In Conversation: Dr. Anastasia Aukeman and Dr. Natasha Boas

With a special reading by poet Joanna McClure

Wednesday, July 20, 2022 I 5PM

MarinMOCA Main Gallery

Join art historian Anastasia Aukeman and curator and critic Natasha Boas for a wide-ranging conversation exploring the diverse output of Inner Garden artist Jean Conner. From her early years with the Rat Bastard Protective Association, to her later botanical explorations in Marin County and current Glen Park studio practice, these two scholars engage in presenting new perspectives and contemporary concerns around Conner's work.

Bespoke Rat Bastard Libation courtesy of Rye on the Road. 

Indoor masking is strongly encouraged except when drinking.

Free with admission: $10 for adults, $8 for seniors. Free for members.

 

Dr. Anastasia Aukeman is an art historian and curator living and working in New York City. Her recent book, Welcome to Painterland: Bruce Conner and the Rat Bastard Protective Association (University of California Press, 2016) is the first study devoted to the Rat Bastard Protective Association, a community of artists who lived and worked together in and around a building they dubbed Painterland in San Francisco. Aukeman teaches art history at Parsons School of Design and has curated numerous exhibitions. 

 Dr. Natasha Boas is an independent curator, writer, and scholar based in San Francisco. She was a founding faculty member in the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts. She has organized shows devoted to such Bay Area artists as Bernice Bing, Clare Rojas, Alicia McCarthy, Ruby Neri, and Joan Brown. She holds a PhD from Yale University and a degree in filmmaking from La Fémis, Paris. 

Joanna McClure is an American poet associated with the writers of the San Francisco Renaissance and the Beat Generation. She attended the University of Arizona and later studied developmental psychology and early childhood education. One of the most significant female voices of the Beat Generation, McClure continues to write and live in San Francisco.