14th annual Dasha Shenkman Lecture in Contemporary Art

Please mark your calendars and plan to come to Guelph to listen to the remarkable art critic, writer, and film maker, Chris Krausolitics of representation. Kraus has been described as “one of our smartest and original writers on contemporary art and culture” by Holland Cotter of the New York Times, and her work as “an uncannily coherent landscape, a kind of hyperintellectual, hypersexual, digital-era Yoknapatawpha that moves back and forth across the Atlantic, across the Mexican border, across the Soviet bloc” by Leslie Jamison in the New Yorker. In 2008, she received the Frank Jewett Mather Award for art journalism from the College Art Association, the jury of which stated: “Regardless of genre or medium, Kraus’s works exemplify honesty, wit, and plot. She transforms art writing’s possibilities by rescuing theories of privilege, gossip, and feminism from their occasional tumbles into the lackluster. Never one to hold her tongue, Kraus helps other women speak with equal force.”

Megan Arnold 
Alicia Barbieri 
sophia bartholomew 
Yan Wen Chang 
Rihab Essayh 
Julien Fisher 
Samuelle Grande
Meg Ross 
Chelsea Ryan 
Michael Thompson 
Kelly Uyeda 
Thomas Weir

Please plan to join us for the MFA Open Studios before and after the lecture: 3:00-5:30 p.m. and 7:30-8:30 p.m.