Recognition Week Email Invitation

YOU’RE INVITED

2021 RECOGNITION WEEK

RECOGNITION DINNER

CHAIRS

Sue Hostetler Wrigley and Beau Wrigley

HOSTS Liza and Jon Mauck
Leigh and Reggie Smith
Sarah Arison and Tom Wilhelm Marie and Bill Wise
Paula and Jim Crown
Melony and Adam Lewis

Simone Leigh ORDER OF THE EVENING

2021 INTERNATIONAL 6PM COCKTAILS
ARTIST HONOREE
Immerse yourself in the Ranch studios as we transform spaces
and places into “Inspiration Row” featuring: Soldner’s Tequila,
Takashi’s Sake, and Whiskey/Bourbon in Woodworking. All
will be accompanied by light bites. Jewelry Pop-up courtesy
of Lugano Diamonds.

7:15PM DINNER

Entertainment to surprise and delight while you dine
Paddle Raise by Steven Zick of Christie’s Auction House

9PM DESSERTS, DRINKS & DANCING

The Ranch Quad becomes the hottest nightclub at 8,000 ft
Afterparty dreamed up by Omar Hernandez of Omar’s NYC
Music curated by New York City’s DJ Yacine

RECOGNITION WEEK CALENDAR OF EVENTS:

12 13 14 15 16JULY
JULY JULY JULY JULY

CRITICAL CRITICAL ARTIST SIMONE LEIGH SAIDIYA
DIALOG DIALOG LECTURE HARTMAN
In Conversation with
The Guerrilla Girls The Guerrilla Girls The Guerrilla Girls Saidiya Hartman Literary Reading
10AM - 3PM 10AM - 3PM 12:30PM In partnership
Schermer Meeting Schermer Meeting Schermer Meeting Summer Series with Aspen
Hall + Patton Print Hall + Patton Print Hall 12PM Words, 12:30PM
Shop Shop Schermer Meeting
+ Hall +
+ + IN-STUDIO COCKTAIL
IN-STUDIO IN-STUDIO ART MAKING + RECEPTION
ART MAKING ART MAKING IN-STUDIO
Anderson Ranch ART MAKING With International
Anderson Ranch Anderson Ranch Artistic Staff Artist Honoree
Artistic Staff Artistic Staff 2-5PM Anderson Ranch Simone Leigh
2-5PM 2-5PM Campus Studios Artistic Staff 6PM, The Quad
Campus Studios Campus Studios 2-5PM
+ Campus Studios +
DRESS: We encourage “Expressive Glam” DINNER & RECOGNITION
attire for our outdoor evening event, but with A MOVIE + DINNER
functional footwear so you can explore the LIZZ WRIGHT
grounds and studios in comfort. In partnership with CONCERT With International
Aspen Film, 6PM Artist Honoree
PARKING: Valet parking is available. Schermer Meeting In partnership Simone Leigh
Hall with Jazz Aspen 7PM, The Quad
Snowmass, 6PM
Schermer Meeting
Hall

2021 INTERNATIONAL
ARTIST HONOREE
Simone Leigh

Simone Leigh’s practice incorporates sculpture, video, and
installation; all are informed by her ongoing exploration of
black female-identified subjectivity. Leigh works in a mode she
describes as auto-ethnographic. Her objects often employ ma-
terials and forms traditionally associated with African art; her
performance- influenced installations create spaces where his-
torical precedent and self-determination commingle. Through
her investigations of visual overlaps between cultures, time
periods, and geographies, she confronts and examines ideas
of the female body, race, beauty, and community.

“I feel like I’m a part of a larger group
of artists and thinkers who have
reached critical mass, and despite
the really horrific climate that we’ve
reached, it still doesn’t distract me
from the fact of how amazing it is to
be a Black artist right now.”

