Date & time
Friday, September 27, 2024
6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Studio arts, Conferences & lectures
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Talk by Curator Wendy Gers
Presented by the Departments of Studio Arts and Art History
Cost
This event is free
Contact
Where
Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex
1515 St. Catherine W.
York Amphitheatre
Room EV 1.615
Wheel chair accessible
Yes
Kerstin Abraham, Absence, 2023. From the exhibition Sustainable Ceramics #1 at the Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics.
The Departments of Art History and Studio Arts are pleased to welcome Wendy Gers, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics in the Netherlands. Gers' most recent exhibition Sustainable Ceramics #1 focuses on recycled, repaired and reactivated ceramics. Gers will speak about curating from a sustainable perspective and how artists and art historians are working at the Princessehof Museum and elsewhere to address the climate crisis.
Seating is first-come, first-served. This event is free and everyone is welcome!
Wendy Gers has worked as a curator in South Africa and Spain, and has contributed to exhibitions and ceramics biennales in China, Israel, Taiwan, France and Belgium. Her curatorial leadership was celebrated by the City Press’s inclusion of Gers in their list of 100 ‘World-Class South Africans’. Gers has been a lecturer at various universities in South Africa, France, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands and currently holds position of Theodore Randall International Chair in Art History at Alfred University in New York.