Artist to deliver lecture at Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. >> The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College welcomes acclaimed artist Wangechi Mutu to deliver the third annual Winter/ Miller Lecture.
The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 27 at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, located on Skidmore College’s campus is Saratoga Springs.
The Nairobi, Kenya-born Mutu has been hailed as one of the most distinguished artists of her generation, known for sculpture, collage, painting, video, and performance. Her work is often centered on the female body and challenges accepted notions of gender, race, and identity.
Among her many distinctions is that she is the first artist in the history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City to be commissioned to create sculptures for the four niches on the museum’s façade, which had been empty since first being built 117 years ago.
Mutu’s appearance at the Tang Teaching Museum is by invitation from Caroline Coxe ‘20, a Studio Art major. She holds the prestigious 2019-20 Eleanor Linder Winter ‘43 Internship, a one-year pre-professional program in museum work for Skidmore students. In this role, Coxe is charged with the research, planning and coordination of the annual Winter/Miller Lecture.
“Wangechi Mutu was the first contemporary artists that I discovered and fell in love with as a teenager,” Coxe said in a press release. “I was doing a lot of collage work in high school and actually did a series based off her work. I admire her use of materials to create layered narratives and meanings. She has the most brilliant mind, and we all have so much to learn from her work. Having this opportunity to bring her here and to meet her is such a gift.”
The Winter/Miller Lecture is made possible through a generous gift by the family of Eleanor Linder Winter ‘43. The inaugural Winter/Miller lecture was delivered in March 2018 by artist Nicole Eisenman. Chris Ware delivered the second annual lecture in February 2019.
More information about this upcomoing event is available online at tang.skdimore.edu or by calling (518) 580-8080.