This fall, join contemporary artists as they lead explorations of current artworks on view in the Walker galleries. This free program offers a unique opportunity to visit the exhibitions with practicing artists and hear how they were impacted by the show. Each evening, one artist will focus on one work, sharing their personal connection, a response, or curiosity around the piece.
On September 21, local artist and educator Tia-Simone Gardner will explore a work in the exhibition Allan Sekula: Fish Story.
These short programs are designed for adult audiences, but participants of all ages are welcome. Space is limited. Please pick up a free ticket at the Hennepin Ave Welcome Desk and gather in the Cargill Lounge five minutes before 7 pm.
Bio
Tia-Simone Gardner is an artist, educator, and Black feminist scholar from Fairfield, Alabama. Working primarily with photography, moving image, and drawing, she creates work deeply grounded in interdisciplinary strategies that activate ideas of ritual, iconoclasm, and geography. Gardner investigates place-based knowledge through personal and collective experiences of space and time. She is interested in psychological relationships to locations and the idea of home. Gardner has held residencies in the Netherlands, Sweden, and Woodstock, New York, in addition to her time at a Studio in the Woods in New Orleans. She is currently working on a photographic/writing project with her mother that juxtaposes questions of biopolitics, Black Southern familial memory, and geology with vignettes of extractive capitalism. Gardner holds an MFA in interdisciplinary practices and time-based media from the University of Pennsylvania and PhD in feminist studies from the University of Minnesota.
Accessibility
The Walker is happy to arrange ASL interpretation for this program with at least two weeks’ advance notice.
For information about accessibility or to request additional accommodations for this program, call 612-375-7564 or email access@walkerart.org.
For more information about accessibility at the Walker, visit our Access page.
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