Wednesday, March 18, 2026
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (ET)
Tang Teaching Museum Payne
Event Type
Lecture
Contact
Department
Tang Teaching Museum/Art Gallery
Link
http://ems.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=37666
Join us for the ninth annual Winter/Miller Lecture on Wednesday, March 18, at 6 pm, featuring acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Christopher Myers. Myers is a visual artist, children’s book author and illustrator, textile artist, and has worked in both theater and film. Through his many mediums he answers, and asks questions, about how storytelling can change lives.
The artist’s appearance at the Tang is by invitation from Elio Gottschalk ’26, an art history major. They hold the prestigious 2025-26 Eleanor Linder Winter ’43 Internship, a one-year pre-professional program in museum work for Skidmore students. In this role, Gottschalk is charged with the research, planning, and coordination of the annual Winter/Miller Lecture.
The Winter/Miller Lecture is made possible through a generous gift by the family of Eleanor Linder Winter ’43. Past Winter/Miller lectures were delivered by: in Nicole Eisenman (inaugural, 2018); Chris Ware (2019); Wangechi Mutu (2020); Nick Cave (2021); Juliana Huxtable (2022); Trenton Doyle Hancock (2023); Mickalene Thomas (2024); and Nina Chanel Abney (2025).
This event is free and open to the public.
About Christopher Myers
Christopher Myers (b. 1974, Queens, New York) is a multidisciplinary artist who tackles themes of globalization, oppression, and cultural exchange with emphasis on the importance of storytelling. Myers brings this focus on cultural exchange and globalization into his own practice by working with artisans from all over the world. Myers has worked in visual art, written and illustrated children’s books, and worked in theater in different capacities. Myers graduated from Brown in 1995 with a degree in Art-Semiotics and American Civilization. In 1996, he participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Studio Program. Additionally, he received the Caldecott award for illustration for Harlem (1998), and a Coretta Scott King Honor for Jazz (2007). His work is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; and the Studio Museum in Harlem, among others. He is working on a commission for the Brooklyn Brownsville Public Library.