, process-oriented approach—what she has described as “pouring, flooding, spilling, bleeding.”
The presentation marks the debut of a recent gift of 34 works from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, part of the Frankenthaler Prints Initiative. In 2023, The Block was one of ten university art museums nationally to receive a portfolio of Frankenthaler’s prints and working proofs, along with funding to support interpretation and public engagement.
Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding places this new acquisition in dialogue with over 30 works from The Block’s permanent collection, highlighting artists who have similarly challenged the boundaries of control and gesture in their artwork. Prints, drawings, and watercolors by artists of Frankenthaler’s close circle, including Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, and David Smith, provide a broader context for Frankenthaler’s contributions to postwar abstraction and printmaking. The conversation expands beyond the historical frame of Frankenthaler’s contemporaries, bringing in artists who have since drawn inspiration from Frankenthaler’s approach—Lynda Benglis and Amy Sillman—as well as artists who have welcomed chance and the unexpected in their artistic practice, such as John Cage, Max Gimblett, and Frankenthaler’s studio assistant Kikuo Saito.
Curated by Stephanie S.E. Lee, 2024–25 Block Museum Graduate Fellow in Art History, and Corinne Granof, Academic Curator, the exhibition draws from in-depth research, including time spent in the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation archives. There, the curators uncovered visual and textual documentation of Frankenthaler’s collaborative print process, insights that shape the presentation of Divertimento (1983), shown alongside a full suite of working proofs. \"In many ways, these working proofs show what the editioned print cannot: they are traces of decision-making, experimentation, and artistic dialogue between Frankenthaler, her circle, and the print workshop. That is what we wanted to bring to life in the exhibition,\" said Stephanie S.E. Lee.
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Co-curator Stephanie S.E. Lee explores two Helen Frankenthaler works, revealing unexpected links to music, literature, and collaboration.
Join us in the gallery for a talk with Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding: Helen Frankenthaler and Artists’ Experiments on Paper co-curator Stephanie S.E. Lee, Belle da Costa Greene Curatorial Fellow at the Morgan Library & Museum and 2024–25 Block Museum Art History Graduate Fellow.
This event kicks-off the exhibition with an in-depth look at two of Frankenthaler’s works created more than a decade apart: Divertimento (1983) and Tales of Genji (1998). Together, we’ll explore how close looking at these works reveals surprising connections—to Italian classical music, an 11th-century Japanese novel, and the spirit of artistic collaboration that shaped Frankenthaler’s process.
Image: Frankenthaler at work in her studio in 1969. Ernst Haas Hulton Archive/ Courtesy Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and Getty Images.
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Join us in the gallery for a talk with Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding: Helen Frankenthaler and Artists’ Experiments on Paper co-curator Stephanie S.E. Lee, Belle da Costa Greene Curatorial Fellow at the Morgan Library & Museum and 2024–25 Block Museum Art History Graduate Fellow.
This event kicks-off the exhibition with an in-depth look at two of Frankenthaler’s works created more than a decade apart: Divertimento (1983) and Tales of Genji (1998). Together, we’ll explore how close looking at these works reveals surprising connections—to Italian classical music, an 11th-century Japanese novel, and the spirit of artistic collaboration that shaped Frankenthaler’s process.
Image: Frankenthaler at work in her studio in 1969. Ernst Haas Hulton Archive/ Courtesy Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and Getty Images.
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In this keynote lecture, Alexander Nemerov (Stanford University, Department of Art & Art History) will reflect on these enduring questions. Drawing from his acclaimed biography Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York, Nemerov will invite audiences to consider how chance, abstraction, and artistic identity intersect in Frankenthaler’s work and legacy.
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The Living Room - October 19 - 2PM - RSVP
Explore artworks in depth through lively conversation and fresh perspectives with our Student Associate team.
Join us for Art Talks!, a unique, participatory tour where Block Museum Student Associates (BMSA) lead discussion-based sessions focusing on artworks that ignite their curiosity. These 45-60 minute drop-in talks offer an opportunity to explore 1-3 selected artworks in depth, encouraging ample discussion and diverse perspectives. Open to all, Art Talks! highlight the interdisciplinary insights of our Student Associates and are ideal for anyone interested in a dynamic and interactive approach the museum.
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Explore artworks in depth through lively conversation and fresh perspectives with our Student Associate team.
Join us for Art Talks!, a unique, participatory tour where Block Museum Student Associates (BMSA) lead discussion-based sessions focusing on artworks that ignite their curiosity. These 45-60 minute drop-in talks offer an opportunity to explore 1-3 selected artworks in depth, encouraging ample discussion and diverse perspectives. Open to all, Art Talks! highlight the interdisciplinary insights of our Student Associates and are ideal for anyone interested in a dynamic and interactive approach the museum.
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Join us to celebrate the 2024–25 Student Acquisition: three works from She the Question, a series of prints by artist Chitra Ganesh. Known for her subversive visual language, Ganesh draws from pop culture, science fiction, mythology, and Indian visual traditions to challenge dominant narratives around gender, sexuality, and power.
Ganesh will be joined by assistant professor Lakshmi Padmanabhan (Northwestern, Radio/TV/Film) for a discussion on imagining against caste and patriarchy. The conversation will explore the connections between Ganesh’s practice, Indian pulp fiction, and popular cinema. Laura Brueck (Northwestern, South Asian and Comparative Literature; Director, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities) will moderate the conversation.
