Artist Talk | Riva Lehrer
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Riva Lehrer is an artist, writer and curator who focuses on the socially challenged body. She is best known for representations of people whose physical embodiment, sexuality, or gender identity have long been stigmatized.
Lehrer’s work has been seen in venues including the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian, Yale University, the United Nations, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, the Arnot Museum, the DeCordova Museum, the Frye Museum, the Chicago Cultural Center, and the State of Illinois Museum.
Lehrer is on faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and instructor in the Medical Humanities Departments of Northwestern University.
Her memoir, Golem Girl, was published in 2020.
Lehrer's work is on display at the Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture and the UT Downtown Gallery as part of "Art, Movement, + Disability: Transcending the Beauty Paradigm."
ASL interpretation will be available for this event.
These exhibitions and related programming are supported in part by a grant from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and Tennessee Arts Commission’s Arts for All program. Co-sponsorship is provided by UT’s Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts, the School of Art Programming Committee, and through a College of Arts and Sciences Haines-Morris Grant. Additional funding is provided by The Creative Motif Fund.
Lehrer’s work has been seen in venues including the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian, Yale University, the United Nations, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, the Arnot Museum, the DeCordova Museum, the Frye Museum, the Chicago Cultural Center, and the State of Illinois Museum.
Lehrer is on faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and instructor in the Medical Humanities Departments of Northwestern University.
Her memoir, Golem Girl, was published in 2020.
Lehrer's work is on display at the Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture and the UT Downtown Gallery as part of "Art, Movement, + Disability: Transcending the Beauty Paradigm."
ASL interpretation will be available for this event.
These exhibitions and related programming are supported in part by a grant from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and Tennessee Arts Commission’s Arts for All program. Co-sponsorship is provided by UT’s Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts, the School of Art Programming Committee, and through a College of Arts and Sciences Haines-Morris Grant. Additional funding is provided by The Creative Motif Fund.
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McCarty Auditorium, Art + Architecture room 109 | 1715 Volunteer Blvd, Knoxville, TN, United States, Tennessee 37996
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Host or PublisherEwing Gallery of Art + Architecture
