Creative Link for the Arts and the New Museum have announced Hamza Walker, Graham Foundation Trustee and Director of Education and Associate Curator at Chicago’s Renaissance Society, as a recipient of the Ordway Prize.

An international panel of Nominators and a Jury of leading arts world figures–led by Jennifer McSweeney, Director of Creative Link for the Arts, and Richard Flood, Chief Curator at the New Museum–selected the Ordway Prize recipients from a global pool of nominees.

The prize is named for the naturalist, philanthropist, and arts patron Katherine Ordway. It acknowledges the contributions of a Curator/Arts Writer and an Artist whose work has had significant impact on the field of contemporary art, but who has yet to receive broad public recognition. Nominees for the Ordway Prize are midcareer talents between the ages of forty and sixty-five, with a developed body of work extending over a minimum of
fifteen years.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010
6pm
Gallery 1100 A+A, 845 W Harrison St.
Chicago, IL 60607

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New Silk Roads (NSR) is a multi-faceted urban research project that explores the nascent urban conditions emerging in rapidly expanding and transforming Asian cities and regions. Through a nomadic practice, Kyong Park has conducted a series of sequenced expeditions through transitional regions and cities between Istanbul and Tokyo, documenting his encounters of the people and landscape through photography, video, and audio/video interviews of local and international experts. The project is an examination of territorial conditions that constructs the interconnected system of the contemporary Asian landscape. Approaching urban cities as an ecology of built systems, structures and institutions, NSR presents alternate understandings of urban research and theory through artistic practice. NSR was first presented at Kyong Park: The New Silk Roads, at Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León in Spain (2009-10), and was undertaken with the support of the Graham Foundation,  the Visual Arts Department, the Division of Humanities and Arts, Academic Senate Research Funds at University of California San Diego, and University of California's Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA).

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