Thursday, December 3, 2020

Artist Talk Featuring Maiza Hixson on December 8

Image by Maiza Hixson, Louisville, KY, 2020.  

WhatArt 1A Lecture: Down With The Patriarchive: How Visual Culture Performs Place In America  
Where: Art 1A
When: Tuesday, December 8 from 12:30-1:45
Websites
Instragram: @maiza_hixson
About Maiza Hixson,

Maiza Hixson is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, actor, curator and Doctoral Scholars Fellow in Theater, Dance and Performance Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). She completed a Master of Fine Arts at UCSB in 2019 and a Master of Arts in Critical and Curatorial Studies at the University of Louisville in 2005. She studied Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 2001-2002. From 2015-2017, Hixson was Chief Curator of the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission and Co-Director of the Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science and Technology. She also served as Chief Curator of the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts from 2010-2015 during which time she taught and lectured at Towson University in Baltimore and University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Prior to this, she was Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati.  

Hixson has exhibited and performed widely at such venues as the Little Tokyo Arts Complex and Highways in Los Angeles; the Art, Design and Architecture Museum in Santa Barbara; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Baltimore Contemporary; Soap Factory, Minneapolis; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art in Portland, Oregon; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, NC; Haverford College; Eugen Lendl Gallery in Graz, Austria, and many others. An affiliate of Independent Curators International, her curatorial work was featured on the EMMY Award-winning PBS TV show “Articulate” with Jim Cotter and her curatorial projects have been presented at galleries across the U.S. She has published articles and essays on contemporary art and performance in dozens of exhibition catalogues both online and in print. Her artwork is held in public and private collections including those of 21c Museum, Larry and Ladonna Shapin, Leonard and Adele Leight, Will Oldham, Joan and Kurtwood Smith, and others.