Mud + Corn + Stone + Blue Reception and Curator’s Talk

Join Laura Augusta, curator of Mud + Corn + Stone + Blue, to learn more about the exhibition themes and artworks. Reception beginning at 4 pm with talk starting at 4:45 pm.

Laura Augusta, PhD, is the Jane Dale Owen Director & Chief Curator at the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston. Her work has been awarded Fellowships from the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Core Critical Studies Program at the MFAH, and Yale University, among others, and her essays have been widely published internationally, in English and Spanish. From 2016-2020, Laura ran a domestic project space, Yvonne, in her apartment in downtown Guatemala City. Laura’s curatorial/essay projects connect the landscapes of disaster-prone places, thinking specifically about storms and muddiness, shared space, and everyday forms of embodied ongoingness.

Mud + Corn + Stone + Blue a traveling exhibition curated by Laura Augusta (@piedrinita) and produced by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York and the Stanlee & Gerald Rubin Center for Visual Arts at The University of Texas at El Paso. Learn more @curatorsintl #Curatorsintl #ICIExhibitions and @el.rubincenter.