Castro Co-Curates “Sitting on Chrome” at SFMOMA
Maria Castro (PhD 2020) recently co-curated Sitting on Chrome, a new three-person exhibition at SFMOMA. Featuring artists Mario Ayala, rafa esparza, and Guadalupe Rosales, the show “engages the visual language of lowriders and explores cruising as a practice of resistance and community visibility.” The exhibition is complemented by a program of performances by esparza. Read more about the exhibition on the SFMOMA website.
Kirk Savage and Beyond Granite: Pulling Together Exhibition Featured in Pittwire
Kirk Savage, HAA professor, was featured recently in Pittwire for his work on Monument Lab, a nonprofit that "facilitates critical conversations around the past, present, and future of monuments". Together with Monument Lab, Savage has worked on a new action on the National Mall in Washington, DC called Beyond Granite, which hopes to cultivate a more "equitable and representative commemorative landscape on the National Mall".
Statement by Sylvia Rhor, Director of the University Art Gallery
When the University Art Gallery (UAG) was founded decades ago, it followed the colonial model of so many other museums and galleries, a model premised on Eurocentrism — a polite term for white supremacy. While the UAG has deliberately moved away from this model, and we have sought to contest its legacy in our programs and exhibitions, we have not done enough. We must do better, we must do more, and we must do this now.