NEWSLETTER
Event features artist Paula Wilson in conversation with Skidmore College Associate Professor of Theater Lisa Jackson-Schebetta
Wednesday, September 20, 6 pm
Saratoga Springs, NY (September 5, 2023) — The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College announces the next event in its Dunkerley Dialogue series will be Wednesday, September 20, at 6 pm, featuring artist Paula Wilson and Skidmore College Associate Professor of Theater and Department Chair Lisa Jackson-Schebetta.
Paula Wilson, whose work is on view in the exhibition Paula Wilson: Toward the Sky’s Back Door, has gained international recognition as a multimedia artist whose work spans painting, printmaking, collage, and video, and challenges the separations between art and everyday living. For example, she uses the same processes for making art that she uses for the clothes she wears and the rugs in her home. Born in Chicago and a graduate of the MFA program at Columbia University, Wilson lives and works in the small desert railroad town of Carrizozo, New Mexico (population: 971).
Lisa Jackson-Schebetta, Skidmore College Associated Professor and the Chair of the Theater Department, will be in conversation with the artist. Jackson-Schebetta’s scholarly work on the history and theory of theater focuses on performance and theatre in the Americas, Latin America, and Spain.
Dunkerley Dialogues pair Skidmore professors with artists in a conversation format, which is often a catalyst for new connections and understandings across disciplines, and can spark new ideas for all participants. Dunkerley Dialogues are made possible by a generous gift from Michele Dunkerley ’80.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Visitors Services Desk at 518-580-8080 or tang@skidmore.edu, or visit https://tang.skidmore.edu.
About the Participants
Paula Wilson is an artist whose work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally, and is in the permanent collections of The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Albuquerque Museum, the New York Public Library, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Tang Teaching Museum, among others. Born in Chicago, Wilson earned her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and MFA from Columbia University in New York. She is the cofounder of the artist-run organizations Carrizozo Artist-in-Residency and MoMAZoZo.
Lisa Jackson-Schebetta is an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Theater Department at Skidmore College. She is an award-winning theater history and performance studies scholar. Her research centers on histories and theories of performance and theatre in the Americas, Latin America, and Spain. Her work as a teacher and a scholar is deeply informed by her training and professional experience as a director, devisor, dramaturg, and voice and movement teacher. Jackson-Schebetta’s first book, Traveler, There is No Road: Theater, The Spanish Civil War, and the Decolonial Imagination in the Americas (Iowa, 2017) examines interwar Spanish and English language theater in the United States and trans-historical configurations of race, activism and belonging. Her second book explores intersections between peace-making and performance in contemporary Colombia. She has published in Theatre Survey, Modern Drama, New England Theatre Journal, the Journal of American Drama, and Theatre, and others.
About the Tang Teaching Museum
The Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College is a pioneer of interdisciplinary exploration and learning. A cultural anchor of New York’s Capital Region, the Tang’s approach has become a model for college and university art museums across the country—with exhibition programs that bring together visual and performing arts with interdisciplinary ideas from history, economics, biology, dance, and physics, to name just a few. The Tang has one of the most rigorous faculty-engagement initiatives in the nation, and a robust publication and touring exhibition program that extends the museum’s reach far beyond its walls. The Tang Teaching Museum’s award-winning building, designed by architect Antoine Predock, serves as a visual metaphor for the convergence of art and ideas. The Museum is open to the public Tuesday–Sunday, noon–5 pm, with extended hours until 9 pm Thursday. https://tang.skidmore.edu
Media Contact
Michael Janairo
Tang Teaching Museum | Skidmore College
518-580-5542
Caption for image: Installation view, Paula Wilson: Toward the Sky's Back Door, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, 2023. Photo by Mindy McDaniel, courtesy Tang Teaching Museum