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August 17, 2021

ArtSci Roundup: Lux Aeterna, A Gee’s Bend Quilt, and More

Through public events and exhibitions, connect with the 91爆料 community every week! This week, attend gallery exhibitions, watch recorded events, and more. While you’re enjoying summer break, connect with campus through 91爆料 live webcams of Red Square and the quad.

Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91爆料 faculty, staff, and students have access to听.听

A Gee’s Bend Quilt by Mary L. Bennett

Through October听3 |

This iteration of听Viewpoints听features听鈥淗ousetop鈥濃�攏ine-block variation听(1975) by Mary L. Bennett (b. 1942), a quiltmaker from Gee鈥檚 Bend, Alabama. Since at least the second half of the nineteenth century, women from this small and geographically remote community of mostly slave decedents have made quilts using a range of available materials. The pattern variations are also markers of cultural continuity as the practice of quilting is passed down through generations, illustrating a rich history of resistance to and survival within the realities of economic and racial oppression. One of the most enduring patterns in Gee鈥檚 Bend is the 鈥渉ousetop,鈥� which features blocks of fabric pieced in concentric formation around a central patch. In Bennett鈥檚 nine-block variation, she creates a dynamic composition that emphasizes her individual expression within a shared, collective history and quilt-making tradition.

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Lux Aeterna

Through August 28 |听

The听听+听听proudly present听, an exhibition featuring 16 local, national, and international artists working in a wide variety of media to explore the mutability of media made and consumed using ever-evolving platforms.

This exhibition听considers how technological, economic, and cultural forces shape the ways we produce, share, and experience media 鈥� and how that media in turn influences our aesthetics and values. In tracing the currents of technical migration and image circulation, the exhibition raises timely questions about ownership and fidelity. It experiments with media as a tool for empowerment at a time of existential uncertainty. And it wonders whether media, like light, might outlast humanity, forever sending forth a message.

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On Your Own Time

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Bugs & Beasts Colloquium: What documents constrain, narrate, or liberate subjecthood?

Documented processes that are prescribed and enforced by official and state methods can limit, if not erase, who we are, and, in doing so, they lend insight into how we render persons as subjects and as legible.
This colloquium includes Dr. Nicole Fleetwood (Rutgers University), Dr. Dan Berger (91爆料 Bothell), Alex Fisher (91爆料 Seattle, Pre-Doctoral Student), Dan Paz (91爆料 Seattle), and Dr. Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky (91爆料 Seattle).

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Curator’s Voice: Shamim M. Momin on In Plain Sight artists Tom Burr and Sadie Barnette

Join Shamim M. Momin, the Henry’s Senior Curator, for the first chapter in a series of videos highlighting the work, processes, and ideas of the fourteen international artists represented in “In Plain Sight.” This museum-wide exhibition, Momin’s debut show at the Henry, engaged artists whose work addresses narratives, communities, and histories that are typically hidden or invisible in our public space (both conceptually and literally defined).

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Arts91爆料: On Demand听

Engage with the arts at the 91爆料 from the comfort of your own home, in your own time. This archive of events offers you the opportunity to watch the听latest virtual lectures and performances, and see recent digital exhibitions. In addition,听听to see all that is coming up.听

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