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SUMMARY:DIVERSE DISCOURSE LECTURE: SOFÍA HERNÁNDEZ CHONG CUY
DESCRIPTION:Diverse Discourse brings national curators\, artistic directors\, and critics to Houston to present a free public lecture and conduct studio visits with selected Houston-area artists\, performers\, and writers.  Diverse Discourse provides a significant opportunity for area artists in all disciplines to have their work reviewed by a variety of distinguished arts professionals\, fostering a cultural exchange across the nation between artists and cultural producers. Click here for studio visit application guidelines. \nABOUT SOFÍA HERNÁNDEZ CHONG CUY\nSofía Hernández Chong Cuy is the curator of contemporary art for the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros\, a position she has held since 2011. In the past decade\, Hernández Chong Cuy was Director of the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City\, and held curatorial positions at Art in General and Americas Society\, the latter two in New York. She has curated exhibitions for Kadist Art Foundation in Paris\, MALBA in Buenos Aires\, Center for Contemporary Art in Vilnius\, and MUSAC in León. Sofía was an agent for dOCUMENTA(13)\, 2012\, in Kassel. She was also the artistic director and chief curator of the 9a Bienal do Mercosul | Porto Alegre\, which took place from September 13 to November 10\, 2013\, in Porto Alegre\, Brazil. She writes regularly for exhibition catalogs\, magazines and in the blog she initiated\, Sideshows.org. \n 
URL:https://staging.diverseworks.org/event/diverse-discourse-lecture-2/
LOCATION:MATCHBOX 4\, 3400 Main Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77002\, United States
CATEGORIES:Diverse Discourse
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SUMMARY:DIVERSE DISCOURSE LECTURE: ANGELA MATTOX
DESCRIPTION:Diverse Discourse brings national curators\, artistic directors\, and critics to Houston to present a free public lecture and conduct studio visits with selected Houston-area artists\, performers\, and writers.  Diverse Discourse provides a significant opportunity for area artists in all disciplines to have their work reviewed by a variety of distinguished arts professionals\, fostering a cultural exchange across the nation between artists and cultural producers. Click here for studio visit application guidelines. \nABOUT ANGELA MATTOX\nAngela Mattox is the Artistic Director of Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA)\, which presents performance and visual art programs and embraces those artists who exist at the borders of disciplines and ideas. Through the annual TBA Festival\, artist residencies\, performances\, exhibitions\, and workshops\, PICA creates a broad platform for contemporary art and vital issues of today. Her global curatorial approach focuses on experimental performance practice\, cross cultural exchange\, and interdisciplinary work. \nMattox was the former Performing Arts Curator at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) – San Francisco’s leading multidisciplinary contemporary art center. She joined the curatorial team in 2003 and was instrumental in revitalizing the performing arts presenting program. In her eight years at YBCA\, she supported such visionary artists as Ralph Lemon\, Meg Stuart\, Nick Cave\, Jerome Bel\, Lemi Ponifasio\, Reggie Wilson\, and Cynthia Hopkins.  She commissioned new work by local artists in the Bay Area such as Marc Bamuthi Joseph\, Keith Hennessy\, Sarah Shelton Mann and Jess Curtis. From 1999–2003\, she served as Program Coordinator at Arts International\, a New York based organization dedicated to the support of global cultural exchange in the arts. \nMattox has served as a member of the Japan Foundation’s Performing Arts Japan committee\, the FUSED review panel\, and as a Hub Site for the National Dance Project for four years. She is a member of Contemporary Arts Centers network and the Africa Contemporary Arts Consortium\, Headlands Center for the Arts Program Advisory Council and has served on panels for Doris Duke Charitable Foundation\, Creative Capital\, MapFund\, Mid-Atlantic Foundation for the Arts\, San Francisco Arts Commission\, Western Arts Alliance and the NEA. She received her BA degree through the World Arts and Cultures program of UCLA.
