On Monday, February 26, at
6:00 pm, join Tang Curator-at-Large Isolde Brielmaier as she moderates a
discussion about memory, monuments, and public spaces with artist and Director
of Exhibitions at the Harvard Graduate School of Design Dan Borelli, painter and
sculptor Titus
Kaphar, and sculptor and installation artist Karyn Olivier.
This event is free and open
to the public.
About
the Speakers
Dan Borelli is an artist
and Director of Exhibitions at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 2010,
as part of his Master studies at the GSD, he started an art-based research
inquiry into the Nyanza Superfund Site in his hometown, Ashland, Massachusetts.
His project makes public hidden narratives of cancer clusters, human loss,
activism, and ultimately regeneration. With the support of Harvard Innovation
Learning Technology, ArtPlace America and NEA Our Town grants, he created an
exhibition at the town’s public library that housed the EPA’s field repository
on the site, a streetlighting intervention to illuminate the groundwater
contamination below the town today, and a permanent public space, The Ashland
Memorial Healing Garden.
Titus Kaphar is an
artist whose work interacts with the history of art by appropriating its styles
and mediums through painting and sculpture, and then altering the work in a nod
to hidden narratives and unspoken truths about the nature of history. Kaphar
received an MFA from the Yale School of Art and is received the Gwendolyn
Knight and Jacob Lawrence Fellowship. His work has been exhibited at Savannah
College of Art and Design, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Seattle Art
Museum. His work is included in the collections of the New Britain Museum of
American Art, the Seattle Art Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Brooklyn
Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art. He has been awarded the 2015 Creative
Capital Fellowship and the 2016 Artist as Activist Rauschenberg Foundation Fellowship.
Kaphar was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and lives and works in New Haven,
Connecticut.
Karyn Olivier is a
sculptor and installation artist. In 2017, Olivier installed a large-scale
commissioned work for Philadelphia’s Mural Arts program in historic Vernon
Park. In 2015 Olivier created public works for Creative Time in Central Park
and NYC’s Percent for Art program. Her work has been exhibited at the Gwangju
and Busan Biennials, World Festival of Black Arts and Culture (Dakar, Senegal),
The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Whitney Museum of Art, MoMA P.S.1, among
others. She is the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellowship, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, the New York Foundation for the
Arts Award, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, the William H. Johnson Prize,
the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award, a Creative Capital
Foundation grant and a Harpo Foundation grant. Olivier was born in Trinidad and
Tobago, earned her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art and her BA at Dartmouth
College, and is an associate professor and program head of sculpture at Tyler
School of Art.
About the Accelerator Series
The Accelerator Series is the
Tang Teaching Museum’s dynamic conversation series on big ideas and big issues
that seeks to find new entry points into discussions that veer from traditional
paths. As an open and inclusive public forum for dialogue, exchange and
questioning, the Accelerator Series ignites a collective sense of intellectual
curiosity and fosters thoughtful engagement with a deeper understanding of
compelling issues that have the potential to spark radical transformations.
The series features key
cultural influencers from the arts and culture sector as well as academia,
entertainment, government, journalism, media, politics and beyond, who present
new perspectives and disrupt the status quo by encouraging a “getting
comfortable with discomfort” attitude in order to think and work through big
ideas it to drive change.
The Accelerator Series is
supported by Accelerate: Access and Inclusion at the Tang Teaching Museum, a
project of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and by a generous gift from Michele
Dunkerley '80.
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