María Magdalena Campos-Pons, History of a People who were not Heroes: A Town Portrait (detail), 1994. Ceramic, metal, glass, plywood, fiberboard, grout, gelatin silver print transfers, polyurethane resin, silicone, and three-channel video with sound composition by Neil Leonard. Museum purchase with funds donated by members of the 2017–2018 Contemporary Art Visiting Committee in honor of Jen Mergel, Robert L. Beal, Enid L. Beal and Bruce A. Beal Senior Curator of Contemporary Art (2010 - 2017) and the Arthur Tracy Cabot Fund, Linde Purchase Fund for Contemporary Art, and Michael D. Wolk Fund for New Media. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco.
María Magdalena Campos-Pons, History of a People who were not Heroes: A Town Portrait (detail), 1994. Ceramic, metal, glass, plywood, fiberboard, grout, gelatin silver print transfers, polyurethane resin, silicone, and three-channel video with sound composition by Neil Leonard. Museum purchase with funds donated by members of the 2017–2018 Contemporary Art Visiting Committee in honor of Jen Mergel, Robert L. Beal, Enid L. Beal and Bruce A. Beal Senior Curator of Contemporary Art (2010 - 2017) and the Arthur Tracy Cabot Fund, Linde Purchase Fund for Contemporary Art, and Michael D. Wolk Fund for New Media. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco.
An Evening with María Magdalena Campos-Pons
8:00 pm–9:30 pm
Internationally acclaimed artist and recipient of a MacArthur “genius grant,” María Magdalena Campos-Pons gives this year’s Deborah and Martin Hale Visiting Artist Lecture. Join Campos-Pons immediately following her lecture for a reception celebrating her impact on Boston, and tour the exhibition “Rituals for Remembering: María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Ana Mendieta.”
This program is scheduled to be an in-person event, however, details may be subject to change.
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