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LOCATION:Stirn Auditorium\, Mead Art Museum
SUMMARY:Boundless: Heid E. Erdrich and Kohar Avakian in conversation
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:In connection with _Boundless_\, guest curator Heid E. Erdrich 
 and\ncontributing artist and writer Kohar Avakian will speak from 5:30-7 i
 n\nStirn Auditorium\, immediately adjacent to the Mead Art Museum. \n\nTh
 e Boundless project launched in August 2023\, rooted in the\ncelebration o
 f the abundant texts and artwork produced by Indigenous\nwriters and artis
 ts stretching from the 18th century through the\npresent\, welling from th
 e Northeast and rippling around the globe.\nFollowing a Fall exhibition\, 
 a second\, updated installation is on view\nat the Mead through July 7\, 2
 024. A publication combining the\nexhibition catalog and collected writing
 s is forthcoming through\nAmherst College Press\, and a digital curriculum
  and teaching resources\ndesigned for elementary education will also be re
 leased soon.\n\nKOHAR AVAKIAN is a Nipmuc\, Black\, and Armenian multimedi
 a artist\,\nvisual storyteller\, and scholar from Worcester\, Massachusett
 s. She\nholds a B.A. in History (modified with Native American Studies) fr
 om\nDartmouth College and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in American\nStu
 dies at Yale. As a descendant of genocide survivors still awaiting\nrepara
 tions\, she uses oral history and visual art as an outlet to\nexplore the 
 intersection of race\, recognition\, reparations\, kinship\,\nand ancestra
 l presence. Her artwork is featured in the second part of\nthe _Boundless_
  exhibition\, and she contributed writing to the\nforthcoming publication.
 \n\nHEID E. ERDRICH (Ojibwe) is author of _Little Big Bully_ and many\nboo
 ks of poetry and prose. She is an interdisciplinary artist who has\ncurate
 d dozens of Native arts exhibitions. Erdrich is an enrolled\nmember of the
  Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa who lives in Minnesota.\nErdrich served 
 as guest curator at the Mead Art Museum from 2020 to\n2024  as she worked
  on _Boundless_. \n\n \n\nIMAGE CREDIT: Kohar Avakian. _U.S. Deaths Nea
 r an Incalculable Loss_\,\n2022. Digital collage [Portraits in the collag
 e: Diné student Tom\nTorlino in 1882 (left) and in 1885 (right) taken at 
 Carlisle\nIndustrial School].  Courtesy of artist.\n\n \n
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LOCATION:Mead Art Museum
SUMMARY:Opening Reception for \"The Juncture: Ukrainian Artists in Search o
 f\nModernity and Identity\"
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an opening reception celebrating _The Junctu
 re:\nUkrainian Artists in Search of Modernity and Identity_. Curated by\nK
 onstantin Akinsha\, the exhibition assesses the careers and legacies\nof A
 lexander Archipenko (1887–1964)\, Oleksandr Bohomazov\n(1880–1930)\, a
 nd Vasyl Yermilov (1894–1968)\, three of Ukraine's\nleading Modernists. 
 There will be refreshments\, as well as remarks by\nDr. Akinsha (live) and
  Oleksandra Matviichuk (pre-taped). \n
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LOCATION:Stirn Auditorium\, Mead Art Museum
SUMMARY:Who Stole Ukrainian Art? A Short Survey of Modernism in Ukraine\, b
 y\nKonstantin Akinsha
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Guest curator Konstantin Akinsha presents this lecture in conne
 ction\nwith the opening of _The Juncture: Ukrainian Artists in Search of\n
 Modernity and Identity_ at the Mead Art Museum. The short life of\nUkraini
 an modernism reflects the tragic events of the history of\nUkraine in the 
 20th century. As works by Ukrainian modernists were\ndiscovered decades la
 ter\, they were often labeled as “Russian” and\ninterpreted through a 
 Russian cultural framework. After the fall of\nthe USSR\, the Western all-
 inclusive conception of Russian avant-garde\nwas appropriated by the Russi
 an propaganda machine and turned into an\nimperialist tool. Conversely\, t
 he objective of Ukrainian art\nhistorians is the reclaiming of Ukrainian a
 rt appropriated by\nRussians. In the situation of a fierce Ukrainian-Russi
 an kulturkampf\,\nthe lecture will shed light on the validity of Ukrainian
  claims and\nthe Russian response to them.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER: Konstanti
 n Akinsha is among the foremost scholars\nand curators of Russian and Ukr
 ainian Art. Since the start of the\nfull-scale Russian invasion of Ukrain
 e\, he has been documenting the\ndestruction of its cultural heritage and 
 has been writing for such\npublications as The Wall Street Journal and for
  his own website. In\n2022\, he developed the traveling exhibition _In th
 e Eye of the Storm:\nModernism in Ukraine\, 1900-1930s_\, which offers a p
 anoramic view of\nModernism in the region and provides an opportunity for 
 museums in\nEurope to support the safekeeping of works from Ukrainian muse
 ums\nendangered by the Russian invasion. In 2024\, he curated the\nexhibi
 tion _The Juncture: Ukrainian Artists in Search of Modernity and\nIdentity
  _at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College\, bringing together\nrare work
 s by three of the leading Modern Ukrainian artists: Oleksandr\nBohomazov (
 1880—1930)\, Alexander Archipenko (1887—1964)\, and Vasyl\nYermilov (1
 894—1968).\n
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