Heather Hart "Cuts Through Worlds"

On Thursday, October 6, at 5:30 p.m., artist Heather Hart gives the opening keynote for the symposium Women Shaping Space: Feminism and Materiality. The talk, titled “She Cuts Through Worlds,” is followed by a reception. The galleries will remain open until 8 p.m.

Hart writes: I’m interested in how we inhabit the world. I’m interested in how we take up space. Audacity. How we feel entitled to it. How that space affects us, effects our navigation, and the way we move through our lives, and how it influences our identity, our sense of self, our interactions with others, or vision of our future. Who is the author of these spaces, might the author change? What is my territory? What is yours? Do they overlap?

What parts of a space hold the power of that site? If it was fragmented would it still hold that same power? If it were to be re-contextualized would it be legible? If it were fragmented in a different way, would the same aura come through?

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Women Shaping Space: Feminism and Materiality

Organized in conjunction with the exhibition Mary Ann Unger: To Shape a Moon from Bone, the Women Shaping Space symposium looks outward from the work of pioneering artist Mary Ann Unger (1945–1998) to the contemporary landscape of curators and femme artists working at the intersections of large-scale sculpture, public art, material experimentation, and feminist practice.

Speakers include: Leigh Arnold, PhD, Associate Curator, Nasher Sculpture Center; Horace D. Ballard, curator of Mary Ann Unger: To Shape a Moon from Bone and the Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Associate Curator of American Art, Harvard Art Museums; Eve Biddle, artist and Founding Co-Director, Wassaic Project; Molly Epstein, Senior Partner, Goodman Taft; Heather Hart, artist; Lisa Iglesias, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Studio Art, Mount Holyoke College; and Nora Lawrence, Artistic Director and Chief Curator, Storm King Art Center.

This series of talks and discussions will be held at the Williams College ’62 Center for Theater and Dance on Friday, October 7, from 10 a.m–4 p.m. All events are free and open to the public. Registration is not required.

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