An interview with Annette Lawrence conducted 2023 December 21-2024 June 1, by Laura Augusta for the Archives of American Art, at Lawrence's homes in Pine Lake, Georgia and Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Artist On Artist is Glasstire’s video and audio podcast series in which Glasstire’s News Editor Christopher Blay, also an artist, hosts Texas-based artists and art professionals in one-on-one conversations.
This week: Christopher Blay interviews artist Annette Lawrence as she departs Texas for Bennington, Vermont to take a two-year teaching position. They talk about where their works intersect, and her journey from upstate New York to Denton, Texas after living in Houston in the 1990s.
“All roads lead to Houston! All roads lead to Houston in Black art.”
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Soul Talk is a series that holds intimate conversations with creatives to discuss their work. Every second Sunday DBFF will bring you an engaging conversation that dives into the motive, interpretation, and implementation of a project. Guests will vary from the discipline of film, art, poetry, and music. The series will be available on Facebook Live and Youtube @DentonBlackFilmFestival and dentonbff.com.
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Christopher Blay talks with Denton-based artist Annette Lawrence about working with what you have in your studio, jurying art you can only see online, and art as essential work.
“It’s not essential medical, it’s not essential emergency, but it is essential human.”