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Conference to focus on Artpark’s influential early years
A conference about the heyday of Artpark, the acclaimed Western New York artist residency program, will be presented by the UB Art Galleries Oct. 8-9.
The seminal years of Artpark, the influential, highly acclaimed artist residency program in Lewiston, will be the subject of a conference presented by the UB Art Galleries Oct. 8-9.
The conference will coincide with the exhibition “Artpark: 1974-1984,” on view in the UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, North Campus, from Sept. 25 to Dec. 18.
Conference events will focus attention on Artpark and its legacy as an unprecedented experiment in artist-public interaction and site-specificity. It balanced a populist mission with some of the most impressive avant-garde, investigational art of its day; art that influences work being produced today, as well as current museum programming.
Artpark, on the Niagara River Gorge just north of Niagara Falls, was, during the period under consideration in the exhibition, a place where artists spent summers creating often-astonishing, temporary artworks outdoors. It opened in 1974 under the aegis of the New York State Parks Department and for 10 years produced an elaborate program of visual art and performance that drew national and international attention, and some of the most important new artists of its day.
The conference, featuring films and panel discussions, is free and open to the public.
For the full conference schedule, visit the UB Art Galleries website.
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