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September 15 to October 15, 2018

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Kellie Jones on “Women and the Dreamwork”


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15/09/2018 14:00 15/09/2018 23:45 America/New_York Kellie Jones on “Women and the Dreamwork” Event DetailsSaturday, September 15, 2018, 2 pm Dia:Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free with museum admission. No reservations required. Kellie Jones is associate professor of art history and archaeology at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York. She is the recipient of numerous awards including fellowships, grants, and residencies bestowed by the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, Arts Writers Grant Program, and Terra Foundation for American Art. Jones is the author of two books published by Duke University Press: EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art (2011) and South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s (2017). She has also worked as a curator for over three decades and has organized national and international exhibitions. Recently, Jones organized Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties, which was on view in 2014 at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, and Now Dig This!: Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960–1980, which was on view in 2011–12 at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles before it traveled in 2012–13 to MoMA PS1 in New York and Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, Massachusetts.      Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Kellie Jones on “Women and the Dreamwork”

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Bonnie Baxter and Jaimi Butler on Robert Smithson


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06/10/2018 14:00 06/10/2018 23:45 America/New_York Bonnie Baxter and Jaimi Butler on Robert Smithson Event DetailsSaturday, October 6, 2018, 2 pm Dia:Beacon3 Beekman StreetBeacon, New York Free with museum admission. No reservations required. Bonnie Baxter is director of the Great Salt Lake Institute and professor of biology at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, where she studies photobiology of halophiles (salt-tolerant bacteria) and microbial diversity of Great Salt Lake. She is interested in the astrobiology applications of extremely hypersaline ecosystems, particularly the resistance to ultraviolet light and desiccation by halophiles. Baxter is also dedicated to integration of research in undergraduate science education and to outreach efforts that inspire learning and stewardship. She obtained her PhD in genetics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and completed her postdoctoral research in the department of biochemistry and biophysics at Washington State University in Pullman. Jaimi Butler is coordinator at Great Salt Lake Institute in Salt Lake City, where she organizes all activities, develops outreach efforts, mentors students, and designs research projects. She studied Great Salt Lake ecology while an undergraduate student in wildlife biology at Utah State University, and graduated with a fisheries and wildlife degree in 1999. As a professional, she worked for a brine shrimp harvest company before joining the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources’ Great Salt Lake Ecosystem Program. Butler assists many of the faculty projects at Great Salt Lake Institute, aiding in lake sample collection, boat access, and field trip resources.     Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Bonnie Baxter and Jaimi Butler on Robert Smithson

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