Please join us for a closing discussion of Brandon Lattu: Empirical, Textual, Contextual with exhibition artist and curator, Brandon Lattu and Charlotte Cotton.

Situated within the broad and mercurial image environment in which we create and consume, this sensorial and cerebral exhibition examines Lattu’s twenty-five-year artistic practice working in photography, sculpture, and video.

Brandon Lattu is an artist whose work utilizes photography, sculpture, and video to investigate the constantly changing state of representation in order to push beyond the conventional empiricism that pictures of the world have traditionally invoked. His work is in numerous public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Charlotte Cotton is an independent curator and writer specialized in contemporary photography. She has held leadership positions in several museums including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. She is the author of several books including The Photograph as Contemporary Art, Thames & Hudson (2014), and Public, Private, Secret: On Photography and the Configuration of Self, Aperture (2018).

Covid-19 Safety Information: Face masks are required. Registrants and all visitors are required to complete a wellness survey on the day of their visit and show staff a clearance message to enter. The survey can be completed at home or when you arrive on our device.
Wellness survey: https://ucriverside.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e4AMyHzVMXwrqia

Thank you to our sponsors: UCR College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and the City of Riverside.

And a special thanks to Stella Artois and Altura Credit Union.

*Feature Film Tragedy Screening, 12-2pm
Discussion, 2-3:30pm 
Culver Center of the Arts

Please join us for a discussion with exhibition artist and curator Lynne Marsh and Kimberli Meyer, in conversation with artists Olivia Mole and Vishal Jugdeo, critic Jan Tumlir, and curator Anuradha Vikram.

*Due to the increase in Covid-19 spread at this time, we are requiring proof of full vaccination to attend this film screening

Anuradha Vikram is a writer, curator, and educator based in Los Angeles, who works with process-based, public, and participatory art forms, with a focus on transcultural approaches to technology, social engagement, and the body.

Jan Tumlir is an art-writer, teacher and curator who lives in Los Angeles. He is a contributing editor for the local art journal X-TRA; his articles appear regularly in Artforum, Aperture, Flash Art and occasionally in Art Review and Frieze.

Vishal Jugdeo is an interdisciplinary artist who works with video, installation, performance and sculpture to construct experimental approaches to narrative. He is Assistant Professor in New Genres in the UCLA Department of Art.

Olivia Mole is an artist based in Los Angeles who works with installation, animation, performance and mixed reality. She is Visiting Faculty in Art and Technology and at Calarts School of Art.

Kimberli Meyer is a cultural producer, curator, and designer working in art and architecture; she has led the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House in Los Angeles, and the University Art Museum at CSU Long Beach.

Lynne Marsh, a Canadian artist based in Los Angeles, enlists moving image, performance and installation into an ongoing inquiry of specific sites of human spectacle. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Art at UCR.

Thank you to our sponsors: UCR College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and the City of Riverside.

And a special thanks to Stella Artois and Altura Credit Union.

Lynne Marsh’s Who Raised It Up So Many Times? is a selection of artworks exploring labor and production in the realms of television, cinema and 3D capture. Curated by Kimberli Meyer. This talk with Lynne Marsh and Kimberli Meyer was recorded on November 18, 2021.

Third Thursday Talks are made possible with the generous support from the Marjorie and Glenn Thomas Memorial Fund.
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Curated by Charlotte Cotton, Brandon Lattu: Empirical, Textual, Contextual is a sensory and cerebral journey across Brandon Lattu’s 25-year practice. Join us as UCR Art Professor Brandon Lattu and renowned independent curator Charlotte Cotton engage in a lively discussion, followed by a Q&A with Brandon Lattu moderated by Douglas McCulloh, Senior Curator at the California Museum of Photography.

Third Thursday Talks are made possible with the generous support from the Marjorie and Glenn Thomas Memorial Fund.
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A conversation about Riverside’s vision for the future of the arts with Margery Haupt, Arts and Cultural Affairs Manager for the City of Riverside; Cuauhtémoc Peranda, Ph.D Candidate in Dance at University of California, Riverside; Sheila Bergman, UCR ARTS Executive Director; and Douglas McCulloh, UCR ARTS Senior Curator.

Third Thursday Talks are made possible with the generous support from the Marjorie and Glenn Thomas Memorial Fund.

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Mikael Owunna is a multi-media artist and engineer whose work explores the intersections of visual media with engineering, optics, Blackness, and African cosmologies. He will discuss his incredible work, including photographs featured in UCR ARTS’ virtual exhibition Art in the Plague Year, with curator Douglas McCulloh on Thursday, April 15 at 6pm PST.

Learn more about Mikael Owunna: https://www.mikaelowunna.com/

Third Thursday Talks are made possible with the generous support from the Marjorie and Glenn Thomas Memorial Fund.

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Inlandia Institute’s Blacklandia Events Series and UCR ARTS’ Third Thursday Talks present a virtual roundtable “Black in Latin America” based on the groundbreaking book by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Keenan Norris will lead the discussion with writers Alex Avila, Malcolm Friend, and Umi Vaughan.

