The University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of the Arts and the Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment are pleased to welcome Laura Anderson Barbata to campus.
On Saturday, October 26th from 3 to 5 P.M. Laura will be hosting a special event at the Fort Atkinson Club Community Center. Called, “Thread: Artists, Activists, and Educators working with Fiber”, the event will feature creative practices, stories and activism from immigrant, refugees and indigenous community leaders and allies.
Previously, on February 6, 2024, Barbata gave a virtual presentation from her New York studio about her own work, especially about her ongoing “Interventions,” in partnership with the UW–Madison Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program (LACIS).
In early March of 2024, she traveled to North Central and Southeastern Wisconsin to curate a series of community conversations which brought together knowledge-keepers from indigenous, immigrant and refugee communities in each region.
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 2023–2025 Wisconsin Idea Residency Program is presented by the UW–Madison Division of the Arts. This program is graciously funded by the Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment.