{"id":9166,"date":"2021-03-25T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=9166"},"modified":"2025-02-23T22:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T04:02:19","slug":"madeleine-hunt-ehrlich-lecture-and-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2021\/03\/25\/madeleine-hunt-ehrlich-lecture-and-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich Lecture and Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thursday, March 25, 7:00 p.m. CT<\/strong><\/em>
\nGene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema<\/p>\n

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Live captions available.<\/em><\/p>\n

Join artist Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich and art historian Romi Crawford, professor in visual and critical studies and liberal arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago,\u00a0for this look at Hunt-Ehrlich\u2019s practice, including her ongoing work with the United Order of Tents; her research into representation, abstraction, and the archive; and her feature-in-progress on the French surrealist writer Suzanne C\u00e9saire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0rich and often surreal works blend narrative and documentary to explore the private worlds of Black women. Rooted in archival and field research, Hunt-Ehrlich\u2019s practice uses abstraction as a mode of resistance in depicting subjects deprived of self-autonomy under the exploitative gaze of the colonial camera.<\/p>\n

Hunt-Ehrlich’s work has screened all over the world, including at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of Art\u00a0in New York and in film festivals such as the New Orleans Film Festival, Doclisboa, and BlackStar Film Festival. She has\u00a0been featured in\u00a0Essence<\/em>\u00a0magazine,\u00a0Studio Museum\u2019s\u00a0Studio<\/em>\u00a0magazine,\u00a0ARC Magazine<\/em>,\u00a0BOMBLOG<\/em>,\u00a0Guernica<\/em>, and\u00a0Small Axe,<\/em>\u00a0among others. She was named as one of\u00a0Filmmaker<\/em>‘s “25 New Faces of Independent Film 2020\u201d and\u00a0is the recipient of a San Francisco International Film Festival 2020 Rainin Grant, a Rema Hort Mann Foundation 2019 Emerging Artist grant, a 2019 UNDO Fellowship and grant,\u00a0a\u00a02015 TFI\/ESPN Future Filmmaker Award, and a\u00a02014 Princess Grace Award. Her work has been recognized by the Time Inc. Black Girl Magic Emerging Director’s series and the National Magazine Awards, and she has received grants from the National Black Programming Consortium and Glassbreaker Films.\u00a0Hunt Ehrlich has a degree in film and photography from Hampshire College and an\u00a0MFA in film and media arts from\u00a0Temple University. She is currently an assistant professor in film and television production at Queens College, City University of New York.<\/p>\n

Romi\u00a0Crawford\u00a0<\/strong>(PhD) is professor in the Visual and Critical Studies and Liberal Arts departments at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her research focuses on formations of racial and gendered identity in relation to American visual arts, film, and popular culture. She is co-author of\u00a0The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago\u00a0<\/em>(Northwestern University Press, 2017). She makes regular contributions to publications on contemporary art and American culture, including\u00a0“Elements of the Gatesian Method: Contract Aesthetics, Black Bricks, and Extreme Collaboration,\u201d in\u00a0Land Art and Nothingness\u00a0<\/em>(Place Lab, 2018); \u201cReading Between the Photographs: Serious Sociality in the Kamoinge Photographic Workshop,\u201d in\u00a0Working Together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop<\/em>\u00a0(Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2020);\u00a0and\u00a0the forthcoming\u00a0Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect<\/em>\u00a0(Green Lantern Press, 2021).<\/p>\n

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RELATED EVENT<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich: Speculative Histories<\/strong>
\nMarch 22\u201328
\nGene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema
\nClosed captions available<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday, March 25, 7:00 p.m. CT Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Live captions available. Join artist Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich and art historian Romi Crawford, professor in visual and critical studies and liberal arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago,\u00a0for this look at Hunt-Ehrlich\u2019s practice, including her ongoing work with the United Order […]<\/p>\n

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