Events and Programs

Thursday, September 12, 7:00 pm via Zoom

Didi Dunphy is the juror for the Art Educators Biennial on view in the Fine Arts Gallery at KSU from September 3 to October 4, 2024. Dunphy will discuss her artistic practice and her most recent exhibition that was installed at Whitespace in Atlanta. Didi Dunphy is currently the Program Supervisor at the Lyndon House Arts Center, a civic arts campus dedicated to incorporating visual art and arts education with the mission of enriching the community of Athens GA, and beyond. Dunphy is a former Visiting Scholar and Professor in contemporary and digital media arts at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, UGA, who works as an independent curator in partnership with regional art museums. Her current program, Highlighting Contemporary Art in Georgia: Picture This is traveling throughout the state.  

Wednesday, October 2, 7:00pm at the ZMA

In association with Atlanta Art Week

Please join us at the Zuckerman Museum of Art during Atlanta Art Week for an exhibition reception celebrating Jeffrey Gibson’s exhibition, They Teach Love From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation.

Friday, October 11, 11:00am at the ZMA

In partnership with Department of Student Engagement and Belonging & LGBTQ Center at KSU

Please join us at the Zuckerman Museum of Art on National Coming Out day for monologues from students in Theatre Performance Studies and an empowering words poster printing workshop! This event is a collaborative effort with Department of Student Engagement and Belonging and the LGBTQ Center at KSU.

Saturday, October 12, 12:00pm - 4:00pm at Chastain Pointe

Rhiannon Skye Tafoya is an interdisciplinary indigenous artist from the Eastern Band of Cherokee and the Santa Clara Pueblo Tribes. Influenced by a strong lineage of basket-weavers both paternal and maternal, she continues to use paper-weaving processes to honor her loved ones and ancestors. Her meticulously crafted designs, patterns, prints, and weavings are influenced by basketry and contain themes of cultural teachings, Cherokee language preservation, motherhood and personal and family narratives. Her work is created to archive, preserve and share stories, language, culture, and experiences. Tafoya will present a selection of her prints, paper weavings, and artist books for viewing before conducting a workshop on processes related to her artistic practice. Utilizing the spacious printmaking studios at the School of Art and Design, workshop attendees will explore various relief printing and paper weaving techniques focusing on color, pattern, design and typography.  

Thursday, October 17, 7:30pm at the Morgan Concert Hall

In association with INTERCHANGE

Jeffrey Gibson: They Teach Love presents a sweeping survey of over thirty-five objects spanning fifteen years. The exhibition includes prints, photography, painting, sculpture, installation, and video. The inclusion of contemporary adornment in fashion is influenced by intertribal powwows as well as the dance clubs where Gibson found safe spaces as a teenager. The exhibition’s centerpiece is an expansive and immersive work titled To Name An Other—fifty-one printed elk hide drums and fifty wearable garments, which was originally commissioned as a performance by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in 2019. Born in Colorado in 1972, Jeffrey Gibson is of Cherokee heritage and a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw. His vibrant work, which is represented in more than twenty permanent collections across the United States, is a call for Indigenous empowerment as well as queer visibility. Gibson has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received a Master of Fine Arts from the Royal College of Art, London. Gibson is representing the United States at the Venice Biennale 2024—the first indigenous artist to have a solo exhibition in the American Pavilion. This traveling exhibition is organized by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Washington State University and curated by Ryan Hardesty, Executive Director. 
Organized by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Support for this exhibition and related education and outreach programs has been made possible by a grant from the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation.  

Friday, November 15, 1:30pm at the ZMA

The Artistic Practice of Wearable Art: Indigenous dress, Collaboration, and Community 

Inspired by her late Setsuné’s (grandmother) incredible garment making, hide-tanning and adornment, Catherine Blackburn’s work grounds itself in the Indigenous feminine. Join us for an artist talk in which she reflects on her wearable art practice and its intersection between Indigenous dress, collaboration, and community.   
  
Catherine Blackburn was born in Patuanak Saskatchewan and is a member of the English River First Nation (Denesųłiné). She is a multidisciplinary artist and jeweler, whose common themes address Canada's colonial past that are often prompted by personal narratives. Her work grounds itself in the Indigenous feminine and is bound by the ancestral love that stitching suggests. Through stitchwork, she explores Indigenous sovereignty, decolonization, and representation. Her work has been included in renowned national and international exhibitions including Radical Stitch, Àbadakone, Santa Fe Haute Couture Fashion Show, and Toronto Indigenous Fashion Week. She has received numerous awards including the Sobey Art Award longlist (2019/2023), a Forge Residency Fellowship (2022), and an Eiteljorg Fellowship (2021).