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Research + Practice: Allyson Vieira/Jennifer Stager (Corcoran event)
December 6, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
EVENT DESCRIPTION:
The Corcoran School of the Arts & Design invites members of the community from JHU and beyond to join the “Research + Practice” series in Washington, DC on Dec. 6th for guest speaker Jennifer Stager (JHU History of Art). Prof. Stager will be in conversation with artist and Corcoran assistant professor Allyson Vieira, a contemporary sculptor who engages with ancient Mediterranean practices in her work. Together, she and Stager will talk about the intersections of Vieira’s current practice and Stager’s ongoing mosaic research project, The Antioch Recovery Project.
More info about the event, location, registration, and more at the Corcoran’s event page here.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
JENNIFER STAGER
Jennifer Stager specializes in the art and architecture of the ancient Mediterranean and its afterlives. Her areas of focus include theories of color and materiality, feminisms, multilingualism and cultural exchange, disability studies, ancient Greek and Roman medicine, performance, and classical receptions. [Full faculty bio here]
ALLYSON VIEIRA
Sculptor Allyson Vieira lives and works in New York. She is Assistant Professor of Foundations at the Corcoran School of Art at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.. She has exhibited extensively internationally and in the U.S., including institutional projects with Kunsthalle Basel, Swiss Institute, Fall River MoCA, Storm King Art Center, PinchukArtCentre, Non-Objectif Sud, Frieze Projects, The Public Art Fund, The Highline, and SculptureCenter. Her catalog, Allyson Vieira: The Plural Present, was published by Karma Books in 2016, and her book of interviews with Greek master marble carvers, On the Rock: The Acropolis Interviews, for which she received grants from the Graham Foundation, the Henry Moore Foundation, and FLACC, is now available from Soberscove Press. [bio]