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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Blanton, UT Dept. of Art launch residencies for Latin American artists
The Blanton Museum of Art in collaboration with UT’s Creative Research Laboratory of the Department of Art and Art History has announced an ambitious new series of artist residencies for emerging Latin American artists.
Called “Mapping Exchange: Artists Residencies Programs,” the initiative establishes a series of three annual artists residencies that will include exhibitions, artist talks and cultural events organized with other university departments.
Spearheaded by Ursula Davila-Villa, the Blanton’s interim curator of Latin American Art, and CRL director Jade Walker — both ambitious emerging arts professionals in their own right — “Mapping Exchange” draws from Brazil, Argentina and Mexico.
Austin-Argentina Residency
This residency culminates with an exhibition of works by the visiting artist and selected university-affiliated artists.
Titled “A Strange Land,” this year’s exhibition will investigate citizenship, urbanization and borders and features the work of Erica Bohm, this year’s Austin-Argentinian residency artist. Her work deals with landscape and the different ways in which emotions are conveyed through the idea of landscape.
“A Strange Land” runs Jan. 24 through Feb. 7 at the Creative Research Laboratory, 2832 East Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Admission is free. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays.
Mexico-Austin Artistic Exchange
A partnership with the Museo Carrillo Gill in Mexico City, the Mexico-Austin Artistic Exchange provides a one-month residency at UT for a selected emerging artist living in Mexico followed followed by a similar presentation hosted by the Museo Carrillo.
This year’s artist is Diego Perez García, who started his career as a photojournalist. In his work, García reconstructs myths and legends through a Mexican sociocultural context.
Ibere Camargo Residency
Organized in conjunction with the Ibere Camargo Foundation (Porto Alegre, Brazil), provides an opportunity for a selected emerging artist (who must be living in Brazil) to spend two months at UT and the Blanton. An international jury selects the artist
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Pencil it in: Ransom Center lectures
This spring’s Harry Ransom Lectures at the University of Texas brings a quartet of
Barry Unsworth, Jan. 26, 7 p.m. Booker Prize-winning British novelist Barry Unsworth, whose archive is housed at the Ransom Center, talks about his new book, “Land of Marvels.”
David Mamet, Feb. 5, 7 p.m. Everybody’s favorite acerbic wit, playwright, writer, and film director David Mamet — whose papers are housed at the Ransom Center — joins UT President William Powers Jr. for a conversation about “The Spanish Prisoner “(1997) and a screening of the film.
Azar Nafisi, March 12, 7 p.m. In her bestseller “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books,” Azar Nafisi chronicled the Islamic revolution in Iran and how it affected one university literature professor and her students.
Ed Ruscha, April 2, 7 p.m. Seminal pop artist Ed Ruscha has had a career that’s spanned more than four decades and several medi including photography, painting, drawing, film and book-making. One of Rusch moody black-and-white images of the road culture of the American West graces the cover of “Threshold of Night,” the Grammy-nominated CD by Austin choir Conspirare.
