About this Event
The Hood Museum and the Hopkins Center are teaming up to explore issues of labor beginning with a focused gallery talk in the museum’s exhibition Division of Labor, followed by a film screening of Maintenance Artist in the Visual Arts Center.
6:00–6:30 pm FREE REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Spotlight Talk: Division of Labor
Meet in Russo Atrium, Hood Museum of Art
Exhibition co-curators Alisa Swindell and Amelia Kahl will give a brief tour of Division of Labor and introduce a screening of Maintenance Artist. Works on view in the exhibition highlight alternative forms of labor, such as domestic work and the arts, alongside larger social and political forces. Free and open to all. No registration necessary. Space is limited to twenty people via registration on our website.
7:00 pm TICKETED VIA HOP BOX OFFICE
Film Screening: Maintenance Artist
Loew Auditorium, Visual Arts Center
This acclaimed documentary about the first artist-in-residence at NYC’s Department of Sanitation profiles pioneering feminist artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles, who took up the position after writing a manifesto comparing the indignities suffered by women to those endured by sanitation workers.
Image: Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Touch Sanitation Performance, 1979-80. Citywide performance with 8,500 Sanitation workers across all fifty-nin New York Sanitation districts. Date unknown, Sweep 3, Manhattan 3. Photo by Robin Holland
Copyright Mierle Laderman Ukeles
Event venue & nearby stays
Hood Museum of Art, 6 East Wheelock Street, Hanover, United States
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