Each year, The Block Museum Student Associates—an interdisciplinary group of Northwestern undergraduates—study museum collecting practices and recommend works of art for acquisition by the Museum. Two members of The Block Museum Student Associates will offer a brief introduction to the student-led acquisition process.
Printmaking in Process: Anna Kunz, Soo Shin, and Lane Relyea is a conversation event taking place on Wednesday, November 12, at 6:00 PM.
The event explores how artists transform paper into a site of experimentation, inspired by ocean currents and studio gestures. It is part of the exhibition 'Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding: Helen Frankenthaler and Artists’ Experiments on Paper,' which highlights artists challenging the boundaries of control and gesture in their artwork. Artists Anna Kunz and Soo Shin, both featured in the exhibition and represented in The Block’s collection, will join associate professor Lane Relyea from Northwestern University for a discussion about their artistic practices, influences, and connections to Frankenthaler’s legacy. The discussion will be moderated by exhibition co-curator Stephanie S.E. Lee, a Block Museum Art History Graduate Fellow and Belle da Costa Greene Curatorial Fellow in Modern and Contemporary Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum. The panel will reflect on how contemporary artists continue to stretch the possibilities of print, paper, and process, situating Frankenthaler’s innovations in an evolving dialogue.
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Explore artworks in depth through lively conversation and fresh perspectives with our Student Associate team.
Join us for Art Talks!, a unique, participatory tour where Block Museum Student Associates (BMSA) lead discussion-based sessions focusing on artworks that ignite their curiosity. These 45-60 minute drop-in talks offer an opportunity to explore 1-3 selected artworks in depth, encouraging ample discussion and diverse perspectives. Open to all, Art Talks! highlight the interdisciplinary insights of our Student Associates and are ideal for anyone interested in a dynamic and interactive approach the museum. Upcoming Art Talks! include:
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In her multidisciplinary practice, Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) brings together Lakota artistic traditions with Minimalist, and Color Field artistic influences. Working across painting, sculpture, and print, Dyani White Hawk emphasizes how color, shape, pattern, and material can carry meaning. Her recent series They Gifted (Night) and They Gifted (Day), is on view in The Living Room at The Block from November 12 to December 14, 2025. Caroline Kent (Northwestern University, Art, Theory, and Practice) uses abstraction to explore the possibilities and limits of language. Her richly layered compositions speculate on communication and miscommunication, drawing attention to how meaning can shift across context and culture.
Together, White Hawk and Kent will discuss their artistic influences, conceptual frameworks, and the evolving role of abstraction as a space for cultural reflection, resistance, and reimagination. The evening will be introduced by Megan Baker, Assistant Professor of Anthropology.
Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Minneapolis. White Hawk was featured in the 2022 Whitney Biennial and the recent solo exhibition Speaking to Relatives at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. She has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, Creative Capital, Anonymous Was a Woman, Joan Mitchell Foundation and McKnight Foundation. Her work can be found within collections such as the Guggenheim, Brooklyn Museum, Hirshhorn Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, MoMA, NY, Walker Art Center, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Caroline Kent is a Chicago-based visual artist. Kent speculates in both the potential and the limitations of language, and ultimately questions the modernist canon of abstraction. She earned an MFA at the University of Minnesota. She has exhibited widely at sites including the Walker Art Center, The Flag Art Foundation, the DePaul Art Museum, the California African American Museum, and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Kent is a 2025 USA Fellow and received the 2025 Aspen Arts Prize for innovation in abstraction. She has received grants from The Pollock Krasner Foundation, The McKnight Foundation, and The Jerome Foundation. Kent is Assistant Professor of Art, Theory and Practice, at Northwestern University.
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Explore artworks in depth through lively conversation and fresh perspectives with our Student Associate team.
Join us for Art Talks!, a unique, participatory tour where Block Museum Student Associates (BMSA) lead discussion-based sessions focusing on artworks that ignite their curiosity. These 45-60 minute drop-in talks offer an opportunity to explore 1-3 selected artworks in depth, encouraging ample discussion and diverse perspectives. Open to all, Art Talks! highlight the interdisciplinary insights of our Student Associates and are ideal for anyone interested in a dynamic and interactive approach the museum.
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Teresa Montoya’s Tó Łisto (Yellow Water)
Saturday, February 7, 2PM, In-Person, FREE
Celebrate the opening of Teresa Montoya’s Tó Łisto (Yellow Water): Ten Years after the Gold King Mine Spill. The exhibition explores the impact of the 2015 Gold King Mine spill on Diné (Navajo) communities in the Animas and San Juan watersheds. Combining documentary photographs with scientific data and poetic reflection, Tó Łitso invites viewers to consider water as a life-sustaining resource and as a conduit for histories, stories, and harm.
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The thirty portraits in the exhibition Hamdia Traoré’s “Des marabouts de Djenné” and Muslim Portraiture in Mali reflect the artist's intimate connections to the city’s people and deep history. Learned and devout, marabouts teach in Jenne’s over 50 Qur’anic schools, offer spiritual guidance, and treat ailments through their knowledge of the Qur’an. This public program will discuss Hamdia Traoré’s portraits of marabouts in relation to an earlier generation of Muslim portraiture, and will also consider the role of archives in preserving the history of West African photography.
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