URL:https://staging.diverseworks.org/event/diverse-discourse-lecture-angela-mattox/
LOCATION:Gallery\, 3400 Main Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77002\, United States
CATEGORIES:Diverse Discourse
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SUMMARY:Diverse Discourse Lecture: Chris Sharp
DESCRIPTION:Chris Sharp is based in Mexico City and is editor-at-large of Kaleidoscope magazine\, a contributing editor of Art Review\, and his writings have appeared in many print and online publications including Artforum\, Frieze\, and Mousse. In 2013 he co-founded\, with artist Martin Soto Climent\, Lulu\, an independent\, Mexico City-based project space.
URL:https://staging.diverseworks.org/event/diverse-discourse-lecture-chris-sharp/
LOCATION:DiverseWorks\, 4102 Fannin Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77004\, United States
CATEGORIES:Diverse Discourse
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SUMMARY:Diverse Discourse Lecture: Xandra Eden
DESCRIPTION:Xandra Eden assumed her position at DiverseWorks in June 2015\, having most recently served as Curator of Exhibitions at the Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina\, Greensboro. Previously\, she held positions at The Power Plant\, Toronto; Pollock-Krasner Foundation\, New York; and Women & Their Work Gallery\, Austin. Eden will speak about her past curatorial projects and vision for DiverseWorks’ future programming.
URL:https://staging.diverseworks.org/event/diverse-discourse-lecture-xandra-eden/
LOCATION:DiverseWorks\, 4102 Fannin Street\, Houston\, TX\, 77004\, United States
CATEGORIES:Diverse Discourse
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SUMMARY:Diverse Discourse Lecture: Thomas Lax
DESCRIPTION:Thomas J. Lax is Associate Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Museum of Modern Art. Previously\, he was Assistant Curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem\, the nexus for artists of African descent locally\, nationally and internationally and for work that has been inspired and influenced by black culture. \nMost recently\, he organized the Studio Museum exhibitions When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South (2014) and the Studio Museum’s presentation ofRadical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art (2013). In 2008\, he developed and launched the Museum’s VideoStudio program\, an ongoing series of exhibitions of time-based art; in 2011\, he initiated Studio Lab\, a think tank and short-term residency program for ideas in formation. At the Studio Museum\, he has also organized Fore (2012);Ralph Lemon: 1856 Cessna Road (2012); Lyle Ashton Harris: Self/Portrait (2011); and Kalup Linzy: If it Don’t Fit (2009); among others. Thomas received his BA from Brown University in Africana Studies and Art/Semiotics\, and an MA in Modern Art from Columbia University. \nCo-presented by DiverseWorks and Core Residency Program at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston
URL:https://staging.diverseworks.org/event/diverse-discourse-lecture-thomas-lax/
LOCATION:DiverseWorks\, 4102 Fannin Street\, Suite 200\, Houston\, TX\, 77004\, United States
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SUMMARY:Diverse Discourse Lecture: Diana Nawi
DESCRIPTION:Diana Nawi has served as associate curator at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) since 2012. While at PAMM she has organized newly commissioned projects with Yael Bartana\, Nicole Cherubini\, Bouchra Khalili\, LOS JAICHACKERS (Julio César Morales and Eamon Ore-Giron)\, and Shana Lutker. In 2014\, Nawi organized a new presentation of Caribbean: Crossroads of the World\, curated by Elvis Fuentes\, and curated the first solo museum presentation of the work of Adler Guerrier. In 2015\, she will curate an exhibition of recent work with Iman Issa and a mid-career survey with Nari Ward. Prior to joining PAMM\, Nawi worked as assistant curator on the Abu Dhabi Project of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. She holds a BA from the University of California\, Los Angeles\, and an MA from the Graduate Program in the History of Art at Williams College.
