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SUMMARY:The Art of the Abolitionist Movement with Aston Gonzalez\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:The Clinton Presidential Library\, the Clinton Foundation\, and the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts welcome Aston Gonzalez\, Ph.D.\, for a discussion of his book\, Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century. \n\n\n\nIn a conversation moderated by AMFA’s Director of Community Engagement\, Chris Revelle\, Gonzalez will detail how daguerreotypes\, lithographs\, cartes de visite\, and steam printing presses enabled artists to advocate for social reform\, including the Abolitionist movement. Gonzalez will highlight the work of understudied artists such as Robert Douglass Jr.\, Patrick Henry Reason\, James Presley Ball\, and Augustus Washington. \n\n\n\nThis event is one of two public programs being held in conjunction with the Arkansas Civic Education Institute\, an annual week-long professional development opportunity for 4th-12th-grade teachers. \n\n\n\nThe program will be available on the Clinton Presidential Center YouTube channel the following day. \n\n\n\nThese programs are the first in the Clinton Presidential Center Commemorates America 250 — a series dedicated to exploring the history of the United States in the year leading up to the semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence on July 4\, 2026. \n\n\n\n“The Art of the Abolitionist Movement” is presented in partnership with the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site. \n\n\n\nASL interpretation is available during this event. \n\n\n\nAbout the Participants\n\n\n\nAston Gonzalez\nAston Gonzalez is a historian of African American culture and politics during the long nineteenth century. He is an associate professor of History at Salisbury University where he is the Director of History Graduate Program. \n\n\n\nThe University of North Carolina Press published his first book\, Visualizing Equality: African American Rights and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century\, in 2020. His journal articles and book chapters have focused on the intersection of visual culture and African American history. They have analyzed African American portraiture during the Early Republic\, the visual production of free Black abolitionists\, picturing Black citizenship during the Civil War\, the creation of African American archives\, representations of Black freedom seekers\, and the visual culture of the Emancipation Proclamation. \n\n\n\nHis scholarship has been supported by postdoctoral fellowships from the Ford Foundation and the Library Company of Philadelphia\, as well as numerous short-term fellowships. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan after he graduated from Williams College. \n\n\n\n\nChris Revelle\nChris Revelle joined the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts as the Director of Community Engagement in 2021. Revelle is focused on dynamic programming that connects all audiences to art and its educational potential. Along with the Department of Community Engagement\, he develops programs that reimagine traditional approaches\, activate the Museum in innovative ways\, and provide multisensory experiences and teaching methods with the overarching goal of expanding partnerships within Arkansas and beyond while representing and welcoming our diverse community. \n\n\n\nRevelle is also an interdisciplinary artist and educator. Within his studio practice\, Revelle is focused on socially engaged work. Through the examination of history\, language\, and visual culture\, Revelle’s work confronts the failures and abuses of social\, political\, and economic systems. The goal of his practice is to challenge public memory/engagement while inspiring discourse and empathy. His solo exhibition Swing Low was named Best Virtual Exhibit for 2020 by Phoenix New Time. He was selected for the Idea Capital Grant in 2018 and a finalist for the 2017 Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize. Revelle has exhibited in the United States\, Hong Kong\, the United Kingdom\, Europe\, South Korea\, the United Arab Emirates\, and India\, and has created artwork for United Nations organizations.