Keenan Norris is a novelist, essayist and short story writer. He holds an M.F.A. from Mills College and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside. Keenan was a 2017 Marin Headlands Artist-in-Residence and has garnered a Public Voices fellowship (2020), a Callaloo fellowship (2016) and two Yerba Buena Center for the Arts fellowships (2017, 2015). He serves as a guest editor for the Oxford African-American Studies Center.

He is the editor of the seminal Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape. Keenan’s short work has appeared in numerous forums, including the Los Angeles Review of Books, Los Angeles Times, Alta, popmatters.com, BOOM: A Journal of California and several anthologies of California literature.

Alex Avila, a native New Yorker, hails from the Bronx, New York City. A Black Latino Honduran, he explores issues of identity and biculturalism in his works of prose and poetry. He is a Cal State University creative writing MFA graduate, with a specialty in multi-modal digital storytelling. Alex serves as an editor and writer of Ghost Town, the national literary magazine, and is an English professor at Cal State University, San Bernardino. He was accepted into the Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop, one of the top writing programs in the United States, where he studied advanced poetics.

In 2006, Mr. Avila attended the University of Iowa on a scholarship, in the department of social work. Alex is a member of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, and Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society. Mr. Avila has worked with Rickerby Hinds, playwright and professor from the University of California, Riverside as a co-writer for Buckworld One, Uncovered: A Pageant of Hip Hop Masters, and Uncovered 2.

Malcolm Friend is a poet originally from the Rainier Beach neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. He received his BA from Vanderbilt University, where he was the 2014 recipient of the Merrill Moore Prize for Poetry, and his MFA from the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of the chapbook mxd kd mixtape (Glass Poetry, 2017) and the full length collection Our Bruises Kept Singing Purple (Inlandia Books, 2018), selected by Cynthia Arrieu-King as winner of the 2017 Hillary Gravendyk Prize.

He has received awards and fellowships from organizations including CantoMundo, Backbone Press, the Center for African American Poetry & Poetics, The Frost Place, and the University of Memphis. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including La Respuesta magazine, the Fjords Review’s Black American Edition, Vinyl, Word Riot, The Acentos Review, Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, and Pretty Owl Poetry. He is a Poetry Editor for FreezeRay Poetry, and together with JR Mahung is a member of Black Plantains, an Afrocaribbean poetry collective. He currently lives and teaches in Pittsburgh

Umi Vaughan is a scholar/artist who conducts research, creates photographs and performances, and publishes work that examines the evolution and meaning of music/dance traditions across the African Diaspora. He holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Michigan and is currently Associate Professor of Africana Studies at California State University Monterey Bay. Dr. Vaughan is the author of Carlos Aldama’s Life in Batá: Cuba, Diaspora, and the Drum (Indiana University Press) and Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance: Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba (University of Michigan Press).

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.

Third Thursday Talks are made possible with the generous support from the Marjorie and Glenn Thomas Memorial Fund.

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HOCKET is the cutting edge piano duo of Sarah Gibson and Thomas Kotcheff. The Los Angeles-based composer-pianists are dedicated to commissioning and performing contemporary music. They discuss their work and their newest project #What2020SoundsLike with Dr. Sheila Bergman, UCR ARTS Director, and Ian Dicke, Composer and UCR Assistant Professor of Music.

Learn more about HOCKET: http://www.hocket.org

Third Thursday Talks are made possible with the generous support from the Marjorie and Glenn Thomas Memorial Fund.

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Art in the Plague Year asks questions about what will emerge from a year of tumult. How do we move forward? Hear artists antoine williams, United Catalysts (Kim Garrison and Steve Radosevich), and Peter Wu+ discuss these and other questions with curators Douglas McCulloh, Nikolay Maslov, and Rita Sobreiro Souther January 21 at 6pm PST.  Free.

Visit the virtual exhibition here: https://www.artintheplagueyear.com

Third Thursday Talks are made possible with the generous support from the Marjorie and Glenn Thomas Memorial Fund.

It’s because of supporters and friends like YOU that we are able to make Third Thursday Talks and all of our virtual programs possible.

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KayJo Creatives, in partnership with Inlandia Institute and UCR ARTS Third Thursday Talks, presents: “Voices of I, Too,” a virtual roundtable featuring Black men who will discuss masculinity, relationships, and their own identity.

Roundtable hosted by Keya Vance and Dr. Natalie Graham of KayJo Creatives and discussion led by Frito Marcelin, “I, Too” is part of a legacy of artistic efforts inspired by Langston Hughes’ poem of the same title, particularly the turn Hughes makes in the last four lines: “Besides, / They’ll see how beautiful I am / And be ashamed— // I, too, am America.”

Registration is free!

Third Thursday Talks are made possible with the generous support from the Marjorie and Glenn Thomas Memorial Fund.

This activity also supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency. Learn more at www.arts.ca.gov.  This project is also supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov. 

It’s because of supporters and friends like YOU that we are able to make Third Thursday Talks and all of our virtual programs possible.

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Header image: Photograph of Frito Marcelin.