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“Davidson College exhibit challenges viewers to confront abuse,” in the Charlotte Observer

Written by: Mark Leach
October 22nd, 2015
On view through Oct. 25, at Davidson College’s Van Every/Smith Galleries is the ambitious work of Regina José Galindo. “Bearing Witness” is a survey exhibit of more than 20 performance pieces spanning 15 years. Curated by Gallery Director and Curator Lia Newman, the 41-year-old internationally acclaimed Guatemalan artists’ creative work includes video, sculpture and photos of her performances. “Bearing Witness” is a challenging exhibition for the everyday viewer. In her performances, she uses her unclothed body, self-mutilation, self-imprisonment and other strategies to objectify the exploitation of the powerless and to demonstrate a determined resistance against a culture of violence and...
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“Political Acts: Regina José Galindo at Davidson College,” in Burnaway

Written by: Kellie Bornhoft

October 22nd, 2015

Photo of Regina José Galindo’s performance “¿quién puede borrar las huellas? (Who Can Erase the Footprints),” 2003
Unfazed bystanders shuffle past Regina José Galindo as she carries a large bowl of swishing blood, real blood. At every seven or eight paces, the performance artist lowers the bowl to the ground, steps into the blood, and marks the streets of Guatemala City with red footprints. Dressed in a black dress, as if in mourning, she traces a path from the Constitutional Court to the National Palace. As seen in a video and photographs, Galindo’s 2003 public performance ¿quién puede borrar las huellas? (Who Can Erase the Footprints) was a response to a recent change in the constitution by...
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Alumni Art Collectors Lend Works for Exhibition

Written by: Morgan Orangi

June 3rd, 2015

Robert Rauschenberg, Patch (Tracks)
There are two things you might not know about Davidson College. One: the college possesses a collection of more than 3,100 works of art by artists such as Jim Dine, Rembrandt, Delacroix, Kiki Smith and Bruegel. Two: many Davidson alumni and families collect art and generously loan or promise works to Davidson. Beginning today, the public will have the opportunity to see an exhibition of 49 works loaned to Davidson by nearly 20 families from their personal art collections. The exhibition, Collected: Works in Alumni Art Collections, is on view through Aug. 30, with an opening reception from 3:30-5 p.m.,...
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Ai Weiwei film screening rescheduled

February 13th, 2014
Due to inclement weather, the screening of Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry  has been rescheduled for Wednesday, February 26 from 6:30-8:30pm in the Semans Auditorium, Belk Visual Arts Center.  Please join gallery staff  for a screening of the documentary and a post-film discussion with Dr. Fuji Lozada and Dr. Margaret McCarthy. The event, supported by the Davidson College Multicultural Affairs, is in conjunction with the current exhibition State of Emergency, which includes Ai Weiwei's Smith Gallery installation, Namelist, and audio recording, Remembrance, dedicated to the young people who lost their lives in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. For more information, visit https://www.davidsoncollegeartgalleries.org/exhibitions/onview.
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Davidson Hires Director/Curator of Galleries

December 7th, 2012

Davidson College has announced the appointment of Lia Newman as Director of the William H. Van Every/Edward M. Smith Galleries. She comes to Davidson from Artspace, Inc., in Raleigh, where she served as Director of Programs and Exhibitions since 2002. Newman will join the Davidson art department in its Katherine and Tom Belk Visual Arts Center home beginning January 2, 2013. Newman graduated from Winthrop University with a Bachelor’s degree in Art History and Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in General Studio, with Concentrations in Sculpture and Photography. She then earned a Master’s degree in Liberal Studies from Duke University. Professor...
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