August 11, 2008
Staats Fasoldt
Fame Lecture at Woodstock School of Art
Monday August 18th, 2008
At 7PM with Painter Henrietta Montooth, a talk and slide show on
artistic methods and social context.
Henrietta is a painter/writer residing in New York City and Woodstock.
She is experimental with paint and with a variety of materials
including words and spaces, often combining all of these elements into
installations. She also works in theater as visual artist and
performer.
Henrietta lived and worked in Latin America, traveling to farming and
fi****ng villages, Indian settlements and ancient ruins, and areas of
Afro culture and rituals.
³I accompanied rustic pilgrimages where people rode for days in the
back of trucks, on horse and mule back or ox carts in biblical fa****on
to make offerings, sell their wares and livestock, buy salt and other
supplies, marry, and baptize their children in group ceremonies. These
experiences still have a strong impact on my paintings and connect with
my own raw upbringing in Missouri which varied from the pop culture of
Kansas City streets, reflecting jazz, corrupt politics and racial
inequality to the Missouri farmland where my mother¹s people raised
grapes and apples and where my sister and I fa****oned our toys and
dolls from mud and sticks, hollyhocks, corn cobs and corn silk, and
concocted our paints from mulberries, beets, boiled onions, gr***** and
laundry bluing. We were aware of the poverty and prejudice of those
depression years, of the dust wrecked farm land, the losses and
foreclosures, the Black ghettos and segregation. This early background
still gives intensity and vision to my artistic endeavors and affects
my approach to materials and techniques.²
Hwnrietta studied at Missouri University, University of Caracas,
Venezuela, University of Mexico City, Art Students League, André Lhote
Studio in Paris, Edwiggi Poggi Sculpture Studio in Florence; Polikof
Theater Design School and Circle Rep Theater Workshops; She has taught
at York College(City University of New York) and University of
Illinois. Her exhibits include the Queens Museum of Art, Artists Space,
Museum of Modern Art in Sao Paulo and Bahia, Brazil and the Sao Paulo
International Biennial. She has received Awards from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York
Foundation for the Arts, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.
$5 at the door snacks inside.
The Woodstock School of Art is on Rt. 212, one mile east of the Green
(that would be towards Saugerties)
WSA 679-23988
This lecture is open to all!
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