2023 TARA GEER ARTIST TALK

Tara Geer (b.1970, Boston, MA) makes, teaches, and studies drawing. Her drawings are in the collections of the Morgan Museum, the Parrish Museum and the Harlem Children’s Art Fund. Her work with the 6-woman activist collective, Victory Garden, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Historical Society, The Beinecke Library at Yale University, and The Canadian Museum. She’s had solo shows in LA and in NY, and exhibited at Guild Gallery, Jason McCoy, Tibor de Nagy, Glenn Horowitz Gallery, The National Arts Club, Steven Harvey, Aran Cravey, Flowers, the Four Seasons and Ace hotels --among others. There are 2 books about her work; Carrying Silence: The Drawings of Tara Geer; and New York Studio Conversations. Articles in Bomb, ArtNet & White Hot magazine. She has been teaching for 3 decades - to children with visual processing challenges, museum educators, blocked artists, doctors at Yale, poets at the Homeschool, and -since 2012- in the Art and Art Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. She has a BA and MFA from Columbia University where she had a full teaching fellowship and graduated Magna Cum Laude, and Phi Beta Kappa. She has received the Louis Sudler Prize, the Joan Sovern prize, BlogHer Voice of the Year, and residencies at Denniston Hill and The MacDowell Colony. She lives and works in New York City.
Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) is an educational non-profit that trains educators in schools, museums, and institutions of higher education to use a student-centered facilitation method to create inclusive discussions. VTS is much more than an art curriculum; as a facilitation method and professional development program that fosters collaborative, inclusive, community-building dialogue, VTS has the power to change the way we relate to one another as teachers, students, and colleagues. VTS is comprised of arts and education professionals that specialize in deep listening and responsive teaching practices.
Recorded by George Cortes, Arts Center at Duck Creek
Exhibitions on View: William Eric Brown: Atka, and Tara Geer: Sown in the Half Light, July 22 - August 20, 2023
Credit: Programming at The Arts Center at Duck Creek is made possible through the generous support of the Willem de Kooning Foundation, the HILO Foundation, and people like you.
For more information: www.duckcreekarts.org
Artist Website: www.tarageer.com

[@allangardiner2515]

Interesting experience and I am interested in the alternative approach to education - although as a video it needs editing.

[@startpage717]

Phew! The camera person is swinging you all around, we are dizzy...I couldn't get through it (13:29) but I do like the line drawing at the center and around the room.