Art and Lunchtime Discussion: Ann Hirsch
Ann Hirsch, Courtney Klemens, Campus and Community Outreach Coordinator
| Jan/14 | Thu | 12:30PM-02:00PM | E15-207 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/12
Limited to 20 participants
Ann Hirsch (b. 1985, lives in Los Angeles) is an artist who has started a cult YouTube channel for one of her personas, appeared as a contestant on a VH1 reality TV show, and created a series of works (including apps and performances) loosely based on her pre-teen experiences with sexuality in an online chat room in the 1990s.
Meet Ann and join her on a walkthrough of List Projects: Ann Hirsch, a new exhibition at the List Visual Arts Center that features her “greatest hits”: video and new media works that explore the effects of technology on pop culture, public femininity and feminism, as well as the internet and social media. Then, have lunch with Ann and staff from the List to discuss and explore your thoughts and responses to her work. Lunch will be provided.
Sponsor(s): List Visual Arts
Contact: Courtney Klemens, E15-109, 617 324-4565, CKLEMENS@MIT.EDU
Beyond the "Like": Collecting and Contemporary Art
Courtney Klemens
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/10
Limited to 15 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
The List Visual Arts Center invites you to participate in a series of workshops that go behind the scenes to illuminate how and why museums collect contemporary art, culminating in a trip to purchase art from area galleries for the List's collection.
These workshops, led by List staff and art experts from MIT and beyond, provide a multi-perspectival framework to engage with issues in collecting, connoisseurship, and institutional practices and policies, including: the histories of art collecting, concepts of prints and photographs, the art market, curatorial work, contemporary art and artists, and museum decision-making. The final session is a trip to local galleries with List staff: participants will view artwork and be tasked with selecting pieces to accession into the List's Student Loan Art Program collection. Join in learn about museum work, the art world, and make an impact on artworks that will be borrowed by MIT students for years to come.
Email cklemens@mit.edu to sign up!
Sponsor(s): List Visual Arts
Contact: Courtney Klemens, E15-109, 617 324-4565, CKLEMENS@MIT.EDU
| Jan/13 | Wed | 02:00PM-04:00PM | E15-207 |
Alise Upitis - Assistant Curator, List Visual Arts Center, Jesse Noah Feiman
| Jan/15 | Fri | 02:00PM-04:00PM | E15-207 |
Monica Steinberg - Curatorial Fellow, List Visual Arts Center, Maryanna McConnell
| Jan/20 | Wed | 02:00PM-04:00PM | E15-207 |
Courtney Klemens, Henriette Huldisch - Curator, List Visual Arts Center
| Jan/22 | Fri | Time TBD | Boston Galleries, Meetup details shared in course |
Courtney Klemens, Henriette Huldisch - Curator, List Visual Arts Center
Slow Looking Art Workshop: Sol LeWitt
Courtney Klemens, Campus and Community Outreach Coordinator
| Jan/21 | Thu | 06:00PM-07:00PM | Building 6C |
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 20 participants
Join the List for a monthly mindful, artful break that aims to reduce stress by looking, discussing, and sketching. Take a moment for self-care and join in this session to spend time considering art with museum staff and students. The workshop starts with close looking at Sol LeWitt’s monuemtal installation Bars of Color within Squares (MIT), and ends with a guided drawing activity. All materials for sketching are provided.
To sign up, visit our signup page.
About the Workshops
Slow Looking Art Workshops are a series of study breaks led by the List Visual Arts Center that harness the natural role of art to provoke reflection and contemplation. The List invites MIT students to slow down, observe and reflect among peers, and create drawings in a quiet environment. Using the art exhibitions on display in our galleries and across the Institute, an experienced facilitator and guest co-facilitator will lead students in a “slow looking” activity (group discussion of one carefully selected work of art) followed by guided sketching using quality art supplies. The 2015-2016 workshops are sponsored by MIT’s MindHandHeart Innovation Fund.
Sponsor(s): List Visual Arts
Contact: Courtney Klemens, E15-109, 617 324-4565, CKLEMENS@MIT.EDU
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