On the closing weekend of Jessica Jackson Hutchins: Wrecked and Righteous, join exhibiting artist Jessica Jackson Hutchins and exhibition curator Amanda Donnan for a conversation exploring twenty-five years of Hutchins’s work, from “juvenilia” in humble materials to a towering fused-glass window commissioned by the Frye. This is an excellent chance to hear directly from the artist, and audience members are invited to participate with questions of their own.

About the Presenters

Jessica Jackson Hutchins has recently presented solo exhibitions at Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH (2016); the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (2014); the Hepworth Wakefield Museum, West Yorkshire, UK (2013); the Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI (2013); and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2011). Significant group exhibitions include Makeshift at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI (2018), where Hutchins first premiered her performance work; The Encyclopedic Palace, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2013); and The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2010). Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Brooklyn Museum; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR. In 2022, Hutchins was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2020, received the Merit Medal for Sculpture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Hutchins holds a BA in Art History from Oberlin College and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Amanda Donnan is the former Chief Curator and Director of Exhibitions at the Frye Art Museum, where she oversaw the artistic program and organized numerous exhibitions from 2017 to 2024. Previously she served as Director/Curator of the galleries at Seattle University, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, and Production Coordinator at Art21 in New York. She holds an MA in art history from SUNY Stony Brook and a dual BFA/BS in studio art and art education from the Pennsylvania State University.