Join artist Salvador Jiménez-Flores in conversation with Grounds For Sculpture Curator Grace Yasumura for a discussion on artistic freedom. Together, they will explore how creative practices confront social issues, challenge systems of power, and open space for dialogue and change. This dynamic discussion invites audiences to consider the role of art in shaping civic consciousness and amplifying diverse voices.
Admission to GFS included.
To learn more about our current exhibition Salvador Jiménez-Flores: Raíces & Resistencias, please click here.
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About the Artist: Salvador Jiménez-Flores (b. 1985, Jalisco, Mexico) is Associate Professor and Chair of Ceramics at the School of Art Institute of Chicago, and he participated in the 2022 GFS exhibition Fragile: Earth which was co-produced with The Color Network, an organization of which he was a former organizing member. He is also an organizing member of the Instituto Gráfico de Chicago, an organization inspired by the socio-political art of Mexico’s Taller de Gráfica Popular (The People’s Print Workshop) and uses art as a platform to inform and generate community discourse about urgent social issues.
A recipient of many awards, fellowships, grants, and residencies, Salvador Jiménez-Flores has been an Artist in Residence at the Harvard Ceramics Program, Office of the Arts at Harvard University, MA; the John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry, WI; the Museum of Glass, NY; and Haystack Mountain School of Craft, ME. He is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grants, The New England Foundation for the Arts, Threewalls’ RaD Lab+Outside the Walls Fellowship Grant, and is a 2021 United States Artist Fellow. Jiménez-Flores is also an organizing member of the Instituto Gráfico de Chicago. His work has been exhibited at the National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL; the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI; the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE; and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, among others.
About the Curator: As Curator, Yasumura is responsible for elevating GFS’s profile through exhibitions that encourage new understandings of exemplary works of sculpture while supporting works produced by contemporary artists. Prior to joining GFS, Yasumura served as an assistant curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where she co-curated the exhibition The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture. She has also served as the project manager for Contemporary Monuments to the Slave Past, a digital archive that investigates how we visualize, interpret, and engage the histories of enslavement through contemporary monuments. Yasumura brings a deep understanding of public art and relevant contextualization thereof, enabling GFS to represent broader and expansive narratives through its exhibitions program. She holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Maryland, MA in Art History from New York University, and a BA in Peace and Justice Studies from Wellesley College.