Amanda Williams in Conversation with Christine Mehring

Art Design Chicago

Amanda Williams in Conversation with Christine Mehring

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Logan Center for the Arts
Add to Calendar 2018-11-03 14:30:00 2018-11-03 15:30:00 Amanda Williams in Conversation with Christine Mehring 408 | Art, Chicago-Style Artist  Amanda Williams is celebrated for work that responds to changing urban environments by blurring the boundaries between architecture and art. She is best known for her series, "Color(ed) Theory," in which she painted the exterior of soon-to-be-demolished houses on Chicago's south side using a culturally-charged color palette to mark the pervasiveness of vacancy and blight in black urban communities. University of Chicago Professor of Art History Christine Mehring joins her for a conversation about Williams' work, the relationship between architecture and art, and Chicago's art history. This event is organized in conjunction with Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now, an unprecedented, sweeping, single-volume history of art and artists in Chicago. The book's co-editor Robert Cozzolino will introduce and moderate this program. A book signing will follow this program. Tickets are required. Click here for more information.  This program is presented in partnership with The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago. This program is funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art and The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation. Logan Center for the Arts Department of Art History drupal@seastar.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public
Amanda Williams

408 | Art, Chicago-Style Artist 

Amanda Williams is celebrated for work that responds to changing urban environments by blurring the boundaries between architecture and art. She is best known for her series, "Color(ed) Theory," in which she painted the exterior of soon-to-be-demolished houses on Chicago's south side using a culturally-charged color palette to mark the pervasiveness of vacancy and blight in black urban communities. University of Chicago Professor of Art History Christine Mehring joins her for a conversation about Williams' work, the relationship between architecture and art, and Chicago's art history. This event is organized in conjunction with Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now, an unprecedented, sweeping, single-volume history of art and artists in Chicago. The book's co-editor Robert Cozzolino will introduce and moderate this program.

A book signing will follow this program. Tickets are required. Click here for more information. 

This program is presented in partnership with The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago.

This program is funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art and The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.