- Simone Leigh

Simone Leigh, Cupboard

Simone Leigh working at Anderson Ranch, 2019 Simone Leigh, Jug

VENICE BIENNALE 2022
United States Representative

Leigh will represent the United States at the next Venice Biennale in April 2022. The first African-American woman to receive this
honor, among the art world’s most prestigious, she was selected by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and
Cultural Affairs on the recommendation of museum professionals and artists convened by the National Endowment for the Arts.

THE WEEK’S EXPERIENCES

In-Studio Art Making

The Anderson Ranch artistic staff will offer a glimpse into the workshop
experience with semi-private in-studio art making during Recognition
Week.

MONDAY Photography: iPhonography

Woodworking: Spoon Carving

TUESDAY Ceramics: Majolica Magic

Woodworking: Introduction to Cutting Boards

WEDNESDAY Painting: Watercolor Monoprints

Photography: Cyanotype
Digital Fabrication: 3D Printed Portraits

THURSDAY Ceramics: Making a Personalized Mug

Sculpture: Sculpting With Plasma

The Guerrilla Girls

The Guerrilla Girls are feminist activist artists. They wear gorilla masks
in public and use facts, humor and outrageous visuals to expose gender
and ethnic bias as well as corruption in politics, art, film, and pop
culture. Their anonymity keeps the focus on the issues, and away from
themselves. They believe in an intersectional feminism that fights
discrimination and supports human rights for all people and all
genders. Their new book The Art of Behaving Badly contains almost
all the Guerrilla Girls‘ work 1985-today.

During Recognition Week, The Guerrilla Girls will participate in both a
Critical Dialog program entitled Realization, Activation and Agitation
as well as an interactive Artist Lecture.

JULY 12 & 13: Critical Dialog: Realization, Activation & Agitation (Sold Out)
WEDNESDAY, JULY 14: Artist Lecture

Outdoor Jazz
Sculpture Concert
Exhibition
Cocktails on the quad
Nineteen sculptures by will be followed by world
local, national, and renowned jazz and gos-

internationally-acclaimed pel singer Lizz Wright
artists are installed performing live during
an intimate concert in
outdoors throughout the partnership with Jazz
Ranch campus.
Aspen Snowmass.
ONGOING THROUGH
FALL 2021 THURSDAY, JULY 15

Film Literary
Screening Reading

This multi-course dinner A reading with Saidiya
is inspired by the food of Hartman, literary scholar,
Babette’s Feast, one of
Honoree Simone Leigh’s cultural historian and
favorite films. Screening in 2019 MacArthur Fellow

partnership with Recipient.
Aspen Film.
FRIDAY, JULY 16
WEDNESDAY, JULY 14

HEALTH & SAFETY

OUR PLEDGE MASK POLICY

Anderson Ranch has updated our policies and procedures As of June 20, 2021, Anderson Ranch Arts Center will follow
and established a COVID-19 Business Safety Plan with a “mask optional” guideline for all vaccinated individuals
added layers of precaution that prioritizes the health and on the Ranch campus. We will continue requiring masks
safety of our staff, students, faculty and guests while con- for all children’s and teen classes unless there is proof of
tinuing to provide the Anderson Ranch experience that we vaccination. Those who feel more comfortable wearing a
all know and enjoy. mask and remaining physically distant will be invited to
continue those practices. We warmly welcome all guests,
Your health and safety is Anderson Ranch’s top priority. asking that those individuals who are unvaccinated
Anderson Ranch is closely following guidance released continue to wear their masks on the Anderson Ranch
by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), campus, except outdoors and when six feet or more of
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s physical distance can be achieved. The Ranch will also
(CDPHE), the Pitkin County Health Department and the continue to perform a rigorous cleaning and sanitizing
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). schedule, as well as provide advanced air purification in
Anderson Ranch follows the CDPHE COVID-19 Status Dial. buildings, offer health screenings on campus and testing
Visitors should be prepared for state and local public health where appropriate.
orders to be extended, amended, or changed as needed at
any time to protect public health, which may impact oper-
ations at Anderson Ranch.

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