Join us on Thursday October 28, 2010 at 6pm in the Aetna Theater for the Docent Memorial Lecture: Artist Talk with Pepón Osorio. Born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, Pepón Osorio is one of the most significant artists working in the United States today. Osorio’s pieces, influenced by his experience as a social worker, usually evolve from an interaction with the neighborhoods and people among whom he is working. “My principal commitment as an artist is to return art to the community,” he says.
Osorio’s works are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, and the Wadsworth Atheneum, and his many awards include the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship. He will speak about the trajectory of his art with focus on his public art project on Hartford's Park Street organized by Real Art Ways in 1994.
This lecture is sponsored by the Docent Council of the Wadsworth Atheneum.Free and open to the public
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