This project was made possible with the support of the Johnson/Kulukundis Family President’s Fund for Arts at Harvard University.įollow Autumn (.Nothing Persona) on Instagram for events and other updates: more information, click here.So, I am in the Army and was activated for 6 months so I ended up getting out of my lease. The twelve-part drawing evokes the landscape of a natural wildfire while alluding to ideas of protest, politics, and change. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.Ĭurrently on view at the Harvard Art Museums is Fernández’s ink and pencil drawing Small American Fires (2016), a recent addition to the museums’ modern and contemporary galleries. Fernández received a BFA from Florida International University, Miami, in 1990 and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, in 1992. Fernández’s works have been exhibited both nationally and internationally at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA Museum of Modern Art, New York San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. She is a 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and the recipient of numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA Artist's Grant, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award. Commission of Fine Arts, a 100-year-old federal panel that advises the president and Congress on national matters of design and aesthetics. Often inspired by natural wonders, Fernández frequently places importance in her choice of medium, employing gold, graphite, and other minerals that have complicated histories often tied to colonialism.Īppointed by President Barack Obama, Fernández was the first Latina to serve on the U.S. Teresita Fernández is a contemporary American artist best known for her prominent public installations and experiential large-scale sculptures that evoke striking landscapes. Visit Autumn (.Nothing Personal) throughout the month for ongoing events or host your own reading, discussion, or performance any time.Įvery day, Autumn (.Nothing Personal) will host events with faculty, students, staff, and members of the Harvard and surrounding communities, including: the Aquinnah Wampanoag people the Association of Black Harvard Women the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights the Harvard Human Rights Review Jill Johnson and the Harvard Dance Center William (Ned) Friedman, Director of the Arnold Arboretum Expressions Dance Company the Task Force on Asian and Pacific American Studies Diana Oh and the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) Queer Kitchen the Du Bois Orchestra at Harvard Claire Chase and many others. Host your own reading, discussion group, meeting, or public action. Sign up online to join a group reading or use the installation to read any time. Harvard Art Museums is looking for volunteers to read the essay in public throughout the month of September, 2018. Commissioned by the Harvard University Committee on the Arts, the installation is both a physical site and a space for public dialogue and performance.Īutumn (.Nothing Personal) references James Baldwin’s 1964 text “Nothing Personal,” published as a collaborative book with the photographer Richard Avedon at the height of the civil rights movement. Autumn (.Nothing Personal) is a public sculpture by the artist Teresita Fernández on view August 27 through October 1, 2018.

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