Booking and details
Dates Tue, Jun 06, 2023, 6pm
Tickets Free; registration required
Duration 1 hour
Please note that this event will be presented virtually via Zoom in Eastern Time (ET). An access link will be included in a reminder email closer to the event.
What is artistic research? What is it like to step into the Folger as a contemporary artist? Join us for a virtual conversation with Folger Institute fellows Alexander D’Agostino (‘22-23) and Mindy Stricke (‘18-19) on how they integrate collections research and creative process. Learn about their strategies, surprising discoveries, and how you too can become a Folger researcher.
This conversation will be moderated by Abbie Weinberg, Research and Reference Librarian, with welcoming remarks from Patricia Akhimie, incoming Director of the Folger Institute.
Bios
Alexander D'Agostino
Alexander D’Agostino is an interdisciplinary artist based in Baltimore, Maryland.
He graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2009 with a BFA in painting. He investigates the queer and otherworldly through dance, ritual, teaching, and visual art. His work has been presented at Vox Populi in Philadelphia, VisArts in Rockville, the Center for Contemporary Art of Afghanistan In Kabul, Chashama’s summer performance series in Manhattan, Itinerant Performance ArtFestival at the Queens Museum, the Walters Art Museum, Transformer DC, the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington Spring 2022 Solo Exhibitions, Siren Arts Summer Performance Series, A Solo Exhibition at the Target Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia, and currently a solo exhibition at the Bromo Artist Tower in Baltimore and one at Visarts in Rockville, MD. He is also an artistic research fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC.
Alexander’s current project at the Folger uses tarot divination, embodied performance, and an LGBTQ+ lens to converse with the enigmatic Folger Manuscript V.b.26, also known as the “Book of Oberon.” He is available for similar tarot-based collections consultation and can be contacted through his website, Instagram, or at charmcitygnome@gmail.com.
Mindy Stricke
Mindy Stricke is an interdisciplinary artist mapping a new geography of authenticity and belonging.
See what Folger Artistic Fellows are researching
Musicians on ships in Early Modern Europe
A look at the many roles that musicians played aboard Early Modern ships.
“A smale remembrance”: Elizabethan Posy Rings
A closer look at 17th century engraved rings in the Folger’s collection
Medicinal Plants, Colonial Weeds, and Biodiversity Loss
Herbarius: A New Herbal for the Anthropocene, by 2024-25 artist research fellow Suzette Marie Martin, is a “deconstructed manuscript” series of paintings that traces the intercontinental dispersal of non-native plant species through formerly valued medicinal herbs, now despised as weeds.