Featuring artists Andrew Roberts-Gray, Ana Maria Hernando, and Margaret Kasahara
In conversation with Mike McClung, Director of Michael Warren Contemporary, a Denver art gallery.

Join us for a conversation with three contemporary Colorado artists whose work is rooted in tradition but who are now challenging and pushing the boundaries of these time honored practices.

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Please Note: Attendees are strongly encouraged to wear masks in the Stewart Auditorium. Read our full mask & vaccination policy.

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About 

Andrew Roberts-Gray makes work that references discrete cultural traditions including science fiction, the history of the painted landscape, and the development of the thinking machine. Born in northern California and traversing across the upper 48, including long stretches in San Francisco, New York City, and the Rocky Mountains, he is now based in Carbondale, Colorado. He makes work, enjoys mentoring artists, and plays basketball.

Ana María Hernando, from Argentina and based in Colorado, is a multidisciplinary artist. She is interested in making the invisible visible, and devotedly explores the sacred feminine through women’s rich histories, their daily lives and relationship to hand-worked textiles and wares. In her installations, Ana María uses textiles in abundance, and includes the work of women from around Latin America, from embroideries of cloistered nuns in Buenos Aires, to the weavings and wares of Peruvian women from the mountains.

Ana María has a BFA from the California College of the Arts in Oakland, California, and a BA from the Profesorado Eccleston in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She also studied at the Museum School in Boston, and the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes P. Pueyrredón. Ana María was the 2020 Prix Henry Clews in Sculpture awardee chosen by La Napoule Art Foundation. She spent 2020 in-residency and having a major solo show at the Foundation’s Château and gardens by the Mediterranean in France. She has recently had solo exhibitions at the Denver Botanic Gardens (Fervor, Fall 2021), the CU Art Museum with a published catalogue, BMoCA at the Present Box, Seidel City (Boulder, CO), Robischon Gallery (Denver, CO), and Building Bridges (Los Angeles, CA). Undomesticated, a documentary about her work by Amie Knox from A bar K Productions, premiered in May of 2018. In the Summer of 2019, Ana María constructed a temporary billboard installation out of tulle for Downtown Denver, CO. Other solo shows include the MCA Denver, the Tweed Museum of Art, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, BMoCA in Boulder, CO, the International Center of Bethlehem in the West Bank, the Oklahoma and the Marfa Contemporary. Ana María has collaborated through the years with master printmaker Bud Shark of Shark’s Ink in Lyons, Colorado, just completing the last pair of lithographs in December 2020, published in 2021.

She is the recipient of the First Prize for the Biennial of the Americas 2021 Covid-19 Memorial. In 2022, a collection of Hernando’s diverse works will be shown at Robischon Gallery and the Sun Valley Museum of Art in Ketchum, Idaho. You can find more of her work on her website (www.AnaMariaHernando.com) and her Instagram (@AnaMariaHernandoArt).

Margaret Kasahara was born in New York City, raised in Boulder, Colorado and currently resides in Colorado Springs. She received a BFA degree from the Kansas City Art Institute, where she graduated second in her class. She has exhibited her artwork in solo exhibitions at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, the Denver Botanic Gardens, the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, and Buell Children’s Museum in Pueblo, Colorado. Group exhibitions include the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Center for Visual Art in Denver, Colorado, the Denver Art Museum, the Gallery of Contemporary Art at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, New Mexico, and the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, California. Her paintings and drawings have been exhibited in gallery shows throughout the United States and in Toronto, Canada. In addition to inclusion in private and corporate collections, her artwork has been selected for public commissions including a mural for the Town of Castle Rock, Colorado Police Department and Municipal Court Facility; and paint design for a theatrical production of Anton Chekhov’s, “The Seagull”, at Theatreworks, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Her artwork is in the permanent collection of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.

Thursday Nights at the Museum

The Longmont Museum is open on Thursday evenings until 9 pm. In addition to visiting our new exhibit, Washi Transformed: New Expressions in Japanese Paper, you could take an Art & Sip class or attend a film, performance, or talk. You can view upcoming programs at Thursday Night at the Museum.