Artist Talk: LaToya M. Hobbs
September 7, 1:00 pm–2:15 pm
Lubar Auditorium
Join featured artist LaToya M. Hobbs as she discusses her art practice and the monumental series Carving Out Time.
This experience is included with Museum admission and is free for Members. Admission tickets are available at the door or online.
Sponsored by
Milwaukee Art Museum’s African American Art Alliance
About the Artist
LaToya M. Hobbs is an artist, wife, and mother of two from Little Rock, AR, living and working in Baltimore, MD. She received her BA in painting from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and her MFA in printmaking from Purdue University. Hobbs uses figurative imagery to facilitate an ongoing dialogue about the Black female body in the hope of showcasing a more balanced perception of womanhood, one that dismantles prevailing stereotypes. Her exhibition record includes numerous national and international venues, including the National Art Gallery of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia; SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY; and Sophia Wanamaker Gallery in San Pedro, Costa Rica; among others. Her work is in private and public collections, such as the Harvard Art Museum, the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art, the National Art Gallery of Namibia, the Getty Research Institute, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Her recent accomplishments include the Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize (2020), a nomination for the Queen Sonja Print Award (2022), and an IFPDA Artist Grant (2022). Hobbs is a professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art and a founding member of Black Women of Print, a collective whose vision is to make visible the narratives and works of Black women printmakers—past, present, and future.
The Artist Talk series welcomes emerging, mid-career, and established artists to share what it means to live creatively. Discussing motivation, medium, and technique, artists will reveal how and why their work expresses their emotions and ideas.
