{"id":33303,"date":"2004-02-24T14:04:09","date_gmt":"2004-02-24T18:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=33303"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:51:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:51:15","slug":"betty-laduke-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2004\/02\/24\/betty-laduke-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist discusses spiritual, political and aesthetic vision for artwork in Bates exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artist and activist Betty LaDuke will give two talks  and lead a participatory workshop to accompany an exhibition of her  paintings and sketches, <em>Latin American Transitions: The Art of Betty  LaDuke<\/em>, on display at the Bates College Chapel now through March 26.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;ll  offer her first presentation, an informal gallery talk, at 3 p.m.  Sunday, March 7, in the chapel, College Avenue. Her second lecture,  titled <em>Honor the Earth: A Multicultural Spiritual Journey<\/em>, will be  given at 4:30 p.m. Monday, March 8 (International Women&#8217;s Day), in  Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Avenue. This talk will  present her story as an artist who sees and portrays the world  spiritually, politically and aesthetically in shades of struggle and  hope.<\/p>\n<p>LaDuke will lead a two-hour participatory workshop on art,  activism and spirituality at 7 p.m., March 8. Preregistration is  required for the workshop. The public is invited free of charge to  attend the talks, the exhibit and the workshop, all sponsored by the  Office of the Chaplain. For more information or to preregister for the  workshop, call 207-786-8272.<\/p>\n<p>To LaDuke, art and life are  intimately interwoven. Her journeys around the world, particularly  through Latin America, Asia and Africa, have inspired her to produce  sketches and acrylic paintings that document the survival of hope in the  face of great political, military and economic disturbance.  Particularly moved by women&#8217;s diverse creative expressions, LaDuke&#8217;s art  emphasizes the hope that fuels the struggle toward self-determination  and dignity.<\/p>\n<p>Focusing on the common concerns that bond people  across the globe &#8212; relationships to land, food production, family and  community &#8212; LaDuke&#8217;s art has explored the experiences of people in  Nicaragua, Chile, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Chiapas, Mexico, among other  places.<\/p>\n<p>An acclaimed printmaker and painter, the Bronx-born  LaDuke has spent as many years advocating for social change, racial  equality, the rights of women, children and the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist and activist Betty LaDuke will give two talks and lead a participatory workshop to accompany an exhibition of her paintings and sketches, &#8220;Latin American Transitions: The Art of Betty LaDuke,&#8221; on display at the Bates College Chapel now through March 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,39],"tags":[1363,6135,6729,6889,9087],"class_list":["post-33303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-event-highlights","tag-bates-college-museum-of-art","tag-music-tag","tag-painting","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92890,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33303\/revisions\/92890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}