AGA Chair Natasha Warshawsky presents at museum and gallery conference

Natasha Warshawsky, Department Chair of Animation & Game Art, recently was part of an artist panel presenting Monologues of Being Seen at the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries’ annual conference hosted by the University of New Mexico. Warshawsky joined Monologues artists Dr. Andrea N. Baldwin, Heidi Henderson, and Dr. James Lee. Monologues of Being Seen exhibited at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design last fall. 

The group of artists visited PCA&D during the Spring 2024 semester, hosting an artist talk about the project and accompanying workshops involving movement and 3-D scanning. Students, staff, and faculty who participated in the scanning will be represented in the show in miniature, along with hundreds of other participants from the past decade. This multimedia, interactive exhibition prompted viewers to think about perception individually and collectively.

Former PCA&D Director of Exhibitions Alex Schaufele submitted the exhibition to the conference.

Warshawsky presented the overall experience of the project, how it was discovered, and how it eventually came to the College. Baldwin presented the initial academic and archival research on posture portraits, using intersectional feminism as a lens to understand why this questionable practice developed and how she transformed this history into a new story and art piece. Lee addressed the technical production; Schaufele recorded a video on how the space was used; and Henderson described the live performance art component and how it relates to reclaiming the posture portrait/being seen, and led participants through a postural dance exercise.  

Photo credit: Association of Academic Museums and Galleries. Natasha Warshawsky is pictured second from right.