2021-2022
Carnivalesque panel
April 7, 2022
6:00 - 7:00 P.M.
Zoom webinar
Georgetown Professor Toni-Lee Sangastiano’s artwork makes visible the people and spaces of the carnival, celebrating them in all of their wonder, glitter, grit, genius, and eccentricity. Watch the conversation on YouTube with panelists:
Sarah “Birdgirl” Houbolt, a Paralympian, diversity advocate, arts manager, and freak show, international circus, and physical theatre performer Johnathan Lee Iverson, the youngest and first Black American Ringmaster of the iconic Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, which he served until its closing in 2017
Above image: Toni-Lee Sangastiano, Ringmaster Iverson, 2021. Oil on aluminum panel, radiant light film, light-guiding acrylic, and LEDs. Laser cutter fabrication by Don Undeen at Maker Hub, Georgetown University. 19 x 19 3/8 x 1.5 in.
Film Screening & Public Dialogue. Punk the Capital
April 3, 2022
2:00 - 4:00 P.M.
Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery
Watch rare footage from the documentary Punk the Capital and a short film on the 1979 WGTB radio benefit concert on Georgetown’s campus. Hear how the punk movement changed the way we view art, music, and politics from panelists:
Ian Bourland, One Nation Underground Curator / GU Art History Professor
Brendan Canty (Fugazi, Rites of Spring, MC50) / GU Performing Arts Professor
James June Schneider, Punk the Capital Director
above photograph courtesy of James June Schneider
PUBLIC DIALOGUE. Ian Bourland on Rotimi Fani-Kayode
March 31, 2022
6:00 P.M.
Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery
Join Georgetown University art history professor Dr. Ian Bourland for a dialogue about the influence and legacy of photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayode. This public program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955 – 1989).
Preregister here if you do not have a campus ID.
pictured, exhibition curator and Georgetown professor Dr. Ian Bourland
Queer Student-led Exhibition Tour
March 25, 2022
12:00 - 1:00 P.M.
Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery
Join recent Georgetown U. alumnus Madalyn Shaw (she/they, ’21) and current student Leah Miller (she/they, ‘23) for a tour of the Rotimi Fani-Kayode exhibition and discussion of this groundbreaking alumni photographer’s work through a queer lens.
Day With(out) Art 2021: ENDURING CARE
December 1, 2021
Virtual
In honor of late artist and Georgetown alumnus Rotimi Fani-Kayode (subject of our spring ’22 exhibition), the GU Art Galleries are partnering with Visual AIDS to support Day With(out) Art 2021: ENDURING CARE, a program of seven new videos highlighting community care within the ongoing HIV crisis. The 60-minute video program will be presented to mark Day With(out) Art, which is an annual event that coincides with World AIDS Day on December 1st. Starting December 1st, the videos will be available to stream for free at visualaids.org/enduringcare.
Spanish language exhibition tour of Teresita Fernández: Dark Earth
December 5, 2021
2:00 P.M.
Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery
Tour the exhibition Teresita Fernández: Dark Earth led in Spanish by Georgetown Art & Museum Studies student Beatriz Rosselló. Learn more about Fernández’s landscapes that address the sociopolitical and historical colonial violence embedded in our ideas of place.
Be Seen AND Heard - Conversations With American Women Artists: Teresita Fernández & Cecilia Vicuña
November 11, 2021
6:00 P.M.
Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery
On the occasion of the exhibition, Teresita Fernández: Dark Earth GU Art Galleries presented an intimate conversation between artists Teresita Fernández and Cecilia Vicuña. This special program inaugurated a new multi-year series of artist talks and panel discussions focused on America’s most creative and visionary women.
From top: Teresita Fernández, Dark Earth. Photograph by Natalia Mantini. / Cecilia Vicuña, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.
Cookies with the Curator
October 14, 2021
12:00 - 1:00 P.M.
Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery
Chat with our Founding Director/Chief Curator Al Miner about the new exhibition, Teresita Fernández: Dark Earth. See why Miner calls Fernández “one of the most compelling artists working today”. Cookies from Milk Bar will be offered to-go throughout the afternoon while supplies last.