The Boise State University Art Department Visiting Artist and Scholar Program is proud to present a free public lecture byHarmony Hammond. In conjunction with the lecture, there will be a free public screening of The Heretics, the 2009 film by Joan Braderman which features Harmony Hammond, Pat Steir, Ida Applebroog and other founding members of the magazine “Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics” (1977-92).
About the Events
Free Film Screening – The Heretics – Tuesday, April 5th, 2011 from 11:55am to 1:30pm in The Special Events Center, Student Union Building.
Free Public Lecture – Wednesday April 6th, 2011 at 6pm in the Lookout Room, Student Union Building (Free parking available in the Liberal Arts parking lot (between LA and SPEC).
About the Artist
Harmony Hammond is an artist, art writer and independent curator who lives and works in Galisteo, New Mexico. Considered a pioneer of the feminist art movement, she lectures, writes and publishes extensively on feminist art, lesbian art, and the cultural representation of “difference”.
Hammond was a co-founder of A.I.R., the first women’s cooperative art gallery in New York, (1972), and co-editor of Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art & Politics, (1976). She was a Professor at the University of Arizona (Tucson), from 1988-2005, and has recently been a Visiting Artist at: Skowhegan, Anderson Ranch, the Santa Fe Art Institute and the Vermont Studio Center.
Her work has been shown internationally in venues such as Site Santa Fe; New Museum, NYC; Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn; National Academy Museum, NYC; Bronx Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, Queens; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Neue Galerie, Graz, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Arts, Havana; Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City; and the Haags Gementemuseum, the Hague.
Her book Wrappings: Essays on Feminism, Art & the Martial Arts, (TSL Press, 1984), a classic on 70s feminist art, is out-of-print. Her ground-breaking book Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History (Rizzoli, 2000) received a Lambda Literary Award.
For more information contact carolineearley@boisestate.edu or go to http://www.harmonyhammond.com
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