VOICES IN CONTEMPORARY ART
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Organizations Filed Purposes: VOCA GENERATES CRITICAL DIALOGUE AND INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMMING TO ADDRESS THE PRODUCTION, PRESENTATION, AND PRESERVATION OF CONTEMPORARY ART.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019VOCA RETREAT LOCATION: JOAN MITCHELL FOUNDATION, NYCTHE ANNUAL GATHERING OF THE VOCA BOARD, PROGRAM COMMITTEE, AND STAFF.SEPTEMBER 16-17, 2019VOCA RESEARCH: RAUSCHENBERGLOCATION: ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG FOUNDATION, NYCREPRESENTATIVES FROM VOICES IN CONTEMPORARY ART (VOCA), THE ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG FOUNDATION (RRF), AND THE WINTERTHUR/UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE PROGRAM IN ART CONSERVATION (WUDPAC) MET AT THE RRF HEADQUARTERS IN SOHO TO CONTINUE THEIR ONGOING COLLABORATION TO EXPAND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES IN THE CONSERVATION OF CONTEMPORARY ART WHILE SUPPORTING AN ARTIST-ENDOWED FOUNDATION WITH IN-DEPTH COLLECTIONS RESEARCH. THIS TWO-DAY MEETING ADDRESSED THE CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS, TIMELINE, AND DESIRED OUTCOMES FOR THE SECOND YEAR OF THIS PROJECT. OCTOBER 22-23, 2019ARTIST INTERVIEW WORKSHOPLOCATION: GLENSTONE MUSEUMTHE WORKSHOP WAS LED BY SAM REDMAN, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ORAL HISTORY AT UMASS AMHERST, AND STEVEN O'BANION, DIRECTOR OF CONSERVATION AT GLENSTONE. GUEST SPEAKERS INCLUDED LAURYN GUTTENPLAN, ASSOCIATE GENERAL COUNSEL, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION; KATE LEWIS, VOCA BOARD MEMBER AND AGNES GUND CHIEF CONSERVATOR AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART; AND ANNE REEVE, ASSOCIATE CURATOR AT THE HIRSHHORN.OCTOBER 24, 2019VOCA SALON: GREATER DC AREAA VISIT TO GLENSTONE LED BY DIRECTOR OF CONSERVATION AND VOCA PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER STEVEN O'BANION WAS FOLLOWED BY A SEWING CIRCLE AT THE SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM, HOSTED BY ARTIST AND VOCA BOARD MEMBER MARIE WATT.NOVEMBER 14, 2019CALL/VOCA TALK: LESLIE DILL WITH ROBIN CLARK LOCATION: PEN + BRUSH, NYCAS PART OF OUR ONGOING CALL/VOCA TALK SERIES, ARTIST LESLEY DILL AND CURATOR ROBIN CLARK EXPLORED THE WAYS THAT DILL'S WORK INTERWEAVES, SUTURES, AND UNFOLDS THE TERRITORIES OF LANGUAGE AND VISUAL ART.DECEMBER 6, 2019 CALL/VOCA TALK: LEGACY SPECIALISTS WITH CHRISTIE MITCHELLLOCATION: PRATT INSTITUTE, BROOKLYNTHIS DISCUSSION FEATURED ARTISTS AND CALL LEGACY SPECIALISTS LEHNA HUIE AND BETH KREBS IN CONVERSATION WITH VOCA PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER AND CURATOR CHRISTIE MITCHELL. THE CONVERSATION REFLECTED UPON EACH ARTIST'S OWN WORK, AS WELL AS THE INTERGENERATIONAL COLLABORATION FOSTERED BY THE JOAN MITCHELL FOUNDATION'S CALL PROGRAM.JANUARY 15, 2020CALL/VOCA TALK: GLADY TRIANA WITH RUTH DEL FRESNO-GUILLEMLOCATION: JULIA DE BURGOS PERFORMANCE