Joe Baker
Contemporary Native American Art
Joe Baker, co-curator of the exhibit, "Remix: New Modernities in a Post Indian World," will discuss how the exhibit addresses the flexible and changing definition of "Native" throughout indigenous communities. The arts represented in this provocative exhibit present sometimes controversial and conflicting looks at the evolving language of "Native." Mr. Baker has a long history of supporting Native American Artists as they negotiate the pull of the past within the gravity field of the present.
Joe Baker is the Director of Community Engagement at Arizona State University, Herberger College of the Arts. He is the former Lloyd Kiva New Curator of Fine Art, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. An accomplished painter and beadworker, Mr. Baker has a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Tulsa and has completed post-graduate studies at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education.
When and where to enjoy this lecture: Thursday, April 9, 2009, at Lakeview Museum, 1125 W. Lake Ave., Peoria, Illinois.
Other programs in the Fine Arts Society's 2008-2009 Lecture series: "The Genius of Mark Twain" with Dr. Elliot Engel, "Inspired by the Louvre: American Artists and the Louvre" with Dr. Elizabeth Kennedy, "Pre-Raphaelite Modernism" with Dr. Elizabeth Helsinger, "A Journey through the Art of India" with Kristan McKinsey, "Now Your Colors Sing: Chagall and the School of Paris" with Miranda Hofelt and "Munch's Modernity" with Dr. Peter Chametzky.
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