Fall 2021 Art Crawl

Posted on October 23, 2021 by Shafeek Fazal

Date: 10/23/2021

Time: 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Description

Don’t miss these free guided tours of campus galleries! Registration is not required, and you can join us at any point along the route.

Schedule:

1pm | Charles B. Wang Center, Skylight Gallery
To Be Sold: Virginia and the American Slave Trade
To Be Sold examines the American slave trade before the Civil War through the works of British artist Eyre Crowe (1824–1910), who sketched scenes of this inhumane activity that he would later develop into a series of illustrations and paintings, including his Slaves Waiting for Sale (1853). The exhibition is organized in three sections: The Slave Trade and the Rise of Abolitionism, Eyre Crowe and His Paintings, and The Memory of the Slave Trade. It explores the slave trade; the evolving iconography of abolitionist art; and the role of visual culture and the language of abolitionism? in the transatlantic world. The interactive tablets allow audiences to view Crowe’s paintings in detail and offer audio of oral histories from formerly enslaved people recorded by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s. To Be Sold is curated by Maurie D. McInnis, president of Stony Brook University, based on her book Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade (Chicago, 2012). The Exhibition was first organized by the Library of Virginia with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this exhibition do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. On view from September 8 to December 10, 2021.

1:30pm | Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Staller Center
Dos Mundos: (Re)Constructing Narratives
Nearly 50 years after Puerto Rican photographers created the first Dos Mundos exhibition in a New York art scene that did not represent them, En Foco’s fellowship recipients continue the work of offering fresh visions that contest mainstream perspectives. Evolving to contemporary circumstances and inequities exacerbated by the pandemic, they maintain their commitments to their communities and individual photographic processes. Many of them are also leaders, nurturing other artists of color across the diaspora, in the South, the Bronx, classrooms, and beyond. Dos Mundos: (Re)constructing Narratives features 12 artists that center stories at the fringe of public attention: hidden sanctuaries, subcultures, painful identities, far-away homes, spirituality, transcendence, broken promises, and all too easily ignored social ecologies.

2pm | Melville Library, Lawrence Alloway Memorial Gallery, level 1
MFA Solo Exhibition: Heather Weston

2:30pm | Melville Library, North Reading Room, level 2
Fine Arts Organization Student Show

3pm | Simons Center Gallery
M. C. Escher: A Mini-retrospective
The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics (SCGP) will present the world-renowned artwork by the Dutch artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) in the fall of 2021 from October 4 to November 15. Escher crafted an extraordinary graphic language inspired by mathematics, puzzles and patterns. As part of the Center’s ten year celebration, the SCGP is delighted to host this special exhibition. In addition to Escher’s iconic mathematical art, the show will also feature some of his lesser-known early work that focused on nature and landscape. The exhibit is curated by Lorraine Walsh, Art Director and Curator, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, and Visiting Associate Professor.

The full schedule is also posted on the Art Crawl website.

If you have a disability and are requesting accommodations in order to fully participate in this event, please email libraryevents@stonybrook.edu or call 631-632-7100.