MARNsalon 2014/15 Series

MARNsalons is made possible in part by support from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation's Mary L. Nohl Fund.

View the MARNsalon 2014/15 series Press Release online.

MARNSALON 2014/15 CALENDER
MARNsalon I with Evan Garza: October 11-12, 2014
MARNsalon II with Anne Bray: October 25-26, 2014
MARNsalon III with Nick Tobier, Feburary 24-25, 2015

MARNSALON 2014/15 CRITICS
Evan Garza is a curator, critic, and is co-founder and assistant director of Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR), the first residency program in the United States exclusively for LGBTQ artists. He served as Exhibitions and Public Programs Coordinator for The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 2011-2014, and has curated several exhibitions nationally, including: "PAINT THINGS: beyond the stretcher" co-curated with Dina Deitsch for deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (2013); "Something Along Those Lines" a curatorial response to a 1971 Sol LeWitt wall drawing first drafted at SMFA (2012); and "william cordova: this one's 4U (pa' nosotros)" at Boston Center for the Arts (2012). His writings on contemporary art have been published by Artforum.com, The Huffington Post, ART PAPERS, Flash Art International, and in several art journals and museum publications. He was recently appointed to the Boston Art Commission by Mayor Marty Walsh for distinguished service to the arts. Garza was a 2013 juror for the Mary L. Nohl Fellowship Program.

Anne Bray has been working at the intersection of public space and media art as a hybrid artist and director of the nonprofit media arts organization, Freewaves. The creativity of one and the social outreach of the other have continuously fed each other. Engagement with edgy, demanding, enlightening art by a broad public is Bray’s mission. She connects challenging art with venues that offer the visibility, equipment and timing for prominent display with an involved viewership.

Nick Tobier is a participant-observer of street life and the social life of public places. These inherently layered scenarios are at the core of his work, and Tobier’s practice and pedagogy reflect his belief in the power of social dynamism and the fundamental role of the artist/designer as catalyst and conduit in this relationship.

MARNsalon Committee
Sara Daleiden, MKE<->LAX, and co-chair of the MARN Advisory Committee
Shelleen Greene, Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor, Writing and Critical Thinking, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and MARN advisor
Cynthia Henry, owner of AYZHA FINE ARTS and co-chair of the MARN Advisory Committee
Claudia Mooney, Chipstone Foundation Assistant Curator
Monica Miller, artist, MARNsalon Program Coordinator