{"id":12640,"date":"2019-07-31T13:43:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T17:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?post_type=bates_events&p=12640"},"modified":"2026-02-05T17:41:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:41:28","slug":"performance-vanessa-german-miracles-glory-abound","status":"publish","type":"bates_events","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/events\/performance-vanessa-german-miracles-glory-abound\/","title":{"rendered":"Performance: Miracles & Glory Abound"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Celebrate the opening of the exhibition Vanessa German: Miracles & Glory Abound<\/a><\/em> with a spoken-word opera performance by the artist featuring poetry, storytelling, music, and movement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Free, but tickets required.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reserve your ticket now!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Vanessa German  is a visual and performance artist based in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Homewood. Homewood is the community that is the driving force behind German<\/span>\u2019s powerful performance work, and whose cast-off relics form the language of her copiously embellished sculptures. As a citizen artist, German<\/span> explores the power of art and love as a transformative force in the dynamic cultural ecosystem of communities and neighborhoods. She is the founder of Love Front Porch and the ARThouse, a community arts initiative for the children of Homewood. Her work is in private and public collections including Everson Museum of Art, Figge Art Museum, Flint Institute of Arts, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, David C. Driskell Center, Snite Museum of Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. German<\/span>\u2019s fine art work has been exhibited widely, most recently at the Flint Institute of Arts, Mattress Factory, Everson Museum of Art, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Studio Museum, Ringling Museum of Art and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Her work has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning<\/em>, NPR\u2019sAll Things Considered<\/em> and in The Huffington Post, O Magazine<\/em> and Essence Magazine<\/em>. She is the recipient of the 2015 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, the 2017 Jacob Lawrence Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2018 United States Artist Grant and most recently the 2018 Don Tyson Prize from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Image: Vanessa German performance at Ford Foundation for the Opening of Perilous Bodies. 2019. Photo: Jane Kratochvil <\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

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Olin Arts Center<\/span>, Olin Concert Hall<\/span>
75 Russell Street<\/span>
Lewiston<\/span>, ME<\/span> 04240<\/span><\/div>","simple":"Olin Concert Hall Olin Arts Center, Lewiston, ME, 04240"},"featured_image":{"url":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2019\/10\/FordFoundation_PerilousBodies_Mar2019_jkratochvil_DSC_1320-900x601.jpg","id":12750},"structureddata":"