Event Details
Date & Time:
Sat March 8, 2025
12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Location:
The Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
Audience:
Open to the public
Details:
Artist Jordan Ann Craig is known for large-scale paintings, prints, and painting-inspired installations. Her work develops out of an engagement with abstraction rooted in Northern Cheyenne and other Indigenous aesthetic traditions and a dynamic and innovative exploration of color, line, and form.
Join Jacqueline Lopez, The Block Museum’s 2024-25 Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow, for an in-depth look at Jordan Ann Craig’s creative process, where precise geometric patterns meet the raw, unfinished edges of her canvases. This talk will explore how Craig draws from Indigenous art traditions through the lens of modern abstraction, showing how her work honors the past while being deeply relevant to today’s conversations on identity and place. It will also examine how her paintings, as objects, balance order and chaos, reflecting time and the environment, while her evocative titles add extra layers of meaning.
Block Gallery Talks offer a close look at select works on view centering the interdisciplinary questions, perspectives and expertise of faculty, staff, students, and community members across Northwestern and beyond.
Participation level – light, participants may choose to share thoughts and questions during the tour.
Programs are open to all, on a first-come first-served basis. RSVPs are not required, but are appreciated.
About the Speaker
Jacqueline Lopez holds a Bachelor of Arts in History and Anthropology from DePaul University and is a current PhD student in the History department at Northwestern University, where she was selected as the Mellon Cluster Fellow in Native American and Indigenous Studies. Jacqueline has held several roles in various museums, archives, and other cultural institutions, where her work focused on public history and the equity and inclusion of historically excluded populations in these spaces. She is currently the 2024-2025 Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow at The Block Museum.
The Block Museum of Art acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council. 
Contact The Block Museum of Art for more information: (847) 491-4000 or email us at block-museum@northwestern.edu
