Join us for an informal evening of short, artist-led talks and conversation in the exhibition Käthe Kollwitz. The exhibition galleries will be open between 6:00 and 8:30. Artists Sue Coe, Natalie Frank, Jennifer Sterling, Rob Swainston, and Nitza Tufiño will deliver a series of short talks between 6:15 and 7:30, each sharing ways in which they connect with Kollwitz’s work. After the talks, join us for a reception and drop by the interactive installation Printmaking as Collective Action in the Creativity Lab. The Creativity Lab and reception will be open between 7:30 and 8:30 p.m.
Sue Coe is an English-born American artist and illustrator who works primarily in drawing, printmaking, and illustrated books and comics. Her highly political work continues the tradition of social protest art. Her commentary on political events and social injustice are published in newspapers, magazines, and books, and her work has been shown internationally in both solo and group exhibitions and has been collected by various international museums. Coe’s most recent project, The Young Person’s Illustrated Guide to American Fascism, will be published in September 2024. She currently lives in upstate New York.
Natalie Frank is an interdisciplinary artist whose drawings, paintings, and work in performance design focus on the intersection of sexuality and violence in feminist portraiture. Her publications include Tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann (2024), Arion Press: The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (2024), The Island of Happiness (2021), O (2018), The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (2017), and Tales of the Brothers Grimm (2015). In 2019 Frank served as artistic director of Grimm Tales, staged by Ballet Austin, in which she collaborated with artists on sets, costumes, animations, and textile designs. Her drawing survey exhibition, Unbound, appeared at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Missouri, and MMoCA, Wisconsin, in 2021–22. Frank is a Fulbright Scholar who holds a BA from Yale University and an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts.
Jennifer Sterling is a dance/movement psychotherapist and author dedicated to supporting the wellbeing of Black women and women of the global majority.
Rob Swainston is an artist, educator, and printmaker who explores the intersection of historic print processes and contemporary technologies. His work investigates the complexities of contemporary social issues, drawing from the history of print as the medium par excellence of social movements.
Nitza Tufiño is an artist of Puerto Rican and Mexican ancestry. She was raised in Puerto Rico, moved to New York as a young artist, and identifies as Nuyorican. She is a muralist, painter, printmaker, and arts educator. Her public murals can be seen throughout New York City in the MTA’s subway, the Metropolitan Hospital, LaGuardia Community College, the Third Street Music School, and the City College of New York. She is a cofounder of Taller Boricua, El Museo del Barrio, and Loisaida Inc. Tufiño received her BFA from the Academia San Carlos of the Universidad Autonoma de Mejico and an MS in urban affairs from Hunter College. She lives in South Orange, New Jersey.
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