SARATOGA SPRINGS - Acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Juliana Huxtable will deliver the fifth annual Winter/Miller Lecture at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 13, at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College. The in-person event is free and open to the public.
Huxtable, who was born in Texas in 1987, has distinguished herself with an international reputation as a genre-defying artist known equally for her visual art, writing, music, DJ sets, and the blurring of traditional categories. A Black, transgender, intersex, queer person raised in a Baptist home in Texas, she first gained wide notice in 2015. She was, as Vogue Magazine put it, the “star" of Surround Audience, the Triennial at the New Museum in New York, which featured two of her poems and two self-portrait photographs from the series Universal Crop Tops for All the Self Canonized Saints of Becoming and a sculpture by artist Frank Benson called Juliana in which she was the model.
Also in 2015, she performed There Are Certain Facts that Cannot Be Disputed at the Museum of Modern Art in a co-commission by MoMA and Performa.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call the Tang Visitor Services Desk at 518-580-8080 or visit tang.skidmore.edu.
