Artist Talk: Renée Stout (Virtual)

Join us for a unique opportunity to hear from Renée Stout, whose prints, drawings, photographs, and mixed media installations are inspired by the African Diaspora, as well as her daily life and current events. Her mixed media work The Black Wall (2008) is on view in the Zimmerli's Art of the Americas galleries.

Talk is followed by a Q&A.

Registration is required: go.rutgers.edu/zamzoom0517 The talk will be recorded and posted to the museum's YouTube channel.

Renée Stout is an independent artist who grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and received her BFA in 1980 from Carnegie-Mellon University, where her focus was on painting. Upon moving to Washington, DC, in 1985, she began to explore the connections between African and African American art and spirituality, which led her to focus more on mixed media sculpture and  eventually become the first American artist to exhibit in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art. Stout has received many awards, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, the Driskell Prize, awarded by the High Museum of Art, the Sondheim Prize. In 2018, she was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Women’s Caucus for Art. Stout’s work is featured in many art history publications and can be found in museum and private collections, nationally and internationally.

Generous support for this project provided by Art Bridges.