JAC Talk: Second Time Around and The Fabric of Art History
Thursday, April 11, 2024
6 pm
$10 General Admission
$8 JAC Members, Students and Seniors
Image: Andre Lee Bassuet, Baring Han, 2023. Used curtains, cyanotype on used tablecloth, embroidery.
Join Dr. Ella S. Mills for a discussion about the intersection of feminist curatorial practices and the pertinent themes found within Second Time Around. Weaving together some of the artworks featured in the exhibition with examples drawn from her own independent curatorial practice, Dr. Mills will open up space to consider what she has termed the “underside of the fabric of art history,” and how it might positively impact the ways we interact with and understand art, making, and curating.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Dr. Ella S. Mills is an art historian based at the University of Plymouth in contemporary and modern art history, and one half of talking on corners. Ella is interested in unfolding art’s histories, working towards creating safe spaces for artists and audiences, and developing new methodologies of listening by introducing the qualitative research method of grounded theory to artist interviewing. Recent projects and publications include devising the ‘Ingrid Pollard in Devon’ project involving commissioning new work and curating the exhibition ‘Three Drops of Blood’ at Thelma Hulbert Gallery (2022); and ‘Artist Conversation: Lubaina Himid and Ella S. Mills’, in, Robles, E. K.; Price, D. C. (Eds.) After the Black Arts Movement: Framing the Critical Decade (Bloomsbury, 2023).