URL:https://staging.diverseworks.org/event/diverse-discourse-lecture-diana-nawi/
LOCATION:DiverseWorks\, 4102 Fannin\, Suite 200\, Houston\, TX\, 77004\, United States
CATEGORIES:Diverse Discourse
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SUMMARY:Diverse Discourse Lecture: Dan Byers
DESCRIPTION:Dan Byers is The Richard Armstrong Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Carnegie Museum of Art\, and was co-curator\, with Daniel Baumann and Tina Kukielski\, of the 2013 Carnegie International. His recent projects at the museum include solo exhibitions of Cathy Wilkes\, Ragnar Kjartansson\, and James Lee Byars\, as well as the group exhibitions Reanimation—featuring William E. Jones\, Joachim Koester\, and Nashashibi/Skaer; Ordinary Madness\, a large-scale\, wide-ranging exhibition drawn from the Carnegie’s collection of contemporary art; and the Pittsburgh Biennial\, which featured artists such as Lenka Clayton\, Zak Prekop\, Peggy Ahwesh\, and Frank Santoro. Before joining the staff at the Carnegie\, Dan was curatorial fellow at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis\, and assistant to the directors at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. \nCo-presented by DiverseWorks and Southern Methodist University
URL:https://staging.diverseworks.org/event/diverse-discourse-lecture-dan-byers/
LOCATION:DiverseWorks\, 4102 Fannin Street\, Suite 200\, Houston\, 77004\, United States
CATEGORIES:Diverse Discourse
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SUMMARY:Diverse Discourse Lecture: Astria Suparak
DESCRIPTION:Astria Suparak has curated exhibitions\, screenings\, and performance and music events for art spaces\, film festivals\, and academic venues internationally\, including PS1\, The Kitchen\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, Eyebeam\, Museo Rufino Tamayo\, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen\, and The Liverpool Biennial\, as well as for non-art spaces such as roller-skating rinks\, elementary schools\, sports bars\, and ferry boats. \nSuparak was director of the Pratt Institute Film Series (1997-2000) and Syracuse University’s Warehouse Gallery (2006-2007). As the director and curator of the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University (2008-2014) she curated Keep It Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism with The Yes Men\, the first solo exhibition of the internationally renowned culture-jamming group; Whatever It Takes: Steelers Fan Collections\, Rituals\, and Obsessions\, which explored sports fanaticism as a significant form of cultural production; and Alien She\, on the lasting impact of the global punk feminist movement Riot Grrrl\, among other exhibitions. \nDescribed as prescient and “visually and conceptually stunning\,” Suparak’s work has been critically acclaimed by The New York Times\, The Huffington Post\, Artforum\, Rhizome\, The Village Voice and LA Weekly for its innovative curatorial approaches\, “savvy political consciousness\,” unique contribution to local and larger cultural spheres\, and ability to bridge diverse audiences.
URL:https://staging.diverseworks.org/event/diverse-discourse-lecture-astria-suparak/
LOCATION:DiverseWorks\, 4102 Fannin\, Suite 200\, Houston\, 77004\, United States
CATEGORIES:Diverse Discourse
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SUMMARY:Diverse Discourse Lecture: Hesse McGraw
DESCRIPTION:Hesse McGraw is a curator and writer and is Vice President for Exhibitions and Public Programs at the San Francisco Art Institute. At SFAI he directs the Walter and McBean Galleries\, and oversees SFAI’s public programs\, visiting artists series\, and public education programs for youths and adults. From 2008 to 2013 he served as chief curator at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha\, Nebraska\, where he developed an exhibition program focused on site-specific\, immersive\, cross-disciplinary\, and socially engaged projects. At the Bemis Center he produced two-dozen exhibitions\, including major public projects with artists Theaster Gates and Michael Jones McKean. \nMcGraw was formerly associate director of Max Protetch gallery in New York\, and was the founding director and curator of Paragraph\, which operates under the non-profit Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City\, Missouri. He lectures widely and his writing has recently been published in Afterall\, Art Papers\, Outpost and in diverse exhibition catalogues. Recent awards and grants include an Andy Warhol Foundation Curatorial Research Fellowship\, an ArtPlace America grant\, a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Artistic Innovation and Collaboration Grant\, an NEA Our Town grant\, and a Harpo Foundation grant.
URL:https://staging.diverseworks.org/event/diverse-discourse-lecture-hesse-mcgraw/
LOCATION:DiverseWorks\, 4102 Fannin\, Houston\, 77004\, United States
CATEGORIES:Diverse Discourse
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