2022-2023
The Green Fuse: Heather Ackroyd
March 30, 2023
6:00 P.M.
Maria and Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery
Artist-activists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey (British, b.1959/1959) create works that intersect art, activism, architecture, biology, ecology, and history. Processes of germination, growth, and decay (organic and inorganic) are integral to artworks that often evolve through extended research in response to people and place, interfacing their long-standing interest in local ecologies and global planetary concerns.
Great Women Writers
March 23, 2023
6:00 P.M.
Maria and Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery
In celebration of Women’s History Month, please join us for "Great Women Writers," an evening of bilingual lightning readings of women’s writing from across the foreign language and linguistics departments and programs at Georgetown. Short texts written by women writers from across three centuries will be read by Georgetown students and faculty. Poetry, prose, philosophical fragments, autobiographical writing and other texts will be read in the English translation and the following original languages: French, German, Italian, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish and Ukrainian. Audience-choice awards and a reception will follow.
Elizabeth M Webb & Andrew Davenport
March 16, 2023
6:00 P.M.
Maria and Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery
Join Spagnuolo Gallery exhibiting artist Webb and Georgetown Ph.D. Candidate/Monticello Historian Davenport for a film screening and conversation about race, research, and family roots. The exhibition Elizabeth M. Webb: Cameo Ground (Children of Paradise) uncovers the artist’s family genealogy. The installation evocatively documents a series of interviews that artist and filmmaker Elizabeth M. Webb conducted with a relative. The objects resemble marble, but these works are made of clay — literal earth — referencing the fragility of environment, identity, and communication.
Rebecca Rutstein
March 2, 2023
6:00 P.M.
Maria and Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery
Rebecca Rutstein works at the intersection of art, science, and technology. For over twenty years she has created paintings, sculptures, interactive installations, and public artworks inspired by the natural world. Her talk will explore the evolution of her work, her partnerships with scientists (including microbiologists, ecologists, geologists, and molecular biologists), and the value and synergy of interdisciplinary exchange.
Presented in partnership with Georgetown University’s Earth Commons Institute.
Baseera Khan: Opening Reception and Performance
January 19, 2023
6:00 - 8:00 P.M.
Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery
Join us to celebrate the opening of our spring exhibition, Baseera Khan: Cloak and Dagger. Khan will perform utilizing their "Acoustic Sound Blankets" from 6:30-7:00 P.M.
Baseera Khan and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
February 8, 2023
4:30 P.M.
Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery
Join artist Baseera Khan and author Mecca Jamilah Sullivan for a conversation about American identity, gender, artistry, and more. Baseera Khan is a New York-based performance, sculpture, and installation artist who makes work to discuss materials and their economies, the effects of this relationship to labor, family structures, religion, and spiritual well-being. They say, "My life's work is dedicated to the development of my own legacy, on my own terms, with the use of fashion, photography, textiles and music, parody, sculpture, and performance, I manifest my femme native-born Muslim American experience.” Sullivan is the author of the novel Big Girl, a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection and a best books pick from Time, Essence, Vulture, Ms., Goodreads, Library Reads, and SheReads.com. In her fiction, she explores the intellectual, emotional, and bodily lives of young Black women through voice, music, and hip-hop-inflected magical realist techniques. co-sponsored with the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University.
Pictured: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan.
Open Mic Night with Bossier
December 8, 2022
7:30 P.M.
Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery
Join the student-run publication Bossier for their annual Open Mic Night! Bossier is Georgetown's intersectional feminist 'zine. Join us to celebrate the release of their Main Issue. Members of Bossier will perform submitted pieces along with additional works from anyone in the audience.
Day With(out) Art 2022: Being & Belonging
December 1, 2022
5:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M.
Spagnuolo Art Gallery
Georgetown and Visual AIDS invite you to join us in marking Day With(out) Art 2022 with a free screening of Being & Belonging beginning on Thursday, December 1, 2022.
Being & Belonging is a program of seven short videos highlighting under-told stories of HIV and AIDS from the perspective of artists living with HIV across the world.
featuring newly commissioned work by:
Camila Arce (Argentina) Davina “Dee” Conner and Karin Hayes (USA) Jaewon Kim (South Korea) Clifford Prince King (USA) Santiago Lemus and Camilo Acosta Huntertexas (Colombia) Mikiki (Canada) Jhoel Zempoalteca and La Jerry (México)
In Dialogue: Adéla Babanová and Milena Kalinovska
November 3, 2022
6:00 P.M.
Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery
Guest Curator Milena Kalinovska and Prague-based artist/filmmaker Adéla Babanová in conversation followed by a discussion led by Georgetown Professor, Irina Denischenko. This program is supported by the Embassy of the Czech Republic
Artist-led student tour with Mary Kelly
September 23, 2022
2:00 P.M.
Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery
Legendary art educator Mary Kelly will host a casual tour and conversation for GU students & faculty in her new exhibition, Mary Kelly: To Witness the Future.
Exhibition Opening Reception for Mary Kelly: To Witness the Future
September 23, 2022
6:00 - 10:30 P.M.
Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery
Join us for the public Opening Reception celebrating Mary Kelly: To Witness the Future. This event is presented in conjunction with the Georgetown Women's and Gender Studies Program. 6:00-8:00 pm. The de la Cruz Gallery will stay open late, until 10:30pm, for Georgetown Art All Night. Attendees will be able to walk to other local galleries and artist studios open late. above: Mary Kelly. Flashing Nipple Remix, 2005. 3 black and white transparencies in light boxes. Each 38 x 48 x 5 in. Courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
Amanda Williams
October 20, 2022
6:00 P.M.
Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery
Join us for a lecture by this celebrated Chicago-based artist and architect. Williams' (b. 1974, Evanston, IL) practice employs color as an operative means for drawing attention to the complex ways race informs how we assign value to the spaces we occupy. Williams’ installations, sculptures, paintings, and works on paper seek to inspire new ways of looking at the familiar and in the process, raise questions about the state of urban space and ownership in America. co-sponsored by the Georgetown University Lecture Fund.
Tania Bruguera & Fazal Sheikh in dialogue: Picturing Displacement
October 27, 2022
3:30 P.M.
Virtual
Tania Bruguera is a politically-motivated performance artist; her work is rooted in an examination of the social, cultural, and economic experience of being Cuban. Fazal Sheikh is a photographer whose portraits reflect individual experiences among displaced and marginalized communities. Join us for a virtual conversation between artists.