Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Art Stockings, An Art and Cultural Digital Visiting Lecturer Series presents Andria Morales, November 12, 5:00PM, The Craft Studio, N12 Memorial Union.


Please join us at The Craft Studio this Thursday, November 12th 5:00PM, The Craft Studio, N12 Memorial Union for the first Art Stockings discussion with visiting artist Andria Morales. 

Art Stockings, Dialogues on Art, Gender and Cultural Theory is a monthly digital lecture series curated by the Art Department.

Readings selected by our Visiting Artist, Andria will be posted here and on our blog.  http://artstockings.blogspot.com

The Body and Technology 
Author(s): Amelia Jones, Geoffrey Batchen, Ken Gonzales-Day, Peggy Phelan, Christine Ross, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Roberto Sifuentes, Matthew Finch Source: Art Journal, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Spring, 2001), pp. 20-3

The Story of the Eye
Author: Georges Bataille
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http://ps28.squat.net/bataille_story_of_eye.pdf
This piece of literature contains some themes and language that deal with sexual violence. We would like to offer a trigger warning to people who may be sensitive to this material

Andria Morales is a visual artist and member of the Internet-based duo Escobar-Morales. Her work explores identity through a variety of media and collaborative experiments. Her solo exhibitions include  The Resurrection of Hun-Nal-Ye, in collaboration with Maya Escobar, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO (2013),  Yo Soy Oro, in collaboration with Maya Escobar, Taller Puertorriqueno/ HACE, Philadelphia, PA (2014) and Public Play, Practice Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (2015). Morales’ awards include Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency, NYC (2013-14), NYU Steinhardt School Visiting Scholar (2013-14), 40th Street Artist-In-Residence Program, University of Pennsylvania, PA (2010-2011) and the Joan Mitchell Foundation M.F.A. Grant (2008). Publications include Art Info (2013), The Examiner (2011), and The Philadelphia Inquirer (2014, 2007). Morales received her M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art, Temple University and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Taylor Ross, ARTIST TALK: Saturday, November 14th, 11:00AM, Fibers Studio.


Multimedia artist Taylor Ross utilizes found, all-natural fibers to create handmade clothing. She harvests materials like black walnuts, pokeweed, and velvetleaf stalks to create natural yarns. Collecting, spinning, and weaving these pieces offers a direct, physical, tactile, emotional, olfactory experience. 

Taylor's newest project will be featured at the 2016 festival as one of our art installations!

To give you a sneak preview, this Saturday Taylor will present a talk that examines the unique characteristics and histories of a number of local plants that can be processed into fiber. Through this lens, she will address how our clothing, the first architecture of the body, is anything but peripheral to our modern human habits of over-consumption through a convoluted global production system. 

The talk will both be practically informative as well as being a historical journey through our ancient relationship with string, into robes, ropes and sails, those things without which the world as we know it would not exist.

ARTIST TALK: Saturday, November 14th, 11:00AM

Fibers Studio, University of Missouri
902 S. College Avenue

Taylor will also be presenting two workshops that are open to the public (Sat, Nov 14, 2-4P and Sun, Nov 15, 2-4P) For more info and to sign up for either or both workshops, contact Camellia Cosgray, camellia@truefalse.org.


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