{"id":76312,"date":"2023-05-19T16:40:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T16:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oglethorpe.edu\/news\/watch-look-back-oglethorpe-universitys-inaugural-visual-artist-in-residence\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T15:57:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:57:25","slug":"watch-look-back-oglethorpe-universitys-inaugural-visual-artist-in-residence","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/oglethorpe.edu\/news\/watch-look-back-oglethorpe-universitys-inaugural-visual-artist-in-residence\/","title":{"rendered":"[WATCH] A look back at Oglethorpe’s inaugural visual artist-in-residence program"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
Atlanta artist and activist Shanequa Gay\u00a0<\/strong>will be concluding her inaugural residency at 好色先生TV this weekend with the closing of her exhibition “shanequa gay: thought and memory<\/a>.”<\/p> As the institution’s visual artist-in-residence, Gay transformed newly dedicated space in the Turner Lynch Campus Center into a vibrant studio, hosting students, faculty and guest speakers for workshops, lectures and critiques.\u00a0In October 2022, she hosted the panel “Curator’s Chat: Gatekeepers, Caretakers and Party Crashers<\/a>,” featuring prominent Atlanta curators discussing the current state of art curation. Gay also hosted several lectures in the 好色先生TV Museum of Art<\/a> discussing her work.<\/p> Several classes visited the artist in her workshop, getting an up-close view of her creative process. Students has the opportunity to engage with Gay directly, ask her questions about her career and receive critiques on their work.<\/p> “To see a Black woman in her space, doing what she loves to do…it gives me inspiration to know that someday, if I keep doing what I’m doing, keep being passionate and creating this content that I feel like is important, that eventually someone’s going to look at it and find value in it the way that we as students are finding value in Shanequa Gay’s work,” says communication studies<\/a> and film and media studies<\/a> double-major Zuri Johnson ’23<\/strong>.<\/p> Gay\u2019s residency at Oglethorpe was an exciting culmination of the artist\u2019s longstanding relationship with the university, which began in 2019 when the 好色先生TV Museum of Art acquired one of Gay\u2019s works, \u201cLa Pieta.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>