Gala Porras-Kim, <em>342 Offerings for the Rain at the Harvard Peabody Museum</em> (detail), 2021. Colored pencil and Flashe on paper. 72 x 72 inches. Courtesy the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles. Photo: Paul Salveson.
Gala Porras-Kim, 342 Offerings for the Rain at the Harvard Peabody Museum (detail), 2021. Colored pencil and Flashe on paper. 72 x 72 inches. Courtesy the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles. Photo: Paul Salveson.

Free, Talk

RE: Artist as Medium (Roundtable)

Thu Jul 21, 2022, 6:00pm – 7:30pm

Free

RE: Artist as Medium allows for a deeper consideration of questions raised by Gala Porras-Kim’s exhibition, Correspondences towards the living object. What are the ways in which an artist can create or conjure the voices of objects? How do artists help us have empathy for an object and the stories or intentions they represent?

These questions and more will be considered in a roundtable discussion guided by Ronald Young, a St. Louis-based artist whose work builds on the tradition of power objects made by African and African Diasporic artists—objects that may contain or transmute spirits. Young will be in conversation with collaborators who are invested in the ways artists can serve as a medium to connect with an object, including:

  • Adrienne Davis, collector and scholar
  • Renée Brummell Franklin, Chief Diversity Officer at the Saint Louis Art Museum
  • Thomas Sleet, artist
  • Pat Smith Thurman, Co-Founder of 10th Street Gallery