UT VAC's Podcast

This symposium brought together scholars and critics to discuss a variety of themes connected to the exhibition Queer State(s). Participants from the UT community include Lisa Moore, Associate Professor of English; Ixchel Rosal, Director of the Gender and Sexuality Center; Risa Puleo, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Blanton Museum of Art; and Andy Campbell and Chelsea Weathers, both PhD candidates in Art History. In addition, other participants included Nathan Lee, an independent curator and critic from New York, Leah Devun, a Faculty Fellow at Stanford University and an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, and Jonathan D. Katz, director of the Doctoral Program in Visual Studies at the University at Buffalo and co-founder of the activist group Queer Nation, San Francisco and the Queer Caucus of the College Art Association.

Co-Presented by The Gender and Sexuality Center and The Queer Students Alliance, UT Austin

Generous support for Queer State(s) comes from the Ford Foundation.

The Gender and Sexuality Center provides safe spaces for all members of the UT Austin community to explore, organize, and promote learning around issues of gender and sexuality. The center also facilitates a greater responsiveness to the needs of women and the LGBTQ communities through education, outreach and advocacy.

The mission of the Queer Students Alliance (QSA) is to foster leadership within lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities at the University of Texas at Austin. The QSA advocates on behalf of the needs of LGBTQ students, hosts community-wide events and acts as a forum for the exchange of communication and ideas among all LGBTQ organizations at UT Austin.

In conjunction with Mika Tajima's exhibition The Architect's Garden, Dr. Nancy Kwallek used the designs of  Alexander Girard and Florence Knoll, designers from Herman Miller, Inc. and Knoll International, as examples to discuss the impact of color on our senses.

This lecture offers the public a look into discussions between Dr. Kwallek and Mika Tajima on interior design, architecture, and modernism.

The Architect's Garden was curated by Aimee Chang, Manager of Public Programs at The Blanton Museum of Art.

Filmmaker Richard Linklater and artist Mika Tajima discussed slackers, flânurs, and the history of refusal, an element in Tajima’s exhibition The Architect's Garden and in Linklater’s influential 1991 film Slacker.

The exhibition and program were organized by Aimee Chang, manager of public programs at the Blanton Museum of Art.

The discussion was co-presented by the Blanton Museum of Art.

Mika Tajima works in diverse modes and is perhaps best known for her installations incorporating sculpture, painting, performance, and video. Working across these media Tajima explores the overlap between architecture, art, modernism, post-industrialism, and performance.

This event was presented in conjunction with Tajima’s exhibition The Architect’s Garden, which was on view at the VAC from September 9 to December 17, 2011. It was curated by Aimee Chang, Manager of Public Programs at the Blanton Museum of Art.

Art in Practice provides guidance and insight into the professional world to students preparing for careers in the arts. Varying topics of conversation range from a nuts-and-bolts approach to gaining valuable job skills, to broad issues relevant to creative culture as a whole.

A collector, a curator, an artist, an art historian, a critic, and an art dealer talked about their respective practices.

Panelists:
Andy Campbell, Art History Lecturer, Texas State University
Mike Chesser, Collector
Arturo Palacios, Gallerist, Art Palace Gallery, Houston
Devon Dikeou, Artist
Wendy Vogel, Editor of ...might be good
Elizabeth Dunbar, Independent Curator
Moderated by Risa Puleo, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art

This edition of Art in Practice was presented in conjunction with the course “In and Out of the Studio," taught by Risa Puleo.

This recording is a panel discussion for The Working Homeless, an installation by graduate student Daniel Rudin. The panel discussed issues raised by the exhibition and was moderated by Rudin and VAC Curatorial Fellow Noah Simblist. Panelists include members of the UT community researching issues of homelessness, as well as participants that Rudin filmed for The Working Homeless. 

Daniel Rudin: The Working Homeless

Feedback presents unique exchanges with distinguished guest lecturers about the art on exhibition at the VAC. This lecture series will introduce conversations with experts in a variety of intellectual disciplines as they discuss contemporary art in a fresh way.

In this edition, the VAC invites Houston-based African artist Folasayo Dele-Ogunrinde to engage our audience in a new exploration of the exhibition Womanscape: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in African Art, curated by Associate Professor in Art History Dr. Moyo Okediji. The discussion was introducted by Dr. Okediji and the original lecture integrated two short films: The Woman with a Past and The Hunt.

Womanscape: Race, Gener, and Sexuality in African Art

This recording is a gallery conversation with VAC's artist in residence, Amanda Ross-Ho. This conversation came at the end of her one month-long residence in the Visual Arts Center and included insight on her transformation of the Vaulted Gallery into a live work site.

Amanda Ross-Ho, Untitled Nothing Factory

Art in Practice provides guidance and insight for those preparing for a career in the arts. Varying topics of conversation range from a nuts-and-bolts approach to gaining valuable job skills to broad issues relevant to creative culture as a whole.

Led by committed art administrators, enterprising gallerists, and established artists, these panel talks will engage audiences in constructive exchanges about the multifaceted field of contemporary art.

Panelists:
Aimee Chang, Manager of Public Programs, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art
Portia Hein, Working Visual Artist represented by Traywick Contemporary, Los Angeles
Philip Martin, Co-founder of Los Angeles gallery, Cherry and Martin
Moderated by Dr. Doug Dempster, Dean of the College of FIne Arts, University of Texas at Austin.