The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

"Getting” Contemporary Art: A Garden of Promise and Dissent, part two

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Art[ifice] in the Garden:

This class will focus on gardens as artificial constructs created, maintained, and completed by humans. Through a slide presentation, we will consider the garden in art history, considering the way cultivation reflects imperial aspirations, trade, and the imposition of social controls. The class will conclude with an examination of works in the exhibition that relate to artifice, whether in materials, subject, or method of creation.

Kristen Erickson has been teaching art history and curating exhibitions for the past three decades. She spent eight years working in the curatorial field at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the Smith College Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art before turning to teaching. Kristen currently teaches art history at Greenwich Academy, where she also runs the campus art gallery. She holds degrees in French and art history from Vassar College and Oxford University. A resident of Ridgefield, Kristen loves making contemporary art come alive for new audiences.