This Thursday, March 19, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. all are welcome for a special lecture by University of Virginia’s Prof. Henry Skerritt, Curator of Research at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection.
In his talk, Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu (Past & Present Together): How a small Aboriginal Australian community took on the Global Artworld, Prof. Skerritt will discuss his traveling exhibition Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu: Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from the Australian Desert, currently on display at the Grey Art Museum at New York University.
This exhibition celebrates fifty years of Papunya Tula artists, a group of Aboriginal painters whose abstract artworks merge contemporary materials with ancestral ceremonial designs. Their collective organization, the Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd., is the first Aboriginal-owned arts enterprise in Australia.
This lecture is supported by the Visiting Artists and Scholars Program (VASP) through a collaboration between the Department of Art, the Department of Cultural and Philosophical Inquiry, and UMW Galleries. All are welcome. No reservations or tickets are needed. If you have any questions, contact Julia DeLancey (jdelance@umw.edu).
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