Artist Anne Ferrer will talk Thursday evening about the oversized textile installation now hanging in the lobby of the Crow Museum of Asian Art's UT Dallas location, one of several free arts events on the Richardson campus this week.
The talk is Thursday, Oct. 15, at 6 p.m. at the Edith and Peter O'Donnell Jr. Athenaeum, 777 Loop Road SW. It is free, but the university asks people to register. According to the event listing, Ferrer's work uses billowing, biomorphic shapes and bright color to evoke underwater, plant and supernatural worlds, and she will discuss how she makes it.
What is on view
The museum has laid out its fall season in a release. At the UT Dallas site, the headline show is "Unseen Worlds: Southeast Asian Textiles from the Spancake Collection," about 150 textiles, objects, jewelry and ephemera lent by Houston collectors Jenny and Steve Spancake.
The museum says it is the first solo exhibition devoted to their collection, with work from Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. The naga, a divine sea serpent, recurs through the show as a link between Buddhist, shamanic and animist themes. It runs through June 20, 2027.
The campus museum is also showing "The Hedge of Halomancy," a multimedia installation by the artist duo Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser, who work as hylozoic/desires. Built around a fictional salt reader named Mayalee, it uses film, sound and salt-inspired sculpture to look at the British Inland Customs Line and the role salt played in trade and colonial power.
Both Crow locations are open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday and are closed Mondays. Admission is free. The Dallas Arts District museum opens a show of Japanese bamboo art from the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation on Nov. 7.