AND ARTS CENTERAS PART OF OUR ONGOING CALL/VOCA TALKS SERIES, ARTIST GLADYS TRIANA SPOKE WITH CONSERVATOR RUTH DEL FRESNO-GUILLEM ABOUT HER ART, FAMILY, TRAVELS, AND MANY ARTISTIC INFLUENCES, FROM DIEGO RIVERA AND GOYA TO BEETHOVEN.JANUARY 21-22, 2020VOCA RESEARCH: RAUSCHENBERGLOCATION: NEW YORK CITYREPRESENTATIVES FROM VOICES IN CONTEMPORARY ART (VOCA), THE ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG FOUNDATION (RRF), AND THE WINTERTHUR/UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE PROGRAM IN ART CONSERVATION (WUDPAC) CONVENED TO DISCUSS THE FELLOWS' RESEARCH PROJECTS. JANUARY 26, 2020VOCA SALON: LOS ANGELESLOCATION: STUDIO OF ARTIST MATTHEW BRANDTPRIVATE STUDIO VISIT HOSTED BY ARTIST MATTHEW BRANDT. VOCA FIRST CONNECTED WITH BRANDT WHEN HIS WORK WAS FEATURED IN THE WINTER 2016 ISSUE OF VOCA JOURNAL, IN AN ARTICLE TITLED "BALANCING PRESERVATION STRATEGY AND ARTIST INTENT," WRITTEN BY KATHERINE SANDERSON.JANUARY 27-28, 2020ARTIST INTERVIEW WORKSHOP LOCATION: LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, LACMA THE WORKSHOP WAS LED BY SAM REDMAN, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ORAL HISTORY AT UMASS AMHERST, AND JEN MERGEL, CURATOR OF PLATFORM FOR THE ARMORY SHOW. GUEST SPEAKERS INCLUDED SUZANNE DEAL BOOTH, PHILANTHROPIST, ART ADVISOR AND COLLECTOR; MIKKA GEE CONWAY, ASSOCIATE GENERAL COUNSEL, GETTY TRUST; GLORIA SUTTON, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF CONTEMPORARY ART HISTORY AND NEW MEDIA, NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY; AND GLENN WHARTON, PROFESSOR OF ART HISTORY AT UCLA AND CHAIR OF THE UCLA/GETTY PROGRAM IN THE CONSERVATION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ETHNOGRAPHIC MATERIALS.FEBRUARY 11-12, 2020VOCA RESEARCH: RAUSCHENBERGLOCATION: NEW YORK CITY THIS TWO-DAY MEETING WAS DEVOTED TO RAUSCHENBERG'S NIGHT BLOOMING AND BLACK PAINTINGS ATTENDED BY A SELECTION OF ART HISTORIANS, MUSEUM CURATORS, CONSERVATORS, AND ARTISTS WHO HAVE CONSERVED, STUDIED, WRITTEN ON, OR ARE TASKED WITH THE CARE OF THESE ARTWORKS.MARCH 11, 2020VOCA SALON: MOMALOCATION: MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK CITY VOCA BOARD MEMBER KATE LEWIS GAVE INNER CIRCLE MEMBERS A TOUR OF THE CONSERVATION LABS INCLUDING THE NEW TIME-BASED MEDIA LAB AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, FOLLOWED BY A VISIT TO THE GALLERIES. MOMA CONSERVATORS PETER OLEKSIK AND MEGAN RANDALL JOINED THE GROUP TO SHARE CASE STUDIES OF ARTWORKS THEY HAVE PRESERVED LEADING UP TO THE CURRENT INSTALLATIONS IN THE GALLERIES.JUNE - AUGUST 2020VOCA RESEARCH: RAUSCHENBERGLOCATION: REMOTE WORK FROM VARIOUS LOCATIONSOVER THE COURSE OF THE SUMMER, FELLOWS MADDIE COOPER AND KRIS CNOSSEN FOCUSED ON RAUSCHENBERG'S TEXTILE WORKS, AND SPECIFICALLY HIS HOARFROST (1974-76) SERIES. THE OUTCOMES OF THIS WORK WILL GUIDE THE LONG-TERM CARE OF THIS SERIES, AND OTHERS, IN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS.

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