When homeschooling your allowed to teach classes our students wouldn’t have in Public School. Which is why I’m excited to be able to take Charlie onto Field Trips featuring Artist Talks and the newest event is taking place at Nasher Sculpture Center. Would you like to join us?
Nasher Sculpture Center Presents an Artist Talk with Mel Chin
What: In-person artist talk with artist Mel Chin
When: Saturday, February 19, 2022, 11:30 a.m.
Where: Nasher Sculpture Center, 2001 Flora Street, Dallas, TX 75201
Details:
Mel Chin’s art evades easy classification. He is known for works that are both analytical and poetic, conjoining cross-cultural aesthetics with complex ideas. Chin also insinuates art into unlikely places, including destroyed homes, toxic landfills, and even popular television, investigating how art can provoke greater social awareness and responsibility.
Registration is FREE for Nasher Members and students; $10 for non-members (includes museum admission). In-person and open to the public. Advance registration required (limited seating available).
About Mel Chin
Mel Chin was born in Houston, Texas in 1951. He created Revival Field (1991), pioneering the field of “green remediation,” the use of plants to remove toxic, heavy metals from the soil. From 1995-1998 he formed the collective the GALA Committee that produced In the Name of the Place, a public art project conducted on American prime-time television. His Fundred Project (2008-2021) (see fundred.org) invests in actions to end childhood lead-poisoning through mass public engagement via the creation of art currency as a means for policy-maker education. He continues to produce original films such as 9-11/9-11 (2007), a film to decenter preoccupations that engender nationalism, winning the Pedro Sienna Award for Best Animation, National Council for the Arts and Cultures, Chile, 2007; and L’Arctique est Paris (2015), to deliver the poignant warnings of a Greenlandic subsistence hunter to an international audience for COP21. In the summer of 2018, he filled New York’s Times Square with a massive sculpture, Wake, on the ground, and an AR (Augmented Reality) project, Unmoored, in the air, creating an experiential portal into a past maritime industry and a future of rising waters. All Over the Place, a 40-year survey exhibition at the Queens Museum, was named by Hyperallergic as the best NYC exhibition of 2018.
Chin is the recipient of many awards, grants, and honorary degrees including a MacArthur Fellowship in 2019 and his election into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2021.
Mel Chin’s exhibition Inescapable Histories will be on view at The Gallery at UTA through March 30.
About the Nasher Sculpture Center
Located in the heart of the Dallas Arts District, the Nasher Sculpture Center is home to the Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection, one of the finest collections of modern and contemporary sculpture in the world, featuring more than 300 masterpieces by Calder, de Kooning, di Suvero, Giacometti, Gormley, Hepworth, Kelly, Matisse, Miró, Moore, Picasso, Rodin, Serra, and Shapiro, among others. The Nasher Sculpture Center is open Wednesday through Sunday from 11 am to 5 pm. Admission is $10 for adults, $7 for seniors, $5 for students, and free for children 12 and under and members, and includes access to special exhibitions. For more information, visit
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
