Programs

Guest Lecture: Mira Schor
Apr 17, 2010

A recording of this talk is available in our virtual Resource Room.

Saturday, April 17, 11 AM – 12 PM

Exhibiting artist Mira Schor discusses painting, writing, and publishing as sites for critical engagement. Her new book, A Decade of Negative Thinking: Essays on Art, Politics, and Daily Life, is available for sale and signing.

Mira Schor is a painter and writer living in New York City. Her honors include awards in painting from the Guggenheim and Pollock-Krasner Foundations, and the 1999 College Art Association’s Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Criticism. She teaches in the MFA Program of the Fine Arts Department at Parsons The New School for Design.

Schor has written frequently on issues of gender representation and feminist art history and her visual work has balanced political concerns with formalist and material passions.

Schor is the author of Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture and co-editor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists’ Writings, Theory, and Criticism (both from Duke University Press) and of M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online at http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/meaning/

This event is part of our Artist Survival Skills series.

Westside Arts District 3rd Saturday Art Walk, 11 AM – 5 PM
For more info, visit www.wadatlanta.org