2025 Miles and Katherine Culbertson Prentice Distinguished Lecture: william cordova
Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 5:30pm
Colby College Campus, Given Auditorium (in the Bixler Art & Music Center, Room 178)
Free and open to all (register here)
Join us on the Colby campus on the evening of Tuesday, March 18, for a talk and Q&A with william cordova, who will present the 2025 Miles and Katherine Culbertson Prentice Distinguished Lecture. The Peruvian artist, who resides in New York and Miami, will speak about his interdisciplinary creative practice engaging with architecture, geometry, and history. This talk will highlight his interests in cultural history, the experience of displacement and transition, and the historical narratives of graphic design and commercial media tools used by artists and activists. The talk and Q&A will be followed by a reception in the William D. Adams Museum Lobby.
cordova is the 2025 Ossorio Fellow at the Lunder Institute for American Art, and has participated in numerous national and international residencies, including the Studio Museum in Harlem, The American Academy in Berlin, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His awards include Creative Capital Award (2024), Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2021), Art Matters Award (2020), Knight Arts Foundation Award (2022), and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (2011). He is co-founder of the Bass Collective and CCC (Coffee Cup Collective).
The Miles and Katharine Culbertson Prentice Distinguished Lecture is presented by the Colby College Museum of Art and its Lunder Institute for American Art. Presenters in recent years have included Oscar Santillán, An-My Lê, Carrie Mae Weems, Leonardo Drew, Maya Lin, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., among others.
Photo Courtesy of Renee Cox