Artist Talk | Rose B. Simpson
Courtesy of the artist, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Photo: Minesh Bacrania
Rose B. Simpson, Guides, 2022, Courtesy of the artist, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Photo courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
December 14, 2024
Artist Rose B. Simpson discusses her multidisciplinary practice, which is rooted in her Santa Clara Pueblo heritage and anchored by clay. Simpson, a curator of the special exhibition Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery, and in this talk she expands on her curatorial selections, her Indigenous artistic lineage, and her recent work, including the MFAH acquisition Guides.
Plan Your Visit
- Free with Museum admission.
- This talk takes place in Brown Auditorium Theater in the Law Building.
- The exhibition is located in the Millennium Galleries in the Beck Building.
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About the Speaker
Rose B. Simpson is a mixed-media artist from Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. Her work engages ceramic sculpture, metals, fashion, performance, music, installation, writing, and custom cars. Simpson received an MFA in ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in creative nonfiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts.
“Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery” was curated by the Pueblo Pottery Collective and organized by the School for Advanced Research and the Vilcek Foundation.
Generous support is provided by:
Duncan W. Corbett
Michael W. Dale
Colleen and Andrew Gold
Franny Koelsch Jeffries and John Jeffries
Alice C. Simkins
The Margaret Cooke Skidmore Exhibition Endowment
All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from H-E-B; Institute of Museum and Library Services; Sempra Foundation; the Brown Foundation, Inc.; the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; the Joe Barnhart Foundation; the Cockrell Family Fund; the CFP Foundation; Macey and Harry Reasoner; the Texas Commission on the Arts; and the Junior League of Houston, Inc.
Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Medha and Shashank Karve; Virginia and Ira Jackson; Jesse H. Jones II; the CFP Foundation; the Favrot Fund; gifts in memory of John Wynne; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.