In Focus Podcast
Episode 103
“She expanded the places where art could be found and embraced the new media of her time.”
NANCY HOLT
Welcome, Dr. Rebecca Uchill, an art historian and curator at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her work focuses on the institutional conditions for art production, display, and dissemination to In-Focus Podcast Number 103.
In this special episode, we discuss Dr. Uchill’s curated exhibition, Nancy Holt: Massachusetts. It is on view (at this writing), in two of the campus galleries from November 11, 2021 to January 23, 2022.
The exhibition was accompanied by a symposium event and other programming supported by the Henry Luce Foundation’s American Art Program. Rebecca shares the legacy of sculptor Nancy Holt, a pioneer of site-specific installation and the moving image.
Holt’s sculpture Spinwinder (1991), is installed at the entrance to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is at the center of the exhibition. Dr. Uchill talks with The Artist Index’s host, Ron Fortier, and reveals more of Nancy Holt’s life, work, and legacy. This episode was recorded with Zoom “post-pandemic” in 2021.
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HISTORIC ARTIST – NANCY HOLT
Please contact Dr. Rebecca Uchill if you have more information on this historic Southcoast Massachusetts artist.
508-999-8554
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
College of Visual & Performing Arts
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Dartmouth, MA 02747-2300
PHOTO CREDITS: Nancy Holt photo by Leandro Katz © Holt-Smithson Foundation, Licensed by VAGA / New York
This program is supported in part by a grant from the New Bedford Cultural Council, a local agency that is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
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