Voluntary Detours: A Conversation with Jude Griebel and Lianne McTavish
Voluntary Detours: A Conversation with Jude Griebel and Lianne McTavish
6-7:30PM: Join Jude Griebel and Lianne McTavish for an artist talk about McTavish’s newly published book, Voluntary Detours – in which the Museum of Fear and Wonder is featured – and join the conversation about how rural museums, collections and history help shape communities throughout Alberta.
Jude Griebel is the co-curator, along with Brendan Griebel, of Esker’s current exhibition, Care and Wear: Bodies Crafted for Harm and Healing. He is a Canadian visual artist and the co-director of the Museum of Fear and Wonder. He creates intensively detailed figurative sculptures that visualize our entanglement with the surrounding world. Griebel has completed numerous residencies including Pioneer Works, New York; International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams and Yaddo; and Saratoga Springs, NY. His work has been collected internationally by institutions that include the Arsenal Contemporary Art, Montreal; the Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee; and the Volpert Foundation, New York.
Lianne McTavish is a curator, researcher, writer, and instructor (History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture). McTavish has published over 40 refereed articles/book chapters, several edited collections, and four single-authored monographs, including Defining the Modern Museum (University of Toronto Press, 2013) and Voluntary Detours: Small-Town and Rural Museums in Alberta (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021; see also albertamuseumsproject.com).