IMAGE: Kevin J. Miyazaki
Wilson, a professor of art and art history at Columbia College Chicago, is an object and image maker whose work celebrates the Black imagination as a technology of resistance and self-determination. She is a co-founder and principal of blkHaUS studios, a socially focused design studio based in Chicago that uses design as an agent of change to uplift and transform marginalized communities.
“I am pleased Folayemi Wilson has agreed to join our leadership team in the College of Arts and Architecture,” said B. Stephen Carpenter II, dean of the College of Arts and Architecture. “As our inaugural associate dean for access and equity, her experience as a visual artist, educator, designer and administrator provides a powerful perspective from which she will lead us in questioning and addressing assumptions about diversity, inclusion, access and equity. Her efforts will lead us forward in response to our commitment to addressing social, cultural and institution
Seafood Bouillabaise. Roshni Gorur, Courtesy of Anderson Ranch Arts Center
When small crocks of seafood bouillabaisse arrive to our table, French chef Babette is plating turtle soup for 12 onscreen. Though the multi-course “Dinner & A Movie” tasting conceived by Anderson Ranch Arts Center’s new food and beverage director Rob Ittner and Ranch Café chef de cuisine Daniel Leon is based on the classic 1987 Danish film “Babette’s Feast,” such precise timing was purely coincidental. (The event menu rearranged courses for American palates caviar-topped buckwheat blini are served as an
amuse-bouche; endive salad with Colorado cherries come before the main attraction and Ittner reassures us at the start that no turtles were harmed during the making of the meal.)
Simone Leigh (right) the 2021 International Artist Honoree who incorporates an ongoing exploration of black female subjectivity into her sculpture, video and installation work was interviewed Thursday at Anderson Ranch by author Saidiya Hartman. Leigh will represent the United States at the next Venice Biennale in April 2022. (Lynn Goldsmith / Special to The Aspen Times)
Sculptor Simone Leigh will represent the U.S. next year at the 2022 Venice Biennale, the first Black woman to be selected to show on behalf of the country at the prestigious pavilion exhibition.
Leigh on Thursday told a full house at Schermer Meeting Hall at Anderson Ranch Arts Center that she recently finished clay models for some bronze works she’s planning to show at the much anticipated Venice show postponed a year due to the coronavirus pandemic while attempting to balance the ups and downs of the past year.
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IF YOU GO …
Where: Schermer Meeting Hall, Anderson Ranch Arts Center
When: Wednesday, 12:30 p.m.
How much: $25
Tickets and more info: andersonranch.org; also streaming online
The Guerrilla Girls have spent the past 36 years fighting the powers that be in the art world, producing inspired public art campaigns to identify sexism and racism in museums and galleries and in wider cultural history.
This masked, anonymous collective who wear gorilla masks and use the names of female artists past has helped change the trajectory of culture with works like “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?” their now-iconic 1989 poster that starkly identified that less than 5% all of the artists in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s modern wing were women but that 85% of its nudes were female. That breakthrough poster identified The Guerrilla Girls as the “conscience of the art world” and they’ve served as such ever since.