Watch an encore presentation of Creative Minds: Glenn Kaino and Tommie Smith, a conversation between Glenn Kaino and Tommie Smith about the making of With Drawn Arms, the state of political protest, and how art can make tangible change. Originally recorded on February 25, 2020 at the San José Museum of Art on the occasion of the exhibition With Drawn Arms: Glenn Kaino and Tommie Smith.
Organized by the San José Museum of Art and co-presented with San José State University's 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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Glenn Kaino (b. 1972, Los Angeles) received his BFA from the University of California, Irvine, in 1993, and his MFA from the University of California, San Diego, in 1996. Kaino draws on his undergraduate education in computer science and formal training as a sculptor to make work that spans a wide range of media and creative activity. He engineers large-scale installations and site- or situation-specific sculptural works that are infused with sociopolitical commentary. In 2012, he was selected by the U.S. Department of State to represent America in the 13th International Cairo Biennale, and was included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the 12th Lyon Biennial in Lyon, France; and Prospect 3 in New Orleans.
Tommie Smith (b. 1944, Clarksville, Texas) is a sprinter, civil rights activist, author, speaker, and scholar. While attending SJSU on an athletic scholarship, Smith excelled on one of the most competitive teams in collegiate sprinting history and became an icon of the civil rights movement at the 1968 Olympics. Since retiring from sprinting, Smith has taught sociology at Oberlin College and has been an active public speaker. He now lives in Stone Mountain, Georgia.