Curating the Here and Now: Jeremy Chen

Posted June 1, 2023

Saturday, July 1, 2023 from 4:00-5:00 PM

Returning to Charlotte Street is the four-part series Curating the Here and Now, highlighting exceptional curatorial voices in the Midwest. The selected curators will visit Kansas City to speak about their recent exhibitions and curatorial practice.

For this program, Jeremy Chen will speak about his practice as an artist, organizer, and educator. Most recently, Chen’s work was on view at the Grinnell College Museum of Art for the exhibition Devices, Tools, Objects, and Props: Recent Work by Jeremy Chen. This exhibition of sculptural works prompted contemplation on the manifold meanings and uses of objects or things, and our complex entanglement with materials. Chen will discuss curating this work in the context of a college museum, as well as his experiences organizing shows with artist-run spaces.

Event Details

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When

Saturday, July 1 from 4:00-5:00 PM

Where

Charlotte Street Kemper Library (3333 Wyoming)

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ABOUT JEREMY CHEN

Jeremy Chen is an artist and educator with an MFA in Printmaking and specialization in Sculpture, Center for the Book Arts Certificate, and a BA in Studio Art with K-12 art education certification from The University of Iowa. He produces work through individual practice (sculpture, print media, drawing) and collaborative cultural production side-by-side with other artists (interactive installations, performances, media, book arts) to make work that engages the public or specific communities. He is an advocate for artist-run spaces and works closely with Public Space One in Iowa City. He currently teaches sculpture and drawing at Grinnell College where he is an Assistant Professor of Art and chair of the American Studies concentration at in Grinnell, Iowa.

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Hope-Lian Vinson

Hope-Lian Vinson is a Kansas City-based visual artist whose works recast elements of the built environment to explore internal narratives of history and identity. With a B.F.A in Painting, Art History, and a Social Practice Certificate from the Kansas City Art Institute, Hope-Lian works at the intersections of art and ecology by using locally-sourced clay and natural materials to reference place and geological processes. They have showcased works in MdW Atlas, SITE ONE, Sapien Gallery, and have recently returned from the Chop Wood Carry Water arts residency in the Driftless region of NW Illinois. They currently serve as the Marketing + Communications Manager at Charlotte Street, where they use their artistic background in community-organizing to provide critical support for Charlotte Street programs and initiatives.