November 21, 2024

ArtSci Roundup: December 2024

From campus to wherever you call home, we welcome you to learn from and connect with the College of Arts & Sciences community through public events spanning the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. We hope to see you this December.

Open Exhibits

Henry Art Gallery

Through March 2025 | Overexposures: Photographs from the Henry Collection

This focused presentation features a selection of photographs from the Henry’s collections that explore the uses of light to obscure, obliterate, and alter the photographic subject.

Through March 2025 | Body Language: Recent Acquisitions in the Henry Collection

This presentation offers a selection of extraordinary artworks recently acquired for the Henry’s permanent collection. The pieces in this rotation include paintings, sculptures, and works on paper that address themes of the body.

Jacob Lawrence Gallery

Through December 21 | Shared Tools

Shared Tools brings together artists and organizations attempting to imagine otherwise for museums and galleries, offering up several prompts and tools for our community to consider and take on.

Burke Museum

December 5 | Margery Cercado in the Artist Studio

Margery Cercado (Filipinx) plans to create a mixed-media sculpture of a giant rafflesia flower with a scent element using found materials and textiles.

Through January 12, 2025 | Time and Traditions

Journey through the Museum’s floors to experience life in winter past. Engage in interactive activities and take-home crafts set up by museum staff.

Week of December 2

December 3, 6:30 pm | Katz Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities: James N. Gregory | Left Coast Rising: The Making of a Regional Political Tradition (Simpson Center)

How did the West Coast become the “Left Coast” and what does that mean for American politics? The term “Left Coast” has further underlined the significance of progressive and radical movements in these states’ political systems and reputations. In this talk, Gregory explores the history of West Coast radicalism and factors that have made it influential beyond what is common in other regions, including those with blue-state traditions.

Free

December 5, 10:00 am – 8:00 pm | Margery Cercado in the Artist Studio (Burke Museum)

Margery Cercado (Filipinx) plans to create a mixed-media sculpture piece of a giant rafflesia flower with a scent element using found materials and textiles.

Artist Statement: With work emphasizing materiality in found objects and mediums like clay, textile, stone, wood, and metal, I examine identity, lineage, dichotomy, one’s surroundings in both the physical and intangible sense and the cultural connections we hold through relation to our land environments and the beings that coexist within it. I believe to understand ourselves we must not only acknowledge our places of origins and current surroundings, but also prioritize our bonds with nature as deep soul work.

Free – Tickets Required

December 8, 10:00 am – 11:30 am | Ladino Day | “The Familiar” with Author Leigh Bardugo (Stroum Center for Jewish Studies)

In this year’s Ladino Day celebration, acclaimed fantasy author Leigh Bardugo (“Shadow and Bone”) will discuss her new novel, “The Familiar,” which features a Sephardic Jewish heroine in 16th-century Spain who draws magical powers from her family’s secret language, Ladino (Judeo-Spanish).