Event Details
Date & Time:
Thu October 17, 2024
12:30 PM-1:00 PM
Location:
***Online Program***
on Zoom, register for link (see below)
Audience:
Open to the public
Details:
One Book One Northwestern (OBON) is a university‐wide reading program that aims to engage the campus in a common conversation centered on a carefully chosen, thought-provoking book. The Block is proud to partner annually with One Book to explore the themes of this shared text, selecting artworks from the museum collection that can broaden discussions.
Join Block Museum staff for a talk considering an artwork from the Block’s collection that reflects on the complexities of oppression, tradition, solidarity, and community, themes central to the 2024–25 One Book One Northwestern selection, The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich.
This talk will be led by Corinne Granof, Academic Curator, and facilitated by Isabella Ko, Engagement Coordinator and Educator.
Participation level – light, participants may share thoughts and questions throughout the talk via the Q&A chat box.
Registration is required to receive a Zoom link for this event.
About Program Participants
Corinne Granof is the Academic Curator at The Block Museum of Art where she directs the museum’s curatorial initiatives involving student and faculty collaboration. Granof has curated, co-curated, and collaborated on such exhibitions as For One and All: Prints from the Block’s Collection (2021/2023), Up is Down: Mid-Century Experiments in Advertising and Film at the Goldsholl Studio (2018), William Blake and the Age of Aquarius (2017), A Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant-Garde, 1960s-1980s (2016), The Left Front: Radical Art in the “Red Decade,” 1929–1940 (2014); and The Last Expression: Art and Auschwitz (2002) and edited the related companion publications. Granof has a PhD in art history from the University of Chicago, and BA and MA degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Isabella Ko aspires to create spaces where people can slow down, get curious, and reflect on the world around them—while in the company of art and others. She wonders about how to center critical pedagogical practices when facilitating art experiences and the role of cultural production within sociopolitical movements. Isabella is the Block Museum’s Engagement Coordinator & Educator and graduated from Northwestern University in 2020 with a major in art history and minors in French and Business Institutions. You might hear her before you see her (talking and laughing loudly with loved ones.)
Contact The Block Museum of Art for more information: (847) 491-4000 or email us at block-museum@northwestern.edu