Anderson Ranch Arts Center Announces Fall Lecture Series Featuring Visiting Artists and Critics

Free weekly lectures with nationally acclaimed artists and critics October – December, 2022.

Aspen/Snowmass, CO (September 30, 2022) — Anderson Ranch Arts Center, a premiere destination for art making and critical dialog in contemporary arts, recently announced the launch of a new fall lecture series that will run weekly from October 20th through December 6th. The lineup consists of artists from around the country who will be traveling to Snowmass and spending one to three weeks at the Ranch completing projects within their area of expertise and exploring new work in the studios. Both visiting artists and visiting critics engage with the creative energy of the fall Artists-in-Residence who are currently on campus through studio visits and critiques and contribute to the community by presenting free lectures during their stay.

“These artists, working across disciplines, represent some of the brightest makers present in the contemporary world today,” said Ranch President and CEO Peter Waanders. He continued, “They come to Anderson Ranch to expand their practices and explore new techniques with the amazing facilities and professional artistic staff at the Ranch. We are very pleased and thankful that during their stay they give back to the community with these public lectures – I look forward to seeing our valley artists and art lovers participate in this dynamic weekly programming.”

 Visiting Artist and Critic Lectures are free, open to the public, and available in person or via livestream. Registration is required for attendance. More details can be found about each visiting artist and critic at andersonranch.org.

October 20, 5:30-6:30PM – Deborah Anzinger, Visiting Artist in Ceramics and Digital Fabrication 

Deborah Anzinger is an artist and founder of New Local Space (NLS), Kingston, Jamaica. Anzinger works in painting, sculpture, video and sound to interrogate and reconfigure aesthetic syntax that relates us to land and gendered and raced bodies.  

October 26, 5:30-6:30PM – Anna Tsouhlarakis, Visiting Critic 

In the fall of 2022, Tsouhlarakis will be part of the National Portrait Gallery’s “Portraiture Now: Kinship” exhibition in Washington, DC and will also have performances throughout the year in the NPG as part of the “IDENTIFY: Performance Art as Portraiture” series. Tsouhlarakis is Greek, Creek, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and lives and works in Colorado.

November 3, 5:30-6:30PM – Autumn Knight, Visiting Artist in Photography and New Media 

Autumn Knight is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist working with performance, installation, video and text. Knight’s video and performance work have been viewed within several institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art and The Kitchen. Knight is the recipient of the 2021-2022 Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize in Visual Arts and a 2022-2023 Guggenheim Fellowship. 

November 10, 5:30-6:30PM – Calida Rawles, Visiting Artist in Painting 

The paintings of Calida Rawles merge hyper-realism with poetic abstraction. Situating her subjects in dynamic spaces, her recent work employs water as a vital, organic, and historically charged space. For Rawles, water signifies both physical and spiritual healing as well as historical trauma and racial exclusion. She uses this complicated duality as a means to envision a new space for Black healing and to reimagine her subjects beyond racialized tropes. 

November 16, 5:30-6:30PM – Ranu Mukherjee, Visiting Critic 

Ranu Mukherjee makes hybrid work in painting, moving image, and installation to build new imaginative capacities. Her work is guided by the forces of ecology and non-human agency, diaspora and migration, motherhood, and transnational feminisms. 

December 1, 5:30-6:30PM – Maggie Jensen, Visiting Artist in Sculpture 

Maggie Jensen builds installations of sculpture, sound, text, and performance. Her work often closely resembles cultural artifacts that signify oppressive conditions of power. Within the predetermined spaces of European figural and modernist traditions, humanistic vocabularies, and privatized architectures, she uses poetics and abstraction to express mis-communication and doubt. Doubt used as subject matter is a tool to interrogate concepts of animation and figuration in landscapes of excavated violence.

December 6, 5:30-6:30PM - Rashawn Griffin and Sam Yates

Rashawn Griffin uses diverse materials such as bed sheets, tassels, food, and flora to create large-scale sculptures and paintings.  After receiving an MFA from Yale University in 2005, he has exhibited in multiple solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad.  Often pushing the boundaries between object and installation, his work challenges viewers to engage in their own past experiences when confronting his art. 

Sam Yates is a Midwest born designer, based in Kansas City, Missouri. Yates’ experience ranges from in-house media for Kansas City PBS, experiential design and wayfinding with Dimensional Innovations, to brand experience and identity with D.C. firm, Beveridge Seay. She has been an American In- house Design Awards winner and an American Graphic Design Awards winner through Graphic Design USA (GDUSA).

ABOUT ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER

Founded in 1966, Anderson Ranch Arts Center is a premier destination in America for art making and critical dialog, bringing together aspiring and internationally renowned artists to discuss and further their work in a stimulating environment. Nestled in the Rocky Mountains of Aspen/Snowmass, Colorado, the Ranch hosts extensive workshops for aspiring, emerging, established artists, children and teenagers in eight disciplines, including Photography & New Media, Ceramics, Painting & Drawing, Furniture Design & Woodworking, Sculpture, Woodturning, Printmaking and Digital Fabrication. In addition to the Summer Series: Featured Artists & Conversations, the Ranch hosts engaging events throughout the year including: the Recognition Dinner, held in honor of Anderson Ranch’s National Artist Award and Service to the Arts Award honorees; the Annual Art Auction & Community Picnic, a thirty-six-year-old tradition which features works of local, national and international artists; and a year-round Artists-in-Residence Program, fostering artistic growth for emerging and established visual artists. For more than 50 years, Anderson Ranch Arts Center has been working to enrich lives with art, inspiration and community. Learn more at www.andersonranch.org or 970/923.3181.

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