Critical Dialog
exhibitions “Leap Before You Look:
Black Mountain College 1933—1957”,
“Dance/Draw”, and “This Will Have
Been: Art, Love & Politics in the
1980s”. Her writing has appeared in
publications such as Artforum, Art
Journal, Documents, and October.
www.moca.org/program/helen-
molesworth
Helen Molesworth
Simone Leigh
July 1 & 2 | 9AM – 12:30PM
What Does Art Do?
Helen Molesworth & Simone Leigh
O SKILL LEVEL — OPEN TO ALL
CONCEPT For centuries, art served
the needs of ritual, the church and the
state. In the West, this tradition was
broken by the rise of the avant-garde
and artists who wanted to make “art
for art’s sake”. Now, at the beginning
of the 21st century, it’s interesting to
ask “what does art do?” This program
looks closely at a handful of objects
and discusses them in formal, art
historical, political and personal
terms. In doing so we unpack the
impact art has on us and what we in
turn learn from art. Can we change
as a result of our encounters with art?
Helen will read from a chapter of her
forthcoming book What Does Art Do?
focusing specifically on art that deals
with love and freedom. She is joined
in conversation with artist Simone
Leigh, about whom she has written.
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This dialog between artist and writer
explores the different stakes for the
artist and the viewer as we engage
in the age-old arts of communication
and interpretation.
FACULTY Helen Molesworth was
the Chief Curator at The Museum
of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los
Angeles from 2014
—2018. While
at MOCA, she organized the large
group show “One Day at a Time:
Manny Farber and Termite Art” and
the critically acclaimed Kerry James
Marshall and Anna Maria Maiolino
exhibitions. From 2010—2014 she
was the Barbara Lee Chief Curator
at the Institute of Contemporary Art
(ICA) Boston, where she assembled
exhibitions of artists Steve Locke,
Catherine Opie, Josiah McElheny
and Amy Sillman, and the group
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Simone Leigh’s work is informed
by her exploration of black female
subjectivity
and
ethnography.
Through her investigations of cultures,
time periods and geographies, she
confronts and examines ideas of
the female body, race, beauty and
community.
Simone is a recipient of the Hugo
Boss Prize, the Foundation for
Contemporary Art Grant, Joyce
Alexander Wein Artist Prize, John
Simon
Guggenheim
Fellowship,
Anonymous Was a Woman Award,
Herb Alpert Award for Visual Art, A
Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially
Engaged Art, and Louis Comfort
Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award.
Recent projects include: “Trigger:
Gender as a Tool and as a Weapon”,
New Museum of Contemporary Art,
New York; “Psychic Friends Network”,
Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London;
“The Waiting Room”, New Museum of
Contemporary Art, New York; The Free
People’s Medical Clinic, commissioned
by Creative Time; inHarlem, a public
installation presented by The Studio
Museum in Harlem at Marcus Garvey
Park, New York; and a solo exhibition
at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
www.simoneleigh.com
TUITION $350
TUITION + STUDIO SUPPORT DONATION $450
NATIONAL COUNCIL MEMBERS $250
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ENROLLMENT LIMIT 30