Looking to connect with contemporary art from home? Join cultural scholar Gretchen Gasterland-Gustafsson for a virtual tour of the exhibition Don’t let this be easy. We will take a slow-art approach and focus on select pieces from the show. Take a deep dive into ways womxn artists in the Walker’s collection expanded definitions of art and boundaries of accepted aesthetics.
Featuring works from the 1970s to today, Don’t let this be easy is an institutional project taking the form of an exhibition, coupled with new scholarship and online publishing focused on women artists from the Walker’s collection. The initiative is presented in conjunction with the Feminist Art Coalition (FAC), a nationwide effort involving more than 100 museums committed to social justice and structural change.
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About the Presenter
Gretchen Gasterland-Gustafsson is an associate professor of liberal arts at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in printmaking with a concentration in fiber, where her work focused on citizenship and belonging, and a PhD from the University of Minnesota in comparative studies. She has an advanced degree in art history from Lunds University in Sweden, where she focused on contemporary art and social consciousness, specifically in the work of Adrian Piper, David Hammons, and Glenn Ligon. She went to Sweden on a Fulbright scholarship for a project centered on Swedish emigration to Minnesota. She is currently the head of costume design for Out on a Limb Dance and collaborates with local artists on various projects involving both writing and making.