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SUMMARY:Delta Voices Artist Talk
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the art and artists of the Mid-South region during this exciting talk in partnership with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. \nGain insight into the inspirations\, creative processes\, and cultural perspectives of this year’s invited Delta Voices artists: \n\nDavid Andree (Fayetteville\, Arkansas)\, whose work explores the natural environment through process-driven landscapes\nMona Cliff (Kansas City\, Missouri)\, a multidisciplinary artist whose beadwork and textiles celebrate Indigenous identity and cultural resilience\nGreta Kresse (Little Rock\, Arkansas)\, whose intimate paintings reflect on human connection and everyday moments\n\nAlongside curators from each museum\, hear directly from the artists in an engaging conversation that explores the powerful connections between art\, place\, and diverse perspectives. \n\nAbout David Andree\n\n David Andree is an artist whose work explores landscape as a subject of flux through painting\, drawing\, sculpture\, and sound. Attracted to moments of tension between what was\, what is\, and what will be\, David’s work strives to create meaningful abstractions through perpetually chasing the qualities of the fleeting present.  \n\n\n\nA Minnesota native\, David maintains tribal affiliation with the Red Lake Nation of Ojibwe. David holds a Master of Fine Arts from the State University of New York (SUNY)\, received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD)\, and currently holds the position of Assistant Professor at the School of Art in Fayetteville\, AR where he resides in the Ozarks.  \n\n\n\nHe has had work exhibited at the Shirley Fiterman Art Center\, Gallery MC and BWAC Gallery in New York City\, Rochester Contemporary Art Center\, Hallwalls\, the Big Orbit Gallery\, Exhibit-A and the Burchfield Nature and Art Center in upstate New York\, The Masur Museum of Art (Monroe\, LA)\, Plains Art Museum (Fargo\, ND)\, Manifest Creative Research Gallery (Cincinnati\, OH)\, in addition to numerous venues around Minneapolis\, Minnesota including the Anderson Center\, SooVac\, Rochester Art Center\, Minnesota Museum of American Art\, and the Weisman Art Museum.  \n\n\n\nHis work has been included in publications from Friend of the Artist\, Manifest Creative Research Gallery (USA)\, with published works from Sunshine LTD (USA)\, Dauw (Belgium)\, Eilean Rec. (France)\, Herhalen (Scotland) and Touched Music (UK).  \n\n\n\nDavid has been invited as Artist in Residence at MacDowell (Peterborough\, NH)\, the Studios at MASS MoCA (North Adams\, MA)\, UCross Foundation (Ucross\, WY)\, Wassaic Project (Wassaic\, NY)\, Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency (Joshua Tree\, CA)\, Works on Water / Underwater New York (New York\, NY)\, I-Park (East Haddam\, CT)\, Hambidge Center (Rabun Gap\, GA)\, Grand Marais Art Colony (Grand Marais\, MN)\, Anderson Center (Red Wing\, MN)\, amongst others.  \n\n\n\nHe is the recipient of an Artist 360 Project Grant from the Mid-America Arts Alliance\, an Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board\, a Creative Climate Award from the Human Impacts Institute\, a Juror Award from Ylinka Barotto\, Assistant Curator\, Guggenheim Museum\, and his work is collected by Target Corporation\, including private collections throughout Minneapolis\, Chicago\, New York\, and the United Kingdom.  \n\n\n\nAbout Mona Cliff\n\nMona Cliff (Aniiih) b.1977 is a multidisciplinary visual artist. Seedbead beadwork & sewing appliqué have been a primary foundation of her artist practice. Her art practice focuses on how traditional arts are passed down between generations of women\, thus influencing culture. Mona pursues the concepts of generational knowledge while exploring other topics such as native futurism and contemporary indigenous identity.  \n\n\n\nShe recently concluded a commissioned work for the newly built Kansas City International Airport. A beaded piece that spans 17 feet. Her work can also be seen at the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles included in the Future Imaginaries exhibition\, which will be on display until 2026. She is preparing for several solo exhibits in 2025 and 2026.  \n\n\n\nMona is married and has three children. She currently resides in Lawrence\, Kansas. Mona Cliff is an enrolled member of the Gros Ventre tribe (A’aninin/Nakota Nations). \n\n\n\nAbout Greta Kresse\n\nGreta Kresse (b. 1999\, Little Rock\, AR) is a plein-air painter based in Fayetteville\, AR. She received her BA from Hendrix College and is pursuing an MFA at the University of Arkansas\, supplementing her education through programs at the New York Studio School and The Mount Gretna School of Art. Kresse teaches workshops at the Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas. \n\n\n\nWorking primarily in oils\, she creates vibrant narrative paintings that explore human connection within the Southern landscape\, particularly focusing on intimate scenes along Arkansas rivers. Her documentary-style approach captures moments of profound connection between community members\, investigating themes of isolation\, beauty\, and love in the American South. Drawing inspiration from regional poetry and direct observation\, Kresse’s work proposes comfort and connection as forms of resistance\, presenting authentic representations of her community. \n\n\n\nDelta Voices Artist Talk is supported in part by the Alice L. Walton Foundation. \nPhoto of Mona Cliff by Jason Dailey. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
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