HONORING

Dame Tracey Emin
SKOWHEGAN MEDAL FOR ART

Darren Walker
GERTRUDE VANDERBILT WHITNEY AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING
PATRONAGE OF THE ARTS

Socrates Sculpture Park
GOVERNORS’ AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO ARTISTS

Martha Diamond, Deep Time is a new publication on the occasion of a show organized by the Colby College Museum of Art and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum on the legacy of Martha.

We bring this publication to NYC through a conversation with artists Ann Craven and Nicole Wittenberg, moderated by Rob Storr. In the book, Martha's life and work are interwoven, illustrating the many ways she understood the world in which she lived. Images and storytelling come together in a reader with essays by poets, artists, and researchers who approach Martha's cosmology from different perspectives and poetics. 

Martha Diamond was Faculty and served on Skowhegan’s board of Governors for over a decade.

HONORING

Howardena Pindell (F ‘80)
SKOWHEGAN MEDAL FOR PAINTING

Forge Projects & Candice Hopkins
VANGUARD AWARD FOR PIONEERING WORK IN THE ARTS

White Columns
GOVERNORS’ AWARD FOR OUSTANDING SERVICE TO ARTISTS

The history of Japanese photography is as long and rich as the medium itself, and offers the opportunity to study technical innovation and avant-garde theory alongside issues of memory, gender, and national and personal identity. The format of the photobook in Japan is especially important as a vehicle for experimental design, for collaborative expression, and for new ideas about the relationship between viewer and image. The NYPL Photography Collection contains a world-class holdings of Japanese photography, allowing for a deep, sustained survey of some of the most important and influential Japanese photobooks from the 20th century. 

Join art librarian Chantal Lee and Assistant Curator of Photography Maggie Mustard as we study Japanese photography and photobooks from the 1930s to the present moment, including Horino Masao’s Kamera : me x tetsu, kosei (Camera, Eye x Steel, Construction) (1931), Ishimoto Yasuhiro’s Katsura (1960), Kawada Kikuji’s Chizu (The Map) (1965), the avant-garde photo-magazine PROVOKE (1968-69), Araki Nobuyoshi’s Sentimental Journey (1971), and work by Domon Ken, Ishiuchi Miyako, Kanemura Osamu, and Okabe Momo, among others.  

Image: Osamu Kanemura, Radical Hybrid, 2019. Photo taken by Christian Erroi.

Featuring stories and documentation of lost and destroyed artworks from Skowhegan alumni across 8 decades, the zine showcases 83 Skowhegan Alumni, curated by Rebecca Shippe (A '18) into four thematic chapters (“it was their fault”, “it was my fault”, “it wasn’t meant to be”, “it never was”), in addition to four commissioned essays. You Should Have Seen It aims to highlight the often ephemeral nature of art and the necessity of proper arts archiving by placing stories from various social contexts and media landscapes in conversation with one another.

HONORING

Lonnie Holley (F '22)
MEDAL FOR VISUAL ARTS & MUSIC

Suzanne Deal Booth
GERTRUDE VANDERBILT WHITNEY AWARD FOR PATRONAGE OF THE ARTS

Visual AIDS
GOVERNORS’ AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO ARTISTS

Astounding, prolific performers, birds coo, chirp, trill, warble, babble, wail, honk, cluck, screech, caw, chatter, whistle, tweet, and SING! Bird songs have inspired music in innumerable ways, with compositions and instruments imitating the range of a bewitching call, field recordings of birds layered onto songs, and duets harmonizing with birds themselves, as they sit on your hand or sing from a tree far away.