Laura Anderson Barbata was our Spring 2015 Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence. In 2024, she is bringing her work to Central and Southeastern Wisconsin as part of the Division’s “Arts for Everyone, Everywhere” statewide initiative, a 3-year pilot project aimed at increasing access to the arts in underserved communities.
About the Artist
Born in Mexico City, Laura Anderson Barbata is a Mexican transdisciplinary artist currently based in New York and Mexico City. Since 1992 she initiated long-term projects and collaborations in the Venezuelan Amazon, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Norway, and the United States that address social justice and the environment. Her work often combines performance, procession, dance, music, spoken word, textile arts, costuming, papermaking, zines and protest.
Her work is in various private and public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; el Museo de Arte Moderno, México D.F.; and Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Her work has received the Anonymous Was a Woman Award; grants from FONCA Mexico; Mario Trujillo García Defense for Human Rights Award, Mexico; Rockefeller Bellagio Artist in Residence; and Honorary Fellow of Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies LACIS, UW Madison, among others.
She currently teaches in the Art, Culture and Technology program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and serves on the Board of Directors of the College Art Association where she serves as VP for Diversity and Inclusion.
Events
Lecture: “Arts for Everyone, Everywhere. Laura Anderson Barbata, Interdeisciplinary Arts Outreach Collaborator”
February 6 @ 12:00 pm
Virtual
“Flow: Artists, Activists, and Educators Working with Water”
March 2 @ 2:00 pm
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum, Wausau, WI
“Plow: Artists, Activists, and Educators Working with Land”
March 3 @ 2:00 pm
Grand Theater, Wausau, WI
“Thread: Artists, Activists and Educators Working with Fiber”
October 26 @ 3:00 pm
Fort Atkinson Club Community Center, Fort Atkinson, WI
Presenters
The 2023-25 Arts for Everyone, Everywhere Initiative is graciously funded by the Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment.