SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College hosts its seventh-annual Winter/Miller Lecture, to be delivered by revered multidisciplinary artist Mickalene Thomas at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 8. The event is free and open to the public.
Thomas is lauded for her bedazzled portraits of Black women, including supermodels, family friends, contemporary Black icons, and her mother, a frequent muse. Her work has been exhibited around the world; a 2012 portrait of her mother, Madame Mama Bush, will be on view this spring in the Tang exhibition Studio/Archive.
Thomas’s expansive artistic practice also includes photography, collage, filmmaking, and site-specific installations. Beyond her studio practice, Thomas has produced a Tony-nominated Broadway show, designed clothing for Christian Dior, curated museum exhibitions, and taught at colleges across the US. She has made mentorship central to her career. She is a co-founder of SOULAS House, a cultural hub and retreat for Black women, a co-founder of Pratt>FORWARD and the founder of Art>FORWARD Artist in the Market incubator for post-graduate students.
