Museum Friends are invited to the members-only preview of our winter/spring 2019 season and the exhibitions Carrie Mae Weems: Strategies of Engagement and.Fresh Perspective: Modernism in Photography, 1920-1950.
Complimentary food, cash bar, and the following program:
6 p.m. Member preview begins
6:30 p.m. Opening remarks
6:45 p.m. Conversation with Strategies of Engagement curators Ash Anderson and Robin Lydenberg, Boston College, and musical artist C. Anthony Bryant
7:15 p.m. C. Anthony Bryant performance
Free entry to members and one guest. RSVP now by clicking the REGISTER button below left, or by calling 610-432-4333 x129. Please RSVP by January 9.
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For decades, Carrie Mae Weems has been considered one of the most important and influential of American artists. Over a period of more than 30 years, she has created a fascinating body of work employing photography, video, text, fabric, digital images, audio, and installations. She
has explored ideas of family, cultural identity, power and resistance, history, gender, and class structures. Ms. Weems is the winner of the prestigious MacArthur “Genius” award as well as the Prix de Roma, Anonymous Was a Woman award, the Lucie Award for Fine Art Photography, the Congressional Black Caucus Lifetime Achievement Award, and the U.S. Department of State’s Medal of Art Award for her commitment to the art in embassies program. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Allentown Art Museum, among many others.
Image: Carrie Mae Weems (American, born 1953), If I Ruled the World from Hopes and Dreams: Gestures of Demonstration, 2006–07, archival pigment print, 37 x 27 in. © Carrie Mae Weems/Courtesy of Carrie Mae Weems and Jack Shainman Gallery,
New York
