The Distinguished Speaker Series at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art invites visitors to hear from internationally acclaimed leaders who inspire new ways of thinking about art, architecture, and nature. On Friday, December 8, 2017,  Artist Carrie Mae Weems will be the featured speaker.

Artist Carrie Mae Weems is considered one of the most influential contemporary American artists today. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art recently acquired the artist’s photograph series, The Kitchen Table, which was on view in the 2016 temporary exhibition Black Unity. Weems’s work investigates family relationships, cultural identity, sexism, class, political systems, and the consequences of power. She has developed a complex body of artwork employing photographs, text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation, and video. In a recent review of her retrospective in The New York Times, Holland Cotter wrote, “Ms. Weems is what she has always been, a superb image maker and a moral force, focused and irrepressible.” Weems has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at major national and international museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Frist Center for Visual Art, and the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York. She has received many awards, including the MacArthur “Genius” Grant in 2013 as well as the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

The event is $10 ($8 for Members, $5 for students). Note: Students will be required to show their student ID and ticket when entering the program.

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