Join us for in-gallery conversations with Jason Weems and Julie Shafer, two of the artists and curators featured in Out of Site: Survey Science and the Hidden West.

Schedule:

5:30 p.m. | Food and Beverages Available for Purchase 

6 p.m. | Museum Galleries Open

7 p.m. | Talk by Jason Weems

8 p.m. | Talk by Julie Shafer

9 p.m. | Museum Closes

Autry After Hours | Join the Autry on Thursday evenings as we open our doors at night! Explore the galleries, grab a drink and a bite to eat and discover the diverse array of emerging and established artists, musicians, poets, writers and more who represent the varied and unique communities in and around Los Angeles. Grab your friends, families and neighbors and discover Autry After Hours!

About the Artists

Jason Weems is a co-curator of the exhibition and Associate Professor in Art History at the University of California Riverside where he specializes in American art and explores the intersections between art, sight and technology in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His first book, Barnstorming the Prairies: Aerial Vision and Modernity in Rural America, 1920-1940, traces the impact of aerial view-making on representations of the American Midwest. Other interests include the changing conceptualization of scale in American art and the scientific visualization and consideration of pattern in American landscape art.

Julie Shafer’s series Conquest of the Vertical is a series of 6’ pinhole negative images of remote Indigenous lands that were appropriated by executive order and altered by mining. She relinquished control so that the barren, stripped land, devastated by years of mining, could itself make a mark/trace and serve as evidence of an unknown history.  Each of the photographs were developed on location, where sand, dust, and snowstorms all affected the chemistry and the surface of the paper, leaving a mark on the photo, just as one has been left on the land.