LITERATURE + LECTURES

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts - UH and Project Row Houses present Communograph Artist Talk: Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Wednesday, November 16, at 7pm. LOCATION: Dudley Recital Hall, School of Art, University of Houston.

The UH Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts presents Mierle Laderman Ukeles, a New York based artist known for her feminist and service oriented artwork. Her manifesto Maintenance Art—Proposal for an Exhibition, challenged the domestic role of women and proclaimed herself as a “maintenance artist”. Maintenance, for Ukeles, is the realm of human activities that keep things going, such as cooking, cleaning and child-rearing.

Since 1970 Ukeles has been the nonsalaried Artist in Residence for New York City’s Sanitation Department, where she builds and orchestrates public projects that explore the social and ecological issues of waste management.

A conversation addressing labor and art will follow Ukeles’ talk, with Mitchell Center Artists in Residence Zach Moser and Eric Leshinsky of Shrimp Boat Projects, moderated by Jenni Sorkin, Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at the University of Houston School of Art.

This is part of the Communograph: Mapping Community Through Creative Action series, a series focusing on the exploration of the grassroots creativity found in the Third Ward. This series aims to help evaluate how the Arts at University of Houston can become an intellectual resource, redirecting its academic facilities and assets towards strengthening connections within the immediate neighboring community.

Please visit www.mitchellcenterforarts.org  for more information.

Photo credit: Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York / www.feldmangallery.com.