Art21 “Friends and Strangers” featuring Cannupa Hanska Luger

Enjoy a free screening of “Friends and Strangers,” an episode from season 11 of Art in the Twenty-First Century. In this episode, featuring Cannupa Hanska Luger, Miranda July, Linda Goode Bryant and Christine Sun Kim, artists explore what it means to find emotional connection and build community.

Writing Never Written: 2023 Art Writing Symposium

When we talk about writing in and for the Arts, we rarely consider the content that never gets written. Inspired by the book, Photographs Never Taken, a compelling collection of short essays by photographers who retell the stories that underlie the images they never made, this one-day symposium considers the wide variety of reasons that underscore art writing never written. From content perceived to be too political, to geographies that are under-represented, to media and artists that continually receive short-shrift, the presenters at this year’s Art Writing Symposium embody an interdisciplinary approach to exploring modes of writing in and for the Arts from the perspective of arts administration, art history, curatorial studies, art studio, journalism, dance, science, creative writing, and beyond.

Program Schedule
9:00 Doors open with coffee

9:30-9:45 Greetings and Introduction
Colin Robertson and Brett M. Van Hoesen
9:45-10:30 Introductory Alumni Keynote
Jeannette Martinez
Finding Terruño: Landscape, Memory-making,
and Belonging
Moderator: Brett M. Van Hoesen
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 Panel 1 – The Politics of Art Writing Across
Cultures and Geographies
Emily Hobson
The AIDS Quilt in Prison: Care Work in and
against the Carceral State
Juan Carlos Guerrero Hernández
The Woman, the Migrant, and the Cyborg in In-
Pulse
Chris Lanier
Comics Genre and Graphic Invisibility: Alex
Niño’s Innovations in the Margins
Moderator: Kelly Chorpening
12:15-1:15 Box Lunch
*included in program cost
1:15-2:00 Reading by Visiting Author
Cathy Linh Che
Moderator: June Sylvester Saraceno
2:00-2:15 Break
2:15-3:45 Panel 2 – On Communication and Translation In
Writing Across the Arts & Media
Rosie Trump
Blank Space: Looking at Notorious Dance
Reviews
Jared Stanley
The Dream of Stopping
Fil Corbitt
“The Wind” (Live)
Kelly Chorpening and Adam Csank
The Hybrid Space of Annotated Drawings
Moderator: Colin Robertson
4:00-4:15 Break
4:15-5:15 Finalé Keynote
Maria Elena Buszek
Toward a Scholarship of Risk
Moderator: Sudeep Chandra
5-6pm Reception

This event was made possible by generous funding from the Bruno and Edna Benna Endowment for Excellence in the Fine Arts at the University of Nevada, Reno. Special thanks for additional funding and support from the Nevada Museum of Art, the University’s Department of Art, Art History & Design and the Ozmen Institute for Global Studies as well as the Writers in the Woods Program at the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe.

Image Credit:

David Maisel, Terminal Mirage 18, 2003/2007, Dye coupler print, 48 x 48 inches. Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, The Altered Landscape, Carol Franc Buck Collection © David Maisel

Juan Carlos Guerrero Hernandez, Ph.D., on Guillermo Bert

Explore the arc of Latin American art and Guillermo Bert’s place in that history with Juan Carlos Guerrero Hernández, Assistant Professor of History of Art at the University of Nevada, Reno.

About Juan Carlos Guerrero Hernández:

Juan Carlos Guerrero Hernández’s interdisciplinary research in modern and contemporary art and visual culture focuses on the crossing between decoloniality, memory, violence, performance, gender, moving image, and photography in the Americas and the Global South. His research has been published in reputed journals such as TDR The Drama Review, Photographies, Cinergie—Il Cinema e le altre Arti, Revista Chilena de Literatura, and edited books (see Publications). He is currently working on two book projects. His research and teaching have been awarded merit-based grants such as the National Research Grant in Visual Arts, The National Research Grant in Dance, and the merit-based travel Grant from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center. He was also awarded the National Prize in Art Criticism. Guerrero Hernández has organized international symposia in contemporary art history and performance philosophy and has been a keynote speaker at art and academic events. He has directed interdisciplinary doctoral dissertations, master’s thesis, and undergraduate projects in Art History, Art, and Architecture, and is interested in advising graduate and undergraduate research, community-engaged, and curatorial projects at the University of Nevada at Reno. Before joining the University, Guerrero Hernández served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Art History at Kalamazoo College and Assistant Professor at Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia).

Musica Sierra Presents Carolyn Enger’s Resonating Earth

Musica Sierra and Carolyn Enger, critically acclaimed pianist, engage in an inspiring musical performance and conversation about climate change. Resonating Earth is a multimedia solo piano performance that creates a meditative space for listeners to engage with music and environmental art in order to directly inspire environmental action afterwards.

About Musica Sierra:

Musica Sierra was conceived in 2019 by musicians who desire to bring the benefits and enrichment of the fine and performing arts to the Sierra County community in Northern California. Seeing a need for both educational experiences in the public school system and arts engagement in the local community, the group has and continues to build programming and outreach that serves both these groups. Musica Sierra is now the sole provider of music education to hundreds of children and is growing the influence of the arts in the region.

Guided Tours

Enrich your experience with a guided tour. A docent will guide you through the galleries, offering insight and history to the artwork on view.