Panel Discussion: Rachel Cox, Rose Marie Cromwell, and Michelle Millar Fisher (Read More)
As part of the exhibit "MOTHER TIME: Measuring ourselves within the landscape", exhibiting artists Rachel Cox and Rose Marie Cromwell and author/curator Dr. Michelle Millar Fisher will participate in a panel discussion. The panelists will explore photography’s role in constructing personal and political memory, focusing on motherhood in considering how images become repositories for emotion, trauma, and care across time. Admission is free; ticket reservations are encouraged. Visit the event website for more information, or to register. MOTHER TIME: Measuring ourselves within the landscape brings together photographers Rachel Cox and Rose Marie Cromwell, whose distinct yet overlapping practices explore the complexities of closeness—emotional, physical, and spatial. Rachel Cox is a contemporary artist working primarily in the disciplines of image-based media. Her work explores themes of reproduction, mothering, and personal autonomy through photography, printmaking, and historical analog processes. Rose Marie Cromwell is a photographer and artist from Seattle, based in Miami. Dr. Michelle Millar Fisher is currently the Ronald C. and Anita L. Wornick Curator of Contemporary Decorative Arts within the Contemporary Art Department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her work focuses on the intersections of people, power, and the material world.
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In Conversation: Miatta Kawinzi with Chrislyn Laurore (Read More)
Listen and learn from exhibiting artist Miatta Kawinzi and Haitian-American anthropologist Chrislyn Laurore, who will focus on diasporic identity, material memory, and how storytelling can function as an embodied archive. Their dialogue will connect Kawinzi’s exploration of cultural lineage and ecological interdependence with broader questions of belonging and change within the African Diaspora. Admission is free; RSVPs are encouraged. Visit the event page for more information, or to RSVP. This event relates to the exhibit Miatta Kawinzi: An Alphabet of Unfolding, which explores hybridity, memory, and sustenance through mixed-media works, sculpture, video, and text. Miatta Kawinzi is a multidisciplinary artist, experimental filmmaker, writer, and educator. Her research-informed practice explores cultural hybridity, memory, freedom dreaming, and ecologies of possibility within inner and outer landscapes. Her practice spans installation, sculpture, still and moving images, sound, painting, and poetics. She is interested in illuminating African/Diasporic points of connection, transformation, and continuity across place, space, and time. Of Liberian and Kenyan heritage, Kawinzi was raised in the US South and is based in NYC. Chrislyn Laurie Laurore is a William Fontaine Fellow studying the public memory and history of slavery, particularly its curation in museums, monuments, memorials, and archaeological sites. She is interested in the biopolitical economy of African diaspora heritage tourism and its effects on contemporary Black identities and nationalisms.
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Lecture with Dr. Jacinda Tran, Dartmouth College (Read More)
Join Dr. Jacinda Tran for a lecture and Q&A moderated by Bemis Center’s 2024–2025 Curator-in-Residence, Kathy Cho, on the “banalization of diaspora” and "militarized infrastructures of feeling." This lecture will examine the affect of varied psychogeographies of global colonization and dispersal—as well as how some of the artists featured in the exhibition take up the tasks and technologies of representationability amid an increasingly fractured world. Admission is free; RSVPs are encouraged. Click here for more information about the "Close to the Clouds: Encountering Digital Diasporas" exhibition. Jacinda S. Tran (she/her) is an interdisciplinary scholar of visuality, race, space, and empire. Her research and writing examine the affective and cultural legacies of US militarism across transnational landscapes. Tran is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the Program of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College, teaching in Asian American History and Queer Studies. She holds a PhD in American Studies from Yale University with a graduate certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and was most recently a Global American Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. Her writing features in The Amp; ArtReview; Brooklyn Rail; Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies; e-flux; Journal of Asian American Studies; TIME; and more.
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In Conversation: Nancy Langston and Elizabeth Chalecki (Read More)
Environmental historian Dr. Nancy Langston and international relations scholar Dr. Elizabeth Chalecki will explore the intersections of climate change, water, and security. Drawing from their groundbreaking research—Langston’s work on northern watersheds, specifically Lake Superior and disappearing species, and Chalecki’s investigations into water as a geopolitical force—this conversation will delve into how environmental shifts shape both ecosystems and global conflict. Admission is free; RSVPs are encouraged. Visit the event website to RSVP.
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In Conversation: Author Anna Farro Henderson with Exhibiting Artist/Poet Trey Moody (Read More)
Author Anna Farro Henderson (Core Samples: A Climate Scientist’s Experiments in Politics and Motherhood) will speak with Trey Moody , poet, Associate Professor, Arts and Sciences at Creighton University, and exhibiting artist in From the Great Lakes to the Great Plains: The Visible Currents of Climate Change. Admission is free; RSVPs are encouraged. Visit the event website to RSVP.
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Film Premiere: Drowned Land with Colleen Thurston and Michael Farrell (Read More)
Drowned Land, a documentary by Colleen Thurston, will premiere at the Bemis Center as part of From the Great Lakes to the Great Plains: The Visible Currents of Climate Change. The film explores the fight to preserve the Kiamichi River in southeastern Oklahoma, highlighting the environmental and cultural challenges faced by the Choctaw Nation. Through personal narratives and historical context, it sheds light on the impacts of water diversion and dam construction on Indigenous communities. The screening will be followed by a discussion between filmmaker Colleen Thurston and Michael Farrell. Admission is free; RSVPs are encouraged. Visit the event website to RSVP.
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art lecture by Lisa Sutcliffe on surrealism, interwar collage and the “Synchronicities” exhibition (Read More)
This lecture explores the history of both interwar collage and surrealism and how these art historical movements have continued to shape contemporary art, including the figurative and abstract works in the group exhibition Synchronicities: Intersecting Figuration with Abstraction. Admission is free; ticket reservations are encouraged. Visit the event website for a registration link. Lisa Sutcliffe is Curator in the Department of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where her principal focus is post-1960s photography and time-based media. Sutcliffe joined the Met in 2022, from the Milwaukee Art Museum, where she served as Herzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Art. While there she oversaw the development of the museum’s Herzfeld Center for Photography and Media Arts, a 10,000-square-foot space dedicated to time-based media. Previously, she was an Assistant Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and held a curatorial fellowship at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Sutcliffe has organized many exhibitions, including a monumental commission with Derrick Adams entitled “Our Time Together” (2021); “James Benning and Sharon Lockhart: Over Time” (2019/2022); “Susan Meiselas: Through a Woman’s Lens” (2020); “Sara Cwynar: Image Model Muse” (2019); “Naoya Hatakeyama: Natural Stories” (2012); “The Provoke Era: Postwar Japanese Photography” (2009); and “The San Quentin Project: Nigel Poor and the Men of San Quentin State Prison” (2018), for which she organized a city-wide collaborative initiative on the role of the arts in criminal-justice reform. Sutcliffe has also acquired and shown film and video work by Charles Atlas, Rineke Dijkstra, Leslie Hewitt, Kahlil Joseph, Anthony McCall, and Ryan Trecartin. She has organized film screenings, lectures, and panels with internationally acclaimed artists and written about contemporary art and photography, including essays on Naoya Hatakeyama, Nigel Poor, and An-My Lê. Sutcliffe holds an MA in the history of art from Boston University and a BA in art history from Wellesley College.
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Poetry Reading and Workshop: Kinsale Drake and Maritza N. Estrada (Read More)
Join poets Kinsale Drake and Maritza N. Estrada for a reading and discussion, followed by an ekphrastic poetry workshop in conjunction with Raven Halfmoon’s exhibition Flags of Our Mothers. Poems written during this workshop will be collected into a chapbook available for download.
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Live @ LOW END | madison moore: there’s always energy for dancing (Read More)
This event—equal parts lecture and dance party—will explore the iridescence of queer nightlife, weaving together oral history and intergenerational family narrative, alongside the legacies and possibilities of queer nightlife to tell a story about queerness and opulence. Free and open to all. madison moore is an artist-scholar, DJ, and assistant professor of Critical Studies at the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California. madison holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University and has previously held positions at Virginia Commonwealth University, The New School, the University of Richmond, and King’s College London, and has also been a visiting guest artist at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. They are broadly invested in the aesthetic, sonic, and spatial strategies queer and trans people of color use to both survive and thrive in the face of rolling catastrophe. His first book Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018), offers a cultural analysis of fabulousness as a practice of resistance.
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Jillian Hernandez: Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment (Read More)
Jillian Hernandez will discuss her book, Aesthetics of Excess, examining how bodies of women and girls of color are racialized through cultural discourses that mark them as sexual “others,” and how in turn, aesthetic value is generated through the presentation of their bodies. Through innovative relational readings, she shows how notions of high and low culture are complicated when women and girls of color engage in cultural production and how they challenge the policing of their bodies and sexualities through artistic authorship. The event will also stream live online. See the event website for details. Jillian Hernandez is a scholar, community arts educator, curator, and creative. Her work is inspired by Black and Latinx life and imagination, and is invested in challenging how working-class bodies, sexualities, and cultural practices are policed through gendered tropes of deviance and respectability. Dr. Hernandez received her Ph.D. in Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University and is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research at the University of Florida.
