SCAD Museum of Art

Live Your Vision Artist, activist, and museum founder Virginia Kiah grew up in Baltimore and spent her formative years working alongside her parents at voter registration drives and other community-based political activation events. She was a trained portrait painter and arts educator, but as a young artist, she was prohibited from entering museums and exhibiting her work solely because of exclusionary and racist practices. Committed to creating spaces of open access, in 1959 just eight years after moving to Savannah she opened the Kiah Museum as a "museum for the masses." . Learn more about Kiah’s legacy and see her paintings in the new online exhibition Live Your Vision at bit.ly/KiahSCADMOA

Today at noon! Join historian Adrian Loving, author of "Fade to Grey: Androgyny, Style & Art in 80s Dance Music," with scholar Alia Benabdellah, musical artist Kai Alce, and photographer Marie Staggat as they discuss the Detroit's significant role in pioneering American dance music and its impact on art, fashion, and gender. Moderated by Joël Díaz, director of the SCAD Museum of Art’s Walter O. Evans Center. . Register for the virtual event at bit.ly/GuestsandGusto

Paulina Olowska's Mainly for Women closes this Sunday, July 11! . The exhibition features work by Paulina Olowska and fellow Polish artists Karolina Jaboska, Dominika Olszowy, Agata Sowak, and Natalia Zauska in an alchemical exchange of artistic approaches that offers a complex and multifaceted vision of femininity. . Learn more at scadmoa.org/exhibitions

SCAD Museum of Art will be closed July 4 and 5 for Independence Day. Plan your next visit at scadmoa.org/visit!

Take a closer look at Igshaan Adams’ Carry, constructed from garden fencing, cotton twine, fringe, and a candelabra stand. . Igshaan Adams’ Getuie is now on view at #SCADMOA! Catch it before it closes Nov. 8! Get your tickets: https://www.scadmoa.org/

Now streaming at the all-virtual #SCAD Savannah Film Festival: Free Color, a documentary on the life and work of the late Carlos Cruz-Diez! Directed by Alberto Arvelo, the film follows Diez, one of the most prominent and influential Kinetic-Optic artists of our time, on his lifelong pursuit to free color from form. Watch with us live at 9 a.m. ET and learn more about the film and SCAD Savannah Film Festival at https://filmfest.scad.edu/schedule/free-color. . #CarlosCruzDiez in Chroma at #SCADMOA, 2017

Explore the innovation of collaboration with artist duo KAYA, I Put a Spell On You curators Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, and #SCADMOA curator Ariella Wolens at Guests and Gusto today, Oct. 27, at 11 a.m. ET on Zoom! Register at https://www.scad.edu//2020-10-27-artists-kaya-and-i-put-sp. . I Put a Spell On You and KAYA’s Under_Ursus are now on view at #SCADMOA.

Tomorrow! I Put a Spell On You curators Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath join Kerstin Brätsch and Debo Eilers (a.k.a. KAYA) for a conversation on artistic collaboration for the SCAD digital series Guests and Gusto. Register at https://www.scad.edu//2020-10-27-artists-kaya-and-i-put-sp. I Put a Spell On You and KAYA’s Under_Ursus are now on view at #SCADMOA! At left: TIDES by EVA & ADELE. At right: Shunk-Kender portrait of Christo and Jeanne-Claude. KAYA, "Catacomb Mirror_The Wolf (Lupus)," 2020.

#Mood. Heading into the weekend feeling like #SCAD’s chair of preservation design Chi-Thien Nguyen in Shoplifter's Chromo Zone at #SCADMOA . . Stop in this weekend to get lost in Shoplifter’s site-specific installation using neon synthetic hair! Plan your visit: scadmoa.org

SCAD proudly announces the appointment of Joël Díaz as the director of the Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies at the SCAD Museum of Art . Working previously at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Pioneer Works, and the Museum of the City of New York, Díaz is an experienced leader and community builder within education and the arts. Díaz will work closely with students, faculty, and staff to develop programming that enhances public knowledg...e, understanding, and appreciation of Black art and culture. . A permanent gallery space in #SCADMOA is dedicated to exhibiting the work of contemporary African American artists. SCAD has presented internationally heralded exhibitions focused on the legacies of Jacob Lawrence and Frederick Douglass, as well as contemporary exhibitions of work by Lorraine O’Grady, Hank Willis Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, Fred Wilson, Toyin Ojih Odutola, and Kenturah Davis. Through the generous gift of Ruskin Society member Dr. Walter Evans and his wife, Linda, #SCADMOA is home to more than 60 important works of art by renowned Black artists. Learn more at: scad.edu/inclusion See more

NEW BOOK ALERT Guo Fengyi: To See From a Distance From the late 1980s until her death in 2010, Guo Fengyi (1942-2010, Xi'an, China) created more than five hundred intricate ink drawings on subjects ranging from Chinese mythology and traditional Chinese medicine to people and places in the news. Published on the occasion of the first major museum exhibition of Guo's work, this volume features nearly forty selections - many previously unpublished - from her astounding body of work, as well as important new scholarship that sheds light on her unique drawing practice, ultimately situating the artist in the center of contemporary discourse.

Physical and spiritual connections in Guo Fengyi’s To See from a Distance . #GuoFengyi was an advanced student of therapeutic practices like qigong, and her drawings abolish differences between the physical body and the cosmos. The numbers inscribed in Ear reference and identify places within the channel systems of acupuncture. . Ear, 1990, color ink on calendar paper, now on view at #SCADMOA.

Congratulations to Igshaan Adams on his inclusion in #TheArtsyVanguard 2020, Artsy's annual list of artists shaping the future of contemporary art! . . #IgshaanAdams takes us through his #SCADMOA exhibition Getuie on Facebook! Find the walkthrough at http://bit.ly/IgshaanAdamsWalkthrough

Next up in 21st-Century Circles: Video on Nov. 6! Join #SCADMOA assistant curator Ariella Wolens for a viewing and discussion of Alex Bag’s wildly amusing 2001 artwork The Van. Register at https://www.scadmoa.org/programs! . As described by David Rimanelli in the December 2001 issue of Artforum: The van itself was a white Dodge with customized interior, set up near the American Fine Arts booth at the Armory Show, but Bag’s video shown inside is, once again, a star turn. T...he premise: The proprietor of the Leroy Le Loupe Gallery is driving three of his ‘stars’ (all played by Bag) to the Armory, where the van itself will serve as their exhibition space. The young artists all women explain their works, talk about what they’re wearing, and dream of career advancement. . Alex Bag, The Van, video: color, sound, 12:55 min., 2001. Courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York. See more

I Put a Spell On You: On Artist Collaborations is now on view at #SCADMOA! . Featured artists Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca have worked as a collaborative duo since 2013. Their video installation "Swinguerra" immerses viewers in highly charged and flawlessly performed routines by dance groups on the outskirts of Recife, Brazil. An affirmation of self-expression, "Swinguerra" offers positive representation of Black, queer, transgender, and non-binary individuals and ...demonstrates the potential of pop culture to unify and empower as well as to stimulate social change. . I Put a Spell On You is organized by guest curators Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath. Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, Swinguerra, 2019. Courtesy the artists and Fortes D'Aloia Gabriel. See more about the exhibition: scadmoa.org/exhibitions See more