The Dallas Museum of Art and Art&Seek present State of the Arts.

Join KERA host and senior producer Jeff Whittington for the third season of this innovative series exploring the creative process and the nature of performance. Hear Dallas’s key artistic leaders, artists, and special guests in thought-provoking conversations about the arts and the cultural landscape of the Metroplex.

Included in general admission to the Museum I DMA and KERA Members Free I Visit DallasMuseumofArt.org for more information and to reserve your seat.

Thursday, March 15, 2012  7:30 p.m.
BEOWULF BORITT, Scenic Designer
NICK NICOSIA, conceptual artist, photographer

Sunday, February 26, 2012  3:00 p.m.

KAEL ALFORD, photojournalist
JAKE HEGGIE, composer and pianist

Intro, with a performance by Heggie:

Part 2: Getting Started

Part 3: Turning Passions into Careers

Part 4 Storytelling

Part 5:  The Creative Process

Part 6: Q/A From the Audience

Thursday, January 26, 2012 7:30 p.m.
MICHAEL CORRIS, Chair of the Division of Studio Art, SMU
PETER DOROSHENKO, Director, Dallas Contemporary
JEFFREY GROVE, The Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, DMA
JEREMY STRICK, Director, Nasher Sculpture Center

Michael Corris is the chair of the Division of Art at the Meadows School of the Arts at SMU. He is an artist, art historian, and arts writer who has lectured and written extensively on contemporary art and art theory and has been published in Art Monthly, Artforum, and Mute. His art is part of the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the MoMA, the Whitney, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. His most recent publications include Conceptual Art: Theory, Myth and Practice, and monographs on David Diao and Ad Reinhardt.

Peter Doroshenko is the Executive Director of the Dallas Contemporary. As well as holding Directorship positions at several institutions he is a writer, lecturer, and curator. He has organized one-person exhibitions featuring the artists Serhiy Bratkov, Andreas Gursky, Mariko Mori and others. Previously he was the President and Artistic Director of the Pinchuk Art Centre in Kiev.

Jeffrey Grove is The Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art here at the Dallas Museum of Art. Since working at the DMA he has curated several acclaimed exhibitions including Silence & Time, Re-Seeing the Contemporary, and Mark Bradford.  His latest exhibition is Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences/Documented Assignments. Before working at the DMA he served as the Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the High Museum of Art.

Jeremy Strick is the Director of the Nasher Sculpture Center and during his tenure has overseen various exhibitions including Tony Cragg: Seeing Things, Revelation: The Art of James Magee, and Jaume Plensa: Genus and Species. In addition, he initiated Sightings, a series of one-person exhibitions focused on innovative new work, Soundings: New Music at the Nasher, an acclaimed program of contemporary chamber music, and the monthly lecture series 360: Artists, Critics, Curators. Previously, he served nearly ten years as Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA).

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Thursday, October 13, 2011
7:30 p.m.

MARK BRADFORD, visual artist
VICKI MEEK, Manager, South Dallas Cultural Center

Mark Bradford is an award-winning visual artist who lives and works in his native Los Angeles, California.  He earned both his BFA and MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.  Growing up, Mark worked in his mother’s hair salon which would later influence his artmaking – from the use of permanent-wave end papers, hair dye, and foil from the salon in his paintings to his installation Foxyé Hair at the 2002 Art Basel Miami where he set up a beauty shop, doing the hair of visitors in attendance.

Mark would continue to use a wide variety of materials in his work including flyers, billboards, and posters that he would find in his neighborhood. While he continues to focus on large-scale collage paintings, he has worked in the mediums of video, photography, sculpture, and site-specific installations.

Mark has won many major awards including the Bucksbaum Award for distinction at the 2006 Whitney Biennial, and in 2009 he won a MacArthur Fellowship. He has been included in several major exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art to name a few. And in 2009, his work A Truly Rich Man Is One Whose Children Run Into His Arms Even When His Hands Are Empty was featured in the DMA’s exhibition Private Universes.

