Exhibits: Upcoming Exhibits & Events
All Receptions, Exhibits, and Related Programs are free and open to the public.
What Can A Body Do?
Curated by Amanda Cachia
October 26–December 16, 2012
French philosopher Gilles Deleuze famously asked, "what can a body do?" implying that we haven't even begun to understand the potential of our bodies. We know even less about the disabled body. This exhibition narrows Deleuze's question then, asking "what can a disabled body do?" What does it mean to inscribe a contemporary work of art with experiences of disability? What shapes or forms can these inscriptions take? How, precisely, can perceptions of the disabled body be liberated from binary classifications such as "normal" and "pathological" that themselves delimit bodies and constrain action? Contemporary artists Joseph Grigely, Christine Sun Kim, Park McArthur, Alison O'Daniel, Carmen Papalia, Laura Swanson, Chun-Shan (Sandie) Yi, Corban Walker and Artur Zmijewski demonstrate new possibilities across a range of media by exploring bodily configurations in figurative and abstract forms. They challenge entrenched views of disability, both positive and negative, and show that we do not yet know what bodies are, nor what bodies—all bodies—can or should do.
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Opening Reception
with performance by Mellon Tri-College Artist-in-residence Christine Sun Kim
Friday, October 26, 2012
5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Poetry reading
with poets Michael Northen, Hal Sirowitz, Dan Simpson, Anne Kaier, Brian Teare, and Kathi Wolfe featuring writings from Beauty is a Verb
Thursday, November 1
4:30 p.m.
Zubrow Commons, KINSC
Screening of Night Sky
and conversation with filmmaker Alison O'Daniel
Wed., November 7
8:00 p.m.
Chase Auditorium
Blind Field Shuttle
a non-visual walking tour led by Mellon Tri-College Artist-in-residence Carmen Papalia.
December 5
4:15 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
Starting at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, a non-visual walking tour led by Mellon Tri-College Artist-in-residence Carmen Papalia. Space limited to 40 participants. Registration by email required – hcexhibits@gmail.com.
Participants are asked to wear comfortable walking shoes and not to bring bags or any other items they would need to carry. The walking tour will depart promptly at 4:15 p.m. from the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery so please arrive early. The walking tour will be followed by a Q & A with the artist.
The Conservation of Disability
Talk by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, scholar-in-residence with the Greater Philadelphia Women's Studies Consortium.
Friday, November 16
4:00 p.m.
Sharpless Auditorium
Informal conversation and exhibition viewing
hosted by exhibit curator Amanda Cachia, Greater Philadelphia Women's Studies Consortium scholar-in-residence Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Mellon Tri-College Artist-in-residence Carmen Papalia.
Friday, November 16
5:30 p.m.
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery
What Can A Body Do? is made possible with the support of the John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities and the Mellon Tri-College Creative Residencies Program. haverford.edu/hcah.
OPP: Other People's Property
Curated by Kalia Brooks
Friday, January 25–Friday, March 8, 2013
Opening Reception
Friday, January 25, 2013
5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Gallery Talk
Friday, January 25, 2013
4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
with Curator Kalia Brooks and Artist Hank Willis Thomas
Curated by Kalia Brooks, OPP: Other People's Property surveys the work of photo conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas. Across photography, film, sculpture and other media, Thomas recontextualizes the visual languages deployed by advertising and popular culture writ large, considering how contrived visions of beauty perpetuate race and gender-based identities. Re-circulating that imagery, Thomas's work traces the threads by which identity, ownership, authorship, and commerce grip the body, particularly the black body. In so doing, Thomas understands bodies both as sites of identification and objects of consumption, considering our own formation as consumer-subjects and viewers.
OPP: Other People's Property is made possible with the support of the John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support Liberal Arts Creative Residencies at the Tri-Colleges, Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges.
White Boys
Curated by Hank Willis Thomas and Natasha Logan
Friday, March 22–Friday, May 3, 2013
Opening Reception
Friday, March 22, 2013
5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Gallery Talk
Friday, March 22, 2013
4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
with Co-Curators Natasha Logan and Hank Willis Thomas
Curated by Hank Willis Thomas and Natasha Logan, White Boys charts the ways artists are aestheticizing white, male identity in the United States today. Privilege, invisibility, fear, anxiety, purity, emptiness, cowardice–whiteness and masculinity conjure an array of competing associations, emotions and imagery. Taken together, they present a perspective paradoxically ever-present and ever-absent: white is both the sum of all colors and no color at all. But how have whiteness and masculinity 'evolved' as relational constructs vis-a-vis blackness, femininity, and other modes of otherness, modes often scrutinized and alienated? Where are these terms' entrenchments, and where do they become more pliant? Through photography, video, painting, printmaking and sculpture, the 'white' and 'non-white' artists of White Boys variously imagine male whiteness within this broader network of racial and sexual tropes and identities, marking seeming commonalities and more subtle gradations.
White Boys is made possible with the support of the John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support Liberal Arts Creative Residencies at the Tri-Colleges, Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges.
2012-13 Fine Arts Senior Thesis Exhibition
Friday, May 10, 2013–Sunday, May 19, 2013
Opening Reception
Friday, May 10, 2013
5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
The Haverford College Department of Fine Arts is pleased to present the thesis exhibition of the graduating class of 2013. This year's nine seniors pursued concentrations in drawing, printmaking, photography and sculpture.
- Jordan Schilit: Sculpture
- Anna Benjamin: Printmaking
- Erika Nunez: Printmaking and Drawing
- Natasha Cohen Carroll: Photography
- Annie Risemberg: Photography
- Shayna Schwartz: Drawing
- Vanessa Hernandez: Printmaking
- Sarah Whitt: Printmaking
- Kerry Fitzpatrick: Printmaking