| March 2, 2012 | ||
| 4:30 pm | to | 7:00 pm |
The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) invites the public to celebrate the opening of the exhibition Asco: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective, 1972–1987 on March 2 and March 3. This two-day celebration features an opening party and a half-day symposium. Both events are free and open to the public, however reservations are strongly recommended for the symposium as space is limited.
The festivities begin at WCMA on Friday, March 2 at 4:30 p.m. Guests will have the opportunity to join the exhibition curators, C. Ondine Chavoya, Associate Professor of Art and Latina/o Studies at Williams College, and Rita Gonzalez, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), in the galleries for a tour of the exhibition. A wine and hors d’oeuvres reception with artists Sean Carrillo, Harry Gamboa, Jr., Willie F. Herrón III, Louis Jacinto, and Patssi Valdez—all artists featured in the exhibition—will be held from 5:30 to 7:00 pm.
The celebration continues on Saturday, March 3 with a symposium at Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall on the Williams campus from 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. This half-day event will feature lively conversations with the exhibition curators, Asco artists, and scholars Colin Gunckel, Amelia Jones, Amalia Mesa-Bains, and Mario Ontiveros. These key figures from the fields of art, art history, and Latina/o studies will discuss how Asco developed as a group during a period of tremendous youthful activism in the United States and across the Americas, and Asco’s role in challenging and expanding the parameters of art, cinema, performance, and muralism alongside a social nexus that involved feminism, the Chicano civil rights movement, and queer politics.
To reserve a space for this event, please email wcmareservations@
