Olga E Viso from West Melbourne, FL

Resumes

Senior Advisor, Global Partnership In The Arts

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Location:

681 Sheridan Woods Dr, West Melbourne, FL 32904

Work:

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Jun 2019 - Jun 2020
Fellow In Residence
Jun 2019 - Jun 2020
Senior Advisor, Global Partnership In the Arts

Education:

Emory University 1990 - 1992
Masters

Museum Director

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Location:

Minneapolis, MN

Industry:

Arts And Crafts

Work:

Walker Art Center
Museum Director

Business Records

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Company / Classification

Phones & Addresses

Olga Viso
Director

Walker Art Center
Walker Art Center Shop
Museums

1750 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55403
(612) 374-5001

Olga Viso
Director

Walker Art Center
Museums and Institutions

1750 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55403
(612) 374-5001, (612) 375-7622

News

Walker Art Center's Controversial Gallows Sculpture Will Be Removed and Ceremonially Burned

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This is the first step for the Walker to rebuild trust with the Dakota and native communities throughout Minnesota, the museums executive director Olga Viso said at the press conference. Theres no question that the Walkers process in placing this structure in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

Date

May 31, 2017

Category:

Entertainment

Source:

Google

Minneapolis art museum will remove gallows-like sculpture

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Walker executive director Olga Viso issued a statement Saturday apologizing for not anticipating how provocative the work would be. She said she had spoken with Durant, and he was open to removing the sculpture.

Date

May 28, 2017

Category:

Entertainment

Source:

Google

Walker Art Center to remove sculpture garden piece offensive to some American Indians

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On Saturday afternoon, Walker executive director Olga Viso issued a statement saying after listening to feedback about Scaffold, she was in agreement with the artist that the best way to move forward is to have Scaffold dismantled in some manner and to listen and learn from the Elders.

Date

May 27, 2017

Category:

Unseen Mendieta: The Unpublished Works of Ana Mendieta

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Among the most compelling and iconic images of art in the 1970s are the pioneering investigations of performance and experimental media by Ana Mendieta. An American artist born in Cuba, she explored in her work her Caribbean roots through the lens of exile. She meticulously documented her ephemeral ...

Author

Olga Viso

Binding

Hardcover

Pages

303

Publisher

Prestel Publishing

ISBN #

3791339664

EAN Code

9783791339665

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The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture

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This thematic selection of recent work from nine established and emerging international sculptors--the eldest born in 1947 and the youngest in 1974--collects the ways they are giving shape to the fleeting, ephemeral, theoretical and difficult-to-explain. From Charles Long's delicate, poetic and pers...

Author

Anne Ellegood, Johanna Burton

Binding

Hardcover

Pages

128

Publisher

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

ISBN #

0978906306

EAN Code

9780978906306

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Regarding Beauty

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The lavishly illustrated Regarding Beauty surveys late twentieth-century Western art to address why the timeless notion of beauty has recently been so hotly contested and, in the 1980's and 1990's in particular, so highly politicized.... Regarding Beauty argues that beauty has not disappeared from t...

Author

Arthur Danto, Neal Benezra, James Demetrion, Olga Viso

Binding

Hardcover

Pages

232

Publisher

Cantz/Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

ISBN #

3893227822

EAN Code

9783893227822

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Distemper: Dissonant Themes in the Art of the 1990s

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The Hirshhorn's landmark show 'Distemper' defined what may be the last major art trend of the 20th century -- the prevailing sense of social and cultural dismay that Washington columnist E.J. Dionne called the 'distemper' of the 1990s. This brilliant exhibition catalog presents the work of ten young...

Author

Neal Benezra, Olga M. Viso

Binding

Paperback

Pages

134

Publisher

D.A.P./Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

ISBN #

1881616738

EAN Code

9781881616733

ISBN #

Abraham Cruzvillegas: The Autoconstrucción Suites

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Published on the occasion of the artist’s first major survey, this volume explores the rich terrain of Abraham Cruzvillegas’ (born 1968) work over the past ten years, rooting his sculptural language within the volcanic landscape of his childhood home in Ajusco, Mexico. The publication elaborates on ...

Author

Patricia Falguières, Sergio González Rodríguez

Binding

Paperback

Pages

240

Publisher

Walker Art Center

ISBN #

1935963058

EAN Code

9781935963059

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Merce Cunningham: Common Time

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How Cunningham transformed postwar culture through collaborationRenowned as both choreographer and dancer, Merce Cunningham (1919–2009) also revolutionized dance through his partnerships with the many artists who created costumes, lighting, films and videos, and décor and sound for his choreographic...

Author

Carlos Basualdo, Juliet Bellow, Philip Bither, Roger Copeland, Mary Coyne, Douglas Crimp, Hiroko Ikegami, Kelly Kivland, Claudia La Rocco, Benjamin Piekut, Victoria Brooks, Danielle Goldman, Aram Moshayedi

Binding

Hardcover

Pages

456

Publisher

Walker Art Center

ISBN #

1935963147

EAN Code

9781935963141

ISBN #

Juan Munoz

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One of the leading artists of his generation, the Spanish sculptor Juan Muñoz (1953-2001) was known for his diverse and highly original body of work centering on the narrative possibilities of figures in environments. Juan Muñoz illustrates in full color approximately sixty works—including sculpture...

Author

Neal Benezra, Olga M. Viso

Binding

Hardcover

Pages

228

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press

ISBN #

0226042901

EAN Code

9780226042909

ISBN #

Jim Hodges: Give More Than You Take

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Since the late 1980s, Jim Hodges’ poetic reconsiderations of the material world have inspired a body of multimedia work in which the manmade and artificial are invested with emotion and authenticity. Co-published by the Dallas Museum of Art and the Walker Art Center, this volume accompanies the firs...

Author

Jeffrey Grove, Olga Viso, Bill Arning, Susan Griffin, Helen Molesworth

Binding

Hardcover

Pages

256

Publisher

Dallas Museum of Art/Walker Art Center

ISBN #

1935963023

EAN Code

9781935963028