Marjorie Vecchio: As the World Turns: Artists and Global Events
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Reception, 6:15pm
Talk, 7pm
at the Carson City Library Auditorium
900 N Roop Street, Carson City
Nevada Neighbors, the Capital City Arts Initiative’s ongoing series of illustrated public talks, will host Marjorie Vecchio, PhD, Curator of UNR’s Sheppard Gallery. Her talk, As the World Turns: Artists and Global Events, will take place Wednesday, March 28 at 7pm at the Carson City Library, 900 N Roop Street, Carson City. Preceding her talk, there will be an informal reception for Ms. Vecchio at 6:15pm. The presentation and reception are free, and the public is cordially invited.
In this presentation, Dr. Vecchio will address changes she has seen during the past decade in young art students, as well as mounting pressures that artists and art institutions face in light of political and social uncertainty. She will discuss the challenges that face artists today, both in their daily lives and in educational possibilities, as well as in the content and form of their actual work. She will offer a view of our roles as fellow artists, viewers, art administrators, and neighbors to each other during these difficult and unstable times.
Marjorie Vecchio, PhD, is the Director and Curator of Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery at the University of Nevada, Reno. She also teaches MFA and BFA Seminars as well as Gallery Management and Curatorial Practice. Marji moved to Reno from New York City in 2006 with twelve years of experience as a teacher, artist, curator, and gallery president between Chicago and NYC. Since 1999, she has curated over 40 exhibitions, curated over 250 artists, published 15 scholars, philosophers, writers and poets in 25 catalogs, and has written over 22 catalogs essays.
Dr. Vecchio has degrees from Mount Holyoke College (BA), The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA), Bard College (MFA), and European Graduate School (PhD, Magna Cum Laude). In 2009 she was the inaugural Scholar-in-Residence at Columbus State University, Georgia for her 2012 forthcoming book, The Films of Claire Denis: Intimacy on the Border (IB Tauris, London).