Artist in Conversation bring together ACC students, faculty, staff, and exhibiting artists for recorded talks that align with TAG exhibitions.

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November 30, 2023

The Art Galleries at ACC, the ACC Alumni Network, and the Arts & Digital Media Division hosted a hybrid Artists in Conversation event held in conjunction with the Fall 2023 exhibition Narrated Memories: Artworks by ACC Alumni Laurie Frick, Heather Parrish, and Michael Villarreal.

These ACC alumni artists joined Gallery Director, Peter Bonfitto for this live-streamed and in-person roundtable event on Thursday, November 30 at 5:00pm in Gallery 2000 (HLC 2.2450) on ACC Highland Campus.

April 6, 2023

This hybrid event featured exhibition artists from Food, Shelter, Water – a collaboration between TAG and the Department of Professional Photography.

Exhibition Artists:

Verónica G. Cárdenas

Stephanie Duprie Routh

Cindy Elizabeth

Jamie Robertson

December 1, 2022

This hybrid event was held in conjunction with the Fall 2022 exhibition Cultivating Community through Art: Sam Coronado’s Serie Project and its Continuing Legacy.

The following guests joined Gallery Director, Peter Bonfitto, on Thursday, December 1 from 5:00pm to 7:00pm on ACC Highland Campus for this live-streamed and in-person roundtable event. 

Pepe Coronado, former master printmaker at Coronado Studio and founder of Coronado Print Studio in Montopolis, Austin

Alma Lopez, Serie Project artist and lecturer in the Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies and LGBTQ Studies Program at UCLA

Tatiana Reinoza, art historian specializing in Chicano/a Studies and Assistant Professor of Art History at Notre Dame

Luis Valderas, multi-disciplinary artist from South Texas and Serie Project artist-in-residence

 
February 22, 2022

Miñarro/McClinton: Negotiating Spaces 

Artist in Conversation with Bárbara Miñarro and Dave McClinton

 

March 22, 2022

Strictly Abstraction 

Artist in Conversation with Pehr Smith, Sydney Yeager, Shawn Camp, and Shannan Faseler

Artist Talk Re-cap: Public Art Initiatives with Chous, Ana Flores Lavin, and J Muzacz

Written by Diar Enayatpour, TAG Intern Public art is a celebration of community that can embody the spirit of the people who occupy physical spaces. Artists are visual communicators who bring these collective values to life through large-scale work such as murals or...
Written by Adelaide Roueche-Beard, TAG Curatorial Intern In conjunction with the Narrated Memories exhibition running from September 5 to December 7, The Art Galleries at ACC are hosting three gallery talks. These talks explore the themes of the works of ACC alumni...
Written by Adelaide Roueche-Beard, TAG Curatorial Intern In conjunction with the Narrated Memories exhibition running from September 5 to December 7, The Art Galleries at ACC are hosting three gallery talks. These talks explore the themes in the works of ACC alumni...
Written by Cathy Centeno Navarro The Art Galleries at Austin Community College hosted two TAG Tuesday sessions in March 2023, in which ACC Photography Professors and exhibition co-curators Maja Buck and Bret Brookshire lead discussions about the works displayed in...
Written by Cathy Centeno Navarro, TAG Intern In conjunction with the exhibition The Contemporary Print 2023  (January 23 - March 9) , The Art Galleries at Austin Community College hosted two TAG Tuesday sessions, which invited local printmakers and Austin art...

An evening with the artist: Rashaun Rucker

Written by Maddie George The Art Galleries (TAG) at Austin Community College and Print Austin hosted Rashaun Rucker for an artist talk about his creative process and experience being a juror for the current exhibition in Gallery 2000, The Contemporary Print. Close to...

A Behind-the-Scenes Talk About Curating “Cultivating Community through Art” with Peter Bonfitto and Bernardo Diaz

Written by Soleil Parks, TAG Intern Fall 2022 To curate an exhibition, a great deal of attention to narrative is required. In the words of TAG Gallery Director Peter Bonfitto, a curator “uses objects to create a pathway into new ways of thinking about art, art...

Discussing the Stories Behind La Llorona Desperately Seeking Coyolxauhqui With Professors Dr. Lydia CdeBaca-Cruz and Dr. Gary Moreno

Written by Soleil Parks, TAG Intern Fall 2022   In Gallery 2000, a hanging wall in the back of the Cultivating Community Through Art exhibition supports La Llorona Desperately Seeking Coyolxauhqui, a bright pink screenprint by Alma Lopez. The print was created in...

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