Michael C. Carlos Museum
Atlanta Art Week Event:
"La Vaughn Belle: Come Ruin or Rapture," Nicholas Galanin installation: "I Think It Goes Like This (Gold)” |
Tour One: October 1 | 6:30 PM
Tour Two: October 4 | 6:30 PM
Michael C. Carlos Museum,
Atlanta Art Week Gallery Talk: La Vaughn Belle: Come Ruin or Rapture
October 1 | 6:30 p.m.
Works on Paper Gallery, Level One
Michael C. Carlos Museum, 571 South Kilgo Circle Atlanta, 30322
About event: In conjunction with Atlanta Art Week, join Clint Fluker, Senior Director of Culture, Community and Partner Engagement for the Carlos Museum and Emory Libraries for a guided tour of La Vaughn Belle: Come Ruin or Rapture, an exhibition that includes work from two of Belle’s series, Storm (in the time of spatial and temporal collapse) and Storm (how to imagine the tropicalia as monumental). In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2017, Belle began using finished artworks and materials from her studio that were damaged by the storm and repurposed them to make new works that express the resilience of people of African descent in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the face of both natural disaster and colonial powers.
About Tour Guide: Clinton R. Fluker, Ph.D. serves as the senior director of Culture, Community, and Partner Engagement for the Michael C. Carlos Museum and Emory University Libraries. Fluker is the co-editor of The Black Speculative Arts Movement (2019), a collection that enters the global scholarly debate on the emerging field of Afrofuturism studies. Fluker is also the Cofounder of Thrdspace, a consulting firm that helps clients build communities around their missions through insights, experiences, and imagination. As a visual artist, Fluker’s most recent work was included in the New York Live Arts 2020 exhibition, Curating the End of the World, where his interdisciplinary pieces are presented as meditations on the themes of memory and fragmentation.
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Atlanta Art Week Gallery Talk: I Think it Goes Like This (Gold)
October 4 | 6:30 p.m.
Indigenous Art of the Americas Galleries, Level One
Michael C. Carlos Museum, 571 South Kilgo Circle Atlanta, 30322
About event: Join Curator of Art of the Indigenous Americas Miranda Kyle for an in-gallery exploration of key contemporary pieces in the collection and Nicholas Galanin’s I Think it Goes Like This (Gold) on loan from the Art Bridges Foundation.
About Tour Guide: Miranda Kyle is a scholar on the intersection of Indigenous Land rights, sovereignty, contemporary art, and monuments. She is a sociocultural activist and advocate. She lectures and curates around the importance of preserving and promoting place-based knowledges and culture, public spaces, and human-informed design. From 2017-2024, she served as the Arts & Culture Program Manager and Chief Curator for Atlanta BeltLine, Inc., managing, cultivating, and growing the largest public art exhibition in the American South. Recently she was invited to the Berlin Biennial to present on Monuments and Cultural Memory. She had received numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Lee Kimche McGrath Fellowship for Arts & Sciences, the StarSeed Fellowship to research the intersection of Public Art, Performance and Space in Riga and Pedvale, Latvia. Kyle has curated exhibitions locally and internationally over the last twelve years, ranging in disciplines from performance to public art. When not consumed by everything art, she is working to dismantle problematic monuments with groups like Stone Mountain Action Coalition and Toppled Monuments Archive. Kyle holds an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design and an MA from the Edinburgh College of Arts.
About the exhibition:
Come Ruin or Rapture includes work from two of La Vaughn Belle’s series, Storm (in the time of spatial and temporal collapse) and Storm (how to imagine the tropicalia as monumental). In the aftermath of Hurricane Matus in 2017, Belle began using the materials from her studio that were exposed to the storm. These repurposed materials take on new forms and express the resilience of people of African descent in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the face of both natural disaster and colonial powers.
Exhibition Duration: Sep 19, 2024 - Dec 8, 2024
About the Artist: Through exploring the material culture of coloniality, La Vaughn Belle creates narratives from fragments and silences. Working in a variety of disciplines, her practice includes painting, installation, photography, writing, video, and public interventions. She has exhibited her work in the Caribbean, the USA, and Europe in institutions such as the Museo del Barrio (New York), Casa de las Americas (Cuba), the Museum of the African Diaspora (California), and Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Denmark) with large solo exhibitions at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art (South Carolina) and the National Nordic Museum (Washington). She is the co-creator of I Am Queen Mary, the artist-led groundbreaking monument that confronted the Danish colonial amnesia while commemorating the legacies of resistance of the African people who were brought to the former Danish West Indies. The project was featured in over 100 media outlets around the world, including the New York Times, Politiken, VICE, the BBC, and Le Monde. Her work has also been written about in Hyperallergic, Artforum, Small Axe, and numerous journals and books. Her studio is based in the Virgin Islands.
https://www.lavaughnbelle.com/
https://www.peterblumgallery.com/artists/nicholas-galanin/bi
https://carlos.emory.edu/exhibition/nicholas-galanin
https://carlos.emory.edu/exhibition/la-vaughn-belle
About Organization: Set in the heart of Emory’s Atlanta campus, the Michael C. Carlos Museum is a dynamic, interdisciplinary center for the study of art and culture, with collections from Africa; ancient Egypt; Nubia and the Near East; ancient Greece and Rome; the Indigenous Americas; and South Asia; as well as American and European Works on Paper. Through our permanent collection galleries, engaging special exhibitions, and innovative programs for audiences of all ages, the Carlos Museum connects the past with the present and the campus with the community.
Curators and faculty develop original exhibitions, engage in interdisciplinary research and teaching, and host touring exhibitions that complement our collections and support the teaching mission of the university. The museum’s conservators collaborate with staff, faculty, and students to conduct research and manage preventive care on the museum's varied collections. Museum educators reach across the museum, campus, and city to develop opportunities to engage the intellect and the imagination of university students and faculty, preK-12 students and teachers, and the larger Atlanta community.
https://carlos.emory.edu/ | @carlosmuseum
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