Artists in Dialogue | Jamie Robertson & Ricky Weaver
July 13, 2023
Artists Jamie Robertson and Ricky Weaver discuss how their lived experiences inform their creative practices. Both artists use photography to engage the viewer.
Robertson’s creative practice is rooted in the recollection of the personal and collective histories of the African diaspora through lens-based media, with a focus on the Gulf South. Weaver’s art focuses on the lexicon generated by everyday practices of Black women, dark undercoverage, and images as objects that alchemize the archive on a quantum level.
Plan Your Visit
This program is free, with seating on a first-come, first-served basis in Lynn Wyatt Theater, located in the Kinder Building. On Thursdays, the Museum is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. with free general admission.
About the Artists
Jamie Robertson is a visual artist and educator working in photography and video. Born and raised in Houston, she investigates the landscape of the American South as a living archive of Black life—and her Texas roots inform her practice. Robertson has exhibited her work at Galveston Arts Center; Lawndale Art Center in Houston; SF Camerawork in San Francisco, California; and 516 Arts in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in studio art from the University of Houston and an MS in art therapy from Florida State University.
Ricky Weaver is an image-based artist and theorist working in Los Angeles, California. Her work is situated in an object-oriented practice that allows space for theorizing images in a way that extends beyond the photograph. Weaver’s practice interrogates how the body, hymn, scripture, and everyday life appear as image and how that image functions as both archive and vessel. She is a faculty fellow at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California, and a Mellon artist-in-residence at the University of Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities in Ann Arbor.
All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from Macey and Harry Reasoner; the Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation; and the Texas Commission on the Arts. 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; Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ballard; Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Tate; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Virginia and Ira Jackson; the Favrot Fund; CFP Foundation; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of John Wynne; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.