Siddhartha Shah | 2025 Bette R. Spriestersbach Endowed Lectureship

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Join us at the Stanley Museum of Art for the 2025 Bette R. Spriestersbach Endowed Lectureship , featuring Siddhartha V. Shah, PhD, and John Wieland 1958 Director at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College. 

Our Wounds and Our Weapons: Artmaking in India as Liberatory Practice, 1947 to Today

Independence from British rule in 1947 signaled the end of nearly 350 years of British occupation, leaving the people of India to grapple with tremendous trauma and the task of building a nation that was simultaneously ancient and new. Artists looked to the distant and more recent pasts to envision a bright but unknown future, and their marks - particularly in printmaking practices - reveal a yearning for personal and political liberation, as well as an ongoing effort to fulfill a precarious dream of equality, unity, and peace.

Artwork Caption:
Untitled (Gandhi)
2009
Somerset paper, woodcut
74 1/2 x 41 1/8 inches (189 x 104 cm)
The Waswo X. Waswo Collection of Indian Printmaking
2016.59 / 219.2015

Jagadeesh Tammineni (1988-)

Thursday, April 10, 2025 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Stanley Museum of Art
160 West Burlington Street, Iowa City, IA 52242
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