The exhibition Mark Bradford, currently on view at the Dallas Museum of Art, was organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts, and is the most thorough presentation of Mark’s work to date – showcasing over 40 works dating from 2000 to the present.

Vicki Meek is an artist, arts administrator, educator and an integral part of the Dallas cultural community.  She is currently the manager of the South Dallas Cultural Center where she develops programming, works with a variety of visual and performing artists, and serves as a community liaison to the South Dallas community.

The South Dallas Cultural Center was founded in 1986 when a group of African American artists and community leaders decided Dallas needed a cultural facility in the southern area of the city. Since then, the South Dallas Cultural Center has been providing a myriad of programming that celebrates the African American experience.

Before working at the South Dallas Cultural Center, Vicki was the Coordinator of Training & Outreach for the East Dallas Community School where she worked on the Parents As Teachers Program. She also worked with area organizations and government agencies involved with early childhood education, health, and advocacy issues.

Vicki is currently on the Advisory Boards for Teatro Dallas, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing & Visual Arts,  and the East Dallas Community School. From 1994 to 1996 she was a docent trainer at the African American Museum and she served on the Education Committee here at the Dallas Museum of Art.

Thursday, November 17, 2011 7:30 p.m.

Tracy Achor Hayes and Kevin Tucker discuss Jean Paul Gaultier and his role in fashion and art.

You can listen to a podcast of the conversation or download it.

TRACY ACHOR HAYES is a native Dallasite, and with grandparents on both sides in the apparel industry she was a clotheshorse from an early age. A cum laude graduate of the University of Texas in Austin, Hayes joined The Dallas Morning News Fashion!Dallas staff in 1980 after a stint at Neiman Marcus and has been chronicling the worlds of fashion and design ever since. Hayes was named editor of the weekly Fashion!Dallas section in 1995 and has led the monthly magazine FD Luxe since its ground-breaking debut in Sept. 2004. Among her many honors are a Penney-Missouri Lifestyle Award and multiple Atrium Awards for excellence in fashion journalism. She and the FD staff have also been recognized with a Dallas Fashion Award, sponsored by the Dallas Market Center, and a Fashion Excellence Award, sponsored by Fashion Group International. In addition to her passion for style, design and popular culture, Hayes is an avid student of yoga and the equestrian sport of dressage. She and her husband, graphic designer Van Hayes, escape not nearly often enough to their cabin in the Wind River mountains of Wyoming.

KEVIN TUCKER is The Margot B. Perot Curator of Decorative Arts and Design at the Dallas Museum of Art. Tucker received his B.A. in History and his M.A. in Applied History and Museum Studies at the University of South Carolina and was the recipient of a 2007 Winterthur Research Fellowship. He has more than 20 years of experience in the field and is a specialist in American decorative arts and design of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Prior to working at the DMA, Tucker was the Curator of Decorative Arts and then Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the Columbia Museum of Art in South Carolina, where he was responsible for the most significant growth in the decorative arts collections in the history of the museum, assembling outstanding holdings in 20th-century art glass and contemporary craft and design. He worked with staff, consultants, architects and gallery designers to install the museum’s decorative arts collections within a new 85,000-square-foot museum facility, which was completed in 1998.

Since coming to the DMA, he has organized and presented several acclaimed exhibitions including “Form/Unformed: Design from 1960 to the Present,” which is currently on view and “Line and Form: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Wasmuth Portfolio.” He was co-curator for the nationally touring exhibition “Modernism in American Silver: 20th-Century Design” and served as an editor and contributor for its accompanying award-winning catalog. In 2010, he premiered a major nationally touring exhibition “Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement,” a retrospective project exploring the career of one of the seminal figures of early 20th-century design.  The accompanying catalog, authored by Tucker and published in association with Yale University Press, provides a detailed analysis of the influence of Stickley as a furniture manufacturer, tastemaker and proselytizer for good design.

His current exhibition, “The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk,” marks the first time that the DMA will present an exhibition dedicated to exploring the art of fashion. Making its U.S. debut at the DMA, this is the first exhibition devoted to the designs of world-renowned French couturier Jean Paul Gaultier and will be on view until Feb. 12, 2012.