Northwestern Events Calendar

Apr
23
2021

Art Talks! Docents in Dialogue

When: Friday, April 23, 2021
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM CT

Where: Online
Webcast Link

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Cost: Free and open to all, Online

Contact: Block Museum of Art   (847) 491-4000

Group: Block Museum of Art

Category: Academic, Fine Arts

Description:

How do artworks talk to us… and to one another? And how can we learn to talk back? Join Northwestern undergraduates in The Block Museum Student Docent Program to consider these questions in a unique lunchtime series. Through half-hour discussion-based presentations, Northwestern docents from interdisciplinary fields of study will consider two works from the museum collection that have something to say to one another (and to us.) This season, the team will share artworks in our current exhibition For One and All: Prints from The Block’s Collection, and our upcoming Fall 2021 exhibition, Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts.  

On this date, Margeaux Rocco (’23, Undecided, minor in Art Theory and Practice) & Joely Simon (’21, Journalism, minor in Art History, Integrated Marketing Communications Certificate), will be discussing Mocha Standard, 1969 by Edward Ruscha (American, born 1937) and Mt Rushmore, South Dakota from the Expeditionary Self-Portrait Series, 1986 by Tseng Kwong Chi (Canadian, born Hong Kong 1950–1990).

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Online, free and open to all.

 
This series is presented in conjunction with The Block’s 40th anniversary, Thinking about History with The Block Collection a year-long celebration of the Museum’s collection as a tool to help us reflect upon, question, and reimagine the past.

 

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