Exhibition details
The title of the exhibition is borrowed from a print by Carrie Mae Weems, Tell Me, I Beseech You, When I Casted My Vote to You, Did I Cast It to the Wind? (1996). This work and others featured in the exhibition, including those by Judy Chicago, Kara Walker, Donna Ferrato, Käthe Kollwitz, Ana Mendieta, Kay Walkingstick, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar, Jessica Houston, Zoë Charlton, and the Guerrilla Girls, among others prominent women artists, examine complicated issues related to identity, environmental activism, politics, and power in art. Gettysburg College students enrolled in the art history courses “Art and Public Policy” and “Art After 1945” introduce viewers to the political significance of the works and make new connections among the artists and their impulses for activism in the accompanying exhibition catalogue. Virtual Gallery Talk with Artist Jessica Houston September 16, 4 pm: Artist Jessica Houston has traveled from pole to pole—using photography, painting, oral histories and objects—to evoke entanglements of nature and culture. Her multimedia projects often include site-specific oral histories that amplify the memory of a place and evoke land as a living process. She has worked on projects involving communities and their relationship to their environments in the Canadian Arctic, Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland, and Italy. Virtual Gallery Talk with Emily Francisco ’14, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Art: “Reexamining Narratives: Women Artists and the National Gallery in 2020” October 21, 6:30 pm
September 8–December 3, 2020 and February 5–March 6, 2021
Location
Main Gallery
Reception
Lecture
Image: Carrie Mae Weems (American, b. 1953), Tell me, I beseech you, when I casted my vote to you, did I cast it to the wind?, 1996, Chromogenic print (c-print), 18.88 x 23 in. (47.96 x 58.42 cm.), Signed; and numbered verso. Purchase made possible by the Michael Birkner ’72 and Robin Wagner Art and Photography Acquisition Fund with additional support from Dr. Deborah Smith P’11, P’13, Gettysburg College Fine Arts Collection.
Works on display
The title of the exhibition is borrowed from a print by Carrie Mae Weems, Tell Me, I Beseech You, When I Casted My Vote to You, Did I Cast It to the Wind? (1996). This work and others featured in the exhibition, including those by Judy Chicago, Kara Walker, Donna Ferrato, Käthe Kollwitz, Ana Mendieta, Kay Walkingstick, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar, Jessica Houston, Zoë Charlton, and the Guerrilla Girls, among others prominent women artists, examine complicated issues related to identity, environmental activism, politics, and power in art. Gettysburg College students enrolled in the art history courses “Art and Public Policy” and “Art After 1945” introduce viewers to the political significance of the works and make new connections among the artists and their impulses for activism in the accompanying exhibition catalogue.
Virtual Gallery Talk with Artist Jessica Houston
September 16, 4 pm:
Artist Jessica Houston has traveled from pole to pole—using photography, painting, oral histories and objects—to evoke entanglements of nature and culture. Her multimedia projects often include site-specific oral histories that amplify the memory of a place and evoke land as a living process. She has worked on projects involving communities and their relationship to their environments in the Canadian Arctic, Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland, and Italy.
Virtual Gallery Talk with Emily Francisco ’14, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Art: “Reexamining Narratives: Women Artists and the National Gallery in 2020”
October 21, 6:30 pm