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Creative Minds: Glenn Kaino and Tommie Smith

Installation view of With Drawn Arms: Glenn Kaino and Tommie Smith, San José Museum of Art, California, 2019. Photo by JKA Photography. Photo of Glenn Kaino and Tommie Smith by Sharon Kenney.

7pm
$12 ($6 for SJMA members)

A conversation with Glenn Kaino and Tommie Smith about the making of With Drawn Arms, the state of political protest, and how art can make tangible change. The program will include clips of video documentation of Smith and Kaino’s long-term project of making the exhibition and film.

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Organized by the San José Museum of Art and presented in partnership with San José State University Institute for the Study of Sport, Society and Social Change.

Creative Minds—SJMA's premier Artist Talk series—allows audiences a chance to experience creatives in action by hearing directly from artists about their process and practice.

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San José Museum of Art
Wendel Education Center
110 South Market Street
San José, CA 95113

 

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With Drawn Arms: Glenn Kaino and Tommie Smith

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In 1968, at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City, San José State University runner Tommie Smith raised a gloved fist during the medal ceremony to protest human rights abuses around the world, and to bring international attention to the struggle for civil rights in the United States. This act of protest, which still reverberates today, is explored in a series of collaborations between Smith and Los Angeles–based conceptual artist Glenn Kaino.