This Week: We are featuring online events that you can participate in from the comfort of your own couch plus a few ways to get involved locally and nationally. Stay home, stay healthy, stay engaged in the arts.
AACC Visual Arts Faculty Online Showcase
Ongoing on Instagram
presented by Anne Arundel Community College
Exhibit Dates and Location
Work will be posted daily, M-F, starting Oct 26th on the Cade Gallery Instagram account: @cadegalleryaacc
About the Exhibit
This online exhibit will highlight recent works by Anne Arundel Community College’s visual arts faculty. This Fall’s exhibit, “New Works,” includes works created in the past few years by the vibrant artists teaching in AACC’s visual arts department. The works will include photography, drawing, sculpture, painting, ceramics, print making, design, video, and more.
Artists
Dawn C. Bond, Marybeth Chew, Julia Clouser, Erik Dunham, James Fitzsimmons, Zoe Friedman, David Friedheim,Teddy Johnson, Brian Kelley, Matt Klos, Jin Lee, Lindsay McCulloch, Chris Mona, Matthew Moore, Jared Donovan Paolini, Jason Piccoli, Sara Allen Prigodich, Margaret Rorison, Wilfredo Valladares, Joe Yablonsky
The Cade Center for Fine Arts Gallery features seven exhibits a year. The span of exhibiting artists is broad, yet each exhibit is focused by theme or medium.
Cade Art Gallery, John A. Cade Center for Fine Arts Anne Arundel Community College
101 College Parkway
Arnold, MD 21012
http://www.aacc.edu/campus-
Image Details
Artist: Wilfredo Valladares
Artwork:”Unmasked” series
Medium: Mixed Media
Inheritance by Kim Rice | Private Tours with Jeffrey Kent
ongoing through January 2021
@ The Peale Center
Reservations and masks required, FREE
Please request a private tour by using the form at the bottom of this page. Review our safety questionnaire before making your reservation. Can’t make it to the Peale in person? Subscribe for our weekly emails to be among the first to get the link to the forthcoming virtual tour of this exhibition!
Inheritance by Kim Rice was scheduled prior to the Covid-19 pandemic and the heinous murders of yet more Black people, some by police, including Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor. In our present historical moment of facing the race divides of America and how black and brown people have been continuously discriminated against; it is the pivotal time to applify as many voices as possible around the discussion of equal justice and de-investing police funds to invest in real social change in marginalized communities. For years we have seen examples of activism through artwork, but, rarely from white artists specifically informed by their privilege as a white person. In this exhibit Rice takes the unique approach of not trying to tell a story that does not relate to her personal story while confronting racism and white privilege.
> See the works from this exhibition on the artist’s website.
Kim Rice confronts her white privilege and how her privilege has everything to do with the many opportunities that have been awarded to her through an in depth examination of the systems that keep her privilege strong. Inheritance is informed by Rice’s exploration of how her “fair” complexion is exactly the cause of so much inequality for others not fortunate enough to look like her. In this exhibition of artworks created over the past decade up to present you will be confronted with the harsh realities of systemic racism from the perspective of a white American woman whose ancestors enslaved hundreds of humans for hard labor.
In her research, Rice has discovered documents such as the will of her ancestor, William Venable, that identifies enslaved humans as property. Rice’s white skin represents a legacy of generational wealth built upon the disenfranchisement of others; as all white skin does. ‘Family Values 2’ the Last Will and Testament of William Venable casts a shadow on the wall, as racism and salvery have cast a shadow across generations of United States Americans.
Rice’s artwork practice includes exploration of medium; she has created large scale artworks constructed singularly of woven paper, zip ties, handcut maps, or boot straps. Each artwork investigates a unique medium and another layer of Rice’s inherited privilege, and the inherited disenfranchisement of the “other.”
THE TENDER INTERVAL (Virtual Exhibition)
ongoing through November 14
presented by Diverse Works
Sara Dittrich’s The Tender Interval creates a meditative experience that encourages the audience to slow down, engage in sensory perception, and find poetic refuge in moments of crisis. This newly commissioned series of multi-sensory experiences uses the body’s circulatory system as a means of fielding questions about close listening and ecological healing. Through her work, Dittrich engages in repetitive gestures, video, and sculpture to focus on the body’s circadian rhythms using biosensors as performative objects to track heartbeats and footsteps. The Tender Interval offers participants (and viewers) an opportunity to contemplate how the pace of our bodies’ physical processes are often determined by our surroundings.
This virtual project builds on Dittrich’s past works Turn of the Tide (2019) and Going/Staying (2015-17) in which she uses interactive bio-sensors to record everyday rhythms of life. The Tender Interval features two different durational performances designed and choreographed by Dittrich, with opportunities for viewers to activate the works online in real-time through coded Twitch Chat commands, and includes a sound composition titled, Undulated Vector Raise-Song for Earth by Houston-based artist Li. All activities will air through live streaming via Twitch.tv. on Sara Dittrich Twitch.TV Channel. Performances will run from September 23 – November 14, 2020.
The Tender Interval is commissioned by DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas, and curated by Ashley DeHoyos.
STREAM SCHEDULE
Tune in anytime between the designated hours to view and interact with the performances. All times are Central time.
Please note, the stream will alternate between two durational performances, each approximately 25 minutes long with a 5 minute intermission between each performance.
Thursday, October 1 – Saturday, November 14
7-9 pm CST Thursdays and 12-2 pm CST Saturdays
Live-streamed performances will be recorded and archived for later viewing.
Contemporary Voices: Aram Han Sifuentes | Virtual Artist Talk
Tuesday, October 26 • 6-7pm
presented by GW Textile Museum
confronts social and racial injustices created by and through institutions and governments. In this virtual presentation, Han Sifuentes will guide us through her practice, and how she employs fiber and performance to reimagine inclusive systems of civic engagement and belonging.
Speaker Bio:
Aram Han Sifuentes is a fiber, social practice, and performance artist who works to claim spaces for immigrant and disenfranchised communities. Her work often revolves around skill sharing, specifically sewing techniques, to create multiethnic and intergenerational sewing circles, which become a place for empowerment, subversion and protest.
Han Sifuentes earned her BA in Art and Latin American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and her MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the 2020-2021 Artist in Residence at Loyola University, Chicago.
Image of Aram Han Sifuentes. Photo by Virginia Harold.
