Panel Discussion: The Art of Access: Archives as a Creative Catalyst
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
724 S. 12th Street
Omaha, NE 68102
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Part of our exhibition opening weekend, this discussion includes exhibiting artist Carmen Winant; historian Catherine Medici-Thiemann, PhD; Tara Hart, Head Archivist at the Whitney Museum of American Art; and moderator Katie Anania, Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The panel will speak about how artists and historians work with archives, how feminist archival practices and feminist work challenge the traditional structures of archives and who gets access to the archive.
Admission is free; ticket reservations are encouraged.
This event was rescheduled from its original April 26 date.
Katie Anania is a specialist in modern and contemporary art who specializes in queer and hemispheric ways of knowing, particularly in makers’ relationships with their materials. Her first book, Out of Paper: Drawing, Environment, and the Body in 1960s America, is forthcoming in June 2024 from Yale University Press. She currently works as an assistant professor of art history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she directs Art, Data, and Environment/s, an interdisciplinary consortium that uses art and design history to consider colonial histories of water use and resource extraction.
Tara Hart is an archivist based in New York, where she works as Head Archivist at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has published writing in Archive Journal, Metropolitan Archivist, and GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.
Catherine Medici-Thiemann is a historian and feminist scholar. She has been teaching women’s and gender studies and medical humanities since 2012 and her current research focuses on women, gender, medicine, and chronic illness. Catherine is part of the Reproductive Health Histories working group of the Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. She completed archival research at libraries and archives across the US and in the UK for her work on women’s networks. Her work has appeared in Early Modern Women Journal, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, multiple edited collections, and the website Nursing Clio. Catherine received her PhD in history and women’s and gender studies from the University of Nebraska Lincoln. She is currently coordinator of the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center at University of Nebraska Medical Center where she is also the co-chair of the Health Humanities group with the Interprofessional Academy of Educators.
Carmen Winant is an artist and the Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art at the Ohio State University. Her work utilizes archival and authored photographs to examine feminist care networks, with particular emphasis on intergenerational, multiracial, and sometimes transnational coalition building. Winant's recent projects have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Sculpture Center, Wexner Center of the Arts, ICA Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and el Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo. Winant's artist’s books include My Birth (2018), Notes on Fundamental Joy (2019), and Instructional Photography: Learning How To Live Now (2021); Arrangements, A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures (both 2022), and The last safe abortion (2024). Winant is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in photography, a 2020 FCA Artist Honoree and a 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters award recipient. She is also a community organizer, prison educator, and mother to her two children, Carlo and Rafa, shared with her partner, Luke Stettner.
Carmen Winant: The last safe abortion is generously supported, in part, by:
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