6:30pm doors / 7pm talk
Join Miranda Lash, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Speed Art Museum, for a free public program at The Lab, co-presented with Artadia. Her talk, titled The Urgency of Art, discusses the crucial role of artists and artist-run spaces, looking specifically at case studies in New Orleans, Appalachia, and Athens, Greece. Lash will visit San Francisco for three days to participate in Art & Dialogue: New York. During her stay, she will visit with eight Artadia Awardees.
Miranda Lash is the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Speed Art Museum and a board member for the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Her recent exhibitions at the Speed include Yinka Shonibare: The American Library (co-curated with Alice Gray Stites), Keltie Ferris: *O*P*E*N*, and BRUCE CONNER: FOREVER AND EVER (co-curated with Dean Otto). Her 2017 exhibition Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, co-organized with Trevor Schoonmaker, garnered praise from sources including The New York Times, Hyperallergic, and NPR. Lash was a member of the Artistic Director’s Council for the international triennial Prospect.4 in New Orleans (2017-2018). Currently she is the 2019 Curatorial Fellow for ARCAthens, a residency program based in Athens, Greece.
From 2008 to 2014, Lash was the founding curator of modern and contemporary art at the New Orleans Museum of Art. There she curated over twenty exhibitions, including the large-scale traveling retrospective exhibition Mel Chin: Rematch and the exhibitions Rashaad Newsome: King of Arms; Katie Holten: Drawn to the Edge; Swoon: Thalassa; Wayne Gonzales: Light to Dark, Dark to Light; and Parallel Universe: Quintron and Miss Pussycat Live at City Park. Lash also presented several artists’ first solo museum exhibitions in the United States including the Venice Biennale Silver Lion awardee Camille Henrot in Camille Henrot: Cities of Ys and the British artist Marcus Coates in Marcus Coates: Animal Instincts.
Lash’s essays have been published in the Harvard journal Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, the anthology Baroque Tendencies in Contemporary Art, New American Paintings, The Oxford American, and most recently, Andy Warhol: Revelation published by the Andy Warhol Museum. Lash has been a Clark Fellow at the Clark Art Institute, a consultant for Creative Capital, and a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts.
Artadia’s Art & Dialogue is a national program designed to connect Artadia Awardees and the public with curators and cultural producers from outside of their cities. Artadia currently supports over 330 Awardees working in a diverse array of disciplines in six cities across the country
Photo of Miranda Lash by